Casting Call: Theatre

Audition - Symons Valley Players

December 15, 2024 - 6:30 – 9:00 pm
UPDATED: November 18
 
 
Play: Under the Big Top by Martin Follose
Performance dates:  May 8-11, 2024
 
Who:  Symons Valley Players (Founded in 1995, with 26 Annual performances)
Location:  Symons Valley United Church
Address:  38 Kincora Rise NW, Calgary (Auditions, Rehearsals & Performances)
Director:   Brenda Watt
 
Under the Big Top Synopsis:
The bank is going to foreclose on the Marlow Little Big Top Circus unless the loan can be repaid in three days. It's a calamity in the making with 2 burglars stealing the money for the loan, while a scheming Bank Secretary tries to re-steal the money from them to shut the circus down.  How will the circus survive especially when the Lion Tamer is afraid of lions, the Magician is claustrophobic, and the 2 trapeze artists are afraid of heights.  Throw in 2 romances, 5 clowns, an intelligent Pooper Scooper, along with the Snake Charmer, Fortune Teller, Tight Rope Walker, Bearded Lady and 2 private Investigators, and you have mayhem in the making!! Step into the Ring for this memorable fun with a variety of crazy circus characters to be found Under the Big Top!
 
Audition Requirements:   We are seeking the following:
·    Betsy Buckman (female) (58 lines) age range between 30 & 40.  Betsy is a run-away from her home and her boyfriend, to join the circus.  She gets excited about the littlest things.  Betsy interacts with the audience throughout the play.
·    Add: David Copperflood (male) Circus magician/escape artist who is claustrophobic (17 lines)
·    Bertha the Bearded Lady (female) – (6 lines) Long beard, plan dress
·    Slither the Snake Charmer Female – (3 lines) wears snake around her neck
·    Bring your sense of comedy and physicality with you.  Specific pages of the script will be used at the rehearsal (copies can be emailed in advance after December 10. Email not available until then.)
·    Other: those who would like to explore other areas of the Symons Valley Players (including Crew, Cast Support, Understudy/Actors in Training)
·    All must be committed to rehearsal and performance schedule
 
To Audition – Please Contact:  Brenda Watt mailto:brenda.m.watt@gmail.com
 
Rehearsal Schedule:
Phase 1: Sundays: January 12th to March 30, 6:00-9:00 pm (February 16 - No Rehearsal)
 
Phase 2:  April 6 – May 7     
April 6-9:  Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 6:00-9:0 pm
April 13-16:  Sunday at 2-5 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 6:00-9:00 pm
April 20-26: Easter Sunday – No rehearsal, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 6:00-9:00 pm
April 27-30: Sunday at 2-5 pm. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at 6:00-9:00 pm
May 4- Sunday at 2-5 pm, Monday at 6:00-9:00 pm, Tuesday May 6 (No Rehearsal) Tuesday May 7: Wednesday Dress Rehearsal/Performance for Seniors (Call at 5:30 pm)
 
Show Time: May 8-11
Thursday, Friday, Saturday (Call at 6 pm) & Sunday (Call at 1 pm)
Sunday, May 11 – 4-6 pm: All cast and crew participate in set take down
6 pm: Cast Party with Pizza
 
Brenda
Brenda Watt, Director
(403)217-1129

Casting Call: Theatre

Audition Call: Vagina Monologues  (not paid)

Author:  Eve Ensler

2025 Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival

 

Through her interviews with more than 200 women, Eve Ensler chose some of the greatest stories about vaginas to include in The Vagina Monologues. The stories range from happy, to sad, to angry, to confused, but they are all spoken in an effort to empower women and celebrate the vagina. Ensler explores many topics: sex, relationships, sexual violence, sex work, menstruation, and more, and we get to meet women from all corners of the world who have very different lives, all dealing with how to have a relationship with their vagina.

 

Audition Dates:  Monday, December 9^th, 2024 (6:00pm / 7:00pm / 8:00pm / 9:00pm)

Looking for:  5 females - Ages 25 years to 75 years old.

