Houston Shakespeare Festival | Houston, TX
Houston, TX

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, February 14, 2026

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (C)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email Rachel Bush at: [email protected]

CONTRACT

LOA

$733 weekly minimum (Ref. to URTA) - in negotiations - Subject to change.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Houston Shakespeare Festival's 2026 Season (See breakdown).

Actors local to the Houston area are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a one-minute comic and a one-minute serious Shakespeare selection. No video submissions.

LOCATION

Jose Quintero Theater at the Cynthia Woods

Mitchell Center for the Performing Arts

3351 Cullen Blvd

Houston, TX 77204

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Jack Young: Artistic Director / Director

COMEDY OF ERRORS

Sharon Ott: Executive Director / Director TEMPEST

OTHER DATES

Callbacks: Sunday Feb. 15, from 10am-3pm

First Rehearsal: June 30, 2026

Open: July 30, 2026

Close: August 8, 2026

OTHER

https://www.uh.edu/shakespeare...

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.

BREAKDOWN

Houston Shakespeare Festival 2026 Season

All performers will be cast in both TEMPEST and COMEDY OF ERRORS.

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Some roles may double or combine with other roles which is TBD.

THE TEMPEST

SEEKING:

Prospera - CAST.

Ariel - CAST.

Gonzalo - CAST.

Caliban - fantastical creature, forced to serve Prospera - poetic and rebellious soul - enticed into drunkenness by a pair of clowns

Alonso - King of Naples; guilty conscience; fears he has lost his son Ferdinand in a shipwreck

Ferdinand - son of Alonso--open, optimistic; falls in love with Miranda, Prospera's daughter

Antonio - Prospera's brother, schemes to kill other survivors of the shipwreck

Sebastian - ally of Antonio

Stephano -Alonso's drunken butler

Triniculo - Alonso's drinking buddy

Miranda - Prospera's daughter; kind, amazed by new things

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

SEEKING:

Antipholus of Ephesus - put-upon husband, twin to Antipholus of Syracuse

Antipholus of Syracuse - twin to Antipholus of Ephesus, poetic striver in search of family

Dromio of Ephesus - servant to Antipholus, rugged, put-upon, takes many beatings

Dromio of Syracuse - right-hand to Antipholus, scrambling, quick-witted, takes many beatings

Adriana - Antipholus of Ephesus's jealous wife, at her wit's end with her husband, barely patient with her sister Luciana

Luciana - Adriana's sister, dewy-eyed optimist about love

Egeon - father to the Antipholus twins, desperate to find his family

Emilia - an abbess in Ephesus, who thinks she lost her husband Egeon, sons Antipholuses and servants Dromios

Duke Solinus - the fair-minded ruler of Ephesus

The Courtesan - an entertainer of men

Doctor Pinch - a quack

Angelo - a goldsmith, somewhat hysterical

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2nd Merchant - a man determined to get the money he's owed

SALARY

LOA $733 weekly minimum (Ref. to URTA) - in negotiations - Subject to change.

UNION

AEA