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2025-2026 Season - Equity Principal Auditions

American Stage seeks Equity and Non Equity actors for Principal roles in their 2025-2026 season.

We are open to all ethnicities, genders, and abilities. Actors are encouraged to submit for any role they are interested in.

Appointments are given to AEA members only, however non-union members are encouraged to attend and will be seen as time permits.

AUDITION BREAKDOWN:

The Good Peaches by Quiara Alegría Hudes
(in partnership w/ Florida Orchestra and ProjectALCHEMY)
Directed by Helen R. Murray
Choreography by Alexander Jones
Conducted by Chelsea Gallo

Important Dates
First Rehearsal: September 2, 2025
Tech: September 16 - 19, 2025
Opening: September 20, 2025
Closing: September 20, 2025
*Note: This Production occurs off-site at The Mahaffey Theatre.

SYNOPSIS:
Storms, dresses, orchards, and sails. Cicada shells and seagull companions. This rollicking grrrl versus nature epic steps outside the frame of a princess fairy tale to ask: what happens when a daughter wishes for upheaval - and gets it? Music and theater will collide through the bursting swells of a massive storm and in an extraordinary teaming of actors, dancers and orchestra. The Good Peaches combines a compelling drama of survival with live music and dance performed by world class artists. *Performed at The Mahaffey Theatre

SEEKING:

AURORA - 10 - 18; to play age 10. Female Identifying - any ethnicity - a young girl but an old soul. Curious and resilient. NOTE - Actor should have a strong comfort level with movement and text.

ELDER - 50+ - Female Identifying - any ethnicity - a storyteller. Sage and fierce

MOTHER - 30s - 50s - Female Identifying - any ethnicity - a seamstress. Caring and wise, but also has a hard edge and it’s that strength that she passes on to her daughter.

Hundred Days
Book by Sarah Gancher, Music and Lyrics by Abigail and Shaun Bengson
Directed & Choreographed by Nick Sugar
Music Director TBA

Important Dates
First Rehearsal: September 30, 2025
Tech: October 16 - 21, 2025
Previews: October 22 - 23, 2025
Opening: October 24, 2025
Closing: November 16, 2025

SYNOPSIS:
Hundred Days is an exhilarating and heartrending true story about embracing uncertainty, taking a leap, and loving as if you only had 100 days to live. A love story at its heart, we watch as a small car accident propels this couple into bigger questions about what is to come. With magnetic chemistry and anthemic folk-punk music, creators Abigail and Shaun Bengson explore a fundamental question: how do we make the most of the time that we have?

SEEKING:

Shaun - 20s - 40s, Male identifying. Calm, grounded, and warm. Strong singer who plays Guitar. Multi-Instrumentalist a plus.

Abigail - 20s - 40s, Female identifying. Fierce, free-spirited, Struggles with some mental health issues, but remains hopeful. Strong singer; instrumentalist a plus.

Featured Musician - any age/gender - Seeking an actor/musician with strong musical ability and vocals. Multi-instrumentalists are a plus.
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Seeking a diverse group of musicians to play guitar, keys, bass, accordion, and sing.

The Scarlet Letter
adapted by Kate Hamill
Directed by TBA

Important Dates
First rehearsal: December 29, 2025
Tech: January 15-18, 2026
Previews: January 21 & 22, 2026
Opening: January 23, 2026
Closing: February 15, 2026

SYNOPSIS:
A visceral exploration of “original sin,” Kate Hamill’s highly-theatrical, vital reimagining of The Scarlet Letter follows strong-willed, intelligent Hester Prynne as she tries to find her own moral compass and raise her daughter in a society that harshly punishes women for independent thought, sexuality, or defiance. Hester and the other Massachusetts Bay colonists—including her guilt-ridden lover and her estranged husband—struggle with their own deeply-ingrained shame, as they debate what transgressions might truly be “unforgivable”… and learn how violence, superstition, repression, and uncomfortable truths may shape the land that will become America.

SEEKING:

HESTER PRYNNE — Mid 20s-late 30s. Female identifying. Intelligent, strong-willed. A survivor under extreme circumstances. Quite beautiful, which gives her more power (and trouble) than she might otherwise have. Capable of standing up to extreme pressure. Passionate. Nursing a terrible heartache. Not immune to the fears and superstitions of the culture around her. Fears the consequences of her sins. Sometimes unsure of her child’s origins, in a superstitious way. Survives and forgives, ultimately, although she is not without anger. A loving, if sometimes overextended and over-exasperated parent. Eventually learns to overcome the mores of her time, at great personal cost; brave, but not perfect.

GOODY HIBBINS — 40s. Female identifying. The governor’s younger wife. Quite unhappy. Very religious. Fearful of the new country and dark Satanic forces, which she believes are all around her. Bitterly disappointed in life, and clings to dogma as a life raft. Almost Hester’s contemporary. Deeply self-loathing, under everything—which makes her vicious. Desperately wants a child. Tries hard to be Good and Righteous. Quite obsessed with Hester Prynne.

PEARL — 4-5 years old. NOTE: This is a role for an adult puppeteer. An extremely spirited, impish child. Not so much “cute” as a child who takes an almost disturbing, otherwordly-level of Delight in being bad or disobedient. Half-feral. Dark side. Prone to repeating what she hears. The kind of child who, if you turn your back for half a second, will roll in a mud puddle and herd their siblings into a “prison” with a sharpened stick. Not actually malevolent, probably. Precocious. Does like attention.

