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"The Importance of Being Earnest" Play Needs Actors

West Springfield, MA, United States
ID: 222432Exp: 6/6/2023
$549/week
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The company is holding auditions for the 2023-24 Season Show "THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST" and looking for talent, please see the details below. Rate: SALARY SPT $549 weekly minimum (SPT 6) Additional info: Audition date: Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM. 1st rehearsal 12/12/23. Runs 1/4-2/11/24. Please prepare a short, contemporary monologue of your choosing. If singing, please prepare 18 bars of a musical theater song. Accompanist will be provided. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. Directors welcome all to audition, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, ability, or any other physical attribute. All auditionees must be fully vaccinated against Covid. Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms. Holding/Audition room information: The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 75 The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 229

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8 roles

John WorthingMale26-39 y.o.All ethnicities

The play’s protagonist. “Jack” Worthing is a seemingly responsible and respectable young man who leads a double life. In Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate, Jack is known as Jack. In London he is known as Ernest.

Algernon MoncrieffMale20-39 y.o.All ethnicities

A charming, idle, decorative bachelor, nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest.

Gwendolen FairfaxFemale20-24 y.o.All ethnicities

A model and arbiter of high fashion and society, Gwendolen speaks with unassailable authority on matters of taste and morality. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and utterly pretentious.

Cecily CardewFemale18-20 y.o.All ethnicities

Ward of Jack Worthing, has fallen in love with Jack’s brother Ernest in her imagination and invents an elaborate romance and courtship between them.

Lady BracknellBoth genders40-69 y.o.All ethnicities

Female-presenting. Algernon’s snobbish, mercenary, and domineering aunt and Gwendolen’s mother.

Miss PrismFemale40-69 y.o.All ethnicities

Cecily’s governess. Miss Prism is an endless source of cliches. Puritan though she is, Miss Prism’s severe pronouncements have a way of going so far over the top that they inspire laughter.

Rev. ChasubleMale40-79 y.o.All ethnicities

The rector on Jack’s estate.

Lane and MerrimanMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Algernon’s manservant / Butler on Jack’s estate.