Great Barrington Public Theater's 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Great Barrington Public Theater Auditions

GREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER 2025 SEASON - GREAT BARRINGTON, MA EPA

Great Barrington Public Theater, Inc. | Great Barrington, MA

Revised

Audition times updated. Breakdown for MADAME MOZART, THE LACRIMOSA updated.

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, March 8, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please email
serena@greatbarringtonpublictheater.org with your preferred time.

CONTRACT

SPT
$500 weekly minimum (SPT 4)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Great Barrington Public Theater's 2025 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare one monologue no more than 2 minutes and sides that will be given once you confirm your audition slot.

LOCATION

Saint James Place
352 Main Street
Great Barrington, MA 01230

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director - Jim Frangione
Associate Artistic Director - Judy Braha
See breakdown for production-specific personnel

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Jim Frangione - Artistic Director
Judy Braha - Associate Artistic Director/Director
Maggie Kearman - Playwright
Clay Hopper - Director
Mark St. Germain - Playwright
Matthew Penn - Director
Anne Undeland - Playwright

OTHER DATES

HOW TO NOT SAVE THE WORLD WITH MR. BEZOS

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Opening Night: Saturday, June 7, 2025
Closing: Sunday, June 22, 2025

MADAME MOZART, THE LACRIMOSA

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Opening Night: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Closing: Sunday, July 27, 2025

GRANT: AN EVENING WITH THE GENERAL

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Opening Night: Saturday, August 2, 2025
Closing: Sunday, August 17, 2025

OTHER

www.greatbarringtonpublictheater.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

GREAT BARRINGTON PUBLIC THEATER 2025 SEASON

HOW TO NOT SAVE THE WORLD WITH MR. BEZOS

Playwright - Maggie Keaman
Director - Clay Hopper
Stage Manager - Kaleigh Cerqua

SYNOPSIS: It’s illegal to be a billionaire, and Jeffrey Bezos has agreed to give an interview in exchange for information on the federal case against him. But there’s something off about journalist Cherry Beaumont, a crowd is forming outside, and the onstage Fact Checker has a few important clarifications to make. The fall of capitalism is about to get very messy.

SEEKING:

Cherry Beaumont: 40s, she/her. Journalist. Cyberterrorist. Carrying the weight of capitalism on her shoulders. A cat playing with her food. Loud. Weird. Progressively unhinged.
Jeffrey Bezos: 61, he/him. White. Bald. The founder and former CEO of Amazon. Billionaire. Speaks confidently in practiced, canned responses, but uncomfortable when caught off guard. Absolutely believes he knows best. Prone to fits of rage. Still an awkward nerdy farm boy deep down.
Fact Checker: Any race, ethnicity, age, gender. But probably not a cis white man. The face of a brighter future. Charismatic. Trustworthy. Lovable. The audience's host and comfort blanket. We can't wait for them to speak and we mourn them when they go. Musically confident. NOTE: Great if they play an instrument.

MADAME MOZART, THE LACRIMOSA

Playwright - Anne Undeland
Stage Manager - Nathaniel Bokar

SYNOPSIS: Constanze Mozart, wife of the great composer, struggles mightily in the wake of his too-early death in 1791 to feed her children, to survive her own shattering grief, and to secure her husband's astonishing musical legacy by completing his great unfinished masterwork, the Requiem in D Minor. With the odds and the whole of patriarchy working against her, the perennially underestimated Constanze Mozart digs deep to find a way to not only prevail but to triumph -- in the end, she's the last woman standing, smarter and braver than everyone else in her story. The play is a two-hander with Constanze at the center, a second actor shape-shifting to play the other characters in her life, and a live piano accompanying and spurring her on. Highly physical, this epic unfolds like an operatic heist – in a dreamscape of color, motion, humor, tragedy, and some of the greatest music ever written.

SEEKING:

Constanze Mozart: 29. An underestimated woman who, through the course of the play, discovers untold strengths and abilities that surprise everyone, especially herself. Deeply insecure, Constanze is also resourceful, clever (a lot of Susanna from The Marriage of Figaro in her), fiercely loyal, and utterly driven by her love for her children and her dead genius of a husband. Language skills, emotional range, charisma, and a willingness to go for broke can navigate this beast of a journey. Period feel rather than casual energy; it is the playwright’s preference that an older actor be cast. 29 in 1791 was different from what it is today - it must be believable that she’s had six children. Also, Constanze is a synesthete; she sees color with music, a fact she needs to keep secret from the world.

NOTE: The following roles, the People in Constanze’s story, are all played by the same actor: THIS ROLE IS CAST
Karl Thomas Mozart, 7, Constanze and Wolfie’s oldest surviving son.
Herr Franz Xavier Sussmayr, 35, one of the Requiem’s composers, and an assistant/student of Mozart’s.
Count Franz von Walsegg, 61, commissioner of the Requiem.
Herr Joseph Leopold Eybler, 38, one of the Requiem’s composers and an assistant/student of Mozart’s.
Leopold Mozart, 64: Wolfie’s father. Imperious, demanding, cruel, and self-pitying.
Cacilia Weber, 64, Constanze’s mother. Drunk, conventional, judgemental.

GRANT: AN EVENING WITH THE GENERAL

Playwrights - Treat Williams & Mark St. Germain
Stage Manager - Kaleigh Cerqua

SYNOPSIS: Ulysses S. Grant appears to us at his memorial, “Grant’s Tomb”. Taking stock of his life, Grant takes us through the events of his life that led an unremarkable Ohio boy on the path to lead the Union Army to victory in the Civil War and later to the Presidency. Through Grant’s eyes and his passion for both his wife, Julia, and his country we experience his struggles with the military, with politics, and with alcohol. Holding a mirror up to his conflicts we see the same conflicts we face today. GRANT is a love letter to America.

SEEKING:

GRANT: Age: 40s to 60s. A calm man with a power to him. He is passionate about his country and passionate in battle. He’s flawed and knows it.