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February 25, 2025 · 5:16 pm

Stage Right Musical Theatre Company Seeks Designers for 25-26 Season

Williamstown, KY – Stage Right Musical Theatre company is accepting submissions to fulfill various design positions throughout its 2025-2026 season. All listed design positions are paid and Stage Right Musical Theatre Company welcomes and encourages people of all backgrounds, identities, and ethnicities to submit. Your unique perspective makes our company stronger.

Stage Right’s 9th Season consists of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, A Evening of Culture, The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, and Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (June 6-22, 2025)
Stage Right is accepting submissions to fulfill the following design positions: Stage Management, Sound Design, Costume Design, Music Director, Prop Design

An Evening of Culture (July 11-20, 2025)
Stage Right is accepting submissions to fulfill the following design positions: Stage Management, Sound Design, Costume Design, Prop Design

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (December 12-15, 2025)
Stage Right is accepting submissions to fulfill the following design positions: Stage Management, Costume Design, Prop Design

Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka (January 30 – February 8, 2026)
Stage Right is accepting submissions to fulfill the following design positions: Stage Management, Sound Design, Costume Design, Prop Design, Director

To apply for any of these positions please submit your resume and a cover letter to admin@stagerightmtc.org subject line: Design Submission. Please make sure to specify the positions and shows you are interested in designing.

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Stage Right Musical Theatre Company was founded in 2016 to provide quality entertainment and arts education to Grant County, it’s visitors, and the surrounding region. Last season alone we reached thousands of audience members from over 19 counties, 13 states and Canada

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February 18, 2025 · 5:07 pm

ETC Hosts Seventh Annual PLAY/WRITE: The Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition

Submission Deadline of May 31, 2025

(Cincinnati, OH) Tristate-area playwrights, it’s your time to shine! Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati hosts the seventh annual PLAY/write: The Jackie Demaline Regional Collegiate Playwriting Competition, held in memory of writer, critic, and arts advocate, Jackie Demaline. Students currently enrolled full- or part-time at a university or college in the Greater Cincinnati region are encouraged to submit their plays to the competition. Dependent upon submissions, up to three winners may be chosen. Winners will receive $2,500 from the Jackie Demaline Fund and a professionally staged reading of their script.

Demaline’s love of the arts started at a young age. Throughout her life, she continued to be a passionate believer in the arts as an entertainment writer and editor for multiple newspapers and publications. After moving to Cincinnati in 1994, she covered theatre and the arts for The Cincinnati Enquirer for 20 years and worked as an important catalyst for change and growth during a time when new theatres and companies were popping up all over Cincinnati, helping to secure their place in the community.

After a four-year battle with cancer, Demaline passed away on June 17, 2018. As her final gift to the community, she arranged for her estate to fund the PLAY/write competition. Through this, her legacy lives on—providing new voice development, kick-starting arts careers, and caring for the community through thoughtful programming.

Submission guidelines:

WHO:

  • Early-career playwrights under the age of 30 currently enrolled at a university or college within a 75-mile radius of the Greater Cincinnati region. Playwrights cannot have had a professional or Equity production of any of their work.

WHEN:

  • Submission deadline: 11:59 pm EST, May 31, 2025.

WHAT:

  • Original, unpublished full-length plays (minimum of 50 pages) written in English. Translations, musicals, adaptations, and children’s plays not accepted.
  • Plays must be typed and page-numbered in either a PDF or Microsoft Word format. Plays must appear in a professional script format, examples of which can be found on the Dramatists Guild of America website.
  • Subject matter is open; however, the play should address some of the characteristics Jackie considered when critiquing theatre:
    • Does it tell me something I didn’t know about myself or the world in which I live?
    • Does it hold up a mirror at an angle I’ve never tried so that the things I know now suddenly possess new meaning?
    • Does it move me? Excite me? Provoke me?
    • Does it make me laugh or cry? Make me uncomfortable? Make me think?

HOW:

  • Submit your script electronically at ensemblecincinnati.org/playwriting-competition
  • If you have questions about the competition or submission process, please email Jared D. Doren, Programming & Events Manager, at jdoren@ensemblecincinnati.org

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2024-2025 Season Presenting Sponsor is the LKC Foundation.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is supported, in part, by the generosity of community contributions to the ArtsWave Campaign.

The Ohio Arts Council helps fund Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans. Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati also receives funding from the Shubert Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati is a professional theatre rooted in historic Over-the-Rhine dedicated to engaging, enriching, and inspiring audiences through our thought-provoking world and regional premiere productions, creating and sustaining careers in professional theatre, building community partnerships, and sharing impactful education programs throughout our region.

