Portland Stage Company 2025-26 Season – Portland, ME EPA Position Available In Cumberland, Maine

PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY 2025-26 SEASON

•PORTLAND, ME EPA (06.09.25) & (06.10.25)

CATEGORY

PERFORMER
Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
JOB DETAILS
DESCRIPTION

Notice:

Audition Call Type:

EPA
AUDITION DATE
Monday, June 9, 2025
10:30 AM•7:30 PM (E)
AND
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
10:30 AM•7:30 PM (E)

BREAKS 1

30PM•3:30PM
APPOINTMENTS
AUDITIONS

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

auditionsportlandstage
Jenn London || 207 774-1043 ext 107, M-F
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
$799 weekly minimum (LORT D•Protected)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Portland Stage Company’s 2025•2026 season (see breakdown).
No roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a short monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Portland Stage Company
25A Forest Ave
Portland, ME 04101-5809
PERSONNEL
Dirty Deeds Downeast
by

Brent Askari Dir:

Lisa DiFranza
Lend Me A Tenor
by

Ken Ludwig Dir:

Kevin R. Free
2026 Clauder Winner TBA
by

TBA Dir:

TBD
Our Town
by

Thornton Wilder Dir:

Todd Brian Backus
The Laugh Track
by

Wendy MacLeod Dir:

Christopher Grabowski

EXPECTED TO ATTEND

Anita Stewart•Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

Dirty Deeds Downeast
1st

Rehearsal:

10/7/25

Opening:

10/31/25

Closing:

10/13/2024
Lend Me A Tenor
1st

Rehearsal:

1/6/26

Opening:

1/30/26

Closing:

2/22/26
2026 Clauder Winner TBA
1st

Rehearsal:

2/10/26

Opening:

3/6/26

Closing:

3/22/26
Our Town
1st

Rehearsal:

3/10/26

Opening:

4/3/26
Closing 4/26/26
The Laugh Track
1st

Rehearsal:

4/14/26

Opening:

5/8/26

Closing:

5/31/26
OTHER
portlandstage
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity ismitted 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

PORTLAND

STAGE COMPANY 2025

•2026 SEASON

SEEKING:

Dirty Deeds Downeast

SYNOPSIS

A fast and looseedy about those who take care of their own. Part Hot Fuzz and part Murder She Wrote, Askari’s play examines the underbelly of life on an island in Maine. As the summer season approaches, Gerrard is warned by the locals that his investigation might not be “good for business,” and he’ll have to choose to stick to his guns or fold.

GERRARD:

30s-early 40s. Male. A small town cop in a place w nothing much happens.

BETTY:

30s. Female. Waitress at Nadeau’s Diner. Pretty. Opinionated.

WOMAN:

50s-60s. Female. Plays MARGIE, Gerard’s mother and EDITH, the owner and chairman of Blake Wholesalers.

MAN:

40s-60s. Male. Plays LOUIS the local landscaper and suitor of Margie, DICK the owner of the marina, and COLE a lobsterman with a claw hand.
Lend Me A Tenor

SYNOPSIS

An evening of hijinks, mistaken identity, and chance encounters. Following the belated arrival of Il Stupendo, Max does his best to keep the star calm, and makes sure he gets the rest he needs. Unfortunately, after giving Stupendo a double dose of his sleeping pills, Max needs to don Pagliacci, the clown’s, makeup to do the show, but can he sing as well as the greatest tenor of the generation? After the show multiple women want to sleep with Il Stupendo, but when Max finds a body missing, will he his career? Or his relationship?

MAX:

Late 20s-30s. Male. Assistant to Saunders, Opera lover. Will sing in the play.

MAGGIE:

Late 20s-30s. Female. Max’s girlfriend, who has a thing for tenors.

SAUNDERS

40s-50s. Male. Maggie’s father. Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company.

TITO MERELLI

30s-50s. Male. A world-famous tenor, known by his fans as “Il Stupendo”. Will sing in the play.

MARIA:

30s.50s. Female. Tito’s wife, not always a fan of Il Stupendo.

BELLHOP:

20s-40s. A bellhop, and fan of Il Stupendo. Will sing in the play.

DIANA:

20s-30s. Female. A soprano looking to get ahead.

JULIA:

50s-60s. Female. Chairwoman of the Opera Guild.
2026 CLAUDER WINNERS•TBA
Intimate Surveillance
by Catherine Stewart

SYNOPSIS

Tech entrepreneur Mina Azimi expects to control the narrative when she sits down with veteran journalist David Mendez. But he isn’t for a puff piece—he’s to confront her with a troubling question: Who can you trust when technology bes part of our intimate lives?

MINA AMIZ / VOILA

Mid 20s, Female, mid-twenties, Iranian-American disgraced tech mogul. Also voices VOILA, virtual assistant technology with a speech synthesizer

DAVID MENDEZ

Late 50s+, Male. Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist.
Like Flies
by Maggie Kearnan

SYNOPSIS

When a mysterious new midwifees to town, a group of women think she might have solutions for more than just childbirth. She might also have something to remedy an epidemic of cruel men. New alliances are formed and each woman wonders who she can trust in this thrilling new play.

EDNA INGRAM

40s•50s. Female. A professionally trained midwife. Religious, patient, calculated.

MEG DOOLEY / WOMAN 1

late 20s•early 40s. Female. A midwife, self-certain, natural leader.

RETTA LONGWOOD / WOMAN 2

30s. Female. Brass, boisterous, and strong. A bit ofic relief.

POLLY PLATT / WOMAN 3

20s. Female. Soft, sweet, and curious. Loves her husband.

LENNY RUTLEDGE / WOMAN 4

18+ to play 16. Female. Ruthless, but longing. Runs for fun. Speaks boldly through a speech impediment.

JULIA WINSHIP/ WOMAN 5

20s•30s. Female. Quiet, reluctant, and loving. A reader. Wants peace and safety. Loves Vee Malcolm.

VEE MALCOLM/ WOMAN 6

20s•30s. Female. Sarcastic, impatient, but earnest. Craves adventure. Loves Julia Winship.
Mere Waters
by Jillian Blevins

SYNOPSIS

Gynecologist Gisella Perl arrives at a concentration camp and is assigned to work as the camp doctor. She has no tools, no antiseptic, and no water. Despite all this, Gisella works to survive the camp guided by two bickering biblical prophetesses.

DOCTOR GISELLA PERL

37. Female. A Hungarian Jew and a doctor of gynecology. Prisoner no. 25404. (Pronounced “GEE-zull-uh”)

THE GUARD

19, Female. Blonde, blue eyed, and beautiful. Mouthpiece for Doctor M. She is always smiling.

THE WOMAN

20s-30s. Female. Every prisoner. Every patient. Every woman. Sometimes appears as Gisella’s daughter GABBY.

ABIGAIL:

30s-50s. Ageless. Female.

PROPHETESS

known for guiding others toward righteousness. Measured. Biblical, but also a Jewish tante (auntie).

HANNAH:

40s-50s. Ageless. Female.

PROPHETESS

tested by God through her infertility. Defiant. Biblical, but also a Jewish tante.
SALARY
LORT Non-Rep $799 weekly minimum (LORT D•Protected)
UNION
AEA