RENAISSANCE THEATREWORKS / NEXT ACT THEATRE 2023-24 SEASON - MILWAUKEE EPA
VARIOUS PRODUCERS
Next Act Theatre
255 S Water St
Milwaukee, WI 53204
Thu, May 11, 2023
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (CDT)
Break: 12:00-1:00pm
Equity Appointment Based Auditions via Sign up Genius: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70a0d49a4ad22a6f94-aeaauditions#/ . EMC and non-Equity actors will be seen as walk-ins as time permits. Final day to sign up: Tuesday May 9, 2023 for the May 11th slots. Tuesday May 15 for the May 18th slots. If time slots are filled, you may attend via day-of wait list sign up.
SPT
$549 weekly minimum (SPT 6) - Renaissance TheatreWorks $725 weekly minimum (SPT 8+) - Next Act Theatre
Equity actors for roles in Renaissance TheatreWorks and Next Act Theatre's 2023-24 Season (see breakdown).
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 80 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 150 individuals at a time.
Please bring a printed, single page resume with a printed headshot 4 corner stapled to the back of the resume. Prepare two, 90-second contrasting monologues. For example, one 90-second comedic and one 90second dramatic.
Expected to attend:
Suzan Fete, Director of WITCH and Artistic Director, Renaissance Theaterworks
Jayne Regan Pink, Artistic Associate, Renaissance Theaterworks
Cody Estle, Artistic Director, Next Act Theater
See production dates in breakdowns.
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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.
Next Act does not have understudies.
Next Act's mission is to nurture and collaborate with the best of local talent.
Next Act Theatre produces Four productions per season. Each production has three weeks of rehearsal, six days of tech with two previews, and four weeks of performances totaling 7 weeks of employment and 27 performances.
First Rehearsal Aug 29, 2023
Open Sep 22, 2023
Close Oct 15, 2023.
Thyme is fifteen, an A student, and three months’ pregnant. She lives with her parents, Marjorie and Ollie, in their Harlem apartment along with her new husband, eighteen-year-old Erry, the father of her child. Thyme is a bookworm, and her obsessive topics of the moment are childbirth (she wants to deliver in water) and the environment. Thyme is bossy with Erry, an innocent presence, who was recently hired as a construction worker, and wit.
Seeking:
Thyme: Female. 15-year-old girl. Black. Pregnant and married to Erry. Straight A student who cares deeply about the environment.
Erry: Male. 18-year-old boy. Black. Married to Thyme. Awkward, sincere, and increasingly ill.
Marjorie: Female. Late 20’s/Late 30’s. Black. Thyme’s mother. Hard worker and supportive mother.
Shaneequa: Female. 15-year-old girl. Black. Pregnant and Thyme’s best friend. Fun and passionate with a bit of a temper.
Ollie: Male. Late 20’s/Late 30’s. Black. Thyme’s father. Supportive father. Playful. A bit of a jokester.
First Rehearsal Oct 31, 2023
Open Nov. 25, 2023
Close Dec 17, 2023
After a local woman is murdered, the guests and staff at Monkswell Manor find themselves stranded during a snowstorm. It soon becomes clear that the killer is among them, and the seven strangers grow increasingly suspicious of one another. A police detective, arriving on skis, interrogates the suspects: the newlyweds running the house; a spinster with a curious background; an architect who seems better equipped to be a chef; a retired Army major; a strange little man who claims his car has overturned in a drift; and a jurist who makes life miserable for everyone. When a second murder takes place, tensions and fears escalate.
ALL ROLES CAST
Mollie Ralston: Female. Black
Gile Ralston: Male. White
Christopher Wren: Male. Person of Color
Mrs. Boyle: Female. 60's
Major Metcalf: Male. 60's
Miss Casewell: Female. 30's
Mr. Paravicini: Male 60's
Detective Trotter: Male 20/30
First Rehearsal Jan 30, 2024
Open Feb 23, 2024
Close Mar 17, 2024
New York City actress lands herself on her family's dairy farm to grieve herself back to life. But can she ever make enough meatloaf to feel a sense of purpose again now that her most important person is gone. A look at loss and survival.
ALL ROLES CAST
Women: 40/50
First Rehearsal April 2, 2024
Open April 26. Close May 19, 2024
The Treasurer-Ida Armstrong is broke, lonely, and fading fast. And she’s spending all of her children’s money, forcing her son to assume the unwanted role of The Treasurer: an arrangement that becomes untenable the more he questions his devotion to her. This darkly funny, sharply intimate portrait chronicles the strained ties between a son and his aging mother, and the hell of a guilty conscience.
Seeking:
The Son: Male. 60’s. White. Bikes to work. Lives in Denver. Strained relationship with Ida, his Mother.
Ida Armstrong: Female. 80’s. White. The Son’s mother. Lives in Albany. Fading fast.
Male: Male. Early 40’s. POC. Plays multiple characters surrounding Ida and Son.
Female: Female. Late 20’s. Black. Plays multiple characters surrounding Ida and Son.
RTW produces three (3) productions per season. Each production has three weeks of rehearsal, followed by four days of tech, and four weeks of performances totaling 7 weeks of employment and 21 performances.
First Rehearsal Sept 26
Open Oct. 22
Close Nov 12, 2023
Seeking:
Scratch. Male. 20s/ early 30s. The devil.
Sir Arthur Banks. Male. 50s/60s. A wealthy and powerful man.
Cuddy Banks: Male. 20s/ early 30s. Sir Arthur's son, painfully shy, a morris-dancer. He is secretly in love with Frank (and also in hate.)
Frank Thorney. Male. 20s/ early 30s. A confident and successful young man, charming and ruthless. his ambition knows no bounds.
Winnifred. Female. 20s/ early 30s. Sir Arthur's servant, resigned and pragmatic, secretly married to Frank.
First Rehearsal Dec 26, 2023
Open Jan. 21, 2024
Close Feb 11, 2024
Seeking:
Soccer mom: a mother to a teenage daughter. Trying very hard to seem cool.
First Rehearsal Feb 27, 2024
Open March. 24, 2024
Close April 14, 2024
Seeking:
Serge: Male. 30s. Black. a strikingly handsome, well-built Parisian man.
Lea: Female. 30s. White. a ravishing, stylish but casual Parisian woman.
Rooster: Male. 30s. White. a biggish bloke but immediately affable, native English-speaking.
Meg: Female. 30s. White. pretty, but not stylish. Native English-speaking.
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