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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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$685 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) pending negotiations
Equity actors for roles in Folger Theatre's 2024 Season (See breakdown).
Folger Theatre encourages people of every race, color, culture, age, gender, physical ability, and sexual orientation to audition. Folger is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Please prepare a brief monologue. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
641 D St NW
Washington, DC 20004
Artistic Director: Karen Ann Daniels Michelle Lynch: Artistic Associate
THE WINTER'S TALE
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Tamilla Woodard
METAMORPHOSES
by Mary Zimmerman
Directed by Psalmeyene 24
Expected to attend:
Beth Emelson, Associate Director of Programming and Director of Producing
THE WINTER'S TALE:
Rehearsals 09/27/23 - 10/23/23
Performances 10/24/23 - 12/03/23
METAMORPHOSES :
Rehearsals 04/08/24 - 05/13/24
Performances 05/14/24 - 06/16/24
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
by William Shakespeare
Artistic Director: Karen Ann Daniels
Director of Producing: Beth Emelson
Director: Tamilla Woodard
Rehearsals Begin: September 27, 2023
Performances: October 24 – December 3, 2023
NOTE: Musical ability is a plus for all of the roles. This play will be performed with the actors’ natural accents. Roles may be doubled.
LEONTES (40s-60s): Male. King of Sicilia, he becomes convinced his wife Hermione is having an affair. Jealous, brooding, and harsh.
HERMIONE (20s-40s): Female. Queen of Sicilia, she is wrongly accused of being unfaithful to her husband. Virtuous, strong, and dignified.
PERDITA (20s): Female. The daughter of Leontes and Hermione; believed to be illegitimate by her father, she is abandoned on the shores of Bohemia and raised by a Shepherd. Charming, clever, and innocent.
POLIXENES (40s-60s): Male. King of Bohemia, he is falsely accused of having an affair with Hermione. Direct and honorable.
FLORIZEL (20s-30s): Male. Son and heir to Polixenes, he defies his father by eloping with Perdita. Charismatic, willful, and sweet.
CAMILLO (40s-60s): Male. A Sicilian nobleman who saves Polixenes’s life. Honest and sincere.
PAULINA (40s-60s): Female. A Sicilian noblewoman, and a strong advocate for Hermione’s virtue. Insistent, righteous, and dignified.
AUTOLYCUS (20s-40s): Male. A vagabond who assists Florizel and Perdita to escape Bohemia. Mischievous and cunning.
SHEPHERD (50s-60s): Male. An elderly countryman who finds the baby Perdita and raises her as his own. Honorable and good-hearted.
CLOWN (20s-30s): Male. The SHEPHERD’s son. Buffoonish yet well meaning.
ANTIGONUS (40s-60s): Male. Husband to Paulina, and also loyal to Hermione. Dedicated and principled yet conflicted.
MAMILLIUS (age 10-15): Male. The young prince of Sicilia. He dies after his mother is wrongly imprisoned. Playful and sweet.
Additional roles to be doubled among the cast:
CLEOMENES: A Sicilian lord.
DION: A Sicilian lord.
EMILIA: A lady-in-waiting to Hermione.
ARCHIDAMUS: A Bohemian lord.
by Mary Zimmerman
Artistic Director: Karen Ann Daniels
Director of Producing: Beth Emelson
Director: Psalmayene 24
Rehearsals Begin: April 8, 2024
Performances: May 14 – June 16, 2024 (potential extension to June 23, 2024)
NOTE: This play will be performed by a cast of ten using the actors’ natural accents (including African, English, Caribbean, etc.). All actors will play multiple roles. Movement/dance ability a plus. All roles require strong comedic and dramatic ability. Musical ability is a plus for all roles.
ZEUS (Doubles as Ceyx, Oread, and Therapist): Black, male-identifying, Generation X. The Greek God who represents the divine creator.
MIDAS (Doubles as Vertumnus and Voice in Vom): Black, male-identifying, late Millennial/early Generation X. A rich and greedy king.
HERMES (Doubles as Worthington, Henchman, Hades, Spirit of the Tree, and Phaeton): Black, male identifying, Millennial. Son of Zeus.
SILENUS (Doubles as Orpheus, Buyer, Cinyras, Eros, and Philemon): Black, male-identifying, ageless but youthful. A follower of Bacchus who shows up drunk at Midas’s palace.
BACCHUS (Doubles as Sleep, Erysichthon, Q, Old Folk Doug): Black, male-identifying, Baby Boomer. Roman God of wine and partying.
LUCINA (Doubles as Louise, Heidi in Alcyone and Ceyx, Narrator #2, Nursemaid, Psyche, and Voice in Vom): Black, female-identifying, ageless but youthful. The goddess of childbirth.
EURYDICE (Doubles as Marilyn, Mother, and Pomona): Black, female-identifying, ageless but youthful. The wife of Orpheus who will spend all eternity not remembering the face of her husband.
CERES (Doubles as Anne, Iris, Narrator #1, and Myrrha): Black, female-identifying, Generation X. Roman Goddess of the Harvest.
BAUCIS (Doubles as Alcyone, Narrator in New Erysichthon, and Heidi in Pomona & Myrrha): Black, female-identifying, Generation X/early Baby Boomer. A good-hearted woman of humble menas and wife of Philemon.
APHRODITE (Doubles as Midas’s daughter, Hunger, A, and Anjali in Old Folk): Black, female identifying, Late Generation Z/early Millennial. Goddess of love and beauty.
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