Equity Principal Auditions

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.

Yale Rep is committed to an inclusive casting policy and encourages all actors to audition regardless of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. Please refer to the character breakdown and description of roles below.

Yale Repertory Theatre 2025-26 Season – Yale Repertory Theatre

AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 23, 2025

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM (E)

BREAK: 1:00PM – 2:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please email your request to
YaleRepEPA@gmail.com with LOCAL EPA YRT in the subject line.

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$839 weekly minimum (LORT D) – Paid at $1450 weekly

+ Pension and Health.

Housing in New Haven and economy travel is provided for actors outside a 50-mile radius from New Haven, CT

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles and understudy roles in Yale Repertory Theatre’s 2025-26 Season (see breakdown).

All roles at Yale Rep are understudied. All rehearsals take place in New Haven, CT.

Yale Rep is committed to an inclusive casting policy and encourages all actors to audition regardless of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. Please refer to character breakdown and descriptions for more details. Accommodations are welcome for persons with access needs, please contact YaleRepEPA@gmail.com.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 2-3 minute contemporary or classical monologue, your choice; preference for heightened or poetic language; material either by a Yale Rep commissioned writer or from a writer in any Yale Rep season very much appreciated. This information can be found on the Yale Rep website: https://yalerep.org/2025-26-season/

Please email your headshot & resume with your appointment request.

LOCATION

Center for Collaborative Arts and Media 149 York St.
David Geffen School of Drama
New Haven, CT 06510
Rehearsal Room Studio Room 109, holding/warm up

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: James Bundy
Associate Artistic Director: Chantal Rodriguez Senior Artistic Producer: Amy Boratko
Associate Producer: Kay Perdue Meadows Artistic Coordinators: Mithra Seyedi and Andrew Aaron Valdez

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Associate Producer, Yale Repertory Theatre, Kay Perdue Meadows
Artistic Coordinator, Yale Repertory Theatre, Mithra Seyedi
Artistic Coordinator, Yale Repertory Theatre, Andrew Aaron Valdez

A NYC EPA will be held on June 20 & June 25 with the theatre’s NYC casting office, Calleri Jensen Davis.
Actors’ Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

YALE REPERTORY THEATRE 2025-2026 SEASON

HEDDA GABLER

By Henrik Ibsen

Translated from Norwegian by Paul Walsh

Directed by James Bundy

November 28—December 20

Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

First Rehearsal: October 14

First Tech Rehearsal:November 10

Previews: November 28, 29, December 1, 2, 3

Opening: December 4

Closing: December 20

SYNOPSIS: Freshly arrived from her honeymoon to her elegant, new-purchased villa, Hedda Tesman (née Gabler) wasn’t born and raised for a life of contented domesticity. When a former lover returns to town, her husband’s academic career and finances suddenly hang in the balance, along with her social standing. A propulsive, fiery, and often funny meditation on romantic dreams and bourgeois ambitions, Hedda Gabler is the portrait of a woman who will stop at nothing to gain control over her own destiny.

SEEKING:

Open to all races.

Hedda Gabler

Female, late 20s, newly married to Jørgen Tesman. Enjoys a collection of firearms and practices shooting. New home owner and recently returned from a long honeymoon.

This role has been cast.

Jørgen Tesman

Male, 30s. Newly married to Hedda. A scholar. Bought a new home for his wife on borrowed money on the promise of an academic position that has not yet been secured. Raised by and devoted to his aunts.

This role has been cast. 

Eilert Løvborg

Male, 30s. Shares a romantic past with Hedda. A writer and intellectual whose scholarship exceeds Tesman’s. History of debauchery and alcoholism, hoping to start a new life.

This role has been cast.

Thea Elvsted

Female, 20s. A former school friend of Hedda, who left an unhappy marriage to follow Løvborg south and continue her collaboration with him.

Judge Brack

Male, 30s. A family friend of the Tesmans and a local magistrate. Sophisticated intriguer.

This role has been cast

Aunt Julle

Female, 50-60s. Jørgen Tesman’s aunt. Devoted to Tesman since his youth.

Berte and Berte-understudy

Female, 60+. Tesman household maid of long standing, moving from Aunt Julle’s to Jørgen’s home. Fear, joy, anger, every expression of every feeling in human existence is 1000%.

RHINOCEROS

By Eugene Ionesco

Translated by Derek Prouse

Adapted by Frank Galati

Directed by Liz Diamond

March 6-28, 2026

Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

First Rehearsal: January 20

First Tech Rehearsal: February 27

Previews: March 6, 7, 9, 10, 11

Opening: March 12

Closing: March 28

SYNOPSIS: An ordinary Sunday in a small French town. Berenger and his friend enjoy a drink on a café terrace. Suddenly a rhinoceros charges across the square, crushing everything in its path. A drunken dream… or…? As neighbors and friends begin sprouting hides and horns, the shy, shambolic Berenger must make a choice: take a stand against––or join–– the rampaging herd. Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros is his tragicomic cri de cœur, imploring each of us to resist the call to fall in line.

