Thursday, March 6, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment or to submit a video submission please email:
auditions@gloucesterstage.com. We will respond with a Google sign-up form to gather your information and schedule an appointment. If you have any questions or difficulties, you can email:
auditions@gloucesterstage.com or call our offices: 978-281-4099.
NEAT
$638 weekly minimum (Tier 6)
Equity actors for roles in Gloucester Stage Company's 2025 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare either two contrasting monologues from a play(s) of your choice or perform two Sides from any of the available roles listed in the breakdown. A link to the Sides will be provided to all who sign up ahead of the audition date. Auditions will be five (5) minutes long.
Gloucester Stage
267 E Main St
Gloucester, MA 01930-4141
Expected to attend:
Rebecca Bradshaw (she/her) - Producing Artistic Director
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
https://gloucesterstage.com/
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity's contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Gloucester Stage Company 2025 Season
It is GSC’s goal to create a collaborative and supportive environment for all artists to engage their process with curiosity and boldness. We strive to create and support inspiring conversations on and off the stage.
In reference to the character descriptions below – most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with she/her and he/him pronouns and you will see that in the following descriptions. However, our casting seeks to be as inclusive as possible and we invite gender nonconforming, genderqueer, transgender, and nonbinary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We have also listed race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. In addition, we will list disability when specific to a character, but are otherwise seeking actors with disabilities as well as nondisabled actors for all roles. - Language borrowed from Emily Tarquin & Kevin Kantor of Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Playwright: Tennessee Williams
Director: Doug Lockwood
First Rehearsal: 5/13/25
Tech Begins: 6/1/25
Previews: 6/5/25 & 6/6/25
Opening: 6/7/25
Closing: 6/28/25
This semi-autobiographical account of Tennessee Williams' early days in 1930s St. Louis is a heartbreaking yet often funny memory play told from the perspective of Tom Wingfield. The Glass Menagerie is the story of a family desperate to break free of the burdens of their past and their present. An intimacy consultant will be included in this process.
AMANDA WINGFIELD - Already cast. 50s-60s. Any race/ethnicity. Character’s pronouns: she/her. Laura and Tom’s mother. A proud, vivacious woman, Amanda clings fervently to memories of a vanished, genteel past. She is simultaneously admirable, charming, pitiable, and laughable.
TOM WINGFIELD - Already cast. 20s-early 40s. Any race/ethnicity. Character’s pronouns: he/him. Amanda’s son and Laura’s younger brother, Tom supports his mother and sister by working at a shoe factory, but he aspires to be a poet. Like the others, he is trapped and must decide what measures to take to escape his life’s tediousness.
LAURA WINGFIELD - 20s. Any race/ethnicity. Character’s pronouns: she/her. Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s older sister. Laura suffers the results of a childhood illness which left one of her legs shorter than the other, causing her to limp. Laura is painfully shy and retreats into the world of her music and her glass menagerie.
JIM O’CONNOR - 20s. Any race/ethnicity. Character’s pronouns: he/him. The gentleman caller, Jim is an old high school acquaintance of Laura and Tom and now works in the same shoe factory as Tom. An intimacy consultant will be included in this process.
Playwright: Lindsay Joelle
Director: Rebecca Bradshaw
First Rehearsal: 6/10/25
Tech Begins: 7/1/25
Previews: 7/3/25 & 7/5/25
Opening: 7/6/25
Closing: 7/26/25
This outside-the-box comedy pairs Danny: a gruff blue-collar NYC sanitation worker hiding a heart of gold, and Marlowe: a determined Ivy-League-educated “newbie” who is assigned to his route. When this unlikely pair is thrown together to pick up what the world has discarded, they unexpectedly find common ground in uncommon times.
THIS PLAY IS ALREADY CAST.
MARLOWE - Already Cast. Late 30s. Black. Character’s pronouns: she/her. First week at DSNY. Confident and competent, both physically and mentally. Keen sense of wit and irony. Vivid inner life; even when silent, her face speaks volumes. Practiced in making you think she's got it all together, but she's guarding a secret she doesn't wear on her sleeve.
