Olney Theatre Center 2024-25 Season Equity Principal Actors - Olney Theatre Corporation Auditions

Posted January 17, 2024
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Olney Theatre Center 2024-25 Season - Olney Theatre Corporation

Olney Theatre Center 2024-25 Season - Olney, MD EPA (Plays)
Olney Theatre Corporation | Olney, MD

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, January 25, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an appointment please contact Ellen Powers at 301.924.4485 ext. 134, or email casting@olneytheatre.org. Olney Theatre Center office hours are between 10 am and 6 pm EST.

CONTRACT

COST
Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab: $653.60 weekly minimum (Tier 1)
Mainstage: $817 weekly minimum (Tier 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Olney Theatre Center's 2024-25 season Plays (see breakdown).

Olney Theatre Center is committed to hiring actors who reflect the diversity of our world; we are actively seeking actors of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities.

PREPARATION

Please prepare up to a two-minute monologue. And please bring a copy of your headshot and resume.

LOCATION

Olney Theatre Center
2001 Olney Sandy Spring Rd
Olney, MD 20832-1601

PERSONNEL

Olney Artistic Staff:
Artistic Director: Jason Loewith
Senior Associate Artistic Director: Hallie Gordon
Associate Artistic Director/Director of Music Theater: Christopher Youstra
Casting Consultant: Jenna Place
Director of Curated Programming: Kevin McAllister

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Casting Director: Irene Martinko
Casting and Dramaturgy Apprentice: Ellen Powers

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for show-specific dates.

OTHER

olneytheatre.org

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.

BREAKDOWN

OLNEY THEATRE CENTER 2024-2025 SEASON

SEEKING:

A CHRISTMAS CAROL:

By: Charles Dickens, Adapted by Paul Morella
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab

DATES:

Rehearsals Begin: November 19, 2024
Performances Begin: November 26, 2024
Closing: December 29, 2024

SYNOPSIS:

Using Charles Dickens’ original text, one actor recounts the story of A Christmas Carol, portraying every character, including Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, and the Cratchit Family.

NARRATOR - CAST One performer who plays every character in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

SLEEPOVA

By: Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
Director: TBD

DATES:

Rehearsals Begin: February 18, 2025
Previews Begin: March 19, 2025
Opening: March 22, 2025
Closing: April 20, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

Join Rey, Elle, Shan, and Funmi. Armed with sugary snacks, school gossip, and secret questions they can only ask each other, their sleepovas are pretty much a sacred space for them. As each year tugs them further into adulthood and life doesn’t pan out quite as they imagined, they struggle to hold onto a friendship that they swore would last a lifetime.

REY - 18+ to play 15-17. She/her, femme, black or black-mixed race, proudly Queer. Plus-size, of Grenadian and English heritage.
ELLE - 18+ to play 15-17; she/her, black or black-mixed race, of Jamaican heritage.
SHAN - 18+ to play 16-18; she/her, black, of Nigerian and Jamaican heritage; has sickle cell.
FUNMI - 18+ to play 15-17; She/her, black, of Nigerian heritage.

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