AUDITION NOTICE!
IN 2025, WE’RE CELEBRATING OUR 20TH SEASON OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE IN THE HEART OF CAMDEN COUNTY
Artistic Director Dawn Varava has chosen four fantastic shows for you to audition for.
SHOW 1 – A NEW JERSEY REGIONAL PREMIERE
Hollywood, Nebraska
By Kenneth Jones
Directed by Connie Norwood
February 28, March 1, 2, March 7, 8, 9, March 14, 15, 16
Two forty-something actresses have returned to their dying hometown in the Great Plains of Nebraska. TV star Jane is in from Los Angeles to check on her ailing mom, Alma. Stage actress Andrea is back from New York City to bury her father. Distracted by two charismatic local men—a handsome widower and a rough-and-ready laborer—the former frenemies confront complicated feelings about career, love, and loss, leading to an overdue showdown between Jane and her mother. Fall in love with a hope-filled, tears-and-laughter comedy about small towns and big dreams, the urge to be creative, the itch to move away, and the ache—and joy—of coming home.
ROLES:
JANE, forties, an L.A. actress (white), should be able to sing
ALMA, seventies, housewife, mother of Jane (white)
ROBERT, the late forties/early fifties, a carpenter/contractor (any race)
KATIE, fifteen, Robert’s daughter (any race)
ANDREA, forties, a New York actress (any race), should be able to sing
LANCE, thirties, a carpenter/contractor (any race)
Rehearsals begin in early January. A stipend of $500.00 will be paid at the end of the run.
Please click to complete the Google Form below. You will need your biography, a digital headshot, a one-minute self-tape monologue audition video, and rehearsal availability to add to the form.
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SHOW 2 – How The Light Gets In
By E.M. Lewis
Directed by Damien J. Wallace
May 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18
A travel writer who never travels. A Japanese architect who can’t figure out how to build a simple tea house. A gifted tattoo artist who resists the power of his talents. And a homeless girl who lives under a weeping willow tree in the Japanese Garden. Four lonely people, their stories written on paper, earth, and skin, find each other when one of them falls apart. Together, they realize the heart is as strong as it is fragile and that the safety of home might be found in the most fearsome explorations. It is a beautiful, haunting, and richly human play.
ROLES:
GRACE WHEELER (Female, 46) – A travel writer who has never been anywhere. She volunteers as a docent at the Japanese Garden (but isn’t Japanese).
HARUKI SAKAMOTO (Male, 50’s) – An architect specializing in creating buildings in natural spaces. Japanese.
KAT LANE (Female, looks late teens) – A young runaway. She wears lots of layers of clothes that obscure her gender. Hollow-eyed and wary.
TOMMY Z (Male, late 30s) – A tattoo artist. Rough and dangerous-looking at first glance, but big-hearted. Has a special gift of seeing a person clearly and drawing just the right thing on their skin
Rehearsals begin in early MARCH. A stipend of $500.00 will be paid at the end of the run.
Please click to complete the Google Form below. You will need your biography, a digital headshot, a one-minute self-tape monologue audition video, and rehearsal availability to add to the form.
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SHOW 3 – A GOOD FARMER
by Sharyn Rothstein
Directed by Scott Grumling
September 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21
A moving drama laced with humor and heartache, A GOOD FARMER is the story of two women—a farm owner and her unlikely best friend, an illegal Mexican immigrant—fighting to survive in a small town divided by America’s immigration battle. With rich, complicated roles for women, A GOOD FARMER is a play about love, friendship, and finding the power to face what divides us.
“…outstanding…brings the much-needed sense of humanity to the immigration issue and addresses many of the moral questions we face…This is an important piece of theatre…a gem of a show…”
— BroadwayWorld
ROLES:
BONNIE JOHNSON (Female, 34 & 27) – A farmer who owns her own cabbage and dairy farm.
CARLA GUTIERREZ, (Female, 30 &23) – an illegal immigrant from Mexico, a farmer – she is 5 months pregnant at the start of Act Two.
ROSEMARY DEVLIN (Female, 30’s) a PTA mom. also playing (LU, a nurse; a Christian, and Shirley Sender (an Immigration Control Enforcement officer)
GABE DuBAY (Male, 30s), a single father. (also playing David and Rich Parks.)
DAVID JOHNSON, (Male, late 30’s) Bonnie’s husband; sick with terminal cancer.
RICH PARKS (Male, any age) is a state-appointed defense lawyer.
Rehearsals begin in July. A stipend of $500.00 will be paid at the end of the run.
Please click to complete the Google Form below. You will need your biography, a digital headshot, a one-minute self-tape monologue audition video, and rehearsal availability to add to the form.
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Dot
by Colman Domingo
Directed by Zuhairah McGill
November 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23
The holidays are always a wild family affair at the Shealy house. But this year, Dotty and her three grown children gather with more than exchanging presents on their minds. As Dotty struggles to hold on to her memory, her children must fight to balance care for their mother and care for themselves. This twisted and hilarious new play grapples unflinchingly with aging parents, midlife crises, and the heart of a West Philly neighborhood.
“A thoroughly entertaining comedy-drama! […] An impressive advance for Colman Domingo.”
— The New York Times
DOTTY – Female, African American, early 60s
SHELLY – Female, African American, 45 years old
JACKIE – Female, Caucasian, 40 years old
DONNIE – Male, African American, 40 years old
ADAM – Male, Caucasian/Latin/Arab, 40 years old
AVERIE – Female, African American, 35 years old
FIDEL – Kazakh, Male, mid to late 20’s
Rehearsals begin in September. A stipend of $500.00 will be paid at the end of the run.
Please click to complete the Google Form below. You will need your biography, a digital headshot, a one-minute self-tape monologue audition video, and rehearsal availability to add to the form.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT
Funding has been made possible in part by the Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission at Camden County College through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.