NORTHERN SKY THEATER 2025 SEASON - FISH CREEK, WI EPA
AUDITION DATE
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
APPOINTMENTS
To schedule an audition appointment, please email Production Manager
lisa@northernskytheater.com. Please indicate your preferred audition time and any times you are NOT available. You will be assigned a time based on schedule. Deadline for requesting an appointment is 5 pm CT on December 16, 2024.
CONTRACT
LOA
$797 weekly minimum (LOA ref. LORT) 2024 rate - 2025 rates pending.
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Northern Sky Theater's 2025 Season (see breakdown). Actors will also be considered for new works Readings and Workshops during the 2025 season. Performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, ages, as well as performers with disabilities, are encouraged to attend. All roles will be understudied.
PREPARATION
Please prepare two short contrasting monologues and two short contrasting songs. An accompanist will be provided. You are welcome to sing a cappella or accompany yourself on any instrument of your choice. Sharing your instrumental skills is encouraged. You may be asked to read scenes from the season’s world premieres. Scripts remain in process.
LOCATION
Northern Sky Theater - Gould Theatre and Creative Campus
9058 County Road A
Fish Creek, WI 54212
PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Jeff Herbst, Artistic Director
Lisa Schlenker, Resident Designer and Production Manager
OTHER DATES
Outdoor Summer Season: First rehearsal 5/12/25, First performance 6/11/25, Closing 8/23/25. (Dairy Heirs, No Bones About It, Something In The Water*)
Fall Season: First rehearsal 8/4/25, First performance 8/29/25, Closing 10/25/25. (The Bachelors)
OTHER
Submit questions to Associate Artistic Director
molly@northernskytheater.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
BREAKDOWN
Northern Sky Theater 2025 Season
NOTE: It is common at Northern Sky for actors to play instruments onstage and to join the pit band when not onstage.
* World premieres
Outdoor Summer Season:
DAIRY HEIRS
Present Day
SEEKING:
GABE FREDERIKS: co-heir to the Frederiks dairy farm. Home briefly from the big city and feeling uncomfortable, Gabe is struggling to sort out feelings of where he belongs.
ELSIE FREDERIKS: co-heir to the Frederiks dairy farm; GABE's younger sister. Self-sufficient farmer, persevering to keep the family farm going, lonely.
TJ & JT BLATSCHKE: “identical” twins who work the Frederiks farm, but don't actually look (or act) anything alike. They love farming and their fraternal relationship, but harbor secret hopes & dreams as well.
LINDA GUSTAFSSON: Next door neighbor to the Frederiks (along with her dad, “Gus”) and GABE's childhood playmate and high school sweetheart. Common sense good friend with a huge heart.
RITA SPICER: GABE’s Hollywood manager. High Powered and decisive.
NO BONES ABOUT IT
Present day
SEEKING:
ADAM CAPP: Owner of Cappy’s Happy Pig. Great and involved dad, highly competitive.
JULIE: Adam’s daughter. A “Juliet” figure.
KAREN MONTAGUE: Owner of Jurassic Pork. Watchful mom, highly competitive.
RONNY: Karen’s son. The “Romeo” of this story.
KEN: A Foodie
KELLY: A Foodie.
LARRY FRIAR: Owner of Friar’s Fryers and Smokers, also sponsor of the Verona National Smokeoff.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER*
Circa 1911
SEEKING:
NORMAN BIDWELL: Second generation owner of the Grand Waukesha Springs Resort. Inherited the business from his father and has sunk every penny he has into keeping his father’s dream and business alive.
KIT HAGGAR: Eager, young and optimistic, Norman Bidwell’s niece. After spending the summers of her youth as a guest at the Grand, she now works for her Uncle. She dreams of one day owning the Grand and will do anything to keep it open.
WALTER W WALTERS, III: Arrogant, entitled bachelor and heir to his family fortune. His freewheeling lifestyle has gotten him into a heap of trouble and he finds himself hiding out at the Grand Waukesha Springs Resort.
PENELOPY PENNYFARTHING: Grand in opinion and stature, she inherited a huge fortune and currently spends her days traveling the world in search of inspiration to fuel her secret pastime.
FANNY BARTLETT: Wildly overdramatic stage star. Jilted ex-fiancé of Walter Walters, and longtime girlfriend of gangster Big Joe Coletti. (Note: also plays Constance in the opening sequence.)
BIG JOE COLETTI: Infamous short-tempered Chicago gangster. Despite his oversized reputation, he is not physically imposing. Recently released from prison, he will do anything to win back Fanny. (Note: doubles as the Health Inspector.)
Fall Season:
THE BACHELORS
Gilbert & Sullivan England then Madison, Wisconsin circa 2000
SYNOPSIS: Two bachelors inhabit a cave-like apartment basking in a blissful state of extended adolescence. One night they innocently order out for pizza, never expecting the delivery girl is the reincarnation of a woman they both wronged in a previous lifetime.
SEEKING:
STEW: A Bachelor, a hapless bumbler in search of love.
JOHN: A Bachelor, a hapless bumbler in search of love.
KATE: A Woman wronged.
