Williamstown Theatre Festival | Williamstown, MA
Thursday, March 6, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
COST: $1221 weekly minimum (Tier X)
Equity actors for roles in Williamstown Theatre Festival's 2025 Season (see breakdown). Williamstown Theatre Festival strives to be inclusive and seeks to cast a diverse group of actors within the needs of each production. The descriptions below include details about each character and qualities they possess. We encourage performers of all ethnicities, races, gender identities, ages, and body types, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
Please bring a headshot and resume and prepare a monologue (no more than two minutes) from a contemporary or modern work (1950-present).
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Producer: Maya Davis
Creative Development Manager: Lianna Rada-Hung
Casting Directors: The Telsey Office (Will Cantler, Karyn Casl, Alex Cortinas, Destiny Lilly, Charlie Hano)
Director: Dustin Wills
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
www.wtfestival.org
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Dustin Wills
Venue: MainStage, ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance
First Rehearsal in NYC: Monday, June 9th 2025
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Tuesday, June 24th 2025
First Performance in Williamstown: Thursday, July 10th 2025
Final Performance: Friday, August 8th 2025
GUTMAN: Masculine, any ethnicity, 40+ An authoritarian. Based on characters from Citizen Kane and Maltese Falcon. He is the number two to the Generalissimo, an unseen force that keeps order in the Camino. He follows the money, and where there is none, he resorts to emotional and physical torture. He's Matron Mama Morton. But he has problems in the bedroom since his wife keeps trying to sneak out of the house. So he is also probably impotent and has little man syndrome. He makes up for it in wielding power.
GYPSY: Feminine, any ethnicity, 40+ A capitalist. A wanderer. Will sell anything, including her children. Sleeps with one eye open. Has a vivid imagination when called to create distraction. Though she is called the Gypsy, she is not Romani; it is an act.
DON QUIXOTE, LORD BYRON: Cis-male, European, 30s/40s Don Quixote, as made famous from Cervantes. A dreamer. A madman. With a huge heart and vast imagination. Weary from traveling. Lord Byron is that same Romantic era British poet. He may or may not know he is going to die in this moment, at the age of 36.
A RATT, AS CAST: Masculine, any ethnicity, 30s/40s. This man is a seedy, back alley capitalist doing anything he can to keep his business afloat. He leers into the plaza of the Camino Real like a mafioso neighborhood watch and is probably never not smoking.
LA MADRECITA, AS CAST: Cis-female, Latina/Spanish, 40+ Motherly. Eternal. She feels, in many ways, as much a piece of the architecture of the Camino Real as a caryatid might. Her pathos is undeniable.
ROSITA, AS CAST: Cis-female, Latina/Spanish, 20s/30s A prostitute, selling love. She believes she is a fantasy maker. But the well has run dry, and it's getting harder to make a buck every day.
BARON DU CARLUS, NURSIE: Cis-male, European, 40s/50s. The Baron, as made famous by Proust. A licentious gay man. And then also Nursie, a brash caretaker who hardly takes care. A terrible sot.
LADY MULLIGAN, AS CAST: Cis-female, any ethnicity, 30s A playgirl, waiting for her husband to die. Caught up with appearances. A gossip. She doesn't trust a soul.
LORD MULLIGAN, AS CAST: Cis-male, any ethnicity, 60+ A man on death's doorstep, but for some reason just refuses to die. Resilient despite physically falling apart. He has all the money he could ever need.
PRUDENCE, AS CAST: Cis-female, European, 55+ A friend of Marguerite. She's batty. She's been in the Camino Real too long and may be going stir crazy. She'd do anything to get out of here.
DREAMER, AS CAST: Cis-male, Latino/Spanish, any age. A soothsayer. A flamenco singer/musician.
MARGUERITE GAULTIER: CAST Cis female, European, 55+ An eccentric. From the Dumas fils novel. Her light is fading. Was once paid for sex, now pays for companionship. Money seems to be of no consequence to her. Has an opium addiction and has recently escaped from an asylum.
JACQUES CASANOVA: CAST Cis male, European, 45+ A romantic. Empty pockets, lacking his once luxurious lifestyle, and losing hope (but still hanging on to every ounce he has left). Desperate to survive. A child trapped in the body of a man past his prime. Once upon a time he could charm his way out of any predicament. Those days are gone. He is a picture of what Kilroy will become if he stays in the Camino Real.
