"The Glass Menagerie" Show Seeks Actors
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Auditions for the 2026-27 season of "The Glass Menagerie" show, seeking Equity actors. See more details below. About the project: SYNOPSIS: This American classic by the bard of New Orleans tells the story of the Wingfield family as remembered many years later by son, Tom. Set during the Great Depression, the largely autobiographical play by Tennessee Williams asks the question if life is best lived for one’s family or oneself, as Tom, ever the outsider, struggles between the pull of obligations he feels towards his mother, Amanda, and sister, Laura, and the strong urge to leave them all behind and start his life afresh. Rate: CONTRACT SPT $394 weekly minimum (SPT 2) Additional info: First Rehearsal: 1/26/27 Production Runs: Thurs-Sun 2/25/27 thru 3/21/27 All productions will schedule invited callbacks as needed, as determined by each director at a later date. An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions. Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employees to support its equal employment opportunity policy, designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. If interested, please note: Actors are requested to prepare one 60-90 second monologue and one 32-bar cut of music of their choosing. Actors only interested in auditioning for non-musical productions are asked to only perform a 60-90 second monologue and may perform a second monologue should time permit. An accompanist will be available for actors interested in auditioning with a song. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
4 roles
A proud, energetic, yet obsessive mother. She is a mix of charm, pitiable delusion, and fierce love for her children, clinging to her past as a Southern belle.
The present-day narrator of the memory play. Amanda’s son, a frustrated poet working in a shoe warehouse. He vacillates between a sense of duty to his family and his need to escape.
Amanda's daughter, painfully shy and agoraphobic. She lives in a cloistered world of old records and glass figurines.
The gentleman caller. An old high school acquaintance of Tom and Laura, he is a friendly, confident, and average shipping clerk. He brings a brief touch of reality and hope to the apartment.
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