Remy Bumppo Season 25/26 EPAs

Remy Bumppo Equity Principal Auditions are here!

3/28/20253 min read

SHOW #1

Director TBA

AUDITION DATE: Tuesday, April 8, 2025 @ 10am - 6pm (lunch 1pm-2pm)

CONTRACT: CAT Tier 2/$450 weekly

SEEKING: Equity actors for roles in Remy Bumppo Theatre Company's SHOW #1 2025/26 Season

Remy Bumppo Theatre is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All submissions will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.

Actors who are contracted for any role may be asked to change their hair for the production.

Remy Bumppo Theatre is currently unable to offer housing to out-of-town actors.

ROLE A: Woman, Persian, 20-35, sort of mean

ROLE B: Woman, Persian, 20-25, the peacemaker

ROLE C: Woman, Persian, 20-25, happy-go-lucky

ROLE D: Woman, Persian, 20-25, a little uptight

ROLE E: Woman, Persian, 20-25, the queen of cool

LOCATION: Remy Bumppo - Rehearsal Space, 1751 W. Grace Street, Chicago, IL 60613

Enter through door labeled 1749 on Grace Street.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND: Adelina Feldman-Schultz, Casting Director & Christina Casano, Creative Producer

PREPARATION: Please prepare 2 contrasting 1-minute monologues. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. After signing up for an audition appointment, please fill out the form at the following link: https://bit.ly/RB_2526_EPAs. If you are unable to attend the in-person auditions, video submissions will also be accepted.

OTHER DATES:

First rehearsal: week of 8/18/25

Tech start: week of 9/8/25

Previews: 9/18-21/25

Opening: 9/22/25

Closing: 10/19/25

OTHER:

https://www.remybumppo.org/

To promote the health and safety of all participants, Remy Bumppo Theatre highly encourages vaccination, though does not currently require it.

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity Monitor will be provided.

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.

SHOW #2

Directed by Marti Lyons

AUDITION DATE: Wednesday, April 9, 2025 @ 10am - 6pm (lunch 1pm-2pm)

CONTRACT: CAT Tier 2/$450 weekly

SEEKING: Equity actors for roles in Remy Bumppo Theatre Company's SHOW #2 2025/26 Season

Remy Bumppo Theatre is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All submissions will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.

Actors who are contracted for any role may be asked to change their hair for the production.

Remy Bumppo Theatre is currently unable to offer housing to out-of-town actors.

ROLE A, (CAST, seeking understudies): recipient of a grant to study cultural history, 33, enamored with his wife, although blind to her manipulative ways.

ROLE B, (CAST, seeking understudies): his wife, 29, newly married and bored with both her marriage and life, seeks to influence a human fate for the first time.

ROLE C, (CAST, seeking understudies): 65, his loving aunt who has raised him since early childhood.

ROLE D, (CAST, seeking understudies): 26, a former acquaintance in an unhappy marriage.

ROLE E, (CAST, seeking understudies): 45, an unscrupulous family friend.

ROLE F, 33, a former colleague, who now competes with ROLE A.

ROLE G, (CAST, seeking understudies): the couple's maid, 60

LOCATION: Remy Bumppo - Rehearsal Space, 1751 W. Grace Street, Chicago, IL 60613

Enter through door labeled 1749 on Grace Street.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND: Adelina Feldman-Schultz, Casting Director & Christina Casano, Creative Producer

PREPARATION: Please prepare 2 contrasting 1-minute monologues. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. After signing up for an audition appointment, please fill out the form at the following link: https://bit.ly/RB_2526_EPAs. If you are unable to attend the in-person auditions, video submissions will also be accepted.

OTHER DATES:

First rehearsal: week of 1/5/26

Tech start: week of 1/26/26

Previews: 2/5-8/26

Opening: 2/9/26

Closing: 3/8/26

OTHER:

https://www.remybumppo.org/

To promote the health and safety of all participants, Remy Bumppo Theatre highly encourages vaccination, though does not currently require it.

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity Monitor will be provided.

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.