KILROY: CAST Cis male, any ethnicity, late 20s. A fighter. American traveler and former boxer with a bad ticker. He is the picture of American optimism (and stupidity). Very earnest. Faithful, willful, propulsive, wide-eyed. Discovers there is no hope for escape from the Camino, yet still does everything he can to combat his fate, even after his own death. He will never give up. And like Don Quixote, to whom he becomes a Sancho at the end of the play, will continue on his Romantic adventure despite the world. Probably smiles too much, even when talking about sad things.
ESMERALDA: CAST Cis-female, any ethnicity, Teens/20s. A caged bird. From the hunchback of Notre Dame. Kidnapped at birth by a Gypsy and raised in the survivor's world. She is constantly drugged throughout the play by her Nurse and mother. In all of her lucid moments she attempts jailbreaks.
Written by Jeremy O. Harris
Director TBD
Venue: MainStage, ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Tuesday, June 24th 2025
First Performance in Williamstown: Wednesday, July 16th 2025
Final Performance: Sunday, August 10th 2025
TRACK 4: 20s-30s, Male, Speaks fluent Mexican Spanish.
TRACK 7: 30s, Masc, AFAB Genderqueer
TRACK 8: 30s, Femme, Black-American, AFAB Genderqueer
TRACK 9: 30s - 40s, Male, white, Loud
TRACK 10: 30s - 40s, Male, any race, Loud
TRACK 1: CAST Male, 30s - 40s, Black
TRACK 2: CAST 30s-50s, Female, White, speaks Spanish (advanced level)
TRACK 3: CAST 30s - 40s, Female, Indigenous Mexican, speaks fluent Spanish
TRACK 5: CAST early 20s, Male
TRACK 6: CAST Mid30s-Early 40s, Cis Male, speaks Spanish (advanced level)
Written by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Robert O’Hara
Venue: NikosStage, ‘62 Center for Theatre & Dance
First Rehearsal in NYC: Monday, June 9th 2025
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Tuesday, June 24th 2025
First Performance in Williamstown: Saturday, July 12th 2025
Final Performance: Sunday, August 10th 2025
NOT ABOUT NIGHTINGALES includes explicit content, nudity, intimacy, and violence. There will be appropriate supervision and choreography processes for this content. A note from the director: There will be nudity, there will be intimacy, there will be violence. This adventure will not be for everyone. An explicit erotic interrogation of caged men in the summer heat of 1938 held up to the light of our 2025 Queerness, which will no longer be hid in the shadows and corners of the love that dare not speak its name but tells the Truth of the culture of homoeroticism intrinsic to prison life.
OLLIE, AS CAST: Male, Black, 20s-40s. Well-respected convict who is very religious. He can't handle the system and takes his life.
QUEEN, AS CAST: Male, 20s-40s. Image-obsessed convict who is a homosexual.
JOE, AS CAST: Male, 20s-40s. Convict Sidekick to Butch and his lover.
SCHULTZ (A GUARD): Male, 30s-50s. Head Prison Guard.
MRS. BRISTOL, GOLDIE: Female, 40s-50s. Mother of Sailor Jack and Outside Girlfriend of Butch.
MCBURNEY (A GUARD), ALBERTS (non-speaking), CONVICT, TROOPER: Male, 20s-40s.
SHAPIRO, CONVICT, GUARD, TROOPER: Male, 20s-50s.
SWIFTY, AS CAST: Male, 20s-30s. New convict, former Olympic athlete, feels he will get out in no time.
SAILOR JACK, As Cast: Male, 20s-30s. Mentally Ill Prisoner.
CHAPLAIN, MEX, AS CAST: Male, Latino, 40s-50s. The Chaplain of the prison who resigns for disagreeing with the Warden.
REVEREND, CONVICTS, GUARDS, TROOPERS: Male, 30s-50s.
CHICK (A GUARD), CONVICTS, GUARDS, TROOPERS: Male, 20s-40s.
WARDEN WHALEN: CAST Male, 50s Warden of the prison, unlikeable man.
EVA: CAST Female, 20-40. Single woman who recently got a job at the prison as the Warden's secretary.
JIM: CAST Male, 40s Convict who's been at the prison for 10 years, and he works for the Warden.
BUTCH: CAST Male, 50s Smart talking convict, many look to him as the leader of the convicts.
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