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AUDITIONS

SEASON 10 CASTING NOTICE

 

 The Tennessee Williams Theatre Company of New Orleans is seeing both AEA & Non-Union performers to compose an ensemble for its Tenth Anniversary Season Productions: Orpheus Descending & Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. We are also seeking a lead role in a one performance remount presentation of Spring Storm to take place at The Clarksdale, MS Tennessee Williams Festival. Auditions will be held Sunday July 21st and Monday July 22nd. 

 

Please fully read the complete notice for dates and audition instructions.

 

Performers of all ethnicities, races, backgrounds, exceptionalities, abilities, experience levels, gender identities, and forms of expression are encouraged to submit.

 

Auditions are BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. No phone calls or emails, please. Slots are limited.

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Please note, if you've booked an audition slot with us in the past and did not show and follow up, you will not be considered or seen. 

 

 

Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams (in collaboration with The Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival) will rehearse January 26 - Feb 26. Break for Mardi Gras. Resume March 9-26, 2025 and will run March 27-April 13. All rehearsals and performances will be held at Loyola University New Orleans. The rehearsal process will reasonably accommodate for Mardi Gras activities. Directed by Augustin J Correro.

 

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams will rehearse approximately June 9-July 16, 2025 with breaks for Juneteenth and Independence Day. Performances will be July 12 through early August. Directed by Augustin J Correro.

 

 

Local hires only. 

 

ALL ARTISTS PAID

AEA: Special Appearance Tier 2

Casting Transparency: We are only able to hire mostly non-union actors, however, we are able to consider one or two AEA contracts for the entire season.

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Reliable transportation will be needed for prompt arrival at all rehearsals at Loyola University New Orleans.

 

Excessive rehearsal conflicts cannot be accommodated during the rehearsal period. Please do not audition if you expect to have several night-time conflicts during the listed rehearsal periods.

 

CALLBACKS for select roles will be organized following auditions.

 

 

INSTRUCTIONS:

 

Please sign up for ONE audition slot below. Please prepare a 60-90 second monologue appropriate for the role based on the breakdown. Be prepared to stay for 30 minutes to be read against other performers or due to delays. Please do not come to auditions with an unrehearsed, unmemorized or improvised piece.

 

A resource of Tennessee Williams monologues are made available here at www.twtheatrenola.com/monologueselections if you would like to use one of the monologues there. Using one of these monologues is not required.

  

If you have to cancel for any reason, please remove your time slot booking. If you do not appear without having cancelled (no cancel/no show), or cancel on the same day as auditions (same day drop), you will not be permitted to audition for future TWTC productions.

 

Auditions will be held by appointment only on the campus of Loyola University New Orleans Sunday July 21st from 3-6PM and Monday July 22nd from 6-9PM. Please sign up for only ONE audition slot only and make necessary changes and corrections through the sign up website. 

 

Auditions will take place on the 6th floor of Monroe Hall (not to be confused with the Monroe Hall dorm on Tulane's campus) located along Calhoun St between Marquette Pl and Loyola Ave in acting studios 602 and 603.

 

Please arrive in time to fill out an audition form.

 

Bring a hard copy of your acting resume headshot or recent photograph.

 

 

BREAKDOWN OF ROLES:

 

ORPHEUS DESCENDING

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Lady Torrance - 30s. The daughter of an Italian immigrant liquor bootlegger. She married after her father’s murder and has tried to assimilate to small-town monotony since. While she has managed to suffer in silence under her cruel husband’s roof, there is a fire burning in her that threatens to consume her. She dreams of creating a place of beauty and celebration where there is currently only a fading general store. She is sexually vital and smolders with a quiet fury.

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Carol Cutrere - late-20s/30s. The daughter of the most prominent family in town, but an unquenchable rebel. She is outspoken, progressive, and knows (or respects) few boundaries. She is bravely defiant of the small town’s narrow-minded views and virtues.

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Conjure Man - 45+. A mystic representative of the wildness in the land on which the small town has developed. He is Black and is said to have Choctaw heritage. He is tolerated by the white women because of his esoteric charm, but would probably be driven out of the general store if the bigoted men of the town caught him there. There is an otherworldly strangeness to him.

 

Dolly - 40+. A member of a three-person women’s chorus that fully captures the spirit of small town southern women with their penchant for gossip and capacity for deep feeling. These women are fast-talking, occasionally two-faced, and always aware of their surroundings (or at least they think so). Forever in someone else’s business.

