Maryland Ensemble Theatre announces
2023 – 2024 Mainstage and
Fun Company Season Auditions!
Monday, June 5, 2023 & Tuesday, June 6, 2023 – 7:00 – 9:00 pm – BY APPOINTMENT
Sign up for a timeslot at https://www.signupgenius.com/
Prepare:
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Provide 2 contrasting contemporary monologues (memorized) up to 90 seconds each.
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Those who wish to be considered for musicals should present 16 bars of an uptempo show tune with a backing/karaoke/accompaniment track with no leading vocals (preferred). You may also sing acapella.
MET’s CASTING PLEDGE: MET is committed to the practice of color-conscious casting, inclusive of all ethnicities/races, sizes, gender identities, sexual orientations, and disabilities. All roles are available and paid a stipend. Non-union adults, age 18+
MET’s DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION PLEDGE: Maryland Ensemble Theatre is dedicated to creating anti-oppressive artistic spaces and producing work that is representative of and accessible to our entire community. It is imperative that we make our spaces open to and affirming of all people. We realize that our past actions did not consistently fuel the deeper work and progress needed to create a truly inclusive theatre, specifically of traditionally marginalized populations. We aspire to reflect the community around us by fostering and maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our efforts must be continuous, intentional and evolving.
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MET operates under a Code of Conduct which seeks to foster an environment of communication, safety, respect, accountability, and the health, safety, and well-being of the MET and its participants. We hope the following disclosures help you make an informed choice should you be offered a role in this production.
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MET makes the following audition commitments to you:
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You will not be asked to audition more than 3 times for this production without compensation
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You will not be kept at any audition for more than 3 hours, or past 11pm.
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You will not be asked to disrobe or perform any intimate contact or violence as a part of your audition.
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Rehearsals are typically held 4-5 times per week. Approximately 80 rehearsal hours per production are spread over weekday evenings after 6pm, Saturdays between 10-4, and Sundays.
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MET generally produces 1 preview performance and 15 regular performances of each mainstage production. MET’s Fun Company generally presents 12 – 15 performances of each production.
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MET will be casting swings and/or understudies. Swings and/or understudies are not guaranteed performances.
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All contracts are non-union and paid a one time stipend. Swings/Understudies are paid a learning fee stipend and will be paid per show for any performances for which they go on.
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MET Mainstage is a black box seating approximately 96 patrons. We are able to produce in a traditional proscenium configuration as well as thrust and arena. MET Stage2 is a black box seating approximately 60 patrons in a ¾ round/thrust configuration.
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One week of potential extension is included in the run of each mainstage production.
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Costumes will be supplied by the producer. However, actors will be asked to provide undergarments. Actors may be asked to provide shoes or other basic wardrobe pieces if mutually agreed upon and clearly discussed between the costume designer and actor.
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Actors are expected to give one hour of their time upon the show’s conclusion to assist with strike
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PRODUCTION DETAILS
MET Mainstage
Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika
By Tony KushnerDIRECTOR: Tad JanesFirst Rehearsal(approx.) Monday, July 31,2023Design RunDuring the week of September 4, 2023TechSunday, September 23 – 27, 2023PreviewThursday, September 28,2023 @ 8pmOpeningFriday, September 29, 2023 @ 8pmClosingSunday, October 29, 2023 @ 3pmExtensionThursday, November 2 – Sunday, November 5, 2023WEEK 1:Thursday, 9/28/23 @ 7pm PREVIEWFriday, 9/29/23 @ 7pm OPENINGSaturday, 9/30/23 @ 7pmWEEK 2:Friday, 10/6/23 @ 7pm *ASL Interpreted PerformanceSaturday, 10/7/23 @ 7pmWEEK 3:Friday, 10/13/23 @ 7pmSaturday, 10/14/23 @ 7pmSunday, 10/15/23 @ 2pm (part 1?)WEEK 4:Thursday, 10/19/23 @ 7pmFriday, 10/20/23 @ 7pmSaturday, 10/21/23 @ 7pmSunday, 10/22/23 @ 2pmWEEK 5:Thursday, 10/26/23 @ 7pmFriday, 10/27/23 @ 7pmSaturday, 10/28/23 @ 7pmSunday, 10/29/23 @ 2pmExtension HOLDThursday, 11/2/23 @ 7pmFriday, 11/3/23 @ 7pmSaturday, 11/4/23 @ 7pmSunday, 11/5/23 @ 2pmSynopsis: In the second part of Tony Kushner’s epic, the plague of AIDS worsens, relationships fall apart as new ones form, and unexpected friendships take form.Seeking:-
Hannah Pitt – Joe’s mother, formerly of Salt Lake City, now in Brooklyn, staying in Harper and Joe’s apartment.
