For the safety of all involved, Actors’ Equity Association is offering employers the opportunity to request video audition submissions from members in place of holding in-person Equity auditions for principal roles. Please note – everyone working on this show will be required to show proof of up-to-date vaccination against COVID-19 prior to rehearsals.

We are only accepting video audition submissions from AEA members or those participating in the EMC Program.

Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to audition.

PRIVACY DISCLAIMER

For the safety and security of actors, Actor’s Equity and Arkansas Repertory Theatre agree that personal information and content provided on an actor’s headshot, resume, or audition recording is provided in confidence and is to be used solely for casting purposes. The theatre shall not use this private information or content for the purpose of marketing and/or advertising or for unsolicited contact of a personal nature. The recording will be destroyed, no later than 30 days from the date of the recorded audition submission. The Directors will be viewing submissions for their respective production along with the Arkansas Repertory Theatre personnel are listed below:

• Will Trice, Executive Artistic Director, Arkansas Repertory Theatre
• Ari Edelson, Director, LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR
• Gustavo Zajac, Director, GUYS & DOLLS
• Stephanie Klemons, Director, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
• Josiah Davis, Director, CLYDE’S
• Felicia Dinwiddie, Company Manager/Casting Associate, Arkansas Repertory Theatre

TO SUBMIT

Please visit this link and follow the instructions found there to submit directly to the theatre. For organizational purposes, our strong preference is for performers to submit using the link above — but if for any reason that is not possible, materials may be sent to casting@therep.org.

Due to the volume of submissions, we will not be confirming receipt — if a performer is called back or if any further information is required, we will follow up directly with the performer. Address all questions to casting@therep.org.

Stage Managers should submit resumes to jobs@therep.org.

NON-TRADITIONAL AND INCLUSIVE CASTING POLICY

Together with AEA and LORT, the Arkansas Repertory Theatre recognizes the need for expanding the participation of actors of color, women, and actors with disabilities in the artistic process. Toward that end, the Arkansas Rep reaffirms its commitment to non-discrimination and a flexible imaginative casting policy, which includes casting actors with disabilities, actors of color, actors over 60, and women in roles where race, ethnicity, gender, sex, age, or the presence or absence of a disability is not relevant. Theatre is interested in ethnic and gender diversity for all roles.

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS

Rehearsals begin September 6, 2022
Performances begin September 30 through October 16, 2022
Possible extension to October 23, 2022

Max Prince is the star of The Max Prince Show, a popular comedy-variety series that is a major hit on the East Coast, but network executive insists that it’s too sophisticated for the Midwest, and urges Prince to dumb down his act. Between the tensions of producing an hour of top-quality comedy each week and being pestered and his ratings, Prince is beginning to unravel. His last line of defense against both the network and the ratings is his writing staff, which spends its days coming up with business for the show while hurling humorous invective at each other and anyone else within earshot.

Rehearsals begin November 1, 2022
Performances begin December 2 through December 31, 2022
Possible extension to January 8, 2023

Set in Depression-era Times Square, Guys & Dolls is about a couple of big city gamblers and the women who love them. It tells the overlapping stories of high-roller Sky Masterson, who falls in love with mission worker Sarah Brown, and lovable rapscallion Nathan Detroit, engaged for 14 years to Miss Adelaide, a headliner at the Hot Box Club. Nathan runs a famous floating crap game, and an ongoing plotline involves his quest for a safe place for the game as Adelaide continues her quest to convince him to marry her. Meanwhile, Sarah, mistakenly believing that Sky set up an illegal game at the mission, tries to fight her affection for the charismatic crapshooter.

Rehearsals begin March 7, 2023
Performances begin April 7 through April 30, 2023
Possible extension to May 7, 2023

A sci-fi horror musical with an electrifying 1960s pop/rock score. Seymour Krelborn is a meek and dejected assistant at a floral shop who happens upon a strange plant, which he affectionately names “Audrey II” after his crush at the shop. Little does he know that this strange and unusual plant will develop an R&B voice, a potty mouth, and an unquenchable thirst for HUMAN BLOOD. As Audrey II grows bigger and meaner, the carnivorous plant promises limitless fame and fortune to Seymour, as long as he continues providing a fresh supply of blood. Just when it’s too late, Seymour discovers Audrey II’s extra-terrestrial origins and his true drive for world domination.

Rehearsals begin May 16, 2023
Performances begin June 9 through June 25, 2023

A truck stop sandwich shop frequented by truckers making the long journey across Pennsylvania. The kitchen is staffed exclusively by formerly individuals looking for their shot at redemption. Even as the shop’s callous owner, Clyde, tries to keep them under her thumb, the staff members are given purpose and permission to dream through their shared quest to create the perfect sandwich.