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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, July 17, 2023
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM (P)
No break scheduled
To set up an audition appointment please email your request for an audition time and Equity status to: casting@thestage.org.
If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may submit a video submission via this form:
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Bay Area Theatre
$562 weekly minimum (Tier 3)
Equity actors for roles in San Jose Stage Company's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
Local Bay Area actors are encouraged to audition.
San Jose Stage Company is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in casting and uses a color and culturally conscious approach to casting. Actors of any race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, and ability are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare two contrasting monologues totaling no more than two minutes.
San Jose Stage Company 2023-24 Season
San Jose Stage Company
490 South 1st St
San Jose, CA 95113-2815
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Randall King
Executive Director: Cathleen King
Director: Kenneth Kelleher
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
OTHER
San Jose Stage Company is a fully vaccinated company. All artists will need to provide proof of vaccination prior to auditioning.
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.
Directed by TBA
First Rehearsal: 08/22/23
First Preview: 09/13/23
Opening: 09/16/23
Closing: 10/08/23
First Rehearsal: 10/17/23
First Preview: 11/15/23
Opening: 11/18/23
Closing: 12/10/23
Possible Extension: 12/17/23
This Olivier Award-winning comedy is a hilarious hybrid of Monty Python and Sherlock Holmes. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!
ANNIE (30s, female-identifying, any race, Lancashire dialect) is the company’s stage manager with a Lancashire accent. She has the biggest journey of any character. She’s initially terrified by acting, but is willing to kill for it by the end of the play. Her terror turns to joy, and then to fury. She starts small, but grows and grows.
CHRIS/INSPECTOR CARTER (late 30s/40s, male-identifying, any race, RP dialect) is the the director of the play-within-a-play Murder at Haversham Manor and plays the esteemed Inspector Carter. He is also the head of the Cornley Poly Drama Society. This is the biggest day of his life. He is rigid and uptight. The experience of performing the show is both nerve-wracking and exciting. His pain is evident and every time someone laughs, the pain deepens.
ROBERT/THOMAS COLLEYMORE (40s, male-identifying, any race, RP dialect) wants to be Richard Burton, as evidenced by his presentational style. But he’s not a parody of a bad actor, just unaware of others around him. He does not feel bad when things go wrong and never learns from his mistakes. There’s a power struggle between Robert and Chris to be president of the Cornley Poly Drama Society (a position that matters a great deal to Robert).
DENNIS/PERKINS (20s/30s, male-identifying, any race, RP dialect) has no real desire to be involved in the theatre; he just wants friends. He believes if he does well in the show, he’ll be more successful socially. Laughter from the audience is agony and a personal tragedy for him. He’s slightly oblivious, but understands when he gets things wrong.
TREVOR (40s, male-identifying, any race, Cockney or Northern England dialect) is the play’s curmudgeonly lighting and sound operator. He simply wants to get on with the show. He doesn’t like actors. He is easily distracted and does many things he shouldn’t, including talking to the audience. When things go really sideways, he is forced to act in the play.
JONATHAN/CHARLES HAVERSHAM (30s/40s, male-identifying, any race, RP dialect) is a bit bland personality-wise but sees himself as a James Bond-type. Excited and having fun. He technically has to drive the show. He cares about the play, but it’s mostly just for fun for him. The role of Charles Haversham is a very physically demanding role.
MAX/CECIL HAVERSHAM (20s/30s, male-identifying, any race, RP dialect) has never been onstage before. He learned his lines and does exactly what he’s told to do. He has zero connection with any of the actors, but when he gets a laugh he breaks the fourth wall and engages with the audience. Childlike and naïve. His mistakes are fundamental. He doesn’t think anything through.
SANDRA/FLORENCE COLLEYMORE (30s, female-identifying, any race, RP dialect) is vain and has a huge ego. She wants to be loved. She has ambitions to go to Hollywood and will hurt anyone standing in the way of what she wants, but is smart enough to stay on the good side of someone who can help her (like the director). The stakes are high for her. Very physical role.
Directed by Benny Sato Ambush
First Rehearsal: 01/09/24
First Preview: 01/31/24
Opening: 02/03/24
Closing: 02/25/24
In the spring of 1955, much of the Southern US was a simmering kettle of racial segregation, civil rights repression, and worker/workplace abuses — one that was on the verge of boiling over into a full scale struggle against those economic and civil rights injustices. PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE is a compelling narrative that draws important parallels between the racial and socioeconomic struggles of the 1950s and 60s and similar issues that face contemporary American society such as immigration, voter suppression, and LGBTQ rights.
MRS. CLARK, African-American, from Charleston, South Carolina.
MR. CARAWAN, white, from eastern Tennessee.
MAY, white, from eastern Kentucky. An almost unnoticeable limp.
EMMA, Tejana, from San Antonio, Texas.
NED, white, from Atlanta, Georgia.
JOHN, African-American, from Montgomery, Alabama. Very well dressed.
Directed by TBA
First Rehearsal: 03/12/24
First Preview: 04/03/24
Opening: 04/06/24
Closing: 04/28/24
It’s 1965, and the death penalty has just been abolished in the United Kingdom. Naturally all of Oldham, northern England, wants to know what Harry, the second-best hangman in the country, has to say about it. As the news breaks, Harry’s pub is overrun with locals and reporters looking for a quote, until a visitor arrives with a darker and more mysterious agenda.
HARRY - The central character of the play. A loyal gentleman. He and his wife run the pub where the action takes place. He’s also a local celebrity, being the chief hangman on the day hanging is abolished. He is a bluff, blunt and proud Northerner.
CLEGG - A cub reporter who comes to interview Harry about his role as a hangman and his thoughts on the abolition of hanging.
PETER MOONEY - A young man from London or thereabouts. He applies for a room in Alice’s pub. San Jose Stage Company 2023-24 Season - San Jose, CA EPA Page 4 of 5
ALICE WADE - The landlady who runs the pub with her husband, Harry.
SHIRLEY WADE - The teenage daughter of Harry and Alice.
BILL - The pub’s innocent. Alcoholic.
ARTHUR - Dry, deadpan and tactless, Arthur is a regular at the bar.
INSPECTOR FRY - A physically intimidating police inspector. Loner.
ALBERT PIERREPOINT - The foremost hangman in England.
SYD ARMFIELD - Harry’s assistant.
JAMES HENNESSY - A young man in jail waiting to be hanged. A young wheeler-dealer who finds himself in a lot more trouble than he bargained for.
Directed by TBA
First Rehearsal: 05/07/24
First Preview: 06/05/24
Opening: 06/08/24
Closing: 06/30/24
Possible Extension: 07/14/24
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