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All other roles are cast
Inebriated Holiday
by MET
DIRECTOR: Laura StarkFirst RehearsalApprox. Monday, 10/2/23 (8 weeks)Design RunDuring week of November 13, 2023TechSunday, 11/26/23- Wednesday, 11/29/23PreviewThursday, 11/30/23 @ 8pm PREVIEWOpeningFriday, 12/1/23 @ 8pm Opening NightClosingSaturday, 12/23/23 @ 8pmExtensionN/AWEEK 1:Thursday, 11/30/23 @ 8pm PREVIEWFriday, 12/1/23 @ 8pm Opening NightSaturday, 12/2/23 @ 8pmSunday, 12/3/23 @ 3pmWEEK 2:Thursday, 12/7/23 @ 8pmFriday, 12/8/23 @ 8pm – ASLSaturday, 12/9/23 @ 8pmSunday, 12/10/23 @ 3pmWEEK 3:Thursday, 12/14/23 @ 8pmFriday, 12/15/23 @ 8pmSaturday, 12/16/23 @ 8pmSunday, 12/17/23 @ 3pmWEEK 4:Thursday, 12/21/23 @ 8pmFriday, 12/22/23 @ 8pmSaturday, 12/23/23 @ 8pmSynopsis: After a successful two performance limited run, MET’s Inebriated History returns! This time with a holiday flair. MET patrons are invited to laugh until they fall over at MET’s comedy Inebriated Holiday. Local celebrities (pre-recorded and inebriated) tell tales like you’ve never heard them told before, and MET’s actors bring history to life on stage as it’s told. Pull up a chair, grab a drink, and let’s talk history! Whether you remember it or not is up to you. Luckily, there is no test!Seeking:Two swings, one to cover female identifying actors and one to cover male identifying actors.
Intimate Apparel
By Lynn NottageDIRECTOR: TBDFirst RehearsalApprox. Monday, 12/18/23 (7 weeks out)Design RunDuring week of January 22, 2024TechSaturday, 2/3/24 – Wednesday, 2/7/24PreviewThursday, 2/8/24 @ 8pmOpeningFriday, 2/9/24 @ 8pmClosingSunday, 3/10/24 @ 3pmExtensionThursday, 3/14/24 – Sunday, 3/17/24WEEK 1:Thursday, 2/8/24 @ 8pm PREVIEWFriday, 2/9/24 @ 8pm OPENINGSaturday, 2/10/24 @ 8pmWEEK 2:Friday, 2/16/24 @ 8pm *ASL Interpreted PerformanceSaturday, 2/17/24 @ 8pmWEEK 3:Friday, 2/23/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 2/24/24 @ 8pmSunday, 2/25/24 @ 3pmWEEK 4:Thursday, 2/29/24 @ 8pmFriday, 3/1/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 3/2/24 @ 8pmSunday, 3/3/24 @ 3pmWEEK 5:Thursday, 3/7/24 @ 8pmFriday, 3/8/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 3/9/24 @ 8pmSunday, 3/10/24 @ 3pmHold for ExtensionThursday, 3/14/24 @ 8pmFriday, 3/15/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 3/16/24 @ 8pmSunday, 3/17/24 @ 3pmSynopsis: The time is 1905, the place, New York City, where Esther, a black seamstress, lives in a boarding house for women and sews intimate apparel for clients who range from wealthy white patrons to prostitutes. Her skills and discretion are much in demand, and she has managed to stuff a goodly sum of money into her quilt over the years. One by one, the other denizens of the boarding house marry and move away, but Esther remains lonely and longing for a husband and a future. Her plan is to find the right man and use the money she’s saved to open a beauty parlor where black women will be treated as royally as the white women she sews for. By way of a mutual acquaintance, she begins to receive beautiful letters from a lonesome Caribbean man named George who is working on the Panama Canal. Being illiterate, Esther has one of her patrons respond to the letters, and over time the correspondence becomes increasingly intimate until George persuades her that they should marry, sight unseen. Meanwhile, Esther’s heart seems to lie with the Hasidic shopkeeper from whom she buys cloth, and his heart with her, but the impossibility of the match is obvious to them both, and Esther consents to marry George. When George arrives in New York, however, he turns out not to be the man his letters painted him to be, and he absconds with Esther’s savings, frittering it away on whores and liquor. Deeply wounded by the betrayal, but somehow unbroken, Esther returns to the boarding house determined to use her gifted hands and her sewing machine to refashion her dreams and make them anew from the whole cloth of her life’s experiences.Seeking:-
Esther – 35, African- American
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Mrs. Dickson – 50’s, African-American
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Mrs. Van Buren – 30s, white American
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Mr. Marks – 30s, Romanian Jewish Immigrant
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Mayme – 30s, African – American
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George – 30s, Barbadian immigrant
