Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2027 Season - Boulder, CO EPA (11.07.26) & (11.08.26)

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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, November 7, 2026

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M)

Lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

And

Sunday, November 8, 2026

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M)

Lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please fill out the following audition form: https://forms.gle/EcUZuW6kTGws... . If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may submit a video audition. The deadline to apply is Monday, November 2, 2026 by 5pm MDT . Audition Information: https://cupresents.org/2027-co... festival-auditions

CONTRACT

LOA

The Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre:

$862 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - 2026 rate

The Roe Green Theatre (Indoors):

$837 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - 2026 rate

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Colorado Shakespeare

Festival's 2027 Season (See breakdown).

As a unit within the University of Colorado Boulder, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is committed to building a culturally diverse community dedicated to contributing to an inclusive environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer.

All roles will be understudied.

Actors must be willing to engage in non-traditional settings.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two (2) contrasting classical monologues, no more than two (2) minutes in total length (1-minute each). We request that one (1) be comedic and one (1) be dramatic.

LOCATION

University of Colorado - Department of Theatre & Dance

1595 Pleasant Street

University Theatre Building

Boulder, CO 80309

University campus (be prepared for associated congestion). Holding/Check-in room (waiting room) is

C342. Audition room is C370 (the Loft Theatre).

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Timothy Orr: Producing Artistic Director

Wendy Franz: Managing Director

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

coloradoshakes.org

Questions may be directed to the CSF Operations Manager, Kurt Mehlenbacher

([email protected]).

All rehearsals held indoors on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.

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

Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2027 Season

2-show contracts are available and will span the corresponding length of the summer. Actors should
review the official audition announcement at https://cupresents.org/2027-co...

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Written by William Shakespeare
Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre
First Rehearsal: 05/11/27
Opening: 06/05/27
Closing: 08/01/27

SEEKING:

Hermia

Lysander

Helena

Demetrius

Egeus, father to Hermia

Philostrate, master of the revels to Theseus

Nick Bottom, weaver

Peter Quince, carpenter

Francis Flute, bellows-mender

Tom Snout, tinker

Snug, joiner

Robin Starveling, tailor

Robin Goodfellow, a “puck,” or hobgoblin, in Oberon’s service

A Fairy, in the service of Titania

Peaseblossom

Cobweb

Mote

Mustardseed

Lords and Attendants on Theseus and Hippolyta

Other Fairies in the trains of Titania and Oberon

Oberon - CAST.

Titania - CAST.

HENRY IV, PART 1
Written by William Shakespeare
Roe Green Theatre (indoors)
First Rehearsal: 05/18/27
Opening: 06/13/27
Closing: 07/31/27

SEEKING:

King Henry IV, formerly Henry Bolingbroke

Prince Hal, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne (also called Harry and Harry Monmouth)

Lord John of Lancaster, younger son of King Henry

Earl of Westmoreland

Sir Walter Blunt

Hotspur (Sir Henry, or Harry, Percy)

Lady Percy (also called Kate)

Earl of Northumberland, Henry Percy, Hotspur’s father

Earl of Worcester, Thomas Percy, Hotspur’s uncle

Edmund Mortimer, earl of March

Lady Mortimer (also called “the Welsh lady”)

Owen Glendower, a Welsh lord, father of Lady Mortimer

Douglas (Archibald, earl of Douglas)

Archbishop (Richard Scroop, archbishop of York)

Sir Michael, a priest or knight associated with the archbishop

Sir Richard Vernon, an English knight

Sir John Falstaff

Poins (also called Edward, Yedward, and Ned

Bardolph

Peto

Gadshill, setter for the robbers

Hostess of the tavern (also called Mistress Quickly)

Vintner, or keeper of the tavern

Francis, an apprentice tapster

Carriers, Ostlers, Chamberlain, Travelers, Sheriff, Servants, Lords, Attendants, Messengers, Soldiers

HAMLET
Written by William Shakespeare
Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre
First Rehearsal: 06/01/27
Opening: 06/27/27
Closing: 07/31/27

SEEKING:

The Ghost

Queen Gertrude, widow of King Hamlet, now married to Claudius

King Claudius, brother to the late King Hamlet

Laertes, her brother

Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes, councilor to King Claudius

Reynaldo, servant to Polonius

Horatio, Hamlet’s friend and confidant

Voltemand

Cornelius

Rosencrantz

Guildenster

Osric

Gentlemen

A Lord

Francisco

Barnardo

Marcellus

Fortinbras, Prince of Norway

A Captain in Fortinbras’s army

Ambassadors to Denmark from England

Players, who take the roles of Prologue, Player King, Player Queen, and Lucianus in The Murder of
Gonzago

Two Messengers

Sailors

Gravedigger

Gravedigger’s companion

Doctor of Divinity

Attendants, Lords, Guards, Musicians, Laertes’s Followers, Soldiers, Officers

Hamlet - CAST.

Ophelia - CAST.

HENRY IV, Part 2
Written by William Shakespeare
Roe Green Theatre (indoors)
First Rehearsal: 06/15/27
Opening: 07/11/27
Closing: 08/01/27

SEEKING:

Rumor, Presenter of the Induction

King Henry IV, formerly Henry Bolingbroke

Prince Hal, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne, later King Henry V

John of Lancaster

Thomas of Clarence

Humphrey of Gloucester

Earl of Northumberland, Henry Percy

Northumberland’s wife

Lady Percy, widow of Hotspur

Richard Scroop, Archbishop of York

Lord Mowbray

Lord Hastings

Lord Bardolph

Travers

Morton

Sir John Colevile

Earl of Westmoreland

Earl of Warwick

Earl of Surrey

Sir John Blunt

Gower

Harcourt

Lord Chief Justice

Sir John Falstaff

Poins

Bardolph

Peto

Pistol

Falstaff’s Page

Hostess of the tavern (also called Mistress Quickly)

Doll Tearsheet

Justice Robert Shallow

Justice Silence

Davy, servant to Shallow

Mouldy

Shadow

Wart

Feeble

Bullcalf

Fang

Snare

Epilogue

Drawers, Musicians, Beadles, Grooms, Messenger, Soldiers, Lords, Attendants, Page, Porter, Servants, Officers

SALARY

LOA The Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre: $862 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - 2026 rate The Roe Green Theatre (Indoors): $837 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - 2026 rate

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