REVEREND DIMMESDALE — Mid 20s-early 30s - Male identifying. Preferably slightly younger than Hester. A man raised to the clergy, of very deep and genuine faith. Quite handsome. Passionate. A powerful and emotional preacher. Worshipped by his congregation. Not particularly good with children. A good man, but up against the forces of his culture and his weaknesses, he sometimes quails (but who does not?). Believes that he has sinned irrevocably, and that God will punish those sins. Develops a serious heart condition. Wants to believe. Tortured. In love with Hester.

ROGER CHILLINGWORTH — Late 40s-50s. Male identifying. Deeply, deeply intelligent, with a wicked sense of humor. Dark; often wry. Not unreasonable, in his way. Has secrets in his past; has done terrible things. Can be charming. Very good with children. Has a deep psychic wound, which he can find no relief for. Once was very very much in love with Hester—possibly still is, deep deep down—and cannot reconcile his betrayal. A good physician. A very dangerous man, but you wouldn’t know it to look at him – he’s got the air of a completely ordinary man, or even a very harmless one.

GOVERNOR HIBBINS — 40s-50s. Male identifying. The governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Fond of making speeches. Believes that he has been chosen to rule by God; this is not always pleasant or easy for him. Feels himself obligated by duty to be harsher than he might actually be. Has a weakness for pretty things and little luxuries. Particularly friendly towards men, and tolerant of “good” women. A bit—a lot—frightened of his wife. Fairly clueless, really.

Into The Woods
Music & Lyrics Stephen Sondheim, Book by James Lapine
Directed by Helen R. Murray
Music Director - Jeremy D. Silverman
Choreographer - Jessica K. Scruggs
*Note: This production occurs offsite and outdoors.

Important Dates
First Rehearsal: March 3, 2026
Tech: March 17 - 22, 2026
Previews: March 25-26, 2026
Opening: March 27, 2026
Closing: April 26, 2026

SYNOPSIS:
Escape into a fantastical fairytale adventure where wishes come true, but not free.
A trove of storybook characters’ paths intertwine as they chase their deepest desires through an enchanted forest. However, once they receive their happily ever after, the unintended consequences of granted wishes unravel their worlds. Into the Woods features some of Sondheim’s wittiest lyrics as well as achingly beautiful melodies.

SEEKING:

Witch - Any Age - Female Identifying - Mezzo - Magnetic, wily and charismatic. She has been wronged by the world and is owed a reward for everything she has endured. Or at least that is the story she believes.

Baker - 20s - 40s - Male Identifying - Baritone - kind, a loving husband, he really wants a child, and he wants badly to do right by his wife.

Baker’s Wife - 20s - 40s - Female Identifying - Mezzo - smarter than her husband, braver too, she really wants a child too, but she is far more matter of fact in her quest.

Cinderella - 20s - Female Identifying - Soprano - stronger than she thinks, and until she has the attention of a prince, she does not realize that she does not really need the attention of a prince

Cinderella’s Prince/Wolf - 20s - 30s - Male Identifying - Bari-Tenor - has a lot of ideas about what makes a man a man, and it includes mansplaining, and chest puffing, and that kind of thing

Little Red Riding Hood - 20s - Female Identifying - Mezzo - tough, mischievous, a girl boss in a red cape

Jack - 20s - Male Identifying - Tenor - so so sweet, and so loving and so good at falling into opportunity

Jack’s Mother/Grandmother - 40s - 60s - Female Identifying - Soprano - it’s hard being a single parent, and for her, it shows.

Narrator/Mysterious Man - 40s - 60s - Male Identifying - Bass/Baritone - a great storyteller, but he’s good at it so he can escape any real responsibility

Rapunzel/Cinderella’s Mother - 20s - 40s - Female Identifying - Soprano - sheltered and ready to move out even though she is so ignorant of the world

Cinderella’s Stepmother/Ensemble - 30s - 50s - Female Identifying - Mezzo - mean step mom, but remember - it’s not easy being a single mom, especially with these daughters

Rapunzel’s Prince/Ensemble - 20s - 30s - Male Identifying - Bari-Tenor - he loves love, he wants to be in love, and because he is not the brightest, he can fall in love with anyone, even that lady in a tower who he has barely gotten to know

Florinda/Ensemble - 20s - 30s - Female Identifying - Mezzo - she’s trouble and she has attitude to spare

Lucinda/Ensemble 20s - 30s - Female Identifying - Mezzo - she’s also trouble and she is great at matching her sisters attitude

Steward/Ensemble - 20s - 50s - Male Identifying - Baritone - A chameleon.

Hot Wing King
by Katori Hall
Directed by Kenny Moten

Important Dates
First Rehearsal: May 12, 2026
Tech: May 28 - June 2, 2026
Previews: June 3 - 4, 2026
Opening: June 5, 2026
Closing: June 28, 2026

SYNOPSIS:
Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual "Hot Wang Festival" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly, a first place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing.

SEEKING:

Note - all characters are Black or Afro-Latino and Male identifying.

CORDELL - 40s- the head chef of the clique. Recently emerged from the closet to co-habitate with Dwayne. In a not so former life, had a wife and 2 kids.

DWAYNE - 40s - might not be the head chef, but is the head of the household. Holds Cordell and everyone down. Has been a mentor to his struggling nephew for years. Holds resentment towards Cordell for taking so long to legitimize their relationship

ISOM - 30s - new friend. Playlists includes gospel and trap and that’s exactly how he talks. Met the duo at church.

BIG CHARLES- 40s - old friend. Met the duo at the barber shop. Observant, laid-back. The Rock.

EVERETT "EJ" - 16 - Dwayne’s nephew. In need of guidance and a new home

TJ - 35 - Everett’s father. A long-time dealer who is “about that life” Struggles with teaching his son how to be a man, but unsure if Cordell and Dwayne can be good father figures to his son.

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