People’s Light – Equity Principal Auditions 2024/2025
Contract: AEA LORT Non-Rep
Venue/Theater: People’s Light Theatre
Producing Artistic Director: Zak Berkman
General Manager: Erin Sheffield
Associate Producing Director: Molly Rosa Houlahan
Creative Staff Present: Molly Rosa Houlahan, Associate Producing Director and Andrew Watring, Associate Producer
Date(s): Monday, March 17th
Time: 10am to 6pm (Holding room will open at 9am, Lunch Break from 1:30 - 2:30)
Immediately (Seeking Local Philadelphia Actors and National)
Location: People’s Light 39 Conestoga Rd, Malvern, PA 19355
Holding Room: Steinbright Lobby, MAX Capacity - 200
Audition Room: Rehearsal Room 2, MAX Capacity - 65
Rate: People’s Light Theatre – LORT D, $839 per week.
Appointments: Google Form
Only AEA, AGMA, & Canadian Equity members may request an appointment. EMC & Non-Union actors may come in person to request an appointment on the day of auditions and will be seen if the schedule allows.
STAGE MANAGERS: AEA Stage Managers may send their resumes to [email protected] with email subject AEA Stage Manager and your name.
Stage Manager Rate - $1035 per week.
Equity Principal Auditions:
SEEKING: All Gender Identity Actors & Singers
Choose a brief monologue or song of your choice. Please slate before your audition. Please note slots do not exceed 3 minutes in length, per equity rules.
NOTE FROM CREATIVE: We welcome Actors of all races and all gender identities, abilities/exceptionalities, and body types. Please take this into consideration when submitting. In addition to genders listed in character breakdowns, we are actively seeking trans and non-binary performers for all roles.
2025-2026 Season
The Unexpected 3rd
By Kathryn Grody
Directed by Timothy Near
First Rehearsal: 8/19/25
Opens: 9/21/25
Closes: 10/12/25
This show has been fully cast.
A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Zak Berkman
Directed by Molly Rosa Houlahan
First Rehearsal: 10/14/25
Opens: 11/23/25
Closes: 1/4/26
*No performances on Christmas or New Year’s Day.
*Please note this is a play with music, with folk Christmas songs woven throughout.
Roles:
FRED/AS CAST: 20s-30s, any ethnicity, he/him. Ebullient, playful, puppy dog. Doubles as Young Scrooge. Strong baritone/tenor.
MARLEY/AS CAST: 40s-60s, any ethnicity, he/him. An embattled and embittered man who strives to make things right. Strong bass/baritone voice
EMILY CRATCHIT/AS CAST: mid 30s-40s, any ethnicity, she/her. Warm, generous, fierce.
TINY TIM/AS CAST: 8-12 years old, any ethnicity, he/him. Kind, sweet, playful, sees the best in everyone.
LITTLE FAN/AS CAST: 8-12 years old, any ethnicity, she/her. Strong willed, speaks her mind, luminous.
*Please note all actors aside from Scrooge also play “the Kind Chorus,” a chorus of spirits that have come to tell this story to our audience.
Steel Magnolias
By Robert Harling
Directed by Abigail Adams
First Rehearsal: December 12th
Opens: January 18th
Closes: February 8th
Roles:
ANELLE: 18-25, any ethnicity, she/her. Shy, soft-spoken, perhaps naive. Evolves into a confident young woman.
TWELFTH NIGHT
By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Andrew Watring
Directed by Andrew Watring
First Rehearsal: 1/27/26
Opens: 3/1/26
Closes: 3/29/26
Available Parts:
VIOLA: 20s-30s, Black, any pronouns. A resilient, resourceful, smooth operator with a quick wit. Navigating complicated questions around identity. Singing ability is encouraged, but not required.
SEBASTIAN: 20s-30s, Black, he/him. Cunning, boisterous, and exceedingly charming. Singing ability is encouraged, but not required.
MARIA: 30s-50s, Black, she/her. An efficient and effective servant with a dry sense of humor and a vengeful spirit. Singing ability is encouraged, but not required
SIR ANDREW: 20s-30s, white, he/him. Foppish, sincere, and vulnerable. Singing ability is encouraged, but not required.
FESTE: 20s-30s, BIPOC, he/him. Wry, lithe, and facile, Feste moves adeptly between personalities with his sense of humor and sharp mind. Must play the guitar and sing.
FABIAN: 20s-30s, BIPOC, he/him. A servant with a chip on his shoulder. Singing ability is encouraged, but not required.
ANTONIO: 20s-30s, any race, any pronouns. Streetwise, experienced, and loyal. In the midst of a prolonged period of longing. Singing ability is encouraged, but not required.
THE WOMAN QUESTION
By Suli Holum
Directed by Melissa Crespo
First Rehearsal: 3/31/26
Opens: 5/10/26
Close: 5/24/26
Roles:
ELIZA: African American student, 40s, she/her, formerly enslaved, queer. Outspoken, Eliza comes into the school with a ton of practical knowledge.
TABAT: Kurdish student from Syria, 20s-30s, she/her, a researcher at heart.
KEI: Japanese student, 20s-30s, Christian, she/her. Kei is married, her husband is also at school in the states, they are long distance. Quiet and extremely observant.
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN'
Music By Fats Waller
Book by Murray Horowitz and Richard Maltby Jr.
Directed by Steve Broadnax III
First Rehearsal: 6/9/26
Opens: 7/12/26
Closes: 8/16/26
ANDRE: 25-45, Black, he/him. Unrepentant party hound, a flirt, and a bit of a womanizer. Vocal range G2 - E6, baritone/tenor.
ARMELIA: 25-45, Black, she/her. Strong willed, unafraid, at ease. Vocal range G3 - C6, soprano.
CHARLENE: 18-25, Black, she/her. Sweet, young, innocent. Vocal range G3 - G5 mezzo soprano.
KEN: 25-45, Black, he/him. Jovial, cheerful, loud, larger than life. Vocal range D3 - C6 tenor.
NELL: 30-45, Black, she/her. Confident, charming, knowledgeable. Vocal range F3 - F5 alto.
