All roles are paid positions. Starting pay: $450 weekly for the length of contract.
To be considered, email a copy of your current headshot and resume, as well as a cover letter highlighting your previous experience working with young audiences and why you believe you’d be a great fit for Madcap Puppets.
Email to booking@madcappuppets.com with subject line:
(Last Name, Madcap Puppets Touring Audition)
Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
All email submissions are due by May 4, 2024
If we are considering you for a particular season, you will be asked to attend an in-person callback to work with the puppets and read as characters.
Note: The vast majority of shows are under 3 hrs away.
Average weekly hours range from 10-35 hrs per week.
Madcap Puppets invites actors of all ethnicities, races, gender identities to apply.
Actor/Puppeteer Qualifications:
- Professional acting training or related experience
- Consistent, reliable, hard-worker
- Team player
- Passionate about performing for and interacting directly with young audiences
- Must have a valid driver’s license
- Must pass a background check
- Improvisation skills and previous puppetry training a major PLUS
- Must be able to lift 50+ lbs
- Must have availability to execute the contract
CONTRACTS AVAILABLE:
[Summer 1] – Any gender, any ethnicity, versatile comedic actor to play multiple roles in Down on the Funny Farm and Annie Oakley’s Wild West Show. Show dates June 1 – Aug 31. Rehearsals start May 20.
[Summer 2] – Female Identifying or Non Binary actor, any ethnicity, versatile comedic actor to play various roles in Down on the Funny Farm and Annie Oakley in Annie Oakley’s Wild West Show. Show dates June 1 – Aug 31. Rehearsals start May 20.
[Fall 1] – Any gender, comedic actor to play multiple roles in Monsters of Baseball! and various roles in Fantastic Fairy Tales. Show dates October 1 – November 10. Rehearsals start September 16.
[Fall 2] – Any gender, comedic actor to play multiple roles in Monsters of Baseball! and various roles in Fantastic Fairy Tales. Show dates October 1 – November 10. Rehearsals start September 16.
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