“Stage Kiss" Play Needs Cast
Auditions for “Stage Kiss" a play. In need of cast. Please see the details below. About the project: "Art imitates Life. Life imitates Art. When two actors with a passionate history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reality as the lines between offstage and onstage begin to blur. “Stage Kiss” is meta-theatre at its best, following the casting, rehearsal and production of a play within a play(well actually, two plays within a play)-bringing to life all of the hilarity and drama and playfulness and joy and insecurity and frustration and confusion that seems to be inherent in a theatrical production. It's a charming, funny and poignant tale about what happens when lovers share a stage kiss—or when actors share a real one." Additional info: Director seeks 7 actors. Actors will be asked to read from sides provided at the audition, these and the audition form are attached. Actors that are unable to attend the auditions can submit a video auditions: see the attachment. If necessary, callbacks are scheduled for Wednesday, July 30th at 7pm. Rehearsals to begin early/mid August. Production dates are October 10 – October 25, 2025. If you are interested, please apply.
7 roles
Female presenting - mid 40s. An actress who plays the romantic lead role of Ada Wilcox "onstage." She is smart, charming, beautiful, witty, self-deprecating, but has an inner confidence even if it doesn't always lead. Married to and deeply loves Harrison and her 16 YO daughter, Angela. Ability to sing/move well a plus. Ability to do a Mid-Atlantic accent and Brooklyn accent a plus. Will kiss HE many times, KEVIN a few times, HARRISON at least once and MILLICENT once. Pucker up.
Male presenting - mid 40s. An actor who plays the romantic lead role of Johnny Lowell "onstage." He is smart, charming, handsome, sexy, witty, a bit ungrounded and has consistently given in to his passions. Has usually got what he wants, but is still living a bit of a scrappy pay check to pay check life. Perhaps hasn't fully grown up because he's never really had to. Ability to sing/move well a plus. Ability to do a Northern Irish accent a plus. Will kiss SHE many times.
Male presenting, non-binary or possible female presenting. Plays Adrian Schwalbach, the director of the play within a play. Maybe a dilettante? Maybe brilliant? (Probably not.) Patient, oftentimes oblivious to the drama around them. (Perhaps that's a conscious choice.) Maybe takes themselves a little too seriously. Will kiss KEVIN once.
Male presenting, the reader for the "play," also the understudy for Johnny, the doctor, the butler and the pimp, so versatility and ability to create very different characters. Facile with physical comedy. Very funny but not always because he's trying to be. People pleaser. Wants to do a good job at all costs. He's gay. Will kiss both SHE and the DIRECTOR.
Male presenting. Will play both the Husband "onstage" and HARRISON, SHE's real-life husband offstage. Solid. Patient. Kind. Loves her both "on" and "off" stage. But has a limit to what he'll put up with. Ability to sing/move a plus. Will kiss SHE at least once.
Female presenting - (to believably play a teenager), pretty and she knows it. In Act 1, plays a young actress portraying MILLIE and the MAID "onstage" and in Act 2, plays ANGELA, SHE's daughter IRL. Typical young person in that she thinks she knows more than the others around her, and well, sometimes she does.
Female presenting. In Act 1 plays an actress portraying MILLICENT "onstage" and in Act 2 plays LAURIE, HE's real-life girlfriend, a schoolteacher who initially presents as a people pleasing, naïve mid-westerner. Ability to sing/move a plus. Will kiss SHE once.
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