Actors Wanted for Upcoming Theatre Season
Looking for talent for several professional positions for the 2025-26 season. Please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. About the project: 1. "DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" First Rehearsal: October 6, 2025 Performances: October 29 – November 9, 2025 SYNOPSIS: Bouncing between horror and humor, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel is a thrilling play that questions where the true monsters hide. No damsels in distress, no romanticized villains – just a gleeful stake through the heart! 2. "SEASONAL SHORTS" First Rehearsal: November 24, 2025 Performances: December 10 – 21, 2025 A World Premiere SYNOPSIS: Six short plays celebrating seasonal memories, moments and silliness — for adults only! Featuring all the ups and downs of winter, our local playwrights' original plays will have your sides splitting and leave the theatre in a festive mood. 3. "HAY FEVER" First Rehearsal: March 16, 2026 Performances: April 8 – 26, 2026 SYNOPSIS: Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, Judith and David Bliss, a retired actress and her novelist husband, find peace to be impossible when their children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own. A houseful of misunderstandings, tempers, and drama ensue as the quiet weekend comes to a hilarious and exhausting end. 4. "THE HOT WING KING" First Rehearsal: May 11, 2026 Performances: June 3 – 14, 2026 A Regional Premiere SYNOPSIS: It’s time for the annual “Hot Wing Festival” in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew, however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly a first-place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing. Rate: SPT $605 weekly minimum (SPT 6). Additional info: Prepare two 1.5-minute contrasting contemporary monologues. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together. If you're interested, please schedule an audition appointment from 10a - 4p Monday - Friday.
24 roles
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" A female vampire hunter. She takes no nonsense from anybody. She wears dusty beaten clothing and a big cowboy hat. She has a long nasty old scar all up and down the side of her face, as if someone has taken their hand and RIPPED down, long ago. It’s from an encounter she’d rather not talk about. She’s been through it. She’s a bit of a know-it-all; okay, she’s a lot of a know-it-all. She’s prickly.
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" Very smart. Caring. Loyal. Wants to do the right thing. Was raised to be a Lady and is thus suppressing an inner fire that emerges throughout the progression of the play. Great emotional depth, good sense of humor. Must face her darkest fears — comes out stronger at the end of it. Secretly an adventurer, and fighter. Is called to be more than she once was.
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" Bright, funny, vivacious, playful, and mischievous. Feels trapped and torn by expectations. About to be married, and deeply conscious of how that puts her under a 19th century man’s control. Reflexively flirtatious. Believes she must pretend to be less than she is. Yearns for freedom.
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" A madwoman. Worships Dracula. Believes that if she can earn his approval, she will be free. Not a bad soul, really, but capable of extreme brutality or duplicity in service of her religious zealotry. Almost a child, in her way.
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" A physically imposing man. He is... extremely confident. Strong. Funny. Charming. Sexy. You’d like him, reader — no, really, you would. He makes people lose their heads. Manipulative. Commanding. Capable of being very, very frightening. Unpredictable. Physically strong. Incredible with language. Unimaginably powerful. Brilliant. Casually takes pleasure in cruelty. An equal-opportunity sexual sadist.
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" A nice man. A truly decent man. A lawyer; a man of letters; a slight man; a slightly fussy man. If being unkind, one could say he’s delicate. He’s very, very British. Cares about people. Is maybe a little rule-bound. Loves his wife, Mina, deeply. Is bitten by Dracula and then loses his mind — becoming an easily confused, raving shambles. After recovering from sickness, he slowly gives in to Dracula’s darkness — becoming an abusive, toxic man.
"DRACULA, A FEMINIST REVENGE FANTASY, REALLY" The head physician of a lunatic asylum. A good man but starts out the play as a product of his era — has some trouble listening to women. Believes only in the evidence of his own eyes. Tends to mansplain. Deeply in love with his fiancée Lucy Westenra, of whom he is overprotective. Has a very contentious relationship with Van Helsing. Doesn’t like to not feel in control. Chivalrous. Thinks of himself as a modern man, a man of science.
“SEASONAL SHORTS” Dramatic, deep thinking, capable of big acting moments.
“SEASONAL SHORTS” Funny, breezy, timing is everything, quick.
“SEASONAL SHORTS” The foil, the straight shooter, the grounded one.
"HAY FEVER" Retiring Actress, center of the household.
"HAY FEVER" Novelist, distracted and not fully aware of all the household drama.
"HAY FEVER" Nonconformist, intelligent.
"HAY FEVER" Sorel’s older brother, artist, fluid sexuality.
"HAY FEVER" Multidimensional, upwardly mobile, intelligent, metrosexual.
"HAY FEVER" Diplomat, strait-laced, a little slow on the upswing.
"HAY FEVER" Flapper, a bit ditzy and out of her depth.
"THE HOT WING KING" The head chef of the clique. Recently emerged from the closet to cohabitate with Dwayne. In a not so former life, had a wife and 2 kids.
"HAY FEVER" Amateur Boxer, athletic, unspoiled, youthful sense of honor.
"HAY FEVER" The (not so great) Maid to the Bliss family, Judith’s former dresser, unkempt, overworked.
"THE HOT WING KING" Might not be the head chef but is the head of the household. Holds Cordell and everyone down. Has been a mentor to his struggling nephew for years. Holds resentment towards Cordell for taking so long to legitimize their relationship.
"THE HOT WING KING" New friend. Playlist includes gospel and trap and that’s exactly how he talks. Met the duo at church.
"THE HOT WING KING" Old friend. Met the duo at the barber shop. Observant, laid-back. The Rock.
"THE HOT WING KING" Everett’s father. A long-time dealer who is “about that life”. Struggles with teaching his son how to be a man, but unsure if Cordell and Dwayne can be good father figures to his son.
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