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Third Avenue Playhouse 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Third Avenue Playhouse Auditions

Posted February 24, 2025
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THIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE 2025 SEASON - CHICAGO EPA

Third Avenue Playworks | Sturgeon Bay, WI

AUDITION DATE

Monday, March 10, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

CONTRACT

SPT
$512 weekly minimum (SPT 5)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Third Avenue Playhouse's 2025 Season (see breakdown). Third Avenue PlayWorks encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting monologues. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661

PERSONNEL

Directors:
Three Viewings - Jacob Janssen
Buyer & Cellar - Ray Jivoff
39 Steps - Mary MacDonald Kerr
Ryan's Pub, Trivia Night - Jacob Janssen
A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play - Elyse Edelman

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Jacob Janssen, Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

THREE VIEWINGS - 1ST REH 4/9, OPEN 5/2, CLOSE 5/18
BUYER AND CELLAR - 1ST REH 5/27, OPEN 6/6, CLOSE 6/22
THE 39 STEPS - 1ST REH 6/25, OPEN 7/18, CLOSE 8/10
RYAN’S PUB, TRIVIA NIGHT - 1ST REH 9/3, OPEN 9/26, CLOSE 10/22
A CHRISTMAS CAROL: A LIVE RADIO PLAY - 1ST REH 11/21, OPEN 12/15, CLOSE 12/31

OTHER

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided. Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

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.

BREAKDOWN

THIRD AVENUE PLAYHOUSE 2025 SEASON

SEEKING:

Three Viewings by Jeffrey Hatcher

EMIL - (40-50s, male presenting, any race/ethnicity) Undertaker, professional, thoughtful. Able to hide his true feelings, and capable of great things.

MAC - (20-40s, female presenting, any race/ethnicity) Pennsylvania raised, LA living party girl. She makes her money stealing jewelry at funerals. Wants life to be anything other than ordinary. She’s so over ordinary.

VIRGINIA - (60-70s, female presenting, any race/ethnicity) A talker, and deeply midwestern. Newly widowed and trying to figure out what is next. She really, really misses her husband.

Buyer & Cellar by Jonathan Tolins

ALEX MORE - (Late 20s-30s, male presenting, any race/ethnicity) An out of work actor with a big personality who takes a not exactly dream job working for Barbara Streisand. Great comic chops. Solo performance, doubles multiple characters.

The 39 Steps adapted by Patrick Barlow

RICHARD HANNAY (30-50, male presenting) – Leading man. Dapper English gentleman, athletic, excellent comedic timing. NOTE: RP British accent required.

ANNABELLE SCHMIDT / PAMELA / MARGERET / AS CAST. (20-40, female presenting) - Comedic Leading Lady. Versatile, good movement skills, and excellent comedic timing. NOTE: German, British, Scottish accents required.

CLOWN 1. (20-50, any gender) – Character/physical comedian. Versatile, and doubles dozens of characters. NOTE: Improv a plus. NOTE: High London, Cockney, Scottish, German accents/dialects required.

CLOWN 2. (20-50, any gender) – Character/physical comedian. Versatile, and doubles dozens of characters. NOTE: Improv a plus. NOTE: High London, Cockney, Scottish, German accents/dialects required.

Ryan’s Pub, Trivia Night by Alec Silberlatt

MARCI (40s-50s, male presenting, any race/ethnicity) Pittsburger. Lives for trivia. Former alcoholic. Things should have turned out different. Still has a sense of humor.

RICHIE (40s-50s, male presenting, any race/ethnicity) Pittsburger. A little rough for wear. Working class. Always carries a stack of trivial pursuit cards with him.

A Christmas Carol: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry

FREDDIE FILMORE: (age: 40s-60s, male presenting, any race/ethnicity); voices multiple characters including Ebenezer Scrooge and Santa Claus. Voices multiple characters including Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Present.

JAKE LAURENTS: (age: 20s-50s male presenting, any race/ethnicity); voices multiple characters including Marley and the Ghost of Christmas Present.

HARRY “JAZZBO” HAYWOOD: (age: 30s-50s male presenting, any race/ethnicity); voices multiple characters including Bob Cratchit, Young Scrooge, and Tiny Tim.

SALLY APPLEWHITE: (age: 30s-40s, female presenting, any race/ethnicity); voices multiple characters including Scrooge’s sister Fan, and lost love Belle.

LANA SHERWOOD: (age 30s-50s, female presenting, any race/ethnicity); voices multiple characters including The Ghost of Christmas Past and Cratchit’s daughter Martha.

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