Taproot Theatre Company 2025 Season - Seattle, WA EPA Taproot Theatre Company | Seattle, WA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, August 16, 2024
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM (P)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment, please email Bretteney Beverly at:
casting@taproottheatre.org .
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$517.50 weekly minimum (SPT 4) - 2024 Rates.
Equity actors for roles in Taproot Theatre Company's 2025 Season (See breakdown).
ACTORS: Please prepare two short monologues (no more than 3 minutes total) of your own choosing. ACTOR/SINGERS: Please prepare one monologue and a short musical theatre selection of your choosing. An accompanist will be provided. Acapella singing accepted as well. If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may submit a video submission audition to Bretteney Beverly -
casting@taproottheatre.org. Video submission will be accepted until Friday, August 23rd, 2024, at 11:59pm PT.
Isaac Studio Black Box (Taproot Theatre Co) 212 N. 85th Street
Seattle, WA 98103
Karen Lund, Producing Artistic Director
Expected to attend:
Bretteney Beverly, Associate Artistic Director/Casting Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
The 2025 season begins on March 21, 2025 and ends on November 8th, 2025.
First rehearsal of 2025 season will be February 17th, 2025.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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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.
Taproot Theatre Company 2025 Season
HAPPY CHRISTMAS JEEVES - (2024 Season production)
Written by Heidi McElrath & Nathan Kessler-Jeffrey
Rehearsals Begin: 10/28/2024
Opening Night: 11/29/2024
Closing Night: 12/28/2024
BERTIE WOOSTER: This role is cast. Our likeable upper-class hero.
REGINALD JEEVES: This role is cast. Bertie's valet, the model of a gentleman's gentleman. RICHARD 'BINGO' LITTLE: Bertie's chum and fellow member of the Drone's Club. CLAUDE WOOSTER: Bertie's younger cousin, son of Henry & Emily Wooster.
AUNT AGATHA: This role is cast. Bertie's Aunt, and a force to be reckoned with. Henry's sister. LADY BITTLESHAM: This role is cast. Bingo's aunt. Very proper but not unkind. MABEL GOGGIN: A waitress at the Senior Liberal.
A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Written by Lorraine Hansberry
Rehearsals Begin: 2/17/2025
Opening Night: 3/21/2025
Closing Night: 4/19/2025
Walter Lee Younger: Male, 30-40, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. The protagonist of the play; Walter is a dreamer; he wants to be rich and devises plans to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly Willy Harris; when the play opens, he wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store venture; he spends the rest of the play endlessly preoccupied with discovering a quick solution to his family’s various problems.
Beneatha Younger ('Bennie'): Female, 19-25, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. Mama’s daughter and Walter’s sister; Beneatha is an intellectual; twenty years old, she attends college and is better educated than the rest of the Younger family; some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative Mama; she dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman.
Lena Younger ('Mama'): Female, 55-65, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. Walter and Beneatha’s mother; the matriarch of the family, Mama is religious, moral, and maternal; she wants to use her husband’s insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world.
Ruth Younger: Female, 29-37, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. Walter’s wife and Travis’s mother; Ruth takes care of the Youngers’ small apartment; her marriage to Walter has problems, but she hopes to rekindle their love; she is about thirty, but her weariness makes her seem older; constantly fighting poverty and domestic troubles, she continues to be an emotionally strong woman; her almost pessimistic pragmatism helps her to survive.
Travis Younger: Male, 9-12, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. Walter and Ruth’s sheltered young son; Travis earns some money by carrying grocery bags and likes to play outside with other neighborhood children, but he has no bedroom and sleeps on the living-room sofa.
Joseph Asagai: Male, 24-34, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. A Nigerian student in love with Beneatha; Asagai, as he is often called, is very proud of his African heritage, and Beneatha hopes to learn about her African heritage from him; he eventually proposes marriage to Beneatha and hopes she will return to Nigeria with him.
George Murchison: Male, 29-36, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. A wealthy, African-American man who courts Beneatha; the Youngers approve of George, but Beneatha dislikes his willingness to submit to white culture and forget his African heritage; he challenges the thoughts and feelings of other black people through his arrogance and flair for intellectual competition.
Mr. Karl Lindner: Male, 35-50, Ethnicity: White / European Descent. The only white character in the play; Mr. Lindner arrives at the Youngers’ apartment from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association; he offers the Youngers a deal to reconsider moving into his (all-white) neighborhood.
Bobo: Male, 30-40, Ethnicity: Black / African Descent. One of Walter’s partners in the liquor-store plan; Bobo appears to be as mentally slow as his name indicates.
ALWAYS . . . PATSY CLINE
Written by Ted Swindle
Rehearsals Begin: 4/28/2025
Opening Night: 5/16/2025
Closing Night: 6/14/2025
Patsy Cline: This role is cast. 20-30 The legendary country singer. Dynamic and passionate actress who can embody Patsy Cline in voice and spirit.
