Upcoming Auditions
The following are auditions at our member theatres. Please visit their websites for more information on their upcoming shows & auditions.
We encourage you to check with the theatre for any last-minute changes to their auditions.
Beatniks Entertainment
Presents
OPEN AUDITIONS
Love, Sex and the IRS
by William Van Zandt & Jane Milmore
directed by Bonnie and Rip Johnson
The show is set in the 1970's, about two out of work (male) musicians who room together in New York. Jon decides to declare them as married to save on taxes. All is good until the IRS decides to investigate them. His roommate, Leslie, now forced to dress as a woman with the help of Jon's fiance. Who as it turns out is having an affair with Leslie. The IRS man shows up unexpected, as does Jon's mom. Leslie's ex-girlfriend then shows up wondering why he is acting so different lately. Throw in a nosy landlord and you have a wonderful night of comedy.
Show Dates are May 19, 20, 21 & 26, 27, 28 2023
Auditions and performances will be at Beatniks On Conkey, 420 Conkey St. Hammond, IN 46324
Materials to prepare:
We will be reading from the script...nothing to prepare
219-852-0848 Beatniks, or call 219-730-7906
or email beatniksonconkey@sbcglobal.net
Performances are at Beatniks on Conkey, 418/420 Conkey Street, Hammond
http://www.beatniksonconkey.com/
Auditions: March 24 (6pm) and 25 (2pm)
Workshops: March 20-23 at 6pm
*Friday, March 24 @ 6-9pm: WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
8955 Columbia Ave, Munster, IN 46321 https://goo.gl/maps/ahfCCLS9or7xnfnd6
*Saturday, March 25 @ 2-6pm: HISTORIC MILLER SCHOOL SHOPS & SPACES
665 S Lake St, Gary, IN 46403 https://goo.gl/maps/cDKgC9gQysDcjXSB7
*Sunday, March 26 @ 2-6pm (CALLBACKS): HISTORIC MILLER SCHOOL SHOPS & SPACES
665 S Lake St, Gary, IN 46403 https://goo.gl/maps/cDKgC9gQysDcjXSB7
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS:
Kindly keep in mind that you will be at the audition for more than a few minutes so we can get to know you a bit! You will meet Morgan McCabe, director, and other Gary Shakespeare Company members and production staff.
If you have a headshot and résumé to bring, great! No worries if you don’t. Please be ready to share any known conflicts you have from mid-April until August 13th. We need to know your availability for weekday evening rehearsals Mondays through Fridays, and daytime rehearsals on Saturdays and Sundays.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ASKED TO PERFORM:
A rhyming poem, 60-90 seconds will be perfect. It can be as simple as a child’s nursery rhyme. Prepare your performance of the poem to tell a story, from a clear, specific point of view. You may be asked to read from scenes which will be provided at the audition.
We look forward to meeting you!
If you are unable to make any of the audition dates, and still interested, please contact us BEFORE the auditions.
WORKSHOPS: March 20 - 23 at 6pm
PERFORMANCES: July 28 - August 13 (Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays at 7pm)
For more information go to: http://www.garyshakesco.org/
Regional Performing Arts, Portage, IN
Casting
Rehearsals
The Revolutionists:
A comedy, a quartet, a revolutionary dream fugue, a true story
By Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Linda Pauli
Auditions: Monday, April 3 & Tuesday, April 4 at 7:00 pm
Callbacks (if needed) April 5th at 7:00 pm
First rehearsal/read thru April 8th at 3:00 pm
Performance Dates: June 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, &18, 2023
Sundays performances are at 3:00 pm, all others are at 8:00 pm
What to prepare for auditions
Nothing, auditions will consist of cold readings.
Please bring a list of any potential rehearsal conflicts to auditions.
Synopsis
The Revolutionist is a new play about four very real badass women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution's Reign of Terror.
Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It’s a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world.
It’s a true story.
Or total fiction.
Or a play about a play.
Or a raucous resurrection. . .
that ends in a song and a scaffold.
Characters
- Olympe de Gouges - age 38 - badass activist playwright and feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman. Widowed and never remarried to ensure her personal freedom
- Charlotte Corday - age 25 - badass country girl and assassin. very serious, hardened by righteousness, never been kissed. She has a pocket watch she keeps checking. She also plays Fraternite in a mask.
- Marie-Antoinette - age 38 - less badass but the fascinating former queen of France. Bubbly, graceful, opinionated, totally unaware, unintentionally rude, and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend. She also plays Fraternite in a mask.
- Marianne Angelle - age 30s - A badass black woman in Paris. She is from the Caribbean, a free woman, and a spy working with her husband, Vincent. Tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of them all.
Produced in arrangement with Dramatists