Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation, Inc. | Ivoryton, CT
Tuesday, January 28, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To schedule an appointment please fill out the form at the following link:
Appointment Form
SPT
$761 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for the offstage understudy role of KATHERINE HEPBURN in TEA AT FIVE (see breakdown). Ivoryton Playhouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Ivoryton Playhouse aims to ensure that our productions and production teams reflect a multi-racial society that includes actors and stage managers with disabilities. Our casting process includes a flexible and imaginative casting policy to increase employment for actors and stage managers of color, women, seniors, and actors and stage managers with disabilities. We strongly encourage actors of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, and abilities to audition. Ivoryton Playhouse is committed to diversity and encourages actors from underrepresented communities to apply.
Audition will consist of reading sides. Sides are available on the Playhouse website at
ivorytonplayhouse.org. Please bring your headshot and resume and cover letter stapled together.
Ivoryton Playhouse Rehearsal Studio
22 Main St
Centerbrook, CT 06409
Managing Director: Krista May
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Executive Director: Jacqueline Hubbard
Executive Producer: Ben Hope
First Rehearsal – April 29, 2025
First Preview – May 15, 2025
Opening – May 16, 2025
Closing – June 8, 2025
All Shows performance schedule:
Wednesdays 2 pm, Thursdays 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Fridays 7:30 pm, Saturdays 2 pm and 7:30 pm, and Sundays 2 pm
Ivoryton Playhouse - Ivoryton, CT
For additional information, email Ben at
ben@ivorytonplayhouse.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
Tea at Five is a one-woman show that captures the essence of the legendary Katharine Hepburn at two pivotal points in her life.
KATHARINE HEPBURN (Female, 45 – 60) CAST seeking Offstage Understudy.
Act One (Age 31, 1938)
The young, fiercely independent, and ambitious Hepburn has just suffered a string of professional failures after a promising start in Hollywood. In her family home in Fenwick, CT, she reflects on her turbulent career, family history, and determination to reclaim her place as a star.
Key traits:
• Charismatic, witty, and sharp-tongued
• Vulnerable beneath her self-assured exterior
• Deeply tied to her New England roots
• A restless and intense performer navigating rejection with equal parts humor and grit
Act Two (Age 76, 1983)
An older, reflective Hepburn, now a revered Hollywood icon, recounts her life story with candor and grace. She reflects on her career highs, her relationships — including her enduring love for Spencer Tracy — and the toll of aging. Despite the physical limitations she faces from tremors and illness, her intelligence and indomitable spirit shine through.
Key traits:
• Wry, self-deprecating, and deeply insightful
• Wiser, more contemplative, yet still mischievous
• Graceful and dignified but realistic about her fragility
• Fiercely independent, even as she faces loneliness and mortality
The role of Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five is both a celebration of the icon's legacy and a study of resilience, artistry, and vulnerability. Bringing to life the public persona of the Hollywood legend while revealing the complexities of the private woman behind the myth.
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