2025 GENERAL ACTOR CALL
SEEKING
Delaware Shakespeare is accepting submissions from non-AEA actors for general consideration in the 2025 Season. Actors are welcome to submit for an in-person appointment OR to submit a video audition. Productions will include Twelfth Night O Lo Que Quieras, for the Summer Festival, and Two Gentlemen of Verona for the Community Tour.
Rehearsals for Twelfth Night O Lo Que Quieras are tentatively scheduled to begin June 18th, 2025 and will be held on weekdays/weekend days, with a tentative run of July 18th – August 3rd and a possible extension thru August 10th, 2025 on the grounds of Rockwood Park in Wilmington, DE. The Community Tour’s, Two Gentlemen of Verona, schedule is still being finalized, but will most likely begin rehearsals in September with a run the first 3 weeks of October, 2025.
In addition to the full productions, Del Shakes will also produce a variety of programs throughout the year, and actors will be considered for casting opportunities in these, as well.
Del Shakes actively casts BIPOC actors through color-conscious casting, and looks for opportunities to cast female-identifying and non-binary actors in traditionally male roles.
Del Shakes is unable to provide housing or travel stipends, and therefore works almost completely with Delaware and Philadelphia-area artists.
No roles or project offers will be made as a result of these initial auditions. Actors may be contacted at other points throughout the year for project-specific auditions.
All artists this season will be non-Equity.
COMPENSATION
Non-Equity actors will be paid $395/week for the Summer Festival and $565/week for the Community Tour (which involves more hours and requires schedule flexibility/shifting performance environments).
Readings and understudies are all compensated at different rates per project.
INSTRUCTIONS
In-person auditions will be held on January 25th at OperaDelaware Studios in Wilmington from 10a-4p. To be considered for an in-person audition, please email headshot/resume to [email protected]. Feel free to inquire about any COVID protocols for in-person auditions.
If interested in submitting a video audition, please submit headshot, resume, and link to a Shakespeare monologue (no more than 2 minutes) via the following audition form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10mG637P6AInq1-0d0TdVWNB5-jkAA2P4QVrPPsLvXJY/edit
You only need to choose one of the above options! No need to attend both the in-person AND submit a virtual video.
Virtual audition materials are due by January 20.
Questions can be sent to [email protected].
PERSONNEL VIEWING AUDITIONS:
Mariah Ghant, Producing Artistic Director (she/her)
Eric Mills, Artistic Squad (he/him)
Izzy Sazak, Artistic Squad (they/them)
Lexi Thammavong, Artistic Squad (they/she)
OTHER
Delshakes.org
See a video about the Summer Festival HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5E6WGvR6FE&t=4s
See videos about the Community Tour HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-EryRjiuHc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLo1HQz0Ib4
Learn about Del Shakes’ commitment to antiracism HERE
https://delshakes.org/antiracism/
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