We are so happy to cast our next selections of the 2026 New Works Festival at the Long Beach Shakespeare Company! We have a knock out line up of comedies, dramas and one-acts coming to the stage for this growing theatrical event!
Auditions:
Please prepare two monologues, both a contrastic dramatic and comedic monologue for all submitting actors.
In person auditions: Open Call: 7/25 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM at the Helen Borgers Theatre 4250 Atlantic Ave. Long Beach 90807.
Self tapes: Due July 24th to hollyleveque@gmail.com and kayvengianupadhyay@gmail.com
Please fill out the conflict sheet attached and send it to hollyleveque@gmail.com and kayvengianupadhyay@gmail.com
Below is the information about the shows we are casting.
All the best,
Holly Leveque
TUCKED AWAY Adult content warning
By: Joni Ravenna
The dates for performances will be: September 19th 8 PM and 20th 1 PM
Blurb: Four very different young women held captive on the top floor of an abandoned building with no electricity or running water as part of a human trafficking ring must find a way to connect in order to finally break free.
Character Breakdowns:
Please fill out the conflict sheet attached and send it to hollyleveque@gmail.com and kayvengianupadhyay@gmail.com
Below is the information about the shows we are casting.
All the best,
Holly Leveque
TUCKED AWAY Adult content warning
By: Joni Ravenna
The dates for performances will be: September 19th 8 PM and 20th 1 PM
Blurb: Four very different young women held captive on the top floor of an abandoned building with no electricity or running water as part of a human trafficking ring must find a way to connect in order to finally break free.
Character Breakdowns:
HARRY: Mid to Late 30’s or 40’s, male, strong, fit.
KARRIE: early / mid 30’s, Hispanic, female.
CHIA: Black, late teens/early 20’s, female.
LISA: From a remote village in the Philippines, early 20’s,
female. English is her 2nd language.
CASSIE: mid to late teens, White female, from a privileged background.
Shav versus Whitmore
A One Act by Thomas M Copeland
The dates for performances will be: September 18th 8 PM and 20th 4 PM
Blurb: Can one man rewrite Shakespeare? One room, two men, and a battle of pride, relevance, and wit.
Character Breakdowns:
George Bernard Shaw (male, late in life): A giant among his contemporaries. Principled and stubborn. Artful and intelligent. A sure man.
Thomas Whitmore (male, any ethnicity, 30-40s): An established theater producer. Anxious, emotionally detached, and unromantic about art.
The Ghosts of The Globe Theatre
By: Arthur Allison
A Short Play- 14 Pages
The dates for performances will be: September 18th 8 PM and 20th 4 PM
If you had five more minutes to love, hate, hold, and cry with your friends and family, what would you say to them?
We are told the true story of how the Globe Theatre burnt down. Back when ghost lights weren’t a thing, ghosts had to perform their plays side by side with the players. On June 29th 1613, the performance of Henry the 8th was haunted. Not only by ghosts but also by horrible actors. When the players perform horribly and hog the audience, there is nothing the ghosts can do but feel angry.
Character Breakdowns:
Ghost King/Sir Tender Loin, male, 25+ Ghost of a Shakespeare-obsessed knight
Ghost Queen/Sir McGinnigan, male, 25+ Ghost of an Irishman
Ghost scribe, male, Any age, Ghost actor
Ghost Crier, male, Any age, Ghost actor
Ghost Wolsey, male, Any age, Ghost actor
Shakespeare, male, 49, William Shakespeare himself
Hamnet & Wolsey player, male, 11 & 18+, Ghost son of Shakespeare & Alive actor (Played by same person potentially)
King Player, male, 18+, lackadaisical actor
Queen Player, male, 18+, semi-professional actor with poor line delivery
VECTORS
By: Stephen Montagne
The dates for performances will be: 9/19 2 PM and 9/20 8 PM.
A 20-something Flight Attendant faces an existential crisis when he lands in a hospital after surviving a plane crash... and was hoping he would have perished in the crash.
After surviving a plane crash, working-class Flight Attendant Cameron Martinelli finds himself a patient at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, New York. Here he is visited by members of his Italian-American family (mother, brother, sister) and his best-friend, and then a trauma counselor/airline representative. A resident doctor and nurse are on hand to witness the family drama playing out, while the action cuts back and forth between two passengers retelling their survivor experience. Meanwhile, Cameron has been suffering from suicidal ideations and is actually upset he wasn't taken out in the crash.
Character Breakdowns:
George Bernard Shaw (male, late in life): A giant among his contemporaries. Principled and stubborn. Artful and intelligent. A sure man.
Thomas Whitmore (male, any ethnicity, 30-40s): An established theater producer. Anxious, emotionally detached, and unromantic about art.