MS4The Squirrels
By Robert AskinsDIRECTOR: Julie HerberFirst RehearsalMonday, 2/29/24 (Leap Day! 8 weeks)Design RunDuring the week of March 4, 2024TechSaturday, 3/23/24 – Wednesday, 3/27/24PreviewThursday, 3/28/24OpeningFriday, 3/28/24ClosingSunday, 4/28/24ExtensionThursday, 5/2/24 – Sunday, 5/5/24WEEK 1:Thursday, 3/28/24 @ 8pm PREVIEWFriday, 3/29/24 @ 8pm OPENINGSaturday, 3/30/24 @ 8pmWEEK 2:Friday, 4/5/24 @ 8pm *ASL Interpreted PerformanceSaturday, 4/6/24 @ 8pmWEEK 3:Friday, 4/12/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 4/13/24 @ 8pmSunday, 4/14/24 @ 3pmWEEK 4:Thursday, 4/18/24 @ 8pmFriday, 4/19/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 4/20/24 @ 8pmSunday, 4/21/24 @ 3pmWEEK 5:Thursday, 4/25/24 @ 8pmFriday, 4/26/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 4/27/24 @ 8pmSunday, 4/28/24 @ 3pmHold for Extension:Thursday, 5/2/24 @ 8pmFriday, 5/3/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 5/4/24 @ 8pmSunday, 5/5/24 @ 3pmScurius, the patriarch of a family of gray squirrels, has collected enough nuts to last ten winters. When a group of starving fox squirrels begs him to share his hoard of food, animosity erupts into a ferocious war. THE SQUIRRELS is a boundary-pushing, darkly satirical look at wealth inequality in which no creature comes out unscathed.Seeking:-
Sciurus – Great old gray squirrel. Big. Fat-ish. The greatest gatherer of nuts the forest ever saw. Now gone to seed. Father to Chordata. Partner to Mammalia. Adopted father to Rodentia.
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Chordata – Young gray squirrel. Squirrel sexy. Squirrel smart. She knows the forest is changing. She is in love with Carolinensis.
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Mammalia – Older gray squirrel. The long-suffering partner to Sciurus. She loves him. Knows his faults. Has aided his schemes. She is dedicated to her daughter and wants only the best for her.
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Rodentia – Adopted daughter of Sciurus. Young fox squirrel. She swims with the tide that raises her boat.
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Carolinensis – Young fox squirrel. Fierce. Strong. Idealistic but hungry. It is after all the dead of winter and mating season is coming.
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Sciuridae/The Scientist – Gray squirrel. He is smooth. Too smooth. He stares too long. He’s creepy like an evil Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. The scientist is not a real scientist. He’s a cartoon scientist. Make of that what you will.
MS5Head Over Heels
DIRECTOR: Gené FouchéCHOREOGRAPHER: Lena JanesMUSIC DIRECTOR: TBDFirst RehearsalApprox. 4/1/24 (8 weeks)Design RunDuring the week of May 6, 2024TechSaturday, 5/25/24 – Wednesday, 5/29/24PreviewThursday, 5/30/24OpeningFriday, 5/31/24ClosingSunday, 6/23/24ExtensionThursday, 6/27/24 – Sunday, 6/30/24WEEK 1:Thursday, 5/30/24 @ 8pm PREVIEWFriday, 5/31/24 @ 8pm OPENINGSaturday, 6/1/24 @ 8pmSunday, 6/2/24 @ 3pmWEEK 2:Thursday, 6/6/24 @ 8pmFriday, 6/7/24 @ 8pm *ASL InterpretedSaturday, 6/8/24 @ 8pmSunday, 6/924 @ 3pmWEEK 3:Thursday, 6/13/24 @ 8pmFriday, 6/14/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 6/15/24 @ 8pmSunday, 6/16/24 @ 3pmWEEK 4:Thursday, 6/20/24 @ 8pmFriday, 6/21/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 6/22/24 @ 8pmSunday, 6/23/24 @ 3pmHold for Extension:Thursday, 6/27/24 @ 8pmFriday, 6/28/24 @ 8pmSaturday, 6/29/24 @ 8pmSunday, 6/30/24 @ 3pmSynopsis: HEAD OVER HEELS is the bold new musical comedy from the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Avenue Q and Spring Awakening. This laugh-out-loud love story is set to the music of the iconic 1980’s all-female rock band The Go-Go’s, including the hit songs, “We Got the Beat,” “Our Lips Are Sealed,” “Vacation,” Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven is a Place on Earth” and “Mad About You.”A hilarious, exuberant celebration of love, HEAD OVER HEELS follows the escapades of a royal family on an outrageous journey to save their beloved kingdom from extinction—only to discover the key to their realm’s survival lies within each of their own hearts
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Basilius – King of Arcadia. A sexy, good ol’ boy. A hothead, but not a despot. Blindly thinks Arcadia is doing great under his masculine rule, which will be sorely tested during the course of the show.
