Production Timeline TBD

Emerson Shakespeare Society is hosting Spring 2021 Common Auditions! While the virtual format is still new for many of us, Emshakes is working to emulate the common auds process as much as possible. We, and many other orgs, are excited to see what you bring to this virtual process!! Video submissions will be run via google form. The deadline is Thursday, February 4th at 11:59pm.

Google form link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkJXW4zeWXTZcBMaPTrPWmvI6ZKfmjAhSCIzsaYF1hN4m7nA/viewform?usp=send_form&fbclid=IwAR34fm0ZZZPtkGXI0yw5gDV3bXgdZfZKx1u5kVFWG39UcA9n5Sft2x9AOmc

Here are the details of how to apply and how callbacks will work (also see graphic below):

1. Commons auds submissions will be via self tape

2. Please prepare and film a 1.5-2 minute monologue if auditioning for plays and a cut of 32 bars or less of a song if auditioning for musicals

3. Fill out the google form with your personal information, answer any questions from directors, AND submit your audition video(s)

4. Once you have submitted your complete google form, you are done! Submissions close at 11:59pm on February 4th. You must submit by then to be considered.

5. Callback emails from the directors will go out and these callbacks will take place over Zoom Saturday, February 6th and Sunday, February 7th.

6. Casting will take place after callbacks conclude on the 7th.

7. If you have any questions, please email commonauds@gmail.com or lee_forrest@emerson.edu.

The organizations that you will be auditioning for include:

Musical Theatre Against the Grain
Show: Musical Match Game: Broadway Divas Edition.
Directors: Anthony Allocca & Leah Thomas

Musical Theatre Society
Show: Cabaret of Color
Directors: Gabriella Gonzalez and Max Boone

Flawless Brown Stage
Show: I Was Baked for All of WWIII by Danielle Jean-Baptiste
Director: TBA

Show: Derecho by Noelle Vinas
Director: Rocío Perez

Mercutio Troupe
Show: Untitled Mango Project
Directors: Juliette Hoernle and Lou Rasse

Show: Boo!
Director: Jonah Buksbaum

EmShakes
Show: the Fog around us
Director: Garrett Traer

Show: Interior with Peder and Marie by Jack Ferry
Directors: Jack Ferry and Fiona Torrese

Thank you ALL so much for your participation and for your help making Common Auds Spring 2021 happen!

Pitches for Emerson Shakespeare Society’s Spring 2021 season are now open!

Emerson Shakespeare Society produces classics and classics-inspired work. In addition to Shakespeare, we produce plays written prior to the mid-century modernist movement and contemporary plays which rework or reimagine the classics. If you have always wanted to direct a pre-modernist or classic-inspired contemporary work now is your chance!

See our pitch form here.

Every fall Emerson Shakespeare Society produces a staged reading of a Shakespeare play for freshman actors. Our staged reading program requires no audition and is open to all freshmen with an interest in learning more about working with Shakespeare and acting heightened text.

Our fall freshman reading this year is Macbeth, a radio drama directed by Mia Kundert.

Sign ups have closed for Macbeth. Stay tuned for a release date!

Update — Due to scheduling conflicts, this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream has been cancelled.

Emerson Shakespeare Society presents Shakespeare’s classic comedy about four mismatched lovers lost in a forest full of vengeful fairies, magic flowers, and hapless thespians.

Directed by Kaileigh Fox
Produced by Lee Forrest
Associate Producer Noelle DeConzo

Pitch your play to our Company Board for consideration in our Fall season! Pitches open May 1 and close May 14. Fill out the form below to tell us a little bit about your idea and reserve a slot in one of our Zoom hearings on May 15 and May 22.

Graphic design by Samara Chahine.