Williamstown Theatre Festival (Dramatic) – NYC EPA Williamstown Theatre Festival | Williamstown, MA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
AUDITION DATE
Thursday, July 6, 2023
9:30 AM – 5:30 PM (E)
Break: 1:00-2:00pm
CONTRACT
COST
$1,170 weekly minimum (Tier 5)
SEEKING
Equity actors for possible future replacement roles in Williamstown Theatre Festival‘s readings (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 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.
PREPARATION
Please bring a stapled headshot and resume and prepare a monologue (no more than two minutes) from contemporary or modern (1950- present) theater.
BREAKDOWN
LOCATION
Actors’ Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Studio A
PERSONNEL
Company Manager: Quinn Burnell
Casting: The Telsey Office
Curator: Christopher Fitzgerald
Music Director: Joel Waggonerm, Interim Artistic Director: Jenny Gersten
Expected to attend:
Danielle King, Producer & Director of Organizational Culture
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
www.wtfestival.org
Venue: Festival Stage, ‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williamstown, MA
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.
Fridays@3 – New Play Developmental Reading Series
Nick & The Prizefighter
By Kamilah Bush
Director: Kristolyn Lloyd
Contract: Equity / COST Tier 5 ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: Auditorium at The Clark Museum
Rehearsal in Williamstown: Thursday, July 13
Public Reading: Friday, July 14
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER – Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and projection. UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
FOREST “KID” THOMPSON- 60s, Black, famed playwright.
SELAH THOMPSON- Late 20s-early 30s, Black, Forest’s daughter and caregiver. NICK BEERMAN- Late 20s-early 30s, White, a dramaturg and writer.
Plunder and Lightning
By Cindy Lou Johnson
Director: Portia Krieger
Contract: Equity /COST – Tier 5 agreement ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: Auditorium at The Clark Museum
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Public Reading: Friday, July 21, 2023
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER – Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and dynamic projection.
UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
TINA – early fifties.
GEORGE – Tina’s husband, mid-fifties.
LOLA – eighties, the second wife of Tina’s father who died two years ago.
RIKKI – Tina and George’s twenty-two-year-old daughter. Vulnerable, troubled, grounded and true.
Chapters of a Floating Life
By Clarence Coo
Director: Jennifer Chang
Contract: Equity /COST – Tier 5 agreement ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: Auditorium at The Clark Museum
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Public Reading: Friday, July 28, 2023
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER – Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and dynamic projection.
UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
SHEN FU – An unemployed college professor, a man. Chinese.
YUN – A novelist, a woman. Chinese.
ELSIE – A restaurant worker, a woman. Chinese.
TOM – A restaurant owner, a man. Chinese.
Wipeout
By Aurora Real de Asua
Director: Maggie Burrows
Contract: Equity /COST – Tier 5 agreement ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: Auditorium at The Clark Museum
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Public Reading: Friday, August 4, 2023
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER – Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and dynamic projection.
UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
CLAUDIA – in her seventies.
WYNN – in her seventies.
MARGARET (GARY) – in her seventies.
BLAZE – a nineteen-year-old surf instructor.
Main Stage Reading Series
Paris, ACTORS!
By Hamish Linklater
Director: Jack O’Brien
Contract: Equity / COST – Tier 5 agreement ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: WTF Festival Stage
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Wednesday, July 19, 2023
First Public Reading: Saturday, July 22, 2023
Final Public Reading/Scheduled Closing: Sunday, July 23, 2023
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER – Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and dynamic projection.
UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
SERGE SAND – Actor/Director of Le Theatre Montparnasse. Robust, a little dim, a little bisexual, 50. Creator of the smash hit adaptation, “Joan, The Saint”.
SABINE SAND – Leading Actress of Le Theatre Montparnasse, wife of Serge. Always 32, vain glorious. Recent credits: Joan in “Joan, The Saint”.
ELISE SAND – daughter of Serge and Sabine. 19. Blonde, the ideal ingenue. Recent credits: “Girl” in “Joan, The Saint.”
BURNEL SAND – daughter of Serge and Sabine, though not Serge’s by birth. 23. Very light skinned French-African. Would rather she was raised in a family of Hoteliers.
JEAN MARIE SAND – son of Serge and Sabine, though not Serge’s son by birth. 26. Member of the Resistance. Presumed killed in Marseilles. [if he doesn’t stay dead, he may double as DANIEL HERVÉ]
RAINER SCHLÖSSER – Reichs dramaturg. 40. Charismatic, assured, in love with Shakespeare, and the Reich.
WERNER KRAUSS – Nazi celebrity. 60. Credits include Jud Süs”, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”, Superfluous People, etc. He could go on and on.
DANIEL HERVÉ – apprentice dentist. 20. Vibrant, sunshine. In love with Elise. Lives beneath the stage. May double as JEAN MARIE SAND.
YOUNG GIRL – 13, Austrian.
Three Sisters
By Anton Chekhov (translation TBD)
Director: TBD
Contract: Equity / COST – Tier 5 agreement ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: WTF Festival Stage
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Wednesday, July 26, 2023
First Public Reading: Saturday, July 29, 2023
Final Public Reading/Scheduled Closing: Sunday, July 30, 2023
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER – Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and projection. UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
ANDREI
OLGA
MASHA
IRINA
NATALYA IVANOVNA (NATASHA)- Andrei’s fiance, later his wife
KULYGIN- a schoolteacher, Masha’s husband
VERSHININ- Lieutenant
TUZENBACH- baron, lieutenant
SOLYONY- staff captain
CHEBUTYKIN- army doctor
FEDOTIK- Lieutenant
RHODE- Lieutenant
FERAPONT- a watchman at the district council office
ANFISA- a nanny, eighty years old
The Pillowman
By Martin McDonagh
Director: Lila Neugebauer
Contract: Equity / COST – Tier 5 agreement ($1,170 for the week)
Venue: WTF Festival Stage
First Rehearsal in Williamstown: Wednesday, August 2, 2023
First Public Reading: Saturday, August 5, 2023
Final Public Reading/Scheduled Closing: Sunday, August 6, 2023
AVAILABLE ROLES:
STAGE DIRECTIONS READER- Any age, gender, or ethnicity with clear enunciation and projection. UNAVAILABLE ROLES:
TUPOLSKI
KATURIAN
ARIEL
MICHAL
MOTHER
FATHER
BOY
GIRL
MAN