Auditions
Contemporary, Life-affirming Theatre in Maine.
The Public Theatre is a Professional Equity Theatre (SPT category 9) producing an exciting selection of 4-6 contemporary plays each season.
We generally audition Equity actors from the New York, Boston and Maine talent pool, providing housing for those who are joining us from out of state. The Public Theatre is open to non-traditional casting and encourages minorities to submit for all projects.
Audition Information
The Public Theatre holds Equity Principal Auditions each season.
Auditions for specific roles are by appointment only and consist of readings from the script we are casting. Actors interested in being seen for specific roles in our season should submit as directed below.
See 2022-23 Season Character Breakdown, below.
Submissions
Please mail your photo and resume (or a note or postcard if you have previously auditioned for us) mentioning the role(s) you would like to be considered for to:
The Public Theatre
31 Maple Street
Lewiston, Maine 04240
Do-not email your picture and resume unless requested.
The Public Theatre is open to non-traditional casting and encourages minorities to submit for all projects.
Local Actors
Non-Equity Actors: please mail your headshot and resume as directed above for consideration throughout the season.
Equity Actors: See below for EPA. If you are unable to attend the EPA please mail your headshot and resume as directed above for consideration throughout the season.
2022-23 Season – Virtual LOCAL EPA Audition Information – Equity Members Only
AUDITIONS WERE HELD: July 25, 2022 – 9:30am – 5:30pm (lunch break 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
WHERE: Live audition via Zoom.
New York Auditions
Equity Actors: See below for EPA. If you are unable to attend the EPA please mail your headshot and resume as directed above for consideration throughout the season.
2022-23 Season – Virtual EPA Audition Information – Equity Members only
AUDITIONS WERE HELD: July 22, 2022 – 9:30am – 5:30pm (lunch break 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm)
WHERE: Live audition via Zoom.
2022-23 Season Breakdown
PILGRIMS MUSA AND SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD by Yussef El Guindi
Director: Christopher Schario
Contract Dates: February 13 – March 12, 2023
MUSA: mid20’s/early 30’s. Egyptian dialect. A good natured Egyptian immigrant working as a cab driver. His heart is torn between following the path his parents laid out for him and marrying his proper Muslim fiancé or following his attraction for a wildly improper and appealing New York waitress.
SHERI: early/mid 30’s. A quirky, chatty, somewhat neurotic but likable blue-collar, white American waitress. No filter on her thoughts, her mouth or her heart.
ABDALLAH: 30’s- 40’s. Sudanese dialect. A Sudanese immigrant. A pilgrim on Hajj. Incredibly grateful for the success America has given him.
TAYYIB: 20’s/early 30’s. Somali dialect. A Somali immigrant. Musa’s friend. Jaded and opportunistic, he has a wise-cracking sense of humor and sells suitcases on the streets of Manhattan.
GAMILA: mid 20’s. Musa’s American-born, Egyptian fiancé. Well educated and raised in the United States, she is a modest and modern Muslim woman. Kind, lovely, practical, honest and down-to-earth.
JEEVES AND WOOSTER IN ‘PERFECT NONSENSE’ by The Goodale Brothers
Director: Janet Mitchko
Contract Dates: April 3 – 30, 2023
BERTIE WOOSTER: mid 30’s-early 40’s. A joyful, childlike, exuberant, shallow, narcissistic, bachelor and aristocratic bon-vivant. Lucky he’s from money and has a loyal valet who can bail him out of trouble.
JEEVES: 40-60 Valet to Bertie. Unflappable. His job is to keep Bertie on the straight and narrow and knows it is a doomed enterprise.
HE ALSO PLAYS:
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- SIR WATKYN BASSETT: an intimidating silver-collector and former magistrate.
- GUSSIE FINK-NOTTLE: a shy nerdy man who studies newts and is engaged to Madeline.
- STIFFY BYNG: the scheming female ward of Sir Watkyn.
- MADELINE BASSETT: Sir Watkyn’s excessively sentimental daughter
SEPPINGS: mid 30-60, Butler to Aunt Dahlia.
HE ALSO PLAYS:
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- AUNT DAHLIA: an overbearing loud woman who employs Seppings.
- RODERICK SPODE: an intimidating villain who works for Bassett.
- BUTTERFIELD: a polite butler employed by Bassett.
- CONSTABLE OATES: a local policeman
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31 Maple Street
Lewiston, ME 04240
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