The Ghosts of The Globe Theatre
By: Arthur Allison
A Short Play- 14 Pages
The dates for performances will be: September 18th 8 PM and 20th 4 PM
If you had five more minutes to love, hate, hold, and cry with your friends and family, what would you say to them?
We are told the true story of how the Globe Theatre burnt down. Back when ghost lights weren’t a thing, ghosts had to perform their plays side by side with the players. On June 29th 1613, the performance of Henry the 8th was haunted. Not only by ghosts but also by horrible actors. When the players perform horribly and hog the audience, there is nothing the ghosts can do but feel angry.
Character Breakdowns:
Ghost King/Sir Tender Loin, male, 25+ Ghost of a Shakespeare-obsessed knight
Ghost Queen/Sir McGinnigan, male, 25+ Ghost of an Irishman
Ghost scribe, male, Any age, Ghost actor
Ghost Crier, male, Any age, Ghost actor
Ghost Wolsey, male, Any age, Ghost actor
Shakespeare, male, 49, William Shakespeare himself
Hamnet & Wolsey player, male, 11 & 18+, Ghost son of Shakespeare & Alive actor (Played by same person potentially)
King Player, male, 18+, lackadaisical actor
Queen Player, male, 18+, semi-professional actor with poor line delivery
VECTORS
By: Stephen Montagne
The dates for performances will be: 9/19 2 PM and 9/20 8 PM.
A 20-something Flight Attendant faces an existential crisis when he lands in a hospital after surviving a plane crash... and was hoping he would have perished in the crash.
After surviving a plane crash, working-class Flight Attendant Cameron Martinelli finds himself a patient at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Washington Heights, New York. Here he is visited by members of his Italian-American family (mother, brother, sister) and his best-friend, and then a trauma counselor/airline representative. A resident doctor and nurse are on hand to witness the family drama playing out, while the action cuts back and forth between two passengers retelling their survivor experience. Meanwhile, Cameron has been suffering from suicidal ideations and is actually upset he wasn't taken out in the crash.
Character Breakdowns:
MOTHER: Blonde Mother of Two Young Girls; Plane Crash Survivor, 30’s-40’s
CONSTRUCTION WORKER: Black Male; 6’2, 280; Plane Crash Survivor, 40’s-50’s
DR. KAMIR SAMERE: East-Asian (Indian) (or) Middle Eastern Doctor, 30’s-40’s
NURSE SUSAN FOLGER: Irish-American Nurse from Queens, 40’s
MARION MARTINELLI: Italian-American Mother from New York, Late-50’s-60’s
CAMERON MARTINELLI: Flight Attendant; Plane Crash Survivor; Lives in New Jersey, 27
ASHLEY: Cameron’s Best-Friend; Grad Student From Minnesota, 25
DARREN MARTINELLI: Cameron’s Older Brother; Wall St. Broker, Late-30’s
MARY “BETH” MARTINELLI: Cameron’s Older Sister; Party Girl, Mid-30’s
JONATHAN: SLC Mormon; Airline Representative & Trauma Counselor, 30’s
F3
One act - 29 pages
by Bubba Proctor
The dates for performances will be: 9/19 2 PM and 9/20 8 PM.
The vulnerable lamentations of a well-meaning young queer man through experiential empathy with strangers, asking the question of what to do when you’re disillusioned by your dreams not being all they seemed.
Character Breakdowns:
BILLY: protagonist, a green, anxious college student in for his first ever visit to the clinic.
BILLY: protagonist, a green, anxious college student in for his first ever visit to the clinic.
SHARRON: supporting the medical receptionist of the clinic.
CINDY: supporting, sex worker who frequents the clinic.
DR. BUENAVENTURA: supporting, a healthcare provider at the clinic.
EVANGELICAL: side, a regular intrusive heckler of the patients and employees at the clinic.
PHLEBOTOMIST: side, assistant to clinic services for the medical providers.
SLIM/DL/ROD/DISPATCHER: sides, Cindy’s pimp/embarrassed, closeted patient/alley man/ambulance dispatcher.
A young queer man goes for his first testing at an STD clinic, laying his romantic struggles bare. He’s afraid, but through kindness and consolation from strangers, he’s able to overcome the things that weigh on him most. From the inner wonderings I have when I get check ups for my sexual health at the AIDS Healthcare foundation in Long Beach. Every time I’m there, I have an unspoken anxiety that is communally felt by each unique person at the clinic.
In this way, I always glance around at the other patients, wondering about their lives. What reasons they’re at the clinic for. Where they’re from. The love they experience. The wounds they suffer through. Most of all, if they’re as embarrassed or as nervous as me. This empathy is what I wanted to be the main focus of this show. How feeling for one another can guide us through the terrors of our lonely desires.