Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2023 Summer Season - Equity video submissions
Colorado Shakespeare Festival | Boulder, CO
Notice: Submission
CONTRACT
LOA
$739 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT) - depending on theatre space
$761 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT) - depending on theatre space
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Colorado
Shakespeare Festival's 2023 Summer Season (see breakdown).
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival is an equal opportunity employer and encourages actors of underrepresented groups to audition for our season. All ethnicities, ages, genders, and people with disabilities welcome!
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
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. Submit as unlisted youtube or private vimeo links. Include any applicable passwords.
Submit at
https://forms.gle/2Z1JkqC1bohpi1xn7.
Deadline: November 7, 2022 by 5:00pm MDT.
Deadline: 11/07/2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Timothy Orr, Producing Artistic Director Wendy Franz, Managing Director
OTHER DATES
Show 1
First Rehearsal: 5/23/23
Opening: 6/13/23
Closing: 8/13/23
Show 2
First Rehearsal: 5/30/23
Opening: 6/25/23
Closing: 8/12/23
Show 3
First Rehearsal: 6/13/23
Opening: 7/09/23
Closing: 8/12/23
Show 4
First Rehearsal: 6/27/23
Opening: 7/23/23
Closing: 8/13/23
Show 5
First Rehearsal: 8/01/23
Opening: 8/06/23
Closing: 8/06/23
OTHER
Questions may be directed to the CSF
Operations Manager, Kurt Mehlenbacher
(kume5547exc@colorado.edu).
Must be willing to engage in non-traditional settings.
All rehearsals held indoors on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
Shows 1, 3, and 5 performed in the Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre.
Shows 2 and 4 performed in the University Theatre (indoors)
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Some roles will be understudied.
Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare
Leonato, Governor of Messina
Hero, his daughter
Beatrice, his niece
Leonato’s Brother
Margaret, waiting gentlewoman to Hero
Ursula, waiting gentlewoman to Hero
Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon
Count Claudio, a young lord from Florence
Signior Benedick, a gentleman from Padua
Balthasar
Signior Antonio
Don John, Don Pedro’s brother
Borachio, Don John’s follower
Conrade, Don John’s follower
Dogberry, Master Constable in Messina
Verges, Dogberry’s partner
George Seacoal, leader of the Watch
First Watchman
Second Watchman
Sexton
Friar Francis
Messenger to Leonato
Messenger to Don Pedro
Boy
Musicians, Lords, Attendants, Son to Leonato’s brother
The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare
Leontes, King of Sicilia
Hermione, Queen of Sicilia
Mamillius, their son
Perdita, their daughter
Polixenes, King of Bohemia
Florizell, his son
Camillo, a courtier, friend to Leontes and then to Polixenes Antigonus, a Sicilian courtier
Paulina, his wife and lady-in-waiting to Hermione Cleomenes, courtier in Sicilia
Dion, courtier in Sicilia
Emilia, a lady-in-waiting to Hermione
Shepherd, foster father to Perdita
Shepherd’s Son
Autolycus, former servant to Florizell, now a rogue Archidamus, a Bohemian courtier
Time, as Chorus
Two Ladies attending on Hermione
Lords, Servants, and Gentlemen attending on Leontes An Officer of the court
A Mariner
A Jailer
Mopsa, shepherdess in Bohemia
Dorcas, shepherdess in Bohemia
Servant to the Shepherd
Shepherds and Shepherdesses
Twelve Countrymen disguised as satyrs
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Lear, king of Britain
Goneril, Lear’s eldest daughter
Duke of Albany, her husband
Oswald, her steward
Regan, Lear’s second daughter
Duke of Cornwall, her husband
Cordelia, Lear’s youngest daughter
King of France, her suitor and then husband Duke of Burgundy, her suitor
Earl of Kent
Fool
Earl of Gloucester
Edgar, his elder son
Edmund, his younger and illegitimate son
Curan, gentleman of Gloucester’s household Old Man, a tenant of Gloucester’s
Knight, serving Lear
Gentlemen
Three Servants
Messengers
Doctor
Captains
Herald
Knights in Lear’s train, Servants, Officers, Soldiers, Attendants, Gentlemen
One Man, Two Guvnors, by Richard Bean
Francis Henshall, an out-of-work skiffle musician, Francis now works as a servant for two employers simultaneously (Rachel and Stanley); he loves Dolly and food.
Rachel Crabbe, the first guvnor, Rachel is in her mid-twenties and is Stanley’s girlfriend, but is disguised as her twin brother Roscoe, who is engaged to Pauline.
Stanley Stubbers, the second guvnor, Stanley is in his mid-twenties and is Rachel’s boyfriend; he is a privately educated upper class twit.
Harry Dangle, in his sixties, Harry is a crooked solicitor (partner in Dangle, Berry, and Bush Solicitors).
Alan Dangle, in his twenties, Alan is Harry’s son, loves Pauline, and is an amateur actor.
Charlie “The Duck” Clench, in his fifties, Charlie is a local mobster and has arranged the marriage of daughter Pauline to Roscoe Crabbe
Pauline Clench, in her twenties, Pauline is Charlie’s daughter; she loves Alan even though she is engaged to Roscoe.
Lloyd Boateng, in his fifties, Lloyd is Charlie’s friend and runs The Cricketers’ Arms pub. Dolly, in her thirties, Dolly is Charlie’s bookkeeper.
Gareth, in his thirties, Gareth is head waiter at Lloyd’s pub.
Alfie, an eighty-seven year old waiter, Alfie is slow and doddering
Taxi Driver
Waiters
Porters
The Comedy of Errors, by William Shakespeare
Egeon, a merchant from Syracuse
Solinus, Duke of Ephesus
Antipholus of Syracuse, a traveler in search of his mother and his brother
Dromio of Syracuse, Antipholus of Syracuse’s servant
First Merchant, a citizen of Ephesus
Antipholus of Ephesus, a citizen of Ephesus
Dromio of Ephesus, Antipholus of Ephesus’s servant
Adriana, Antipholus of Ephesus’s wife
Luciana, Adriana’s sister
Luce (also called Nell), kitchen maid betrothed to Dromio of Ephesus Messenger, servant to Antipholus of Ephesus and Adriana
Angelo, an Ephesian goldsmith
Second Merchant, a citizen of Ephesus to whom Angelo owes money
Balthasar, an Ephesian merchant invited to dinner by Antipholus of Ephesus Courtesan, hostess of Antipholus of Ephesus at dinner
Dr. Pinch, a schoolmaster, engaged as an exorcist
Officer (also called Jailer), an Ephesian law officer
Lady Abbess (also called Emilia), head of a priory in Ephesus Attendants, Servants to Pinch, Headsman, Officers
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