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Gynecia –Queen of Arcadia. Sexy, wise, beautiful. Like any longstanding spouse, knows how to get her way with her husband when push comes to shove.
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Pamela – Basilius and Gynecia’s older daughter. Confident and obsessed with her appearance. Known to be the most beautiful bachelorette throughout Arcadia.
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Philoclea – Basilius and Gynecia’s younger daughter. Shy and a “good girl”, she yearns to follow her heart rather than obey her father’s orders.
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Dametas – The King’s viceroy; father to Mopsa.
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Mopsa – Handmaiden to Pamela. Warm, skeptical. Growing up without a mother has made her wise beyond her years about everyone and everything, which is why she is the (sometime) narrator to the show.
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Musidorus – A young shepherd who courts after Philoclea.
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Pythio – The Oracle; powerful, mysterious. Demanding. Great sense of humor–can see through everyone–they are the Oracle of Delphi, after all.
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Ensemble (4 members) – Unique, charismatic individuals to inhabit the kingdom of Arcadia.
MET Fun Company
*All roles openDragon’s Love Tacos
DIRECTOR: Julie HerberFirst RehearsalMonday, August 7, 2023(6 weeks until Tech)TechSunday, Sept 17 – Friday, Sept 22, 2023OpeningSaturday, September 23, 2023 @ 10:30amClosingSunday, October 8, 2023 @ 1:30pmWeek 1:Saturday, September 23, 2023 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, September 24, 2023 @ 1:30pmWeek 2:Saturday, September 30, 2023 @ 10:30am *ASL & 1:30pmSunday, October 1, 2023 @ 1:30pmWeek 3:Saturday, October 7, 2023 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, October 8, 2023 @ 1:30pmWeek 4:Saturday, October 14, 2023 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, October 15, 2023 @ 1:30pmMy Father the Elf
By Matt LeeDirector: TBDFirst RehearsalMonday, 10/9/23TechSunday, 11/19/23 – Friday, 11/24/23OpeningSaturday, November 25, 2023ClosingSunday, December 17, 2023ExtensionN/APERFORMANCES: 12 announced, 3 additional based on demand/actor avail.Week 1:Saturday, November 25 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, November 26 @ 1:30pmWeek 2:Saturday, December 2 @ 10:30am *ASL & 1:30pmSunday, December 3 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmWeek 3:Saturday, December 9 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, December 10 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmWeek 4:Saturday, December 16 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, December 17 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmElephant & Piggie: We’re in A Play
Script and Lyrics by Mo WillemsMusic by Deborah Wicks La PumaDIRECTOR: TBDFirst RehearsalMonday, 1/8/24 (6 weeks)TechSunday, February 18 – Thursday, February 22, 2024OpeningSaturday, February 17, 2024 @ 10:30amClosingSunday, March 17, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 1:Saturday, February 24, 2024 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, February 25, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 2:Saturday, March 2, 2024 @ 10:30am *ASL & 1:30pmSunday, March 3, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 3:Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, March 10, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 4:Saturday, March 16, 2024 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, March 17, 2024 @ 1:30pmThe Borrowers
Adapted by MET based on the books byMary NortonDIRECTOR: TBDFirst RehearsalMonday, March 4,2024TechSunday, 4/14/24 – Friday, 4/19/24OpeningSaturday, April 20 2024ClosingSunday, May 12, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 1:Saturday, April 20, 2024 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, April 21, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 2:Saturday, April 27, 2024 @ 10:30am *ASL & 1:30pmSunday, April 28, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 3:Saturday, May 4, 2024 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, May 5, 2024 @ 1:30pmWeek 4:Saturday, May 11, 2024 @ 10:30am & 1:30pmSunday, May 12, 2024 @ 1:30pm (Mother’s Day)Thank you for auditioning!Questions? Email Melynda Burdette Wintrol, Production Manager, at MWintrol@marylandensemble.orgNo phone calls, please. -
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