 

Audition Requirements:  cold read of one of the monologues from the show.  We can't provide public scripts in advance due to copyright laws.  You can find numerous sites with the monologues online (ex. https://web.mit.edu/dvp/Public/TVMScript2008.pdf)

 

Most rehearsals will be solo rehearsals with a very flexible schedule - there will be 4 mandatory group rehearsals in July.

Tech & Performance Dates:  July 30, 31 August 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9  Call time will be 5:00 PM on some nights

Venue: Burns West Theatre (Inglewood)

Performance times will be at one of the following: 6:00pm / 7:30pm / 9:00pm

Fundraiser for the What If Foundation

Director: Blair Gallant

 

For an audition time, please email WhatIfFoundation@gmail.com with your theatre resume.  Indicate you are auditioning for The Vagina Monologues and what audition dates and times you are available for.

Casting Call: Theatre

 Audition Call: The Rocky Horror Show  (Equity & Non-Equity)

Author: Richard O'Brien

2025 Calgary Fringe Theatre Festival

 

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad and Janet, stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker and a creepy butler.  Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscle man named "Rocky."  Now imagine doing a 9 person cast show... with 3 performers!!!

 

Audition Requirements: 

·      Please prepare a contemporary musical theatre song from or in the style of the show, no longer than a minute. We would like to see strong grounded choices with a clear sense of storytelling.  Please be aware that we might cut you off, and you might be asked to take direction on your song.   Please bring your backing tracks on a device that can connect via Bluetooth. 

· Please bring a copy of your headshot and resume.

·      Auditions for Rocky Horror be with 5 other auditioners - an hour long session that may include choreography.

·      Please prepare a short monologue (no longer than 2 minutes long).

·      You may be asked for a cold read from the show.

·      Selected auditioners will be requested to attend an in-person callback to read with other performers.

 

Equity Performers are welcome to audition - engaged under The Equity Festival Policy - https://www.caea.com/Theatre/Agreements-Policies.

 

Audition Dates: December 4th & 5^th, 2024 (6:00pm / 7:00pm / 8:00pm / 9:00pm) & December 8^th, 2024 (3:00pm / 4:00pm / 5:00pm)

Looking for:  One male, two females.  Ages 25 years to 45 years old.

Rehearsals:  Flexible schedule that will be built based on the cast and their availability.  Concentrated rehearsals start in the first week of July, 2025

Tech & Performance Dates:  July 30, 31 August 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9  Call time will be 5:00pm on some nights.

Venue: Burns West Theatre (Inglewood)

Performance times will be at one of the following: 6:00pm / 7:30pm / 9:00pm

Equity and non-Equity Actors will participate in the net proceeds of the show.

Director: Blair Gallant

 

For an audition time, please email WhatIfFoundation@gmail.com with your theatre resume.  Indicate you are auditioning for the Rocky Horror Picture Show and what audition dates and times you are available for.

Urgent Casting Call: TV Pilot, Non union

 Casting Call  

For the proof of concept episode of 

The Kale & Coconut 

Production: The Kale & Coconut  Union/Non-Union: Non-Union, unpaid Type: TV pilot episode (Student Capstone) Project Length: approx. 25 minutes  

Production Location: Calgary, Alberta Producer(s): Marissa Samson, Cheryl Kroeker Associate Producer: Damien Mustaphi Director: Marissa Samson 

Casting Coordinator: Marissa Samson 

Filming Location: Calgary, Alberta - Acreage near 69th station 

Compensation: Copy of the project will be provided upon completion of the project  

Logline: Wilhelm, the Indigenous owner of a health food shop supported by his four strange staff,  navigate eccentric clientele - despite a bothersome landlord - solving their problems in the most  unconventional ways. 

