Rubber City Theatre is holding auditions for 2019/2020 mainstage season production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. We are casting local non-union actors. Audition appointments are by appointment only.  

WHEN: 

Saturday, January 18 from 11:00am - 6:00pm 

Sunday, January 19 from 11:00am - 3:30pm

Accepting Video Auditions through January 19. 

WHERE:

Rubber City Theatre 

243 Furnace St

Akron, OH 44304

TO SCHEDULE AN AUDITION: 

APPOINTMENTS CAN BE MADE BY E-MAIL to casting@rubbercitytheatre.com. Please include your name, phone number, an attachment of your headshot and resume, and your preferred day and/or time. You will receive a response within three business days. We will endeavor to schedule you as near as possible to your requested time, pending availability. 

AEA contracts: No AEA contracts at this time.

Non-AEA contracts: 

Non-AEA Contracts will pay $100 stipend. 

PREPARATION: Please prepare a monologue in verse (Shakespeare or Contemporary) and to read from the script. You will be auditioning for Kelly Elliott, Director and Dane CT Leasure, Artistic Director of Rubber City Theatre. Please bring a copy of your most current headshot and resume. VIDEO AUDITIONS: Please submit a video of a verse monologue and a prose monologue. 

Rehearsals: Please note rehearsals are typically Monday through Thursday from 6:30-10:00pm, and Sundays from 3:00-9:00pm. The final week of rehearsal will end of Wednesday and tech will begin on Saturday 12:00-4:00pm followed by a Sunday from 3:00-9:00pm. At the beginning of the week leading into opening, we will have Monday off. Performances are typically Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30pm, and Sundays at 2:30pm. We are holding Saturday 2/15, 2/22 as snow make up days in case the weather is bad and we need to cancel a rehearsal. There is one student matinee on March 19 at 10:00am. 

We will only allow a couple conflicts during the rehearsal process, no conflicts during tech and show run. 

Venue: This show’s rehearsal and performance location are at our new venue at 243 Furnace St. Akron, OH 44304.

In reference to the character descriptions below - most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with the he/him or she/her pronouns and you will see that are in the following descriptions. But, however limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be as inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. As an ADA compliant theatre, we welcome performers of all abilities and will make all reasonable accommodations in order to cast performers, regardless of disability, in any role possible. Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide.  (Language developed by Kevin Kantor and Emily Tarquin from the Actors Theatre of Louisville). 

Love’s Labour’s Lost by William Shakespeare 

December 6 - December 22, 2019

Director: Kelly Elliott 

First rehearsal: February 9, 2020

Opens: March 6, 2020

Closes: March 22, 2020

Casting: 7M, 3F, 3M/F or NB

The King of Navarre and his friends have vowed to live three years devoted to academics and abstaining from the distractions of the outside world. That is until the Princess of France and her friends come to the court and change everything!  

Available roles: (Note: that the following roles will double with other characters throughout the play, Non-Binary [NB] characters may be doubled with characters on the binary.)

Ferdinand, King of Navarre - M - Any age or ethnicity 

Berowne - M - Any age or ethnicity 

Longaville - M - Any age or ethnicity 

Dumaine - M - Any age or ethnicity 

The Princess of France - F - Any age or ethnicity 

Rosaline - F - Any age or ethnicity 

Marius - M - Any age or ethnicity 

Katherine - F - Any age or ethnicity 

Don Armado- M - Any age or ethnicity 

Boyet- M/F or NB - Any age or ethnicity 

Moth - M/F or NB - Any age or ethnicity 

Nathaniel - M/F or NB - Any age or ethnicity 

Holoferenes - M/F or NB- Any age or ethnicity