SEEKING:

NOTE: The whole cast of the production will work as an ensemble with the Director and Choreographer to portray the impact of stampeding rhinos on a crowd of pedestrians or café customers. Especially seeking actors of all body types comfortable learning some moderately athletic movement choreography, which may include runs, leaps, tumbles, falls, rolls, somersaults etc.

BERENGER: (50-60) a shambolic man in late middle age, who suffers from a vague un-nameable anguish. He drifts along in a mild alcoholic haze, wondering if he actually exists, avoiding work and dreaming of life with the charming young Daisy. When the town is overrun by rhinoceroses and his friends have joined the herd, Berenger is suddenly aroused from his lethargy to stand alone.

GENE: (50-60) Berenger’s friend, a meticulously dressed man with a smattering of culture and a great fondness for the sound of his own voice. Fond of Berenger in a condescending way, Gene seizes every opportunity to improve his friend’s attitude and behavior. Genial, self-centered, pedantic. At first incredulous at the arrival of the rhinos in town, Gene eventually joins their ranks, transforming, right before Berenger’s eyes and ours, into a snorting, charging rhino.

DAISY: (20s) A charming young office assistant, who pities Berenger for his haplessness and covers for him when he makes mistakes. She is clever, practical, and direct, always ready to give people the benefit of the doubt, even when they seem to be shedding their humanity for the raw animal power of life as a rhinoceros.

BOTARD: (40s) an inexhaustible blowhard with the obtuse stubbornness of a full-grown rhino. A fatuous petty bureaucrat whose slender command of facts has never shaken his conviction that his views are invariably correct.

DUDARD: (30s) a bright, ambitious young man with a law degree who works in the office with Berenger, Daisy, and Botard. Honest and diligent. Believes facts exist and stoutly sticks to them even when ridiculed. Resists the pull of the rhinoceroses, but eventually joins them, believing it wiser to “criticize the movement from within.”

PAPILLON/CAFÉ OWNER: (50s) Papillion is the boss at Berenger’s office. He’s been there forever, and struggles to keep his office staff in line. He never undertakes a task himself when he can order a subordinate to do it for him. Enjoys exercising his little power and authority. The Café Owner lords his authority over the Waiter with the zeal of a tyrant, but treats his customers with avuncular charm. Hale, hearty, proud of his establishment.

WAITER: (20s) aka Marcel. Still an apprentice, he has not quite learned the art of balancing a tray, but he’s already good at ignoring customers.

HOUSEWIFE: (40s-50s) A prosperous, respectable matron with a cat into whom she pours all her maternal love. When her cat is crushed by the first stampeding rhino, she is operatic in her grief.

MRS BOEUF: (40s – 50s) stout and surprisingly light on her feet. Passionately devoted to her husband, stopping at nothing to save him when he metamorphoses into a raging rhinoceros. She eventually leaps down a stairwell to remain with him, even as he rampages on.

TOWNSPEOPLE: (Number and age range TBD) Ordinary citizens of an ordinary small town somewhere in France.

FURLOUGH’s PARADISE

By a.k. payne

Directed by abigail jean-baptise

April 24–May 16, 2026

Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

First rehearsal: March 10

First tech: April 17

Previews: April 24, 25, 27, 28, 29

Opening: April 30

Closing: May 16

SYNOPSIS: There’s been a drought on their childhood’s road and two cousins come home dry-eyed and grieving. Sade, on a three-day furlough from prison. Mina, departing a strangely idyllic west coast. As all time ticks towards the correctional officer’s arrival, these two wrestle with all they have never said, with the fallibility of memory itself, and with visions of a future they are bound to create. Winner of the prestigious 2025 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a.k. payne’s Furlough’s Paradise is a lyrical meditation on grief, home, kinship, and a utopia yet to be realized.

SEEKING:

NOTE: This play is curious about how Black girlhood can intersect with many expressions of gender. These actors may identify as non-binary/genderqueer and/or as Black women; these actors also may just be themselves, i.e., these actors may refuse to subscribe to any label about their body and instead may simply wish to breathe with the deep awareness of gender as an infinite spectrum & English as a colonized tongue’s first prison. We hope to cast artists who see themselves and their communities in this play.

MINA: Whose name means ‘love,’ an only child, a cousin, 20s-30s, shaped in childhood by Y2K,  moves with the illusion of having everything under control, radical—grasping things at the root, the responsible one, has forgotten the sound of her own laugh, feels where she’s been under her skin; has learned to bury, edit and suppress, a visionary and listener who cares deeply for her people, cool serious exterior/mask beyond Dayton Road—those who know her know better, a fighter when needed but would much rather fly

SADE: Whose name means ‘honor earns a crown’ or ‘rain,’ Mina calls her ‘de,’ an only child, a cousin, 20s-30s, shaped in childhood by Y2K, quick-wit, infinite sense of humor and self, cares deeply for her communities, a dreamer, logical and calculating, has a very clear map to freedom, seemingly unshakable & infinitely tender, rocked in instances of injustice, feels where she’s been with every breath, has learned to be very loud when she can, unyielding in conflict, can be sharp/caustic when someone comes for her heart.