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AUDITIONS

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Actors should be able to commute to Old Saybrook for regular rehearsals and performances. We are not able to offer housing. Thank you.

The Thanksgiving Play

Drama Works Theatre (Old Saybrook, Connecticut) seeks local non-union actors to play two women and two men in Larissa Fasthorse's The Thanksgiving Play, a comedy about all the ways we go wrong in trying to do right.

Auditions will be held at the theatre on Saturday, July 11, starting at 10am, and on Monday, July 13, starting at 7pm.

Contact casting.dramaworks@gmail.com to be added to the audition list and receive sides. Be sure to let us know your audition date and the role(s) you're interested in. We are looking for local actors. Please confirm in your email that you are local.

Performances will be October 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18. Rehearsals likely to begin mid-August.

LOGAN -- Female, Caucasian-looking, the high school drama teacher who's always pushing the envelope in potentially inappropriate ways. Earnest about theatre and proving herself.

JAXTON -- Male, Caucasian-looking, yoga practitioner/actor. Politically correct to a fault, a big one. He's that confident guy everyone loves, but his logical PC thinking takes weird turns.

ALICIA -- Female, brunette, Caucasian-looking but has looks that would have been cast as ethnic in 1950s movies. Without guile. Sexy and hot, but not bright.

CADEN -- Male, Caucasian-looking, the academic. Awkward elementary school history teacher with dramatic aspirations but no experience.

The story: Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally woke teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.

The show runs without intermission for about 90 minutes and features the ensemble of four actors throughout.

Later In Our Season

The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp

A riveting miracle play that explores the limits of what one person can ask of another.

December 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 13
Auditions: September 11, 12, 13.

We are always eager to talk with actors, stage managers, tech folks,

line prompters at all levels of experience. Email or call to set up a meeting.

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We are also interested in talking to non-actors, especially those interested in set building, ushering, and stage managing. We are happy to train future stage managers. Email us if you have an interest in getting involved.

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