2025 SEASON AUDITIONS
Shadowland Stages 2025 Season – Ellenville, NY EPA
Shadowland Artists Inc. | Ellenville, NY
AUDITION DATE
Saturday, May 3, 2025
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Doors open at 9:30AM
APPOINTMENTS
No appointments necessary. First come, first served. Doors open at 9:30 am.
CONTRACT
SPT $482 weekly minimum (SPT 3)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Shadowland Stages 2025 Season (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
For dramatic auditions, please prepare a brief monologue. For musical auditions, please prepare a brief song. An accompanist will be provided.
Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Shadowland Theatre
157 Canal St
Ellenville, NY 12428-1503
PERSONNEL
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Brendan Burke, Artistic Director
Brittany Proia, Director of WAITRESS
OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
OTHER
www.shadowlandstages.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
SHADOWLAND STAGES 2025 SEASON
I’M NOT RAPPAPORT
by Herb Gardner, Director: Neil Pepe
1st rehearsal May 6, 2025; Runs May 30 – June 29, 2025
THIS SHOW IS CAST. SEEKING REPLACEMENTS IF NEEDED.
NAT: CAST Male; 80s, a cantankerous Communist storyteller, afraid his daughter Clara will force him into a home or declare him incompetent.
MIDGE: CAST Male; 81, near blind superintendent of a Central Park West apartment building for the past 42 years. Has avoided getting fired by being a ‘wise old invisible man’. Easily annoyed by Nat’s stories and machinations.
CLARA: CAST Female; 40s, Nat’s daughter. Has moved on from her activist upbringing to a
suburban family life. Is worried about her father’s well-being and wants to move him to a safer situation.
DANFORTH: CAST Male; 40s. Head of the Tenant’s Committee in Midge’s building (which is about to go co-op) and is seeking to fire Midge.
THE COWBOY: CAST Male; 30s, a drug dealer from Jersey, who lives as a ‘cowboy’, complete with costume and accent.
GILLEY: CAST Male; late teens, a Irish hoodlum who shakes down Midge for $3 a day in exchange for offering him ‘protection’.
LAURIE: CAST Female; 20s, a pretty and innocent art student in debt to The Cowboy.
KING JAMES
by Rajiv Joseph, Director: Jammie Patton
1st rehearsal: June 17, 2025. Runs July 5-20, 2025
MATT: Male; Ages 21, 27, 31, 33. Emotional and talkative, and bit of a mess, Matt’s ambition grows throughout the play. He bonds with Shawn over their impassioned fandom for the Cleveland Cavaliers. White.
SHAWN: Male; Ages 21, 27, 31, 33. A writer with a quiet ambition and confidence. Smart and
considered. He bonds with Matt over their shared impassioned fandom for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Black.
WAITRESS
Book by Jessie Nelson, Music & Lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Director: Brittany Proia
1st rehearsal: July 8, 2025. Runs July 25 – August 24, 2025
JENNA: Female; 20s-30s. An unhappily married small town waitress. An expert pie maker, she’d love to get away and start fresh. Vocal range top: F5; bottom: F#3. Any ethnicity.
BECKY: Female; 40s-50s. The oldest of the waitresses, weathered it all with a fantastic and
sometimes irreverent sense of humor. Vocal range top: E5; bottom: Eb3. Any ethnicity.
DAWN: Female; 20s. The youngest waitress, slightly awkward and shy. A sweet and optimistic
nature. Vocal range top: E5; bottom: G3. Any ethnicity.
POMATTER: Male; 30s-40s. Handsome, with a warm, if clumsy, manner. Jenna’s gynecologist with whom an unexpected extramarital affair is born. Has a quirky sense of humor and a big heart, despite the fact that he’s contributing to the affair. Vocal range top: Bb4; bottom: Bb2. Any ethnicity.
EARL: Male; 20s-30s, Jenna’s destructive husband. Handsome in an ex-jock way, he peaked in high school, and has evolved into a beer-drinking mess, with fits of anger and depression. Guitar playing a plus. Vocal range top: G4; bottom: Eb3.
CAL: Male; 30s-40s. The diner’s chef. Somehow endearing despite his impatience and brash, irreverent manner. Vocal range top: F4; bottom: D3.
OGIE: Male; 30s, Lovable, and a bit odd and quirky, he becomes enthralled with Dawn. Should have excellent comedic timing and must have an excellent pop/rock tenor voice. Vocal range top: F4; bottom: C3. Any ethnicity.
JOE: Male; 60s-70s, The owner of the diner where Jenna, Dawn, Becky, and Cal work. Seems like an old curmudgeon but has a soft spot for Jenna (and her pie). Vocal range top: G#4; bottom: B2. Any ethnicity.
NURSE/FRANCINE/MINISTER: Female; 20s-40s. Very funny with a small town charm. Pop-Rock Voice. Vocal range top: E5; bottom: G3. Any ethnicity.
LULU: Young girl to play 4–5-year-old. Daughter of Jenna.
DARKER THE SKY, BRIGHTER THE STARS
by John Cariani, Director: John Cariani
1st rehearsal: August 12, 2025. Runs August 29 – September 14, 2025
ENSEMBLE: Two identifying as female, two identifying as male, all in their 20s to portray multiple roles (ages 16 – late 20s). The play is a series of short plays, about the inhabitants of a rural town in northern Maine who are still searching for who they are.
BECOMING DR. RUTH
by Mark St. Germain, Director: Stephen Nachamie
1st rehearsal: September 2, 2025. Runs September 19 – October 5, 2025
RUTH WESTHEIMER: The famous sex therapist at age 69.
PROOF
by David Auburn, Director: Brendan Burke
1st rehearsal: September 23, 2025. Runs October 10 – 26, 2025
ROBERT:Male; 70s, Catherine and Claire’s father, a retired mathematics professor. In his later years, his genius has bowed to madness. Any ethnicity.
CATHERINE: Female; 25, Any ethnicity. Robert’s daughter, she’s spent the last few years taking care of him. Independent and smart, she’s worried that, in addition to her father’s genius, she may have also inherited his mental illness. Any ethnicity.
HAL: Male; 28, A protegee of Robert’s, and a PhD. candidate in mathematics. Plays in a band. On the nerdy side of cool, he’s ambitious, but trying to do the right thing. Any ethnicity.
CLAIRE: Female; 29. Claire’s sister who’s returned home to Chicago for Robert’s funeral, and to woo Catherine to join her in NYC because she’s worried Catherine may have inherited their father’s mental illness. Any ethnicity.
Shadowland Stages 2025 Season – NYC EPA
Shadowland Artists Inc. | Ellenville, NY
AUDITION DATE
Thursday, May 1, 2025
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM – 2:00PM
CONTRACT
SPT $482 weekly minimum (SPT 3)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Shadowland Stages 2025 Season (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
For dramatic auditions, please prepare a brief monologue. For musical auditions, please prepare a brief song. An accompanist will be provided.
Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Studio 16P for holding, 16N for audition
PERSONNEL
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Brendan Burke, Artistic Director
Brittany Proia, Director of WAITRESS
OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided. Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and
encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
THANK YOU!!!