Auditions

AUDITION NOTICE FOR SUMMER ONE-ACT BONANZA 2026 

Audition Date:  Saturday, April 18^th, @ 10am – 12 pm
Location:  Old Academy Players, 3544 Indian Queen Lane, Philadelphia PA 19129

Show Dates:  July 10^th, 11^th, 12^th, 17^th, 18^th, 19^th 
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 2:00 p.m.

• Come join us for the fun of the One-Acts! We are seeking a large company of diverse actors. Old Academy Players is a non-profit theater organization and all actors and staff are volunteers.
• Auditions will be readings from the scripts. We encourage you to read the scripts posted below for each One Act.
• On the day of the audition, be prepared to choose your first-choice role as you will only read once at the audition.  We will hear actors in order of arrival.
• Complete our Audition form [https://oldacademyplayers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/OAP-Forms-for-web_Audition-Form.pdf] and bring to auditions along with your Headshot and resume.
• Each director will set their own schedule in collaboration with their cast, starting in May and running through July 9^th with an average two rehearsals per week.
• Actors will need to be fully available the first two weeks of July, with the exception of July 4^th, as we put the whole show together. Actors must attend the first reading/rehearse scheduling on May 2^nd.
• All actors will be required to assist with set-building Sun., June 28^th and strike on Sun., July 19^th.
• In addition, actors are required to assist the hospitality committee with one performance of Driving Miss Daisy (June 12^th — June 28^th).
• Questions? Email the producers Sarah Labov sjl56@yahoo.com or Nancy Frick ryterzbloc@msn.com. 

Plays and Roles:

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Crowbar by Sara Freedman
READ PLAY

Synopsis: A discussion of crows (of all things) leads to an unexpected intergenerational connection.
Director: Doug Tague

Roles:
RILEY, 19 years old, a college student, home for Thanksgiving
BILL, 70s-80s, lives down the street
JO, 50s, Riley’s mother

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Unboxed by Jean Ciampi
READ PLAY

Synopsis:  Struggling writer Willa is taunted as her failed or abandoned “projects” come to life.
Director: Rachel Dalton

Roles:
WILLA, female, any age, struggling to break free from old ideas and decisions to find confidence in her work as a writer
CHLOE, female, under 35, an attractive young French woman from post-WWII Paris. She is a character in one of Willa’s stories
MARK, male, any age, a somewhat unlikeable villain in a story idea discarded by Willa. He is a little bitter about it
HANNAH, female, any age, Willa’s therapist

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Leo/Lisa by Kathy Passero
READ PLAY

Synopsis: Leonardo da Vinci’s studio in Renaissance Florence. Lisa arrives for her portrait!
Directors: Joan and Randy Shupp 

Roles:
LEO, Leonardo Da Vinci, late 40s(ish)
LISA, Lisa del Giocondo, young twenties(ish)

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Hello by Dana Leslie Goldstein
READ PLAY

Synopsis: Tina visits her parents who live separately at an adult living community and are jealous of the time she spends with each.
Director: Haley Dunning

Roles:
TINA, 20’s‑30’s, a dutiful daughter, any ethnicity
LORETTA, 60’s‑70’s, her mother, in very good shape and proud of it, any ethnicity
HERMAN, 60’s‑70’s, her father, in less good shape, gruff, any ethnicity

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Shut Up and Listen by Jerry Jennings
READ PLAY

Synopsis: Failing new intern counselor begs the boss for guidance in a last attempt to keep his job.
Director: Jerry Jennings

Roles:
SANDY, (over 30)
REX, (mid- to late 20s)

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Game Night by Maria Riillo
READ PLAY

Synopsis: A family gathers for a night of charades – and one very surprising clue.
Director: Kim Hess

Roles:
GRANDMA KERRY, 70, means well, doesn’t always come across that way. In fact, she probably doesn’t mean well. Likes to create chaos.
RICHIE, 48, Kate’s husband and Connor and Sammie’s dad. Just trying to survive Grandma Kerry.
KATE, 44, Grandma Kerry’s daughter, Richie’s wife and Connor and Sammie’s mom. Loves her family. Loves game night even more.
CONNOR, 22, youngest member of the family, younger sibling of Sammie.
SAMMIE, 25, oldest daughter. Enough said.
FRANCESCA, 26, Sammie’s new partner, trying to make a good impression. Also trying to survive Grandma Kerry.

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Cue by Kate Danley
READ PLAY

Synopsis: Actors John and Mary are in the middle of a romantic scene but have to scramble when their scene partner keeps missing his cue.
Director: Marc Johnson

Roles:
MARY, 30+, an actress playing a woman having a torrid love affair
JOHN, 30+, an actor playing a man having a torrid love affair
TOM, 30+, a dramatic actor playing a jealous husband

Audition Notice — The Women

Old Academy Players is pleased to announce the audition date for its 2026 production of The Women with book and lyrics by Clare Boothe Luce. The Women will be performed at the Old Academy Players theater located at 3544 Indian Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA from September 18-October 4, 2026. The show is directed by Loretta Lucy Miller.

