Artists' Ensemble Theater
Rockford, IL

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, February 22, 2025

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)

BREAK 12:00PM - 1:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule appointment, Email: [email protected]

CONTRACT

SPT

$379 weekly minimum (SPT 2)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Artists' Ensemble Theater's 2025-26 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting monologues. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Rockford College

5050 E State St

Rockford, IL 61108-2311

PERSONNEL

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

AET Producing Artistic Director: Richard Raether

OTHER DATES

Guys on Ice Book, Story, & Lyrics by Fred Alley, Music & Story by James Kaplan

1st Reh Aug 5, 2025

Open Sept 4

Close Sept 21

Misery by William Goldman adapted from Stephen King

1st Reh Oct 7

Open Nov. 6

Close Nov. 23

Conscience by Joe DiPietro

1st Reh Feb 10, 2026

Open March 12

Close March 29

Agatha Christie’s The Murder at the Vicarage

Adapted by Margaret Raether

1st Reh April 7

Open May 7

Close May 24

OTHER

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

ARTISTS' ENSEMBLE THEATER 2025-26 SEASON

GUYS ON ICE

Book, Story, & Lyrics by Fred Alley,

Music & Story by James Kaplan

The ice fishing musical

SEEKING:

Marvin: Male - 30s-40s

Lloyd: Male - 30s-40s

Earnie: Non gender specific - 30s-40s

MISERY

by William Goldman adapted from Stephen King

Suspense, thriller

SEEKING:

Paul Sheldon: Male - Successful romance novelist held captive by an obsessive fan

Annie Wilkes: Female - his “number one fan"

Sheriff Buster: Male 30s - 40s

CONSCIENCE

by Joe DiPietro

A story of a remarkable woman who stood up for what was right and refused to back down.

SEEKING:

Margaret Chase Smith: Female 50s - Senator from Maine

Joseph McCarthy: Male 40s - Senator from Wisconsin

William C. Lewis Jr: Male 30s - Margaret’s strategist & campaign manager.

Jean Kerr: Female 20s - a McCarthy staffer who would later become his wife.

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MURDER AT THE VICARAGE

adapted by Margaret Raether

Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicar’s study, but as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.

SEEKING:

Miss Marple (a spinster, observant and knows human behaviour) Female 40s - 50’s

Mrs. Martha Price Ridley (a widow and gossip) & Others: Female 40s

Griselda Clement (the vicar's young wife) & Others: Female 20s

Anne Protheroe (second wife of Colonel Protheroe): & Others: Female 20s - 30s

Leonard Clement: (the vicar of St Mary Mead) & Others: Male 40s

Lawrence Redding (a painter) & Others: Male 30s

Colonel Lucius Protheroe (local magistrate.) & others: Male 40s

SALARY

SPT $379 weekly minimum (SPT 2)

UNION

AEA