American Shakespeare Center 2027 Season - Staunton, VA EPA (10.19.26)

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Monday, October 19, 2026

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment go to: https://www.signupgenius.com/g... . If you are unable to

attend the in-person auditions, you may submit a video

submission by visiting: https://docs.google.com/forms/...
. Video submissions will be accepted through Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026, at 5p.m. ET, or until 250 submissions have been received, whichever occurs first. Early submission is encouraged.

CONTRACT

LORT Rep

$889 weekly minimum (LORT D)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in American Shakespeare Center's 2027 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare one or two contrasting Shakespeare monologues, each no longer than 45 seconds. Please bring a headshot and résumé, stapled together. No singing or instrumental audition is requested for the EPA. Musical material may be requested at callbacks, which will be held virtually.

LOCATION
Mary Baldwin University - Shakespeare & Performance
19 South Market Street
Staunton, VA 24401

Located across the street from the American
Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse. Parking
information will be provided with audition confirmation.

PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Peter Simon Hilton: ASC Casting Director
Rhys McClelland: Director of Learning & Engagement
Haley Fentriss Roberts: Intimacy Choreographer

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER
Questions? Please Contact:
[email protected]

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

American Shakespeare Center 2027 Season

ASC casts troupes of ensemble actors for each rotating repertory season, with actors playing a variety of roles, large and small. Under ASC’s agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, actors may be selected to participate in ASC’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program during periods when they are not rehearsing or
performing. AIR participation is voluntary, does not provide additional compensation beyond the actor’s contracted salary, and does not affect an actor’s consideration for casting or employment.

Actors with strong classical training and experience are encouraged to audition. Musical ability is a plus.

Equity actors of all gender identities, races, ethnicities, abilities, and ages are encouraged to audition.

2027 SPRING REPERTORY SEASON:

First Rehearsal: January 19, 2027

Closing: May 02, 2027

NOTES:

The 2027 Spring Repertory acting troupe will be composed of 10 actors.

All titles will run in rep.

MUCH ADO and HENRY IV PART 1 will feature all 10 Actors.

SEEDS OF BANQUO will have a core cast of 5 actors, with possible additional ensemble members as needed.

Actors not appearing in SEEDS OF BANQUO may elect to participate in ASC’s Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program during that portion of the repertory period.

All Role(s) / Track(s) will have doubling, TBD pending casting.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Written by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

DON PEDRO

DON JOHN

CLAUDIO

BENEDICK

LEONATO

ANTONIO

BALTHASAR

BORACHIO

CONRADE

BEATRICE

HERO

MARGARET

URSULA

DOGBERRY

VERGES

FRIAR FRANCIS

HENRY IV PART 1

Written by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

KING HENRY IV

PRINCE HAL

PRINCE JOHN

EARL OF WESTMORELAND

SIR WALTER BLUNT

HOTSPUR

EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND

EARL OF WORCESTER

LADY PERCY

LADY MORTIMER

MORTIMER

GLENDOWER

FALSTAFF

POINS

BARDOLPH

PETO

GADSHILL

MISTRESS QUICKLY

FRANCIS

SEEDS OF BANQUO

Written by Angela Iannone (rights pending)

SEEKING:

EDWIN BOOTH: America’s favorite Shakespearean, now approaching the height of his powers. Slim, lithe, dark, and haunted. Not very tall. Extremely graceful and handsome. 30s.

LAWRENCE BARRETT: Edwin’s friend and co-star. Also, not very tall. Witty, polished, quick to feel an insult. 30s.

OWEN FAWCETT-ENGLISH: Popular character actor. A secret fan of Edwin. Personable and an excellent actor. 30s-50s.

MRS. D.P. BOWERS: A practiced and excellent actress, confident and not easily impressed. 30s-50s.

MISS MINNA GALE: A young aspiring actress, ambitious and emotional, among the first of the “instinctual” performers. Technically unsound, but very talented. 18-20s.

2027 SUMMER REPERTORY SEASON:

First Rehearsal: May 11, 2027

Closing: July 25, 2027

NOTES:

The 2027 Summer Repertory acting troupe will be composed of 9 actors.

Both titles will run in rep.

All Role(s) / Track(s) will have doubling, TBD pending casting.

