Audition: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

April 18th, 2024

By William Shakespeare
Original Music & Music Direction by Jeff Smith
 
Audition Date:
Saturday, May 18th at 10:00am by appointment.
Callbacks by invite only: Thursday, May 21st at 6:00pm
 
Please pre-register: HERE
 
If you cannot attend in person you may make video submission arrangements with the director.
 
Performance Dates:
August 16-18, 22-24
 
Location:
Auditions, rehearsals, and performances will be held in person at the Players Club of Swarthmore (614 Fairview Rd, Swarthmore, PA 19081). Plenty of off-street parking and accessible by Septa Regional Rail and Bus. Rehearsals are three evenings a week, beginning July 2nd with a full week of technical/dress rehearsals. Some of our rehearsal and performance spaces are only accessible by stairs. Please let us know if you need accommodations.
 
The Players Club of Swarthmore and the A Midsummer Night’s Dream production team are committed to diversity and inclusion. As such, we encourage performers of all races and ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, and abilities to audition.
 
Due to the content of this show, auditions are open to ages 16+. Please note this is a non-union, non-paying production. Transparency and open communication are values that are extremely important to us; if you have any questions, please email the director at thekaylabowe@gmail.com.
 
Conflicts:
Please refrain from auditioning if you have any conflict between August 4th – 15th and/or show dates (see above).
 
Audition Requirements:
Prepare a Shakespeare sonnet or monologue.
If interested in being considered for a singing role (see character breakdown below), please also prepare 16-32 bars of a 1960s/1970s-style song.
A piano accompanist will be provided as well as a bluetooth speaker.
 
Casting Breakdown:
All roles are open. We acknowledge that many roles we list fall on gender binary but invite transgender and non-binary performers to audition for the roles they most identify with. We are seeking 18 energetic, versatile, and dynamic performers to fill the following:
 
The Lovers:
HERMIA
Egeus’s daughter, a young woman of Athens. Hermia is in love with Lysander and is a childhood friend of Helena
 
LYSANDER
A young man of Athens, in love with Hermia.
 
HELENA
A young woman of Athens, in love with Demetrius.
 
DEMETRIUS
A young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena.

 
The Mechanicals:
✩ NICK BOTTOM
The overconfident weaver, chosen to play Pyramus
 
✩ PETER QUINCE
The carpenter and the nominal leader of The Mechanicals
 
FRANCIS FLUTE
The bellows-mender, chosen to play Thisbe
 
TOM SNOUT
The tinker, chosen to play Pyramus’s father
 
SNUG
The joiner, chosen to play the lion
 
ROBIN STARVELING
The tailor chosen to play Thisbe’s mother

 
The Fairy Kingdom:
✩ OBERON, King of the Fairies (also plays THESEUS, Duke of Athens)
 
TITANIA, Queen of the Fairies (also plays HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons)
 
✩ ROBIN GOODFELLOW [Also known as Puck]
Oberon’s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals.
 
✩ FAIRY
 
✩ PEASEBLOSSOM
 
✩ COBWEB
 
✩ MOTE (also plays EGEUS, father [or mother] to Hermia)
 
✩ MUSTARDSEED (PHILOSTRATE, master of the revels to Theseus)

 
✩ Singing Required

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