Auditions

2025 EQUITY PRINCIPAL AUDITIONS

NYC EPAs will be held on March 27 and can be found on the Actor’s Equity website.

Information for Local EPAs is as follows.

  • Dates:
    Thu, Mar 13, and Thu, Mar 20, 2025
    9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST)
    Lunch 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
  • Location:
    Chester Town Hall Theatre
    15 Middlefield Rd
    Chester, MA 01011-9805
    Enter through main doors of Chester Town Hall. Parking lot across street.
  • Appointments:
    To schedule an audition appointment please email: heromhb@gmail.com with the subject line “CHESTER EPA”. Please indicate the date of the audition and any time request (before noon, 9-11, etc.).
  • Contract:
    SPT $605 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
  • Seeking:
    Equity actors for roles in Chester Theatre Company’s 2025 Season (See breakdown).
    Except where specified, auditions by performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged.
  • Preparation:
    Please prepare a contemporary monologue, 2-minutes or less. Also, bring your picture and resume stapled together, and your equity card.
  • Personnel:
    Deb Clapp, Managing Director
  • Expected to attend (one or both):
    Christopher Baker, Co-Artistic Director
    Michelle Ong-Hendrick, Co-Artistic Director
Except where specified, auditions by performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged.

 

BREAKDOWN:

MAGDALENE
By Mark St. Germain
Directed by Keira Naughton

Rehearsals begin: May 27
Performances: JUNE 19-29

SYNOPSIS: Eighteen years after the death of Christ, Peter seeks out Mary Magdalene, whom he banished after the crucifixion. Peter needs an ally against a self-proclaimed Apostle angling for power in the growing church. In Magdalene, St. Germain offers a startling new look at two historical figures and the clash that impacts the course of Christianity.

SEEKING:

Peter: male, Late 30s and up. Fisherman. Ordinary man struggling to fulfill extraordinary expectation.

Mary: female, Late 30s and up. She’s known great love and great tragedy. She grieves for the past and the future.

 

A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW
By Tatty Hennessy
Directed by Michelle Ong-Hendrick

Rehearsals begin: June 10
Performances: JULY 3 – 13

SYNOPSIS: After her father’s unexpected death, 15-year-old Rory discovers that he was planning a trip for the two of them to the North Pole. So, she picks up his ashes, her passport, and her mother’s credit card, and sets out to make good on his plans. Layered, complex and as beautiful as the snowfall, Hennessy’s play is an epic Arctic adventure about adolescence, grief, love, and being an explorer in a melting world.

SEEKING:

Rory: 15-years old. Grieving, but ready for an epic journey.

 

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
By Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Daniel Kramer

Rehearsals begin: July 1
Performances: JULY 24-AUG 3

SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in the middle of America, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly let each other into their own fragile worlds. Negotiations of bank loans transforms into talk of financial insecurity and the precariousness of parenthood, as the two realize they share a “specific kind of sadness.” With humor, honesty and time-bending theatricality, Hunter intertwines the lives of two ordinary men, both outsiders to the forces that govern their lives.

SEEKING:

Keith: male, mid to late 30s. Black

Ryan: male, mid to late 30s, white

 

MR. JOY
By Daniel Beaty

Rehearsals begin: July 15
Performances: AUGUST 7 – 17

SYNOPSIS: What happened to Mr. Joy? In this uplifting one-person play, a Harlem community takes stock when a Chinese immigrant’s shoe repair shop mysteriously doesn’t open one morning, causing an array of customers to realize what the shop owner has meant in their lives. Through the lens of Mr. Joy’s customers, from the bubbly eleven-year-old Clarissa to the sincere and savvy Bessie, leader of the “Gansta Grannies,” we learn about the profound impact the shop owner had on each of their lives, and the invisible ties that bind us all.

SEEKING:

Mr. Joy: any gender, 20s to 50s, Black, multiple characters in the New York neighborhood, ranging in age, gender and ethnicity.