Austin Shakespeare Season auditions begin

Please prepare a 1-2 minute piece that relates to the season. Speeches should be memorized or read with familiarity. Using text from the scripts under consideration is welcome. Auditioners should familiarize themselves with the play(s). All races and ethniticies are encouraged.Video submissions welcome by email. Send to auditions@austinshakespeare.org.

2018-19 productions:

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (Oct. 16-Dec 2)

Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard (Jan. 15-March 3)

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (Free Shakespeare in Zilker Park)  April 9-May 26

CAT Characters: Brick, (age 30’s) Big Mama, (age 50’s-60’s) Gooper, (30’s-40’s) Mae, (20s-30’s) Doctor Braugh, (40’s-50’s)Rev Tooker, (40-60’s)

Already cast: Maggie, and Big Daddy

Five children ages 8-13 will be auditioned separately but those interested can submit headshots now.

For Indian Ink especially interested in Indian. And South Asian actors of Indian decent.Flora Crewe (age30’s-40’s) poet, Nirad Das (age 30’s-40′s) painter, Eldon Pike (age 30’s-40’s) scholar; Coomaraswami (age 30-60’s) host, Nazrul (age 20-50’s) servant, Anish Das (age 20’s-40’s) son of Nirad, David Durance (age 30’s) British military, Dilip  (any age) servant, Rajah. Indian and British accents are a must depending on character.

Already cast ‘Eleanor Swan’,  ‘Nirad Das

The Merchant of Venice

Shylock (age 50’s-60’s) Portia (age 20’s-30’s) Bassanio (age 20’s-30’s), Prince of Aragon (age 20’s-30’s), Prince of Morocco (age 20’s-30’s), Duke (age 40’s3-60’s) Antonio (age 20’s-40’s) Gratiano (age 20’s-40’s), Salerio (age 30s-40’s), Lorenzo (age 20’s), Jessica (age 20’s), Tubal, Lancelot Gobbo, Old Gobbo, Narissa, A singer