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Work with Us!
ACT currently has the following available positions:
ACT Theatre has a full-time, temporary position for the period of September 30-October 30 to provide technical support for our facilities operations. This is a great opportunity to engage with a local arts theatre and apply your facilities experience!
We are seeking an experienced Facilities Technician to provide a wide variety of maintenance for our historic building in downtown Seattle. We are seeking someone with professional experience performing basic plumbing, electrical, and painting repairs, and skilled at assessing when external support is needed. HVAC experience is a plus!
We are interested in someone who is ready to jump in now to assist!
This is a temporary role, paying $28.00 per hour, working Monday-Friday, 40 hours per week.
Please apply with your resume and cover letter for immediate consideration at work@acttheatre.org. Include in your cover letter what you hope to bring to this role and how your prior experience has prepared you for this opportunity.
Volunteer Ushering
ACT invites you to be an essential part of our performances and patron experience. Ushering is a wonderful opportunity to share your gift of time and talent assisting the Front of House team, while helping to preserve ACT’s important place within Seattle’s thriving arts community. We encourage you to join us and be a part of the ACT family. For information on ushering at ACT, please contact volunteer@acttheatre.org.
Artist Submissions
ACT THEATRE – YOUTH ACTOR AUDITIONS
“A CHRISTMAS CAROL” 2024 directed by R. Hamilton Wright
On Saturday, September 14 from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ACT will hold auditions for the 7 youth actor roles and 1Youth Understudy position in A Christmas Carol, directed this year by R. Hamilton (Bob) Wright and featuring Darragh Kennan as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Callbacks will be held Monday, September 23, from approximately 3:30 pm – 7:00 pm.
Rehearsals start on November 5th at ACT. The production begins performances on November 29th, and closes on December 27th. Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day are Days Off, but there are two performances on Christmas Eve.
Available roles are open to young actors of all races/ethnicities, gender identities, disabilities, and neuro-diversities. Gender non-conforming, gender-queer, transgender, and non-binary youth artists, please feel free to let us know what roles you’d like to be considered for.
Youth actors cast in the show may be no older than 18 as of the final performance on December 27.
Auditions will be held at ACT, 700 Union Street (corner of Seventh Avenue behind the Convention Center).
Please prepare a short poem or monologue (less than 1 minute) to present from memory AND a brief song to be performed a cappella. Please bring a hard copy of your photo and be prepared to stay at least an hour, accompanied by an adult the entire time.
To schedule an audition, please sign up for a slot at your preferred time here:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805054CABA728A2FF2-50949416-youth
The first round is a group audition with seven or eight young actors in each group; there will be some interactive theatre games to begin, and then each young actor will present their prepared audition for the others as an audience.
All youth actors will be contacted about the outcome of the auditions.
When you’ve scheduled your appointment and received confirmation from SignUpGenius, please complete your registration by uploading digital copies of your picture & resume (jpeg or PDF format), along with some additional information asked for, to this Airtable:
https://airtable.com/app516r1ZvrAO7cR8/shryvISKLE7i2Mnsk
Information about rehearsal expectations and performance schedule can be found in the Dropbox at this link:
If you’re unable to make your scheduled audition time on the day, please email to cancel. If you’re not available for the September 14 auditions but would like to be considered for the show, please go directly to the Airtable link and see the instructions for submitting a self-tape.
If you have any questions or need any additional information, please email ACT’s Casting Coordinator Margaret Layne: margaret.layne@acttheatre.org
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Two of the young actors cast as Cratchits double as YOUNG SCROOGE and FAN.
STREET URCHIN – Savvy street kid, resourceful, gregarious, engaging. Artful Dodger type. Track includes Turkey Urchin and Undertaker’s Assistant.
MARTHA CRATCHIT—Warm, capable, loving, a second mother to the little ones.
PETER CRATCHIT — Practical, helpful, a leader with a sense of fun. (Possible double: Young Scrooge).
CHARLES CRATCHIT — Bright, ebullient, full of mischief and high spirits. (Possible double: Young Scrooge.)
BELINDA CRATCHIT — Quiet, sweet, a little shy, but emotionally intuitive. (Possible double: Fan).
ELIZABETH CRATCHIT — Outgoing, spontaneous, affectionate (Possible double: Fan.)
TINY TIM — Youngest Cratchit. Fragile, walks with a crutch. Chipper and sweet-natured, but an old soul. [Possible double: Fan.]
YOUNG SCROOGE — Intelligent, inquisitive, melancholy
FAN — Scrooge’s younger sister. Generous, innocent, loving
YOUTH UNDERSTUDY – any gender, to cover some youth roles TBD
Check back in 2025 for audition opportunities!
Check back in 2025 for audition opportunities!
ACT is pausing unsolicited submissions while we catch up on reading all our current script submissions. Thank you for your understanding, and please check back later this season for updated information.
For questions, contact curation@acttheatre.org