OPEN CASTING CALLS
Each year the National Stage Company of Canada holds a multi day open casting call to fill roles needed to complete the casting requirements for certain productions. Auditions are open to Non-Equity performers.
Interested performers must possess strong acting, dance, and singing abilities, and have at least 2 years of direct performance experience with either a community based theatre organization and/or school theatre program.
All positions are contract based.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Candidates will generally be required to sing, dance, and act at the open call and are asked to bring the following:
1. Resume
2. 8 x 10 headshot
3. Sheet Music (accompaniment will be provided)
4. Dance attire.
Selected candidates will be notified within 10 days from the close of the casting call.
*ETHNO-CULTURAL MANDATE*
The N.S.C.C. encourages submissions from all qualified performers, and prides itself on having an environment of equity, inclusion, and diversity. Artists from under-represented communities are encouraged to apply for auditions without regard to age, disability, ethno-cultural identity, gender or any other basis prohibited by law. All artists are invited to remove measurements and physical features from the resume.
For more information, and interested candidates located outside of British Columbia, please email the producer at nationalstageoffice@gmail.com
NOW CASTING
Lauran Gunderson's luminously beautiful play
SILENT SKY
STARRING
CANADIAN PERFORMING ARTISTS
MARIAH MADILL as Henrietta Leavitt
AND ANGEL DURAN-HEON as Peter Shaw
FEATURING
MAKAYLA MADILL as Margaret Leavitt
THE STORY:
When Henrietta Leavitt begins work at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, she isn’t allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers,” charting the stars for a renowned astronomer who calculates projects in “girl hours” and has no time for the women’s probing theories. As Henrietta, in her free time, attempts to measure the light and distance of stars, she must also take measure of her life on Earth, trying to balance her dedication to science with family obligations and the possibility of love. The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, when women’s ideas were dismissed until men claimed credit for them. Social progress, like scientific progress, can be hard to see when one is trapped among earthly complications; Henrietta Leavitt and her female peers believe in both, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
AVAILABLE ROLES
WILLIAMINA FLEMING
(Playing Age - 40's or 50's)
A former housekeeper for Dr. Pickering, head of the Harvard College Observatory, she was hired because Dr. Pickering felt she would do better than the men he had working for him. She is smart and quick-witted.
ANNIE JUMP CANNON
(Age Range - 18 +)
Henrietta's co-worker, she has made important scientific discoveries of her own and is a suffragette.
Interested candidates are asked to submit a video slate with 2-min monologue and a professional headshot and resume to
nationalstageoffice@gmail.com - Attn: Managing Artistic Director
Deadline: May 25, 2022 - 11:59 PM Pacific Time
NSCC PREMIERE: AUGUST 2022
Kerrigan & Lowdermilk's
THE MADE ONES
STARRING
CANADIAN PERFORMING ARTISTS
OLIVIA DAS as Sam
AND SAIDI MADER as Kelly
THE STORY:
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...
18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected.
When Kelly is killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision: Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
AVAILABLE ROLE
ADAM
(AGE RANGE 17 -24)
Kind, a heartthrob. He has great emotional intelligence and the loyalty of a St. Bernard.
Interested candidates are asked to submit a video slate, 2-min monologue, one contemporary and/or musical theatre song showing vocal range, and a professional headshot and resume to
nationalstageoffice@gmail.com - Attn: Managing Artistic Director
Deadline: JUNE 30, 2022 - 11:59 PM Pacific Time
NSCC PREMIERE: DECEMBER 2022