NYTheater Festival Fall/Winter 2025/2026
New York, NY
06/23/2025
The Acting Company
New York, NY
06/23/2025
Williamsburg Productions
Brooklyn, NY
06/23/2025
Equity Library Theater of New York
Astoria, NY
06/20/2025
NYTheater Festival Fall/Winter 2025/2026
New York, NY
06/23/2025
Festival/Competition Submissions
NY Theater Festival Fall/Winter 2025/2026
29th Season
The New York Theater Festival Competition for Plays and Musicals
Prizes Total: $8,000
First Prize: $3,500
Full-Lengths | One Acts | Shorts | Solos
No Submission Fee | No Participation Fee
Producing your play or musical is one of the best ways to review and develop your work. There is no charge for submitting, and every submission receives a response within 5 days.
The Festival offers up to $8,000 in prizes, with $3,500 awarded for the best play or musical. Our winners are selected by the Festival's team/judges, so it’s not a "popularity contest" based on audience size. Sometimes, smaller productions with limited budgets win first prize simply because they were excellent. We value sincere, heartfelt performances and authentic writing.
Prize categories include:
After your production, you can receive a 4K video recording of your show. The Festival uses four cameras to capture your performance from multiple angles, giving you a variety of shots to edit into a cohesive video. Central camera, Central zoomins, Right and Left. You’ll have access to raw footage which can be used without editing. This footage can serve as valuable marketing material and reel content for industry professionals. Plus, your friends and family can purchase Zoom tickets to watch your show from anywhere in the world!
This is a unique opportunity to have industry professionals see your production in person. Many industry insiders receive thousands of scripts each month and are far more likely to attend a live show than read an unsolicited script. By staging your work, you show that you’re serious about your production's potential to succeed.
We’re with you every step of the way:
We don’t just post a thumbnail and brief description. We create detailed posts with large posters and descriptions to showcase your show. You can easily share this with your network. In addition, all cast and crew receive free tickets to attend other productions in the Festival.
The Festival provides a professional venue with:
At the end of the Festival, we host an Award Ceremony to celebrate your achievements, similar to the Oscars, in front of your artistic peers. This is an unforgettable moment to honor your talent and success.
To submit to the Festival, visit NY Theater Festival
In 14 years and 28 seasons, the NY Theater Festival has successfully hosted 1,600 plays and 400 musicals, awarding cash prizes to over 400 artists. Yours could be next!
The Acting Company
New York, NY
06/23/2025
Performer
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
AUDITION DATE
Tuesday, July 8, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
AND
Wednesday, July 9, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CONTRACT
LOA
$799 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - Until 12/31/25
$816 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - After 1/1/26
Travel, housing, and per-diem will be provided only while on tour.
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in The Acting Company's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
Local NYC actors are encouraged to audition. These productions will be performed in Rep.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a short, heightened text monologue of your choosing. Please bring your headshot and resume, stapled together. If you are not able to make the EPA, please feel free to email your materials to: [email protected] .
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Kent Gash
Managing Director: Erik Schroeder
Producing Director: Devin Brain
General Manager: Shelley Little
Associate Producer: B. Rafidi
Casting Director: Claire Yenson, CSA
Casting Assistant: Dorie Magowan
Expected to attend:
Devin Brain (Producing Director for TAC/Director of GREAT EXPECTATIONS)
Claire Yenson (Casting Director)
Dorie Magowan (Casting Assistant)
See breakdown for production-specific
personnel.
OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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
The Acting Company 2025-26 Season
The Acting Company develops actors by touring professional theater across America. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley with the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, The Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Mary Lou Rosato, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Lisa Banes, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, Roslyn Ruff, Jimonn Cole, Kelley Curran, among many others, while bringing sophisticated theater to hundreds of communities from coast to coast.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS
by Nikki Massoud, adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens Directed by Devin Brain
SYNOPSIS: Great Expectations follows the harrowing journey of working-class orphan Pip as he navigates a challenging upbringing at the hands of his abusive sister, encounters an escaped prisoner, and meets the wealthy and eccentric Miss Havisham and her daughter Estella, a stunning, young heiress of ruthless intelligence. When Pip receives a sizable fortune from a mystery donor and enters the ranks of high-society London, his life is forever changed, learning hard truths about integrity, loyalty, and love. Akin to a bingeable dramedy carved with the beautiful prose that made Dickens popular, Nikki Massoud’s take on this uproarious, thrilling, and surprisingly relatable story will keep audiences of all ages on the edge of their seats.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Risa Brainin
SYNOPSIS: A rapturous, fresh take on one of William Shakespeare’s most popular and widely performed plays, The Acting Company’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a captivating, coming-of-age story that will surprise and delight! In this fast-paced, crowd-pleasing comedy, a pair of young lovers flee to an enchanted forest where a troupe of amateur actors rehearse a play. With the help of a mystical flower, the fairy king and queen’s mischievous servant Puck creates chaos for these unsuspecting humans, leading to mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, and comical transformations. Bursting with mirth, music, magic, and mayhem, this uplifting tale of illusion and love comes to life with an electric cast.