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February 13, 2025 · 6:15 am

Casting Call for ‘Red’ in LATE, A COWBOY SONG at Ghostlight Stage Company

Company: The Ghostlight Stage Company – Cincinnati, Ohio

Performance Venue: Falcon Theatre in Newport, KY

Rehearsal Venue: First Financial Bank in Covington, KY

Contract: Nonunion

SEEKING: Actor to perform the role of RED in The Ghostlight’s production of Late, A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl

Pay Rate: $15/hour (estimated $1,335 for all hours needed with rehearsals, performances and costume fittings)

Production: Late, A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl

Director: Aiden Dalton

About the Event:  The Ghostlight Stage Company looks forward to producing our first ever event in Northern Kentucky with our production of Late, A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl! The Saturday evening performance will be followed by an after-show party, co-hosted by TreeHouse Cincinnati, PFLAG, and Queer Kentucky (more details to come soon). Synopsis of the show: Mary, always late and always married, meets a lady cowboy named Red who teaches her how to ride a horse. Red exudes a taste of freedom that Mary didn’t even know she lacked, and is suddenly desperate to find. Late, a Cowboy Song, is the story of one woman’s education and her search to find true love outside the box.

This is an extension from our original casting call for this production, as we are still interested in seeing more actors for the role of RED. Those who we are interested in seeing more from will be invited to attend our in-person callback on Feb. 24, 2025 at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park from 6pm-10pm. If you are unable to attend that callback date, a tape may still be accepted.

What to Prepare:

  1. Please create a selftape submission, performing pages 52-54 in the role of RED. (Please see this link for a copy of the script Late, A Cowboy Song by Sarah Ruhl.pdf)
  2. Please prepare the song “Jolene,” by Dolly Parton. Sing and accompany yourself on guitar from the beginning of the song through the end of the second chorus.

Deadline for Submission: Videos will be accepted on a rolling basis until February 22, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Callback requests will be sent out as videos are received, with all emails sent out by February 23 EOD.

Submission Instructions: To submit, please fill out this google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccooIglP-SefE_OWr6W1DBGKJK0ljMAkwGx8hYUcbxicuBaw/viewform?usp=sharing

A place to include a link to your video audition will be on the form, along with a spot to list your known conflicts and upload your headshot and resume. Very limited conflicts will be accepted and will affect casting choices.

The Ghostlight Stage Company is not able to provide housing or travel compensation to any cast or creative team member at this time. Please do not apply if you will require this. 

Production Schedule

First Rehearsal: April 30, 2025

Preview Performance: May 22, 2025

Opening: May 23, 2025

Closing: May 25, 2025

All actors will be expected to come to the first rehearsal as off book as possible. You will be given a copy of the script at least 2 months in advance. Rehearsals on week days will take place primarily in the evening hours from 6pm-10pm. Rehearsals on weekends will be approximately 11am-5pm. Tech week from May 18-21 may have some day time rehearsals, as needed (pending actor availability).

STILL SEEKING:

Red: She/They. 20s-30s. Any race or ethnicity. Quiet, tender, spends a lot of their time alone; “she’s no cowgirl, she’s a cowboy.” Some singing and basic guitar-playing is required for the actor playing this role.

Please note: An Intimacy Director will be provided to ensure the safety and security of all actors.

To read the full script: https://drive.google.com/file/d/122O8aF-s5cZuxzTZM6zTQQZK8VvmYerc/view?usp=sharing

If you have any questions please contact The Ghostlight’s Theatrical Director, Aiden Dalton (He/They): aiden@theghostlightstageco.com

The Ghostlight Stage Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity without regard to the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and we require affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. All employees and volunteers (whatever their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, identity, sexual orientation, education, ability, religion, socioeconomic status, physical appearance, or attributes) should always feel valued and respected.

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January 21, 2025 · 5:05 pm

2025-2026 Season Announcement and Call for Directors at Dayton Theatre Guild

DTG_logoDayton Theatre Guild is Pleased to Announce 2025-2026 Season

A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine Hansberry
Performance dates: August 22-September 9, 2025

Auditions: July 7 & 8, 2025
[4 women, 6 men (& moving men)]

Set in Chicago’s South Side in the 1950’s, this is about the divergent dreams and conflicts in three generations of the Younger family: son Walter Lee, his wife Ruth, his sister Beneatha, his son Travis, and matriarch Lena. When her deceased husband’s insurance money comes through, Mama Lena dreams of moving to a new home and a better neighborhood in Chicago. Walter Lee, a chauffeur, has other plans: buying a liquor store and being his own man. Beneatha dreams of medical school. Hansberry’s portrait of one family’s struggle to retain dignity in a harsh and changing world is a searing and timeless document of hope and inspiration. It was the first play by an African American woman to win a Pulitzer Prize.