 

Beulah - 40+. See Dolly.

 

Pee Wee - 40+. If the women in this town have a capacity for deep feeling and compassion, the men are their foils. They are quick to judgment and just as quick to action, not considering the pain it may inflict on those around them. Pee Wee and Dog are cronies of Sheriff Talbott, and longtime friends of Jabe Torrance. They are also members of a white supremacist organization responsible for the destruction of Lady’s father’s home and ultimately his death. 

 

Dog Hamma - 40+. See Pee Wee.

 

Sheriff Talbott - 50+. The second in command to the town’s chief monster. Sheriff Talbott is everything society should fear when they imagine a crooked lawman. He has long since traded his soul for a small, crummy piece of land in a place that will be dust in a century.

 

Jabe Torrance - 50+. Lady’s husband and the arch boss of the small southern hamlet. He relishes in his victory over Lady’s father, having burned down his home, stolen his daughter, and seen him burn alive. The rot in Jabe’s soul seems to be at the center of the town’s decay, in some Greek tragic sense. He is one of those few and far between people in which there is not a single ounce of human blood. His veins run with bile.

 

Valentine Xavier - Late 20s-30s. A man who drops into the Hades-scape of the small delta town at the critical time just before change is impossible. He has a history with Carol Cutrere but falls for Lady. Their dangerous romance threatens to bring Lady further into the depths. His arrival in the town ignites the sexuality of every woman in his sphere, which infuriates the men they are married to. He is a musician. Ability to play guitar preferred.

 

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

 

Big Daddy - Mid-50s to mid-60s. Family patriarch full of power and punch. A self-proclaimed roughneck who made his fortune by working hard alongside people who treated him generously. Because of his life experience, he is tolerant in spite of his roughness, but does not suffer dishonesty, deception, or dissembling. He sees more promise in his wayward son Brick’s nature than his scheming older son Gooper’s. Has a lecherous streak.

 

Mae - Late 20s. Chronically pregnant. Her child-bearing is almost her only character trait. The only other prominent feature she appears to display is a greed for a fortune that will serve her spawn. Married to Gooper.

 

Gooper - Late 20s/early 30s. Brick’s older brother who has failed to prove any heroic value to Big Daddy. He is adequate in seemingly every way, but is the type of person who will never be described as exceptional in any way, except perhaps in his desire to obtain Big Daddy’s fortune—to which he feels exclusively entitled. Father of three children, with one (and probably an innumerable parade of others) on the way.

 

Doc Baugh - 40+. The family doctor, with poor news about Big Daddy’s health. He is chronically dour, but believes he sports a good face and bright bedside manner.

 

Reverend Tooker- 30s-40s. The young preacher come to call at a time when Big Daddy seems to be on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven, and just in time to leave the church a fortune. Charming if not insipid, and considerably more transparent than a stained glass window. He’s not fooling anyone.

 

Children - 8-12 years old. Parents should submit a photograph, short video or demo reel, and resume (if applicable) for their children to be considered for the roles of the 3 children in the play. Auditions for children will be held separately. A young performers’ coordinator will be on staff for this production. The play does feature coarse language and adult themes. 

 

Children Submission Here

 

SPRING STORM

Non-Union Only

 

Arthur Shannon - Mid-20s. Promising scion of the wealthiest and most prominent family in a small Delta town. He has a poetic bearing but years of social scrutiny and sexual repression have fostered in him a violence that exists just below the surface. This character commits acts of violence and aggression onstage.

 

A performer selected for this role should have the ability to memorize lines independently and quickly, and will rehearse for 1 week with the cast before traveling to Clarksdale, Mississippi for one performance on October 19th. Travel by car and lodging will be provided as well as a company meal (1). $300.

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The following roles have been cast.  Please do not submit for them in the interest of preserving your time and artistic talents:

 

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF

Big Mama

Maggie the Cat (Margaret)

Brick

 

OUT CRY: THE TWO CHARACTER PLAY

Clare

Felice

 

ORPHEUS DESCENDING

Vee Talbot

 

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TO BOOK ONE AUDITION SLOT:

 

CLICK HERE

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If you are unable to attend auditions in person, we will consider video auditions. Please note, however, we do prefer in-person auditions.

 

Video Submissions: HERE

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Include headshot/Resume and the role/s you would like to be considered for.

Submissions after July 22 will not be considered.

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No Phone Calls Please. 

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