SEASON 42 AUDITIONS

 

The Gamm will hold IN-PERSON auditions for its 42nd season as follows:

Equity Principal Auditions will be held on Monday, May 11 and Saturday May 16 from 10am-1pm & 1:30pm – 5:30pm. Auditions will take place at The Gamm Theatre, 1245 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick, RI. Members of AEA will be given appointments for audition times. Any AEA member without an appointment will be seen first off the waiting list. Non-AEA performers can request appointments and will be given times as available. 

 

Important note: At this time, No video (digital) submissions will be accepted. 

 

The Gamm is looking to cast roles in the following plays of the 2026-27 Season, which starts performances in September and runs through May. The Gamm affirms its commitment to a policy of equal employment opportunity. Character descriptions below are drawn primarily from the plays themselves. The available roles are:

 

The Smuggler by Ronan Noone, director TBD

Rehearsals begin September 1, 2026. Runs September 17 -October 11, 2026

Tim Finnegan – Late 20s-40ish, Irish-born male, living in America. A citizen. Entertainer, manipulator.

Note: The Smuggler is a one-man show written entirely in rhyme.

 

A View From the Bridge by Arhtur Miller, director TBD
Rehearsals begin December October 7, 2026. Runs November 5-29, 2026

 

Alfieri – A lawyer in his 50s, good humored and thoughtful.

Eddie Carbone – 40s–50s, tough, a longshoreman.

Catherine –  Eddie’s niece, early 20s. Exuberant. Full of life. Magnetic.

Beatrice – Eddie’s wife, 40s–50s. Wife and Mother, the glue holding it all together.

Marco –  Early 30s. Newly arrived immigrant from Italy. A “square built peasant, suspicious, tender and quiet voiced.”

Rodolpho – Marco’s younger brother. Blonde. A singer.

Louis & Mike – Longshoreman. Neighbors of the Carbones.

Mr. & Mrs. Lipari – Midde-aged. Neighbors. 

 

It’s A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play adapted by Joe Landry, directed by Damon Kiely

Rehearsals begin December 1, 2026. Runs December 11– 27, 2026 

All performers must play multiple characters. Vocal virtuosity is a must.

 

George Bailey – 30s–40s – Plays George at a variety of ages, 12-40s. Everyman, dreamer.

Mary Bailey – Eventually George’s wife, a fixer and romantic. 

Potter – 60s. A tyrant, mogul and misanthrope.

Clarence – A guardian angel. From another time. Sweet. Irrepressible.

Violet – Friend of George’s. Yearns for a bigger life. Funny, Sassy.

Joseph Bailey – George’s father. Stalwart. A rock.

Various other characters, townspeople, etc.

 

The English Understand Wool adapted for the stage by Tony Estella from the novella by Helen DeWitt, director TBD

Rehearsals begin Dec. 15, 2026. Runs Jan. 14 – Februrary 7, 2027

 

Marguerite – The most mature 17-year-old in the world. Impossibly sophisticated. Cosmopolitan. Brilliant.  

Maman – A woman of a certain but indeterminate age. Her daughter’s mother. On the surface, a moneyed globetrotting, aesthete. 

Man – Plays a variety of characters, Marguerite’s father, her agent and lawyer, a detective, etc. Must be versatile and virtuosic. 40s-50s.

Woman – As above. Plays Marguerite’s editor, a seamstress, and various and sundry other characters. 

 

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard, director TBD

Rehearsals begin February 9, 2027. Runs March 11- April 4, 2027

 

Rosencrantz – 20-30s. Hamlet’s erstwhile school friend.

Guildenstern – 20s-30s, as above. 

The Player – 40s. An  itinerant, exuberant, down at the heels, virtuosic, travelling actor who heads a company of players scraping by on the road.

The Company: Several actors of various ages. Singers, dancers, clowns. Vagabonds. Desperate. Entertainers! Special skills a plus.

Characters from Hamlet: Gertrude, Polonius, Hamlet, Claudius, Ophelia, etc. These roles in many cases will be doubled with members of The Company.

 

Sonia Flew by Melinda Lopez, director TBD

Rehearsals begin April 6, 2027. Runs April 29- May 23, 2027

The play takes place in two time periods. Minneapolis in the early 2000s and Cuba in the early 1960s. Each role is double cast.

 

Sonia – 50s, mother. Born in Cuba, she emigrated to the USA as a teenager. Also plays Marta, 60s a housekeeper in 1960s Cuba.

Daniel – 50s father, Sonia’s husband. Jewish. Also plays Tito, a neighbor in 1960s Cuba.

Zak – 19, Sonia and Daniel’s son, idealistic. Also Plays Jose, 19, a young man in 1960’s Cuba.

Jen — 17, Sonia and Daniel’s daughter, also plays Young Sonia (her mother) at age 15 in 1960s Cuba.

Sam – 70s, Daniel’s father and grandfather to Zak and Jen. Also plays Orfeo, 50s Sonia’s father in 1960s Cuba.

Nina — 28, a soldier in Zak’s company. Also plays Pilar, 35, Sonia’s mother in 1960s Cuba.

 

Each performer will be allotted a minimum of 3 minutes and a maximum of 5 minutes. We ask that all performers prepare ONE monologue of their choice that fit within the allotted time frame. We expect to be filled throughout the audition days so please time your auditions properly. 

 

Only AEA members may choose to read from a script. The Gamm will provide a reader. Those AEA members who wish to read a side are encouraged to prepare their own and either bring a copy for the reader or let us know the scene/page numbers upon check–in so we may be prepared to assist you. 

 

Callbacks for individual plays are TBD.

 

Please also provide a hard copy of your headshot/resume at the time of your audition. Copies of the play will be available at the auditions.

 

For an appointment, email auditions@gammtheatre.org. In your email, please offer a 2-hour time block on one of the days. We will reply with a specific appointment time slot or waiting list time block. EMAIL IS PREFERRED. If you do not have email, please call 401-723-4266 x152. 

 

The Gamm Theatre is a family-friendly organization and recognizes that parental needs such as childcare, space for caregivers, or lactation/pumping privacy during auditions can create access to employment opportunities. If you are a parent who needs support in these areas, please contact jess@gammtheatre.org so we may evaluate our resources and take supportive measures for the most audition appointments possible. 

 

Interested stage managers may send a resume to jess@gammtheatre.org. 

 

Artistic Director Tony Estrella and Associate AD Rachel Walshe will be attending all auditions. Current weekly salary for Equity actors is $789. Minimum weekly salary for Equity stage managers is $946.

 

ABOUT THE GAMM THEATRE

Founded in 1984 as Alias Stage, the non-profit Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre creates the finest of live theater, engaging the audience intensely in current and recurrent issues of consequence. The Gamm further serves the public with educational outreach programming designed to support the theatrical experience, and help sustain and enhance the intellectual and cultural life of its community. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Tony Estrella and Executive Director Jason Cabral, The Gamm is a regionally recognized, award-winning theater and a proud member of New England Area Theatre (NEAT), a bargaining unit of the Actors’ Equity Association.