DIAL “M” FOR MURDER by Frederick Knott
Performance Dates: October 10-26, 2025

Auditions: August 25 & 26, 2025
[1 woman, 5 men]

Tony Wendice plots to murder his wealthy wife, Margot, for her money by hiring a criminal to strangle her, but his plan goes awry, forcing him to manipulate the situation to frame her. But Margot engages a clever, quick-witted detective from Scotland Yard who uncovers the truth, leading to a suspenseful climax where Tony’s guilt is exposed.

LIGHT SENSITIVE by Jim Geoghan (Season Extra)
Performance dates: December 5-14, 2025

Auditions: October 13 & 14, 2025
[1 woman, 2 men]

Thomas Hanratty, lifelong resident of Hell’s Kitchen and once the most dangerous white cab driver in New York, was blinded eight years ago in a drunken accident and is fading into a routine of self pity and alcohol. His bartender and only friend is moving to Vermont with his girlfriend, but finds it difficult to abandon Tom. He recruits a slightly handicapped volunteer reader who battles her way through Tom’s shell. By the second act, they are falling in love. His buddy returns with tales of his “Christmas from hell” in Vermont, and doubt arises as to who will hold the number one position in Tom’s life.

MARY JANE by Amy Herzog
Performance dates: January 30-February 15, 2026

Auditions: December 8 & 9, 2025
[5 women]

Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex, her chronically ill young son. She finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life, and dealing with all of life’s realities. Mary Jane is Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog’s remarkably powerful and compassionate portrait of a contemporary American woman striving for grace. It ran on Broadway at the Manhattan Theatre Club during the 2023/2024 season.

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE
Book/Lyrics by Ryan Cunningham; Music by Joshua Salzman
Performance dates: March 27-April 12, 2026

Auditions: February 2 & 3, 2026
[3 women, 3 men]

This musical from the mid-2000’s is a twist on Jane Austen’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. A young, uptight greeting card writer’s life is changed when he meets a flighty photographer. Along with their eccentric friends and siblings, they learn to love each other, not despite their faults, but because of them.

THE BEACON by Nancy Harris
Performance dates: May 22-June 7, 2026

Auditions: March 30 & 31, 2026
[2 women, 3 men]

Beiv, a renowned artist, has left her suburban Dublin home for a secluded cottage on a rugged island off the coast of West Cork, Ireland. Here, there is no escaping the rumors of her shadowy past, and Beiv lets everyone see right in because she’s having an extension made to the home, and many of the walls are missing. She and her visiting son have a chilly relationship at best — and there is also the question of whether Beiv really did kill her husband. This play ran Off-Broadway with a limited run, and closed in November, 2024.

We are also putting out the call for directors for the season. Those interested can find the directors application, on-line at https://forms.gle/2KXLjgUVGEUtjuUC9.

The deadline to submit the application is February 1, 2025.

For all questions concerning the Director’s call, contact Jared Mola at: mola.jared@gmail.com.

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January 16, 2025 · 6:48 pm

Voice Teacher Sought for TCT Academy

TCTC_new logoOrganizational Overview:
TCT’s mission is to educate, entertain and engage audiences of all ages through professional theatrical productions and arts education programming. We fulfill our mission through three primary programs:

  • TCT MainStage at the Taft Theatre
  • TCT On Tour
  • TCT Academy

Vision: To awaken a lifelong love of theatre in children and the young at heart. Core Beliefs:

  • We believe in the power of theatre to enrich lives and create deeper understandings of people, cultures, and perspectives.
  • We believe that our audiences deserve high quality experiences that are rich with wonder, honesty, compassion, joy, and wisdom.
  • We believe that the arts and education are not mutually exclusive.
  • We believe that the art we create must respect the diversity of our community.
  • We believe in the power of integrated arts education to enrich our lives and our communities.

Availability:

  • Mondays: 5:30pm – 6:30pm
  • Tuesdays: 4:30pm – 6:30pm
  • Thursdays: 4:15pm – 6:30pm
  • Saturdays: 9:45am – 11:45am.

Ages: Teaching children ages 4-13.

Starts: January 27, 2025. Ends: April 6, 2025.

The instructor does not need to have accompaniment skills. Classes focus on the fundamentals of singing and performance for musical theater. Classes do not culminate in an end of year showcase. Background check required.

TO APPLY:
No phone calls, please. Qualified candidates should submit whatever they feel best reflects their qualifications. This can come in the form of a cover letter/resume, portfolios, and demo reels. (files should be less than 3MB in total, links are welcome).

Please submit your materials along with references by Friday, January 24, 2025, to TCT’s Education Director at: angelo.cerniglia@tctcincinnati.com. Subject Line: TCT VOICE TEACHER

The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati believes the stories on our stages and the work we do behind the scenes must reflect the diverse communities we serve. We believe inclusive work cultures spark wide-ranging, exploratory conversations and learning. Therefore, we strongly welcome and encourage people from all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and ages to apply as we continue our commitment to diversity and build an inclusive environment at TCT.

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