DANNY - Already Cast. 41. White. Character’s pronouns: he/him. Nine years at DSNY. Mansplaining, dad jokes, and run-of-the-mill machismo thinly mask a profound desire to love and be loved. With less wear-and-tear, he might be attractive—ruggedly handsome, even—but you'd swallow hot coals before saying that to his face.
Playwright: Nilaja Sun
Director: Pascale Florestal
First Rehearsal: 7/22/25
Tech Begins: 8/5/25
Previews: 8/7/25 & 8/8/25
Opening: 8/9/25
Closing: 8/23/25
What do you get when you attempt to have a group of high school students in the Bronx put on the play Our Country’s Good? Some groans, class skipping, and one teacher’s determination to make the impossible possible. A tour-de-force solo performance that sees one actor transform themselves with rapid-fire precision into all 16 characters, No Child… is insightful, hilarious, and a touching master class for anyone concerned about the state of our education system and how we might fix it.
PERFORMER - Character roles range from ages 16 to 60. African-American or Latine, All/any genders welcomed. Dynamic to shape-shift between 16 different characters - students, teachers, parents, etc. Teaching artist experience in urban/inner-city schools is a plus. Movement experience, Caribbean and Latine accents are also a plus.
Playwright: Kate Hamill
Director: Rebecca Bradshaw
Rehearsals Begin: 8/12/25
Tech Begins: 8/31/25
Previews: 9/4/25 & 9/5/25
Opening: 9/6/25
Closing: 9/27/25
An irreverent, darkly comic, modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick. This fast-paced romp re-examines the world’s most famous detective story with a bold new feminist lens. In this highly theatrical, small cast escapade, oddball female roommates Sherlock (yes, it’s also a girl’s name—wait, is it a girl’s name? Is it even a name?) Holmes & Joan Watson join forces to emerge from pandemic fog as a deeply codependent, quasi-dysfunctional Odd Couple adventure duo — solving mysteries and kicking butts, until they come face to face with a villain who seems to have all of the answers.
A fight choreographer will be included in this process.
SHERLOCK HOLMES / AS CAST - 30s-40s. Character’s pronouns: she/her. Any race/ethnicity. British accent. A once-in-a-generation genius. Eccentric. Focused, to a fault. Can be less-than-sensitive. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Like many geniuses, has a megalomaniac streak. Gets bored easily; likes applause; sometimes accused of being unfeeling. LOVES costumes and drama.
DR. JOAN WATSON / AS CAST - 30s-40s. Character’s pronouns: she/her. Any race/ethnicity. American. Formerly type-A high-achiever. Recently divorced; struggling to find herself, feels broken. Reflexively defensive. Once had great bedside manner. Sometimes accused of being a loser; is not a loser. Wry. Smart.
IRENE ADLER / MRS. HUDSON / MRS. DREBBER / AS CAST - Late 20s-40s. Character’s pronouns: she/her. Any race/ethnicity. British accent. IRENE ADLER: a whip-smart, super-charming sex worker finding success at the highest levels. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Has incredible charm, confidence, and wit, and she knows it — uses it without mercy. You may want to be Irene, or you may want to be with Irene; but you can’t ignore her. MRS. HUDSON: Holmes & Watson’s long-suffering landlady. MRS. DREBBER: seemingly an ordinary housewife. Somebody you would be very wise not to underestimate.
MORIARTY / LESTRADE / ELLIOT MONK / AS CAST - 30s-50s. Character’s pronouns: he/him. Any race/ethnicity. British accent. MORIARTY: a criminal so great you’ve never heard of him. A master blackmailer; knows just when to play his cards. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a different level than civilians. Wears many masks. A professional. Amoral, but you’d like him. LESTRADE: an inspector new to his position at Scotland Yard. Not very imaginative. Often says the wrong thing. ELLIOT MONK: an amoral tech billionaire from Texas.
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