Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2024 Summer Season Equity Principal Actors - Colorado Shakespeare Festival Auditions

Posted October 27, 2023
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Colorado Shakespeare Festival | Boulder, CO

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LOCATION

Denver University Department of Theatre -

Johnson McFarlane Hall

1903 East Iliff Avenue

Denver, CO 80210 a

PERSONNEL

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Tim Orr, Producing Artistic Director

Wendy Franz, Managing Director

Kurt Mehlenbacher, Operations Manager

OTHER DATES

MACBETH: First Rehearsal: 5/21/24, Opening:

6/09/24, Closing: 8/11/24

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR: First

Rehearsal: 6/11/24, Opening: 7/07/24,

Closing: 8/11/24

ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM: First Rehearsal:

7/23/24, Opening: 7/28/24, Closing: 7/28/24

OTHER

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.

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, November 4, 2023

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M)

BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

Please fill out the form at the following link to request an audition:


https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdpudUQn2tn-b2LU50-kVQyhVzdNlOGT0DmOBtBIIpwSCr_pA/viewform .

Please direct questions to Kurt Mehlenbacher, CSF

Operations Manager: kume5547exc@colorado.edu

CONTRACT

LOA

$761 weekly minimum (LOA ref. LORT)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Colorado

Shakespeare Festival's 2024 Summer season

(see breakdown).

All roles will be understudied.

Local Denver Colorado actors are encouraged to audition. Colorado Boulder, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is committed to building a culturally diverse community dedicated to contributing to an inclusive environment. We are an Equal

Opportunity employer.

PREPARATION

After completing the online form, please prepare two (2) contrasting classical monologues, no more than two (2) minutes in length total (1 min each). We request that one (1) be comedic and one (1) be dramatic.

Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2024 Summer Season

SEEKING:

MACBETH by William Shakespeare

Three Witches, the Weïrd Sisters

Duncan, king of Scotland

Malcolm, his elder son

Donalbain, Duncan’s younger son

Macbeth, thane of Glamis CAST

Lady Macbeth, CAST

Seyton, attendant to Macbeth

Three Murderers in Macbeth’s service

A Doctor, attending Lady Macbeth

A Gentlewoman, attending Lady Macbeth

A Porter

Banquo, commander—with Macbeth—of Duncan’s army

Fleance, his son

Macduff, a Scottish noble

Lady Macduff

Their son

Lennox, Scottish Noble

Ross, Scottish Noble

Angus, Scottish Noble

Menteith, Scottish Noble

Caithness, Scottish Noble

Siward, commander of the English forces

Young Siward, Siward’s son

A Captain in Duncan’s army

An Old Man

A Doctor at the English court

Hecate

Apparitions: an Armed Head, a Bloody Child, a Crowned Child, and eight kings

Three Messengers, Three Servants, a Lord, a Soldier, Attendants, a Sewer, Servants, Lords, Thanes, Soldiers

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR by William Shakespeare

Mistress Ford

Ford, her husband

John, Ford’s servant

Robert, Ford’s servant

Mistress Page

Page, her husband

Anne, their daughter

William, their son

Doctor Caius, a French doctor, suitor to Anne Page

Mistress Quickly, the doctor’s housekeeper

John Rugby, the doctor’s manservant

Sir Hugh Evans, a Welsh parson

Host of the Garter Inn

Windsor Children, disguised as fairies

Sir John Falstaff, an impoverished knight

Robin, his page

Bardolph

Pistol, Falstaff’s servant

Nym, Falstaff’s servant

Fenton, a gentleman, suitor to Anne Page

Robert Shallow, a visiting justice of the peace

Abraham Slender, his nephew, a young gentleman suitor to Anne Page

Simple, Slender’s servant

ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM

Thomas Arden, a self-made man

Alice Arden, Thomas’ wife

Mosby, Alice’s lover

Black Will, murderer

George Shakebag, murderer

Franklin, Thomas’ best friend

Clarke, a painter

Michael, Arden’s servant

Greene, a tenant of Arden’s

Bradshaw, a goldsmith

Lord Cheyne, a nobleman

Susan, Mosby’s sister

Adam Fowle, landlord of the Flower-de-Luce Inn

Dick Rede, a sailor and inhabitant of Faversham

Mayor of Faversham

Ferryman

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