Chester Theatre Company | Chester, MA
Chester, MA

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Monday, March 2, 2026

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00PM

CONTRACT

Independent Theatre Contract

$625 weekly minimum - negotiations pending.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Chester Theatre Company's 2026 Season (see breakdown).

Chester Theatre Company is a 37-year-old, 120-seat theater on the edge of the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley in Massachusetts. Christopher Baker and Michelle Ong Hendrick are the current artistic directors.

PREPARATION

Please prepare one 1-2 minute contemporary monologue, comedic preferred. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL
See breakdown for production-specific personnel

Expected to attend:
Christopher Baker, co-artistic director.

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER

chestertheatre.org

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.

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BREAKDOWN

CHESTER THEATRE 2026 SEASON

R BUCKMINSTER FULLER: THE HISTORY (AND MYSTERY) OF THE UNIVERSE

BY D.W. JACOBS
Directed by Barbara Karger
June 19-38, 2026
First rehearsal: May 26
Preview: June 19
Open June 20

Futurist, environmentalist and geodesic dome designer Buckminster Fuller takes the audience on a
journey from his childhood in Massachusetts, to meeting Albert Einstein, to his extraordinary
inventions, explaining how doing more with less might save the planet.

SEEKING:
R. Buckminster Fuller. (CAST) Male-identifying. Legendary inventor and futurist who lectures on
everything from poetry to peace.

FANNIE: THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF FANNIE LOU HAMER
BY CHERYL WEST
Directed by Gilbert McCauley
July 2-12, 2026
First rehearsal: June 9
Preview: July 2
Open: July 3

The story of civil rights activist and hero, Fannie Lou Hamer, from her beginnings as a sharecropper's
daughter, to co-founding the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, to her historic speech at the 1964
Democratic Convention.

SEEKING:
Fannie Lou Hamer. (CAST) Black. Female-identifying. 40ish-50ish. Charismatic civil rights activist,
leader, and singer, who narrates the challenges and triumphs of her life.

AMCHITKA
A NEW PLAY BY MARK ST. GERMAIN
Directed by Julianne Boyd
July 24-Aug 8
First rehearsal: June 30
Preview: July 24
Open: July 25

In a monitoring station at Amchitka, a volcanic island 170 miles off the coast of Alaska used for
underground nuclear testing in the 1960s, three scientists are startled by what appears to be a
cataclysmic world event.

SEEKING:

Diana Adams. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Over 30. Leader of a three-person team at a
monitoring station at Amchitka. She is a Department of Energy staff member stationed on the island.

Connie Carol. (CAST) Female identifying. 20s. Botanist. First visit to the island. On loan from the
International Botanical Association.

Nate Platt. Male identifying. Any ethnicity. Late 20s to late 30s. A biologist. On loan from NASA.

DEAR ALIEN
BY LIZ DUFFY-ADAMS
Directed by Michelle Ong Hendrick
Aug 14-23
First rehearsal: July 21
Preview: Aug 14
Open: Aug 15

An isolated advice columnist, “Dear Alien”, attempts to finish a book, respond to their readers, escape
financial ruin, and explain the nature of human existence.

SEEKING:
Dear Alien. (CAST) Any gender, any ethnicity. Over 40.

Ecrivain. Male-identifying, any age, any ethnicity; a series of men (including a love0sick student, a
distraught husband, and an online troll) who write to the advice columnist, Dear Alien.

Scrittora: Female-identifying, any age, any ethnicity; a series of women (including a young woman in
a volatile relationship, a caretaker for a father and siblings, a cheating friend), who write to the advice
columnist, Dear Alien.

SALARY

Independent Theatre Contract $625 weekly minimum - negotiations pending.

UNION

AEA