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Auditions & Jobs
Group Unified Auditions/Interviews
In most of these, you audition or display your portfolio before a group of different producers and/or schools, then producers call you back for individual interviews. They are a great way to cast a wide net. ALL REQUIRE APPLICATIONS, usually due in late November! See websites for specifics. Also look at the bulletin board across from the acting studio for information.
U/RTA University/Resident Theatre Auditions. U/RTA holds auditions and design/tech interviews once a year in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas. Mainly representatives from graduate schools.
SETC Southeast Theatre Conference holds auditions and interviews each spring, with over 80 professional companies attending. Held in a different city each year.
MWTA Midwest Theatre Association holds auditions and interviews in mid to late February each year.
NETC New England Theatre Conference usually holds its auditions/interviews in mid March. Mostly represents theatres in New England.
Straw Hat Auditions (and tech interviews) are held in New York each spring, and attract producers from small theatres all over the country
On Line Job/Audition Listings
Artsearch (see Karen or Gion for password)
Backstage Magazine Online
Theatre Design and Technical Jobs
ESTA Job Board
Crew Net (film and television crews)
Nearby Theatres
Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati
Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Know Theatre
The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
Cincinnati Black Theatre Company
Actor's Theatre of Louisville
Stage One (Louisville)
Human Race Theatre
Scripts and Theatre Books
Dramatists Play Service
Samuel French
The Drama Book Shop
Stageplays.com
Act 1 Books
Unions & Organizations
Actors Equity
Screen Actors Guild
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees
United Scenic Artists
United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT)
Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC)
Black Theatre Network
Community Arts Network
Theatre Web Hubs
Playbill.com
Applied and Interactive Theatre Guide
Mailing Lists (LISTSERVS)
ACTOR - The Actor Discussion Group. To join ACTOR, send the message, subscribe actor [your name] to: listserv@talentnet.com
ASIANTHEA-L - Asian Theatre. To join ASIANTHEA-L, send mail to: probert@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
ASTR-L - American Society for Theatre Research. To join ASTR-L, send the message, sub astr-l [your name] to: listserv@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu
DIRECTFOCUS - On Directing. To join DIRECTFOCUS, send the message, sub directfocus [your name] to: mailserv@baylor.edu
IMPROVCOMEDY-L - To join IMPROVCOMEDY-L, send the message, subscribe improvcomedy-l [your name] to: majordomo@teleport.com
LATHE - Latin American Theatre List. To subscribe, send a message to: lathe-request@kutztown.edu
NOTE: In the Subject Line of the header write, subscribe That is all. The message body should be empty.
SHAKSPER - Shakespeare (an extremely active list, with digests and databases). To join SHAKSPER, send the message, subscribe shaksper [your name] to: listserv@ws.bowiestate.edu
TALENTALK - Forum for actors, agents, and casting directors. To subscribe to TALENTALK send the message, subscribe talentalk to: majordomo@hway.net
THEATRE - To join THEATRE, send the message, sub theatre [your name] to: listserv@pucc.princeton.edu
VASTAVOX - Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Voice production for speakers and singers, stage speech, dialects, and classical text work. To join VASTAVOX, send the message, subscribe vastavox [your name] to: listserv@uci.edu