New Play Festival: Night of Shorts
This year’s 2024 New Play Festival will present a Night of Shorts (a la Tiger Lily Theatre) from February 2nd- February 11th. Eight plays will be accepted into the festival, each featuring between 2-6 performers. We will need approximately 20 performers to participate in 1-3 pieces each. We will also conduct technical interviews for Stage Management, Design, and Crew.
The auditions will take place on
– December 2nd from 1 pm to 4 pm
– December 3rd from 6 pm to 9 pm
Preparation: Please provide a headshot and Resume if available. These will be group auditions with cold readings from sides. Please note that auditioners need only attend one session. Callbacks, if necessary, will be held on Monday evening, December 4th. We will also be holding Stage Management, Design, and Crew interviews during this time.
Location: Auditions will be held downtown, at First Presbyterian Church, located at 620 State St, Knoxville, TN 37902. There is ample parking available on the lower levels of the church, next door at the State Street Garage, and on Church Street.
2024 Knoxville Shakespeare Season
Auditions for all three of our Knoxville Shakespeare productions will take place together on February 24th and 25th. Auditions are by Appointment only. Email Tom@TennesseeStage.com to reserve your spot today!
The Three Productions are as follows:
- Knoxville Shakespeare on The Hill: Much Ado About Nothing
- Mabry Hazen Historic Home
- May 2024
- Directed by Allison Crye
- Knoxville Shakespeare at Ijams: Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Ijams Nature Center
- July 18th-August 11th, 2024
- Directed by H. Caitlin Corbitt (R&J); and Laura Beth Wells (Midsummer)
Preparation:
- Auditions consist of 2 contrasting monologues,
- Preferably both with metered language, although 1 classical, and 1 contemporary is okay too.
- Time: 60-90 seconds,
- Music
- A song– if you can carry a tune at all, we’d love to hear you sing a little. Radio tunes over musical theatre style. (Cannot sing? No big deal!)
- Musical Instrument– if you play an instrument you have access to, come play a little tune for us.
- Technical Interview:
- If you would like to be considered for set design, lighting, sound, carpentry, props, or costumes, we’d love to talk to you. Feel free to bring any portfolio examples you may have, if any.
- List of Conflicts
- Please be sure to bring any and all known conflicts you may have from the day of audition through August 11th so we can best place you.
While this audition is for all three Knoxville Shakespeare productions for 2024, we do, from time to time, need to hold special auditions. However, attending this audition, or submitting a video audition, offers you first position in filling any roles that become available later.
Who Should Audition?
We encourage all hopeful auditioners to join us. Shakespeare may seem scary, but we promise, you’ll find a place with us. If you would like some more information about our company, please check out A Word About Our Practices.
Tennessee Stage Company is a company– meaning we audition each year for multiple plays, generally casting the performers who audition in the same year, in multiple shows. We have folks who have joined our company year after year for 30 years and others who have just started their journey as performers. We have an internship program that offers a multi-year track; students are paid a stipend for the season and generally choose a technical focus such as lighting, sound, set construction, costuming, props, marketing, or stage management. For more information, feel free to email Tom@TennesseeStage.com or H.Caitlin@TennesseeStage.com.
Location of Auditions and Parking
Church Street View of First Presbyterian Church
This view is from the Church Street Entrance.
The RED arrow points to the door you will enter and exit from. The BLUE Arrow is the tunnel you drive through that leads to the upper and lower parking lots. See the Clinch Ave photo below for more details. We ask that you park in the lower parking lot.
Overhead View of First Presbyterian Church
Street Parking is available on Church Street, but please check the meters for active free or Pay to Park hours.
*For those with a handicap placard, there is a handicap parking spot here. If there are open, unassigned spots in the upper level, you may park there.
Lower Parking Lot View from Clinch Ave.
View coming from Clinch Ave headed towards S Central Ave. Accessible from S Central (one way) and Clinch Ave. You will walk around back to the Church Street Door to enter.
Click Here for The Google Maps Link to the Church Street Entrance
Click Here for the Google Maps Link to the Clinch Ave Parking Lot Direction