ROLES: 

Ricky: Male, 25 - 45, husband of Elissa and father of a 2 month old baby 

- needed for Sunday, November 10 - 10:30am to 10pm (approx.)  

    and Monday, November 11 - 10:30am to 10pm (approx.) 

Gray: Male, 20 - 30s, boyfriend of Elissa possible kissing involved, but we can shoot without. Scene is a  public store setting.  

- needed for Monday, November 11 - 10:30am to 10pm (approx.) 

MIDGU’s: (Men/Women in Dark Grey Uniforms) are Two non-speaking, but expressive roles: two  men, or two women, or man and woman… as retired spy types, using ghostbuster-style equipment. Could  be great roles for new students who want experience on set. 

Kindly submit your headshot and resume to: mcsamson@icloud.com 

Thank you for your interest!

New Roles Added: Grand Prairie Feature Film

 Union:

Non union

Area of media:

Feature Film

Network:

grandprairiecasting@gmail.com

Paid?:

Yes

Rates:

Non-union $200/day role dependent.

Deadline:

Nov 4, 2024

Shooting starts:

Jan 15, 2025 

Shooting finishes:

Feb 28, 2025 

Shooting locations:

Calgary, AB

Cities for response:

Calgary, Edmonton

Comments

Actors should not be discouraged if not available for the entire shooting period. Work days per actor will be around 5-7 days. Schedule is flexible.

The budget only allows for local Calgary and Edmonton talent. Unfortunately, production cannot cover any travel costs.

Storyline

'Grand Prairie' is a captivating visual odyssey shot on IMAX 70mm, set in Alberta, Canada. A hybrid docu-narrative, the film explores how our identity is connected to and shaped by the landscape around us. The film hypnotically moves through a diverse cast of all ages and backgrounds, each small story emblematic of a distinct tie to the land the character has. These moments poetically weave together with stunning shots of the different landscapes that personify each, to create an immersive non-linear experience.

