Alabama Shakespeare Festival
Montgomery, AL

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
$807 weekly minimum (LORT D)

AUDITION DATE
Sunday, April 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Monday, April 22, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)

APPOINTMENTS
To schedule an audition appointment, go to: asf.net/auditions . No video submissions at this time. An audition appointment is necessary to attend.

LOCATION
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
1 Festival Dr
Montgomery, AL 36117-4605

PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Madeleine Lambert, Associate Artistic Director
Cameron Williams, Artistic Coordinator

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER
www.ASF.net

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.

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Alabama Shakespeare Festival's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).

ASF is committed to diversity; we encourage performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

PREPARATION
Please prepare EITHER two contrasting monologues OR one monologue and one song not exceeding four minutes in total length. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring sheet music.

BREAKDOWN

Alabama Shakespeare Festival 2024-25 Season

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE
Written by Ken Ludwig
Director: Risa Brainin
Octagon Stage
1st Rehearsal: August 27, 2024
1st Preview: September 25, 2024
Opening: September 27, 2024
Closing: October 13, 2024

SEEKING:
Jack - Early to mid-thirties. He is reserved and wears khakis to suggest that he is in the Army.
Louise - Mid-twenties to early thirties, is outgoing and stylish.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Charles Dickens, adapted by Rick Dildine
Director: Rick Dildine
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: October 29, 2024
1st Preview: November 19, 2024
Opening: November 22, 2024
Closing: December 29, 2024

SEEKING:
Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Mrs. Cratchit
Christmas Present
Belle
Fezziwig
Mrs. Fezziwig
Young Scrooge
Lucy
Fred
Ghost of Christmas Past
Marley
Old Joe
Ensemble (3)

THE WATSON’S GO TO BIRMINGHAM
Based off the book by Christopher Paul Curtis
Director: Chistopher Windom
Octagon Stage
1st Rehearsal: January 7, 2025
1st Preview: February 4, 2025
Opening: February 7, 2025
Closing: February 23, 2025

SEEKING:
Narrator Kenny & Other Broadcast Voices (early 50s) - African-American. Dee jay at the first blackowned FM station WDZZ in Flint, Michigan.

Kenneth “Kenny” Bernard Watson (10) - African-American. A fourth grader at Clark Elementary.

Byron Watson (13) - Kenny’s juvenile delinquent older brother who’s also a bully but knows how to stick up for his younger brother when he needs to.

Joetta “Joey” Watson (5) - African-American. She is the younger sister to Kenny and Byron.

Daniel Watson (40s) - African American. He is husband to Wilona and father to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta.

Wilona Watson (40s) - African-American. Wife of Daniel and mother to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta. A native Alabamian who is an outsider in her own family-she is the only one in the Watson clan not to be born and raised in Flint, MI.

Grandma Sands (60s) - African-American. A widow. Mother to Wilona, Mother-in-law to Daniel, grandmother to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta.

SHERWOOD
Written by Ken Ludwig
Director: Laura Kepley
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: February 11, 2025
1st Preview: March 12, 2025
Opening: March 14, 2025
Closing (rep weekend with Hamlet): May 3, 2025

***Please Note: Actors cast in this production will also be cast in Hamlet.***

SEEKING:
Prince John
The Sheriff of Nottingham
Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Maid Marian
Friar Tuck
Doerwynn
Robin Hood
Little John

HAMLET
Written by William Shakespeare
Director: Brian McEleney
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: May 6, 2025
1st Preview: May 29, 2025
Opening: May 30, 2025
Closing: June 15, 2025

***Please Note: Actors cast in this production will also be cast in Sherwood.***

SEEKING:
Hamlet
Claudius
Gerturde
Polonius
Ophelia
Laertes
The Ghost
Horatio
Fortinbras
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Osric
Voltimand
Cornelius
Marcellus
Bernardo
Francisco
Reynaldo

KUDZU CALLING — BLACK. SOUTHERN. LOVE. STORIES
By Donnetta Lavinia Grays
Director: Kevin R. Free
Octagon Stage
1st Rehearsal: May 6, 2025
1st Preview: May 29, 2025
Opening: May 30, 2025
Closing: June 15, 2025

SEEKING:
Oak: The oldest and wisest among them. (Black Woman-An Elder)
Magnolia: Feminine and strong. (Black Woman-Middle Aged)
Dogwood: A stubborn hard-earned beauty. (Black Man-Middle Aged)
Pine: A prickly one, but curious. (Black Man-Young Adult)
Weeping Willow: A feeler. (Black Trans Male Identified-Young Adult)
The Wanderer: A lost soul, returned. (Black Masculine Woman-Middle Aged)

THE WIZARD OF OZ
Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company
L. Frank Baum
Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Background Music by Herbert Stothart
Director: TBD
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: June 10, 2025
1st Preview: July 9, 2025
Opening: July 11, 2025
Closing: August 17, 2025

SEEKING:
Dorothy Gale
Aunt Em-Emily Gale/Glinda-The Good Witch of the North
Uncle Henry-Henry Gale /Emerald City Guard
Zeke-Farmhand/Cowardly Lion
Hickory-Farmhand/Tinman
Hunk-Farmhand/Scarecrow
Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West
Professor Chester Marvel/The Wizard of Oz
Citizens of Munchkinland-Chorus: Mayor, Coroner, Barrister, 3 City Fathers, 3 Tough Guys, Fiddler, Braggart, 2 School Teachers, 3 Tots
3 crows
3 trees
poppies & snowmen
Ozians-Chorus: Beauticians, Polishers, Manicurists
2 Oz Men
2 Oz Women
Winkies-Chorus
Winkie General
Nikko
Jitterbug
Jitterbugs & Ghosts

SALARY

LORT Non-Rep $807 weekly minimum (LORT D)

UNION

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