Portland Stage Company 2024-25 Season - NYC EPA Portland Stage Company | Portland, ME
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, June 28, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
LORT Non-Rep
$807 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in Portland Stage Company's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).
No roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a short monologue and bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
The Sheen Center
18 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
Holding room - Studio B
Expected to attend:
Jenn Haltman - Casting Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
by Joe DiPietro
Director: Lisa DiFranza
1st Rehearsal: 9/3/24
Opening: 9/27/24
Closing: 10/13/2024
SYNOPSIS: A charged intimate retelling of Smith’s rise as a junior senator to confronting the political power block McCarthy was working to establish. Set in Washington during the 1950s
Margaret Chase Smith: Female, 50s, The junior Senator from Maine. No nonsense with a firm elegance and a caustic wit. A committed moderate, forever independent.
Joe McCarthy: 40s. The junior Senator from Wisconsin. Loud, crass, reckless, unmannered, unmarried and very, very effective.
William Lewis Jr.: 30s. Senator Chase's executive assistant and her right hand. Thin and handsome, bright and educated, impeccably dressed. He knows the ins and outs of Washington.
Jean Kerr: 20s. A young acolyte of McCarthy's. Bright and educated and fiercely loyal. She has grown accustomed to being underestimated.
by Hans Christian Anderson
Director: Anita Stewart and Todd Brian Backus
1st Rehearsal: 11/5/24
Opening: 12/07/24
Closing: 12/24/24
SYNOPSIS: Adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. All actors play multiple roles. Ability to move well, sing and shape shift are important. Not a musical. As written, these characters are listed as binary, however we encourage actors of all genders to audition.
Snow Queen: Female 30-60s any ethnicity. Multiple characters from powerful and commanding queens to loving grandmothers and comic fish sellers. The role requires the actor to climb, so we are looking for strong movers with the ability to climb and crawl.
Kai: Male 20-30s any ethnicity. Multiple characters from a young boy caught in the spell of the Snow Queen to a stately prince and a comic robber.
Inventor/Crow: Any gender 20s to 50s any ethnicity. Multiple characters from an evil inventor, to a personified crow.
Princess/Robber Girl: Female 20s to 40s any ethnicity. Multiple characters from a stately princess to a comic robber.
Storyteller/Musician/Ba the Reindeer: Any gender 30s to 60s any ethnicity. Plays guitar and/or other stringed handheld instruments. As narrator will underscore much of the story musically as well as playing small parts on the journey.
Gerda: Female 20s-30s any ethnicity. A young girl who learns her strength through the course of the journey. Ability to sing and move are essential.
by Steven Dietz
Director: Kevin R. Free
1st Rehearsal: 1/7/25
Opening: 1/31/25
Closing: 2/23/25
SYNOPSIS: Adaptation of a Christie classic murder mystery, this cast of 6 brings multiple characters to life. As written, these characters are listed as binary, however we encourage actors of all genders to audition.
Hercule Poirot: 50s 60s Belgian detective. Precise and methodical.
Captain Hastings: Female, 30s-40s , any ethnicity. narrator and best friend of Poirot, British.
Man One: Man 40s-60s, any ethnicity. Doubles as various characters utilizing French, and British accents. Has a strong sense of character comedy. Skilled with “precise, near-immediate character changes”.
Woman One: Female 40s -60s. Any ethnicity. Doubles as various characters utilizing French, German, British, and Dutch accents. Has a strong sense of character comedy. Skilled with “precise, near-immediate character changes”.
Man Two: 30s. Any ethnicity. Arch enemy of Hercule. Doubles as various characters using French and British accents. Should have an overinflated sense of self-importance. Skilled with “precise, near immediate character changes”.
Woman Two: Female, 20s-30s. Any ethnicity. Doubles as various characters utilizing French, Dutch, and British accents. Gymnastics, acrobatics, or stunt training are an asset. Skilled with “precise, near immediate character changes”.
by Bess Welden
Director: Annette Jolles
1st Rehearsal: 2/11/25
Opening: 3/7/25
Closing: 3/23/25
SYNOPSIS: A new play about family, displacement, and learning one’s history through time spent in the kitchen. Debra and Jennifer are daughters of Rose an elderly woman suffering from dementia. Each takes a different path to caretaking for an ailing parent and resents the other. During the course of the play we meet Rose’s half-sister, Lila an Argentinian and discover family secrets from the Holocaust.
Debra: Female 40s - 50s; a struggling then successful food writer, sardonic sense of humor, a recovered alcoholic with an edge but deeply nurturing and warm.
Jennifer: 50s, Debra’s older sister; highly accomplished medical school professor; a buttoned-up perfectionist; a mother whose own family is falling apart.
Rose/Lilia: Female, 50s-70s, Rose 70s, Debra and Jennifer’s mother; an exacting cookie baker and small businesswoman, stubborn, opinionated, strong. She doesn’t speak with any sort of accent. Lilia is a vivacious Argentinian poet, colorful and robustly healthy. Speaks English with an Argentinian accent. Speaks Spanish and Yiddish (minimal verbal language skills required). Debra and Jennifer is a professional baker, at the end of her life suffering from dementia though still able to bake. Lilia is a strong, affable Argentinian Jew.
by John Cariani
Director: Sally Wood
1st Rehearsal: 3/11/25
Opening: 4/4/25
Closing 5/4/25
SYNOPSIS: A new play about growing up in rural Maine from the author of Almost Maine. Each actor will play several different roles. Each character needs to feel distinct, but they are real people, not caricatures. These are all people who live in rural northern Maine. All the characters in this play are between the age of 16 (high school) and late 20s. They are smart people but not intellectuals. They are still searching for who they are.
TRACK 1: Identifying as female, 20s
TRACK 2: Identifying as male, 20s
TRACK 3: Identifying as female, 20s
TRACK 4: Identifying as male, 20s
TRACK 5: Identifying as male or female, 20s.
by Edward Albee
Director: TBD
1st Rehearsal: 4/22/25
Opening: 5/16/25
Closing: 6/1/25
SYNOPSIS: A late-night faculty party goes astray.
Martha: Female. 45+. Black. A boisterous woman; looking somewhat younger; sexy. Unhappy and domineering in her marriage.
George: Male 50+ Black. Professor of history. He is frustrated with his life and the delusions he and his wife have created.
Honey: Female 25-40 Black Rather plain. Nick’s immature wife.
Nick: Male 30-45 Black. Honey’s husband; handsome, well put together; preppy and quite ambitious.
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