DATES:
Rehearsals (in NYC): September 23, 2025 - November 16, 2025
Tech (Ventura, CA): November 17, 2025 - November 30, 2025
Ventura, CA Run: December 1, 2025 - 21, 2025 (Opening: December 6 & 7)
Holiday Break: December 22, 2025 - January 4, 2026
Brush Up Rehearsals (in NYC): January 5, 2026 - January 8, 2026
Tour: January 9, 2026 - March 1, 2026
Tour Stops Include: New Brunswick, NJ; Norfolk, VA; Radford, VA; Asheville, NC; Hoover, AL; Athens, GA; Green Bay, WI; Bay Harbor, MI; West Lafayette, IN; Overland Park, KS; Wayne, NE; and Queens, NY.
CASTING NOTE: We are seeking a company of flexible, game, transformative collaborators who are
game to portray multiple roles. Everyone should be comfortable with bold physical comedy and have
excellent language and dialect skills. Singing and or playing instruments are pluses! GREAT
EXPECTATIONS will explore finding the beating heart in the breast of monsters. A MIDSUMMER
NIGHT’S DREAM will explore the power of imagination to transform us.
SEEKING:
TRACK 1: He/him. 20s, any AAPI, Black, First Nations, Indigenous, Latine, MENA, Multiracial, or
Native ethnicity.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] PHILLIP “PIP” PIRRIP: A young orphan. A restless, curious soul. He
believes that climbing the class ladder will help him achieve a sense of purpose and meaning. He
learns and then unlearns deep shame for his working-class background. Has a hard time valuing or
accepting love that is expressed in a “normal” way because he was raised by an abuser.
[MIDSUMMER] LYSANDER: Hopeless romantic, poetic, sweet. PETER QUINCE or FLUTE: One of
the Rude Mechanicals. A strong physical comedian. FAIRY: Part of Titania’s entourage.
May portray additional roles AS CAST. PLEASE NOTE ANY MUSICAL ABILITIES.
TRACK 2: She/her. Late 30s-40s, white.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] MISS HARRIET HAVISHAM: Transitions from a vibrant, vulnerable,
clever young woman to a bitter, sadistic, but exciting recluse. She had enormous potential and
ambition, but once she is jilted at the altar, she chooses to reject society and wage war on it, rather
than allowing it to reject her. Miss Havisham loves Estella, and even Pip, but doesn’t fully understand
that using them both as tools damages them deeply – until it’s too late. MRS. JOSEPH GARGERY: A
Blacksmith’s wife, Pip’s sister. A sadist with a sense of duty. She physically and mentally abuses both
her husband and her brother out of terror of poverty, dirt, disease, and losing her family again.
[MIDSUMMER] HIPPOLYTA: Strong-willed and tough. A survivor. A leader. A feminist. A deep
thinker, wise. Comes from a matriarchal society. OBERON: Queen of the Fairies. Has magical
powers, also strong-willed and tough.
May portray additional roles AS CAST.
TRACK 3: She/her. 20s, any AAPI, Black, First Nations, Indigenous, Latine, MENA, Multiracial, or
Native ethnicity. 5’4” OR SHORTER.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] MISS ESTELLA HAVISHAM: Miss Havisham’s daughter. Aside from her
obvious beauty, Estella is graceful, damaged, and very, very strong. Although she is raised by Miss
Havisham to manipulate and torture men, she is highly self-aware and observant, and she develops a
kind of moral code. For most of her life, Estella believes that she is incapable of love or empathy – by
the end of the story, she is proven to be wrong. BIDDY WOPSLE: A schoolmaster’s niece. Practical,
hardworking, with a strong sense of integrity – and really, really smart. She is a survivor, an expert on
making the best of any situation and an excellent judge of character. SOLDIER 2: A soldier.
