Hillside, NJ
Various Producers
Monday, March 24, 2025
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Sign-ups for auditions start on Monday, March 3rd, 2025. For registration information and to set up an appointment visit:
njtheatrealliance.org/annual-combined-auditions. At registration, NJTA will require you to submit your headshot and resume digitally in advance of your audition. They will be placed in a virtual book for theatre representatives attending. The deadline to register is Monday, March 17, 2025. You will be notified of your time by email no later than March 18, 2025.
Other
Various - See breakdown
Nathan Weiss Graduate College
215 North Ave
Hillside, NJ 07205
Enlow Recital Hall.
Various NJ Area Theatres will be participating in these auditions. The theatres listed below will count their participation toward their Equity audition requirements and their personnel expected to attend are listed in their breakdowns.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
njtheatrealliance.org
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
Equity actors for roles within various NJ-area theatres' seasons. Actors will be auditioning for multiple theatres at these auditions. Breakdowns for any Equity theatres whose participation is fulfilling part of their Equity audition requirements will be attached to this notice.
New Jersey Theatre Alliance (NJTA), the service organization for the state and region’s 42 professional theatres, will hold auditions in Enlow Recital Hall on the campus of Kean University in Hillside, NJ on Monday, March 24th from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm for Equity performers, and Tuesday, March 25th from 10:00 am - 5:00 pm for non-Equity performers. This is a fantastic opportunity to be seen by multiple theatres at once. Representatives from our member theatres will follow up with actors directly if they are interested in working with them.
Actors of color and actors with disabilities are encouraged to audition. Local New Jersey actors are encouraged to audition.
Equity actors have 5 minutes to audition. Two contrasting monologues are preferred: one contemporary, one classic; one comedic, one dramatic. You can also perform one monologue if it represents you best. Alternatively, actors may choose to deliver one monologue and a 32-bar cut of a song. If singing, bring sheet music; an accompanist is provided all day. No phone calls, please!
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Contract: ITC (Independent Theatre Contract)
$605 weekly minimum until June 6, 2025 - Past that still in negotiations.
Housing provided for out-of-area performers.
Expected to attend:
SuzAnne Barabas, Artistic Director
Joel Stone, Literary Manager
Writer: John Biguenet
Director: SuzAnne Barabas
Rehearsals begin January 21, 2025
Performances February 13 – March 09, 2025
SYNOPSIS: A nostalgic, haunting look back at the world of 1930’s Hollywood, where larger-than-life movie stars went to great lengths to keep their secrets from coming to light.
Writer: Neil LaBute
Director: Evan Bergman
Rehearsals begin March 25, 2025
Performances April 17 – May 11, 2025
SYNOPSIS: The complicated, love-hate relationship between a mother and son is put to the test, after he breaks into her home, and they battle over the authorship of her most famous novel.
Book by Cary Gitter
Music by Neil Berg
Lyrics by Cary Gitter and Neil Berg
Director: SuzAnne Barabas
Rehearsals begin June 23, 2025
Performances July 17 – August 10, 2025
SYNOPSIS: In 1933, a Polish-born Jew who emigrated to America a decade earlier, returns to his hometown of Rovno in search of a wife. There, Charlie meets Chava, who works at a hat shop and dreams of being a scholar at a Warsaw university. They eventually fall in love, as the growing clouds of European anti-Semitism and persecution threaten them both.
Writer: Gregg Henry
Director: Lisa James
Rehearsals begin August 19, 2025
Performances September 11 – October 5, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Four small-time grifters meet at an isolated cabin in Washington State to pull off a heist that has all the earmarks of a disaster-in-the-making.
Written by James Anthony Tyler
Director - TBD
Rehearsals begin October 7, 2024
Performances October 30 – November 23, 2024
SYNOPSIS: Devoted daughter Allain has the unfortunate job of dropping off her stubborn, elderly mother Delphina at the Deer Lakes Assisted Living Facility. When Delphina refuses to stay, mother and daughter must grapple with the issues that led them to Deer Lakes in the first place.
NOTE: All of the characters are African American
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PREMIERE STAGES AT KEAN UNIVERSITY
Contract: LOA to LORT - $625 weekly minimum (2024 rates)
Venue: Bauer Boucher Theatre Center, on the campus of Kean University
Kean University in Union, NJ is a 38-minute train stop from NY Penn Station.
Expected to attend:
John J. Wooten, Producing Artistic Director
Nick Gandiello, Managing Director
A fully vaccinated company
Written by Vincent Delaney
Directed by John J. Wooten
The production dates will be EITHER:
Rehearsals: June 24 - July 16
Performances: July 12 - August 3 (15 performances - Thursdays through Sundays)
OR:
Rehearsals: August 12 – September 3
Performances: September 4 – September 21 (15 performances - Thursdays through Sundays)
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