Audition Dates & Times: Monday, April 27 6:30–8:00PM & Tuesday, April 28, 2026 6:30–8:00PM

*All roles are non-union, non-paying*
Please read all information carefully

Location of Auditions: Old Academy Players located at 3544 Indian Queen Lane, Philadelphia, PA. There is free parking onsite, located behind the theater.

Note: Auditions will be seen on a first come-first seen basis.

Audition Requirements:

• Bring an UP TO DATE headshot
• Bring your theatrical resume
• Bring a completed OAP audition form
• You will be given a short monologue to read with different emotions
• You will be asked to perform a one-minute improv

Rehearsals: All rehearsals will take place onsite at Old Academy Players. Rehearsals will two to three weekdays and some weekends. The rehearsal schedule will be provided at the audition. Please write down your conflicts and write on, or attach to your audition form. 

Performance Dates: September: 18^th, 19^th, 20^th, 25^th, 26^th, 27^th; October: 2^nd, 3^rd, 4^th, 2026 (Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 p.m., Sundays at 2:00 p.m.)

Note: Additional performances may be added

Play Information: This brilliant play has assumed the status of a modern classic. Clare Boothe Luce’s social satire The Women was a smash hit when first performed on Broadway in 1936 and has enjoyed several revival productions during the 1970s and 1990s. A large cast of women (no male characters at all), it is set in the world of high society wives in New York City during the height of the Great Depression – an immensely entertaining panorama of our modern metropolitan world from the feminine viewpoint. The author carries us through a number of varied scenes – and digging under the surface, reveals a human understanding for, and sympathy with, some of its outstanding figures.

The plot involves the efforts of a group of women to play their respective roles in an artificial society that consists of vain show, comedy, tragedy, hope and disappointment. Mary Haines, the protagonist, learns from a gossipy manicurist that her husband, Stephen, is having an affair with a shop-girl named Crystal. After the news of Stephen’s affair is published in a gossip column, Mary decides to divorce him. To obtain her divorce, she travels to Reno, Nevada, where liberal divorce laws attracted many society women wishing to downplay any potential for scandal. While she is in Reno, Mary learns that Stephen has married Crystal. Two years later, Mary, now living back in New York with her children, learns that Crystal has been unfaithful to Stephen. With the help of her friends, Mary sets out to expose Crystal’s infidelity in order to win Stephen back.

Note: The story takes place in NYC society circles in the 1930s, and there are approximately 10 — 20 roles available – all for women between 20s and 60’s (and one girl of about 10–11) – depending on doubling and/or combining some smaller roles. Along with the principals listed below, there is a small army of hairdressers, beauticians, saleswomen, fitters, dress models, domestics, etc. which can be doubled/tripled in some cases… but please do not think of these roles as negligible, as in many cases THEY are the ones who drive the story along by-passing gossip and compromising information – and their dialogue is often just as crackling as that of the principals.

Characters:
*All roles are non-union, non-paying* 

Mary (Mrs. Stephen Haines), the “heroine,” as nice and as sweet as can be – she does not buy into the cattiness (and in some cases maliciousness) of her “friends,” and is very reluctant to believe that her husband is cheating on her… which it turns out he is.

Peggy (Mrs. John Day): pretty, sweet, a young married, insecure. Almost immediately has marital problems because she has money and her husband has not.

Nancy (Miss Blake): The one unmarried member of Mary’s immediate circle. Sharp but not acid, sleek, worldly and yet virginal.

Sylvia (Mrs. Howard Fowler):  Glassy, elegant, feline.” As catty as they come; purports to be Mary’s closest friend, but is not above causing her tumult and hurt through her gossip, innuendo and “advice.” Cheats on her husband, whom she believes to be impotent (which he’s not…).

Edith (Mrs. Phelps Potter): “A sloppy, expensively dressed (currently by Lane Bryant) ‘matron’ Indifferent to everything but self, Edith is incapable of either deliberate maliciousness or spontaneous generosity.”

Crystal Allen: Stephen Haines’ mistress – the classic, cold, calculating, gold-digging, beautiful, sexy, younger “other woman” – a shopgirl-turned-society woman after snatching Stephen; one pretty nasty woman.

Miriam Aarons (first appears as “Mud Mask”): a Broadway starlet and (as it turns out) mistress to one of the husbands.

Countess de Lage: “An amiable, silly, heiress type older woman.

Mary’s mother who has quietly seen and dealt with marital trouble herself – to Mary’s surprise; advises Mary based on her own experience

“Little Mary” (Mary’s daughter, 11)

Jane (Irish-American), Ingrid and Sadie – domestics in the Haines household

Roles that can be doubled/tripled include Princess Tamara, a dress model; an exercise instructress; Stephen’s secretary (also secretly in love with him); and numerous dress fitters, models, beauticians, hairdressers, saleswomen and society women.

Contact: Director, Loretta Lucy Miller (lorettalucy@yahoo.com)