Roles

Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Supporting	ANGELA	Female 16 - 21 Years old
Description ANGELA is in high school. She's dreamy, like from the virgin suicides. She expresses herself through dance.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Recurring Principal	EVAN	Male 14 - 18 Years old
Description 14-16. Angsty teen phase. Greasy hair. Wears a hoody and headphones. His parents don't understand him. He's lonely. He's quite popular with his friend group but can't find a way to access them, trapped in the suburbs and too young to drive a car to them. A small bubble of hatred for his family is slowly growing. He smokes weed and walks around aimlessly looking for answers.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Recurring Actor	MERLE	Male 44 - 50 Years old
Description 50s. Semi-retired. He wears a Hawaiin shirt, lei-flowers, and drinks Mai Tais completelty un-ironically. It is impossible to tan his pale Albertan skin. It only burns. He has not shaved his mustache since he first grew it at age 19. He left Grand Prairie and moved to 'the big city' of Edmonton, to start a small business with his high school sweetheart Mary Anne.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Recurring Actor	MARY ANN	Female 44 - 50 Years old
Description 50s. She has the 'mom cut'. Speaks in platitudes. She is afraid of truly being herself, living under her husband's thumb. She seeks comfort and drinks to numb her own curiosities. She has a 'life is a cabernet' painting on her kitchen mantle and genuinely loves it. She loves her son but doesn't know how to get through to him. She's a good person.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	LEANNE	Female 26 - 30 Years old
Description Leanne is open to interpretation and the ideal candidate will also audition with 2 of her own young children. Open to candidates without children as well. Leanne is a lightly humorous character--bringing physical comedy in how she and her children walk to the mall, how they dress alike.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	KELSEY	Female 16 - 18 Years old
Description Kelsey lives a short bus ride from the West Edmonton Mall and got a summer job there that turned into a full time position. She recently graduated High School and finds herself at a strange cross-roads...at a job she has no future or interest in, in a place she looks compeltely out of place. It could be interesting if Kelsey's visual makeup was in striking juxtaposition to the park. Is she a goth? Is she Gen Z (hunter schaefer euphoria makeup?). Open to striking faces and all identities. She’s quiet and introspective but carries herself with a subtle confidence. Beneath her bold exterior, there’s a sense of vulnerability, especially when she’s caught in isolating moments, like being stranded in a snowstorm after leaving the mall or when she eats alone in the food court.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	TERESA	Female 19 - 22 Years old
Description Teresa is a 19-21-year-old, petite, and classically pretty blonde. She’s flirty, often wearing revealing clothing like short leaopard print or leather skirts, even in winter, giving off a carefree, party-girl vibe. Teresa is just barely on the club scene, embracing the nightlife with shots and bottle service, but there's more going on beneath the surface. Emotionally, Teresa is going through a breakup or some personal turmoil. One night, after drinking heavily, she gets behind the wheel of her oversized vehicle, crying and singing along to Shania Twain’s “You're Still the One.” Despite the cold, she’s dressed for the club, her short skirt and clunky heels contrasting with the winter weather. She drunkenly drives home, parking crookedly in her driveway, still singing, lost in the emotional mess she’s trying to outrun. Teresa feels young, impulsive, and raw, clinging to her flirty exterior while struggling with heartbreak.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	MABLE	Female 80 - 99 Years old
Description We meet Mabel on the eve of her 100th birthday, at a retirement home on the outskirts of town. We see her shoebox of a room, filled with pictures, bird carvings; small memories of a big life and the only things she’s chosen to keep on this final stage of her life. Through Mabel we can film a beautiful portrait that is a direct reflection on growing old and looking back. As we watch her and the other residents go about their day and ultimately celebrate her birthday at a ‘concert’ with an Elvis Impersonator, we get a privileged view into old age, something almost taboo that is rarely filmed. Is Mabel lonely? How does she feel about the long life she’s lived? As she falls asleep we rest on a beautiful close-up of her face and delve into her memories and dreams of her life back in the town of Grand Prairie.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Actor	MARIA	Female 18 - 24 Years old
Description Maria is a Hutterite living in a small colony in Alberta. Her life is orderly, peaceful, and very adult. Although she lives a life of tradition and discipline, she does have frequent contact with the modern world through social media and is allowed a smartphone and computer. Maria represents a fascinating way to explore the lines between new and old, faith and chaos.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Non Speaking	EMMETT	Male 4 - 6 Years old
Description Leanne's child. Open to any casting -- the ideal candidate will audition with their mother but also open to children auditioning without their parents also auditioning for Leanne. The children are lightly humorous, bringing physical comedy in how they walk with their mother and how they dress.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Non Speaking	CHARLOTTE	Female 6 - 8 Years old
Description Leanne's child. Open to any casting -- the ideal candidate will audition with their mother but also open to children auditioning without their parents also auditioning for Leanne. The children are lightly humorous, bringing physical comedy in how they walk with their mother and how they dress.

Hungarian Actors Needed

Hello, I am artistic director of Totus Tuus Productions, a verbatim theatre company telling the stories of Calgary. We are currently working on a project about the war in Ukraine, coming out in March, and are looking for actors, readers, and dancers. Would you mind letting your adult students know that this opportunity exists? Anyone interested can email me at this address: swartfamily@shaw.ca

We are a new company with a slightly different vision about theatre: we include live music, athletics, and good story in a venue where patrons can eat, drink, and sit close to the action.


Thanks,
Laura Swart

New Play Competition

 

The 8th Annual Scripts on Fire

Stories For The New World

The world keeps spinning and stories keep brewing. 

Stories coming from fresh pain and deep joy. 

Stories that bind us together through the familiar and stories that create empathy through the unfamiliar.

We want to know what stories are almost ready to make their appearance in the world.

And we want to support their next steps.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR SCRIPTS ON FIRE - OCT. 31ST.

FIRST PRIZE - $500, WORKSHOP, AND STAGED READING

WWW.SCRIPTSONFIRE.CA

VAL LIESKE
Artistic Director
www.fireexit.ca