[MIDSUMMER] HERMIA: Petite in stature, feisty and fiercely independent personality. A hopeless
romantic who usually gets her way. SNOUT or STARVELING: One of the Rude Mechanicals. A
strong physical comedian. FAIRY: Part of Titania’s entourage.
May portray additional roles AS CAST. PLEASE NOTE ANY MUSICAL ABILITIES.
TRACK 4: He/him. Mid-30s-40s, any ethnicity.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] JOE GARGERY. A Blacksmith, a gentle giant. Joe is simultaneously
uneducated and a highly skilled craftsman. Warm, loyal, and generous. Genuinely and unselfishly
wants the best for Pip. Despite his gender and physical strength, he is a victim of domestic abuse.
Everyone who grew up with a bad father dreams of having a dad like Joe. Everyone who does have a dad like Joe makes the mistake of taking him for granted. MR. MATTHEW POCKET: Miss
Havisham’s first cousin and former suitor. Honest, principled, and unpretentious, Matthew Pocket
would probably have made an excellent husband. He is well-mannered and well-educated, but not
aristocratic. WARDEN: The warden at Battersea Prison.
[MIDSUMMER] EGEUS: Strict, unbending father. Believes in a patriarchal society where women have
no rights. SNUG: Sweet, gentle and shy. A carpenter in the castle. Must have excellent comedic skills.
FAIRY: Part of Titania’s entourage. Will also UNDERSTUDY PUCK, THESEUS, and TITANIA.
May portray additional roles AS CAST. PLEASE NOTE ANY MUSICAL ABILITIES.
TRACK 5: 30s-40s. Any gender, any ethnicity.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] MR. PUMBLECHOOK: A local farmer. Mr. Pumblechook really enjoys
being around powerful people and using his proximity to them to lord it over less powerful people. His
loyalty is always, always to the most powerful person in the room. MR. WEMICK: Mr. Jaggers’s legal
clerk. Eccentric, unassuming, and observant. The kind of transplant to a big city who becomes more
local than the locals. Often taken for granted by his superiors. PEPPER: Young, but tired, a true born-
and-bred Londoner. Just trying to be the best valet he can be.
[MIDSUMMER] PHILOSTRATE: A rule follower, but empathetic to Hippolyta’s situation. Has an
administrative role in the Court. PUCK: Playful, loves a good joke, loves getting in trouble. Physically
spry. Has magical powers and loves to use them.
May portray additional roles AS CAST.
TRACK 6: He/him. 40s, any ethnicity.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] ABEL MAGWITCH: A convict. Tough, resilient, resourceful, loyal, and
profoundly lonely. The epitome of the diamond in the rough, Magwitch survives and thrives in the most
unlikely places. Has the ability to be terrifying and also incredibly warm and generous. His emotions
often get the better of his judgment. MR. JAGGERS: Elegant, intimidating, mysterious, and extremely
intelligent - the consummate legal professional. Mr. Jaggers knows where all the bodies are buried but
no one will ever find out from him. His own secret is that he does, in fact, have a conscience.
[MIDSUMMER] THESEUS: A warrior and a Duke. He is head of a patriarchal society and believes in
those rules. Has a good sense of humor and is open to changing viewpoints. TITANIA: King of the
Fairies. Loves nature and basks in connection to the earth. Loves the sensuous and sensual things in
life.
May portray additional roles AS CAST.
TRACK 7: They/them or she/her. Late 20s-30s, any ethnicity.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] MR. HERBERT POCKET: Funny, loyal, and probably the most
emotionally healthy person in this story, raised with both good manners and good principles. He
dreams of starting his own shipping business and he works to achieve that dream on his own, without
relying on his rich cousins. He knows the truth, but he also knows that most people aren’t ready to
hear it. MISS SALLY POCKET: Transitions from a young, sprightly girl to an anxious, greedy spinster
struggling to maintain the pretense of genteel poverty. As a young woman, Sally is more honest and
clear-eyed than her sister Camilla but lacks the courage to follow through with her instincts. HOT
OFFICER: A very attractive policeman. Flirts with everyone.