OTHELLO

Written by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

DUKE OF VENICE

BRABANTIO

GRATIANO

LODOVICO

OTHELLO

CASSIO

IAGO

RODERIGO

MONTANO

DESDEMONA

EMILIA

BIANCA

THE THREE MUSKETEERS

Written by Alexandre Dumas

Adapted by Catherine Bush (rights pending)

SEEKING:

TRACK 1: D’ARTAGNAN

TRACK 2: ATHOS / BUCKINGHAM / CRIMINAL / SOLDIER

TRACK 3: PORTHOS / CARDINAL RICHELIEU / MOB

TRACK 4: ARAMIS / KING LOUIS XIII / ABBESS / MOB

TRACK 5: MILADY DE WINTER / JUSSAC / MONSIEUR BONACIEUX

TRACK 6: CONSTANCE / PLANCHET / CAHUSAC / MOB

TRACK 7: QUEEN ANNE / MONSIEUR DE TREVILLE / LEMIEUX / MOB

TRACK 8: ROCHEFORT / KITTY / INNKEEPER / BICARAT / GUARD

TRACK 9: FELTON / JUSSAC'S GUARDS / DRUNK / FISHERMAN

2027 FALL REPERTORY SEASON:

First Rehearsal: August 03, 2027

Closing: November 14, 2027

NOTES:

The 2027 FALL Repertory acting troupe will be composed of 10 actors.

All titles will run in rep.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM & RICHARD III will feature all 10 actors.

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE will have a cast of 6 actors.

Actors not appearing in DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE may elect to participate in ASC’s Artist-in-Residence

(AIR) program during that portion of the repertory period.

All Role(s) / Track(s) will have doubling, TBD pending casting.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

Written by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

THESEUS

HIPPOLYTA

EGEUS

HERMIA

HELENA

LYSANDER

DEMETRIUS

OBERON

TITANIA

PUCK

BOTTOM

QUINCE

FLUTE

SNUG

SNOUT

STARVELING

RICHARD III

Written by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

KING EDWARD IV

GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE

QUEEN ELIZABETH

QUEEN MARGARET

DUCHESS OF YORK

LADY ANNE

DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

EARL OF RICHMOND

LORD HASTINGS

LORD STANLEY

EARL RIVERS

MARQUESS OF DORSET

LORD GREY

CATESBY

RATCLIFFE

EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES

RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK

TYRREL

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE

Written by Thomas Russell Sullivan

Based on the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

SEEKING:

RICHARD MANSFIELD / DR. JEKYLL / MR. HYDE: Mansfield is the celebrated Victorian actor presenting the evening’s entertainment; Jekyll is brilliant, cultivated, and increasingly desperate; Hyde is dangerous, mercurial, and disturbingly alive. Requires exceptional physical and vocal transformation and a strong relationship with the audience. 30s–50s.

AGNES / ENSEMBLE: Jekyll’s fiancée and Sir Danvers Carew’s daughter. Intelligent, compassionate, and determined; her love for Jekyll is tested by mounting evidence connecting him to her father’s murderer. 20s–40s.

UTTERSON / NEWCOME / ENSEMBLE: Utterson is Jekyll’s friend and lawyer: rational, observant, persistent, and deeply loyal. Newcome is a Scotland Yard inspector: shrewd, energetic, and comic without being a fool. 30s–60s.

LANYON / ENSEMBLE: Jekyll’s physician and old friend. Intelligent, skeptical, humane, and firmly conventional in his science; his certainty is shattered when he is forced to witness the impossible. 30s– 60s.

CAREW / POOLE / ENSEMBLE: Carew is Agnes’s father: a warm, bluff, spirited old soldier with a quick temper and great affection for his daughter. Poole is Jekyll’s devoted servant: practical, watchful, loyal, and increasingly alarmed by what is happening to his master. 40s–60s.

MRS. JARVIS / REBECCA / MRS. LANYON / ENSEMBLE: Three sharply differentiated women. Mrs. Jarvis is Carew’s capable and knowing housekeeper; Rebecca is Hyde’s hard-bitten Soho landlady, suspicious, acquisitive, and nobody’s fool; Mrs. Lanyon is socially conventional, outspoken, and formidable. 30s–60s.

2027 HOLIDAY SEASON:

First Rehearsal: November 16, 2027

Closing: December 26, 2027

NOTES:

The 2027 Holiday acting troupe will be composed of 11 Actors.

All Role(s) / Track(s) will have doubling, TBD pending casting.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Written by Charles Dickens

Adapted by Jay McClure (rights pending)

SEEKING:

EBENEZER SCROOGE [This Role Has Been Cast]

BOB CRATCHIT

MRS. CRATCHIT

TINY TIM

FRED

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE

JACOB MARLEY

YOUNG SCROOGE

FAN

BELL

MRS. FEZZIWIG

MR. FEZZIWIG

DICK WILKINS

FUNDRAISERS

MARTHA CRATCHIT

PETER CRATCHIT

OLD JOE

CHARWOMAN

FRED’S WIFE

SALARY

LORT Rep $889 weekly minimum (LORT D)

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