Louise Seger: This role is cast. 40-60 A Texas housewife and fan of Patsy Cline. Strong storyteller with a big heart. Devoted fan of Patsy Cline who establishes a friendship with her through letter correspondence and finally meets her; strong-willed, funny Texan woman; she has a great deal of interaction with the audience as she relates the relationship she develops with Patsy; strong comedic sense.
Understudies: For both roles.
MURDER ON THE LINKS
Written by Steven Dietz
Rehearsals Begin: 6/9/2025
Opening Night: 7/11/2025
Closing Night: 8/9/2025
Hercule Poirot - 50s.
Captain Hastings - 30s.
TRACK ONE:
Paul Renauld - Master of the house, English.
Bex - Commissioner of Police, English/French.
Gendarme-2, French.
Gardener
Dr. Durand - French.
Hotel Clerk
Railway Porter
TRACK TWO:
Chauffeur, French.
Frau Keller - senior maid of the Estate, German.
Madame Renauld - Mistress of the Estate, British.
Theodora Van Hoven - Mistress of the neighboring Villa, European.
Gendarme-3.
Photographer
Glazer - lawyer for Jack Renauld, British.
TRACK THREE:
Gendarme-1, French.
Stonor - Renauld’s accountant, French.
Jack Renauld - son of the house, British.
Inspector Giraud - Investigating Officer, French.
TRACK FOUR:
Young Woman (”Cinderella”/Dulcie), British.
Leonie - young maid of the Estate, French.
Marte Van Hoven - daughter of Theodora Van Hoven.
Bella Duveen, British.
Gendarme-4.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
Written by Oscar Wilde
Rehearsals Begin: 8/18/2025
Opening Night: 9/19/2025
Closing Night: 10/18/2025
Jack Worthing: The play’s protagonist. Jack Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life. In Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate, Jack is known as Jack. In London he is known as Ernest. As a baby, Jack was discovered in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station by an old man who adopted him and subsequently made Jack guardian to his granddaughter, Cecily Cardew. Jack is in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax. The initials after his name indicate that he is a Justice of the Peace.
Algernon Moncrieff: The play’s secondary hero. Algernon is a charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest. Algernon is brilliant, witty, selfish, amoral, and given to making delightful paradoxical and epigrammatic pronouncements. He has invented a fictional friend, “Bunbury,” an invalid whose frequent sudden relapses allow Algernon to wriggle out of unpleasant or dull social obligations.
Gwendolen Fairfax: Algernon’s cousin and Lady Bracknell’s daughter. Gwendolen is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest. A model and arbiter of high fashion and society, Gwendolen speaks with unassailable authority on matters of taste and morality. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious. Gwendolen is fixated on the name Ernest and says she will not marry a man without that name.
Cecily Cardew: Jack’s ward, the granddaughter of the old gentlemen who found and adopted Jack when Jack was a baby. Cecily is probably the most realistically drawn character in the play. Like Gwendolen, she is obsessed with the name Ernest, but she is even more intrigued by the idea of wickedness. This idea, rather than the virtuous-sounding name, has prompted her to fall in love with Jack’s brother Ernest in her imagination and to invent an elaborate romance and courtship between them.
Lady Bracknell: Algernon’s snobbish, mercenary, and domineering aunt and Gwendolen’s mother. Lady Bracknell married well, and her primary goal in life is to see her daughter do the same. She has a list of “eligible young men” and a prepared interview she gives to potential suitors. Like her nephew, Lady Bracknell is given to making hilarious pronouncements, but where Algernon means to be witty, the humor in Lady Bracknell’s speeches is unintentional. Through the figure of Lady Bracknell, Wilde manages to satirize the hypocrisy and stupidity of the British aristocracy. Lady Bracknell values ignorance, which she sees as “a delicate exotic fruit.” When she gives a dinner party, she prefers her husband to eat downstairs with the servants. She is cunning, narrow-minded, authoritarian, and possibly the most quotable character in the play.
Miss Prism: Cecily’s governess. Miss Prism is an endless source of pedantic bromides and clichés. She highly approves of Jack’s presumed respectability and harshly criticizes his “unfortunate” brother. Puritan though she is, Miss Prism’s severe pronouncements have a way of going so far over the top that they inspire laughter. Despite her rigidity, Miss Prism seems to have a softer side. She speaks of having once written a novel whose manuscript was “lost” or “abandoned.” Also, she entertains romantic feelings for Dr. Chasuble.
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.: The rector on Jack’s estate. Both Jack and Algernon approach Dr. Chasuble to request that they be christened “Ernest.” Dr. Chasuble entertains secret romantic feelings for Miss Prism. The initials after his name stand for “Doctor of Divinity.”
Lane: Algernon’s manservant. When the play opens, Lane is the only person who knows about Algernon’s practice of “Bunburying.” Lane appears only in Act 1.
Merriman: The butler at the Manor House, Jack’s estate in the country. Merriman appears only in Acts 2 and 3.
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