[MIDSUMMER] BOTTOM: A worker by day, a star of community theatre by night. Big personality,
loves to be the center of attention. A strong physical comedian. Will also UNDERSTUDY
PHILOSTRATE.
May portray additional roles AS CAST.
TRACK 8: He/him. Late 20s-30s, white.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] MR. BENTLEY DRUMMLE: Future baronet. A sophisticated sadist.
Drummle is not the brightest crayon in the box, but he is very aware of his assets and how to use them
to his advantage. He is class-obsessed, rule-obsessed, and detail-oriented. MISS CAMILLA
POCKET: Miss Havisham’s first cousin. Transitions from a hopeful matron to a weary, grasping
hypochondriac. Makes a respectable marriage to man who doesn’t have enough money and, as a
result, has a vested interest in keeping her cousin happy and siphoning funds from her.
COMPEYSON: A gentleman convict. Refined, charismatic, deceptive, and ruthless. Compeyson lies
to everyone he comes in contact with - Miss Havisham, the prison guards, Magwitch. He is a very
convincing liar, aided by his aristocratic manners. ORLICK: A journeyman Blacksmith, Orlick is
ambitious, angry, socially awkward, and perceptive - and a misogynist. Chronically
underpaid/overworked, with neither the savings nor the people skills to start his own forge.
[MIDSUMMER] DEMETRIUS: Can be a hothead. A bit arrogant and entitled, but also capable of deep
love. PETER QUINCE or FLUTE: One of the Rude Mechanicals. A strong physical comedian. FAIRY:
Part of Titania’s entourage.
May portray additional roles AS CAST. PLEASE NOTE ANY MUSICAL ABILITIES.
TRACK 9: She/her. 30s, any ethnicity. 5’6” OR TALLER.
[GREAT EXPECTATIONS] Various ensemble roles AS CAST. Will also understudy TRACK 2
(MISS HAVISHAM/MRS. JOE), TRACK 3 (ESTELLA/BIDDY), and TRACK 7 (HERBERT/ SALLY).
[MIDSUMMER] HELENA: Tall in stature. She has a terrible self-image. Passionate and at times can
be overly-dramatic. Desperately in love. SNOUT or STARVELING: One of the Rude Mechanicals. A
strong physical comedian. FAIRY: Part of Titania’s entourage.
May portray additional roles AS CAST. PLEASE NOTE ANY MUSICAL ABILITIES.
Williamsburg Productions
Brooklyn, NY
06/23/2025
Performer
Monday, June 23, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
BREAK: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Auditions:
To be considered, please email [email protected] or text (201) 380-1019
SEEKING
Equity and Non Equity actors and performers for performative role (see breakdown).
Actors local to New York 5 boroughs are encouraged to submit. However, open to considering out of state submissions as well. Additionally, we encourage submissions from actors of all races, ethnicities, genders, body types, and physical abilities.
PREPARATION
Please review the websites below to understand what the company is about. Be prepared for a Zoom audition, where you might be required to perform from a script. Singers are preferred but not mandatory for this audition. Also seeking actors.
BREAKDOWN
Seeking around 5-8 actors / performers for a performative trade project. Talent will be asked to perform from a script. Those cast will be given the opportunity to have a professional industry standard website built for free in exchange for your performance. The performance will also be used for social media.
Please review some of the websites below to have an idea what this performance project is about and the professional website we will build you for free if you are cast:
Website Examples:
https://chloechappa.com/
https://sarahchristineschmidt.com/
https://kirstinwolf.com/
https://kailaburritt.com/
https://aryannaallen.com/
https://oliviagrady.net/
https://riccardopassera.com/
https://valerielynnhanna.com/
https://luciapadillakatz.com/
https://skypasqual.com/
https://madisonhalla.com/
To be considered, email or text:
[email protected]
or
(201) 380-1019
Equity Library Theater of New York
Astoria, NY
06/20/2025
Performer
Equity Library Theater of New York seeking actors for the fall and beyond!
The Woodside Players of Queens is seeking actors to perform short monologues (or scenes) at QED Astoria on September 21st at 3pm.
Submit here:
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Fifth Avenue Theater of NewYork is seeking performers for “Spoon River Anthology” to be performed October 12th at Sutton Place Park.
Submit here:
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Also seeking actors for future readings of these classics: Craig’s Wife, Be Calm, Camilla, Aunt Maggie’s Will. You can find them on Google Books.
Contact us at [email protected].