New Work Festival 2025
Audition Information
If you are interested and available to participate in any of the three readings, please complete the online submission form and upload the listed materials.
​The last day to submit is Friday, November 22. All offers will be made by December 6.
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To read the full audition posting, click here.
To learn more about each play, please visit our Festival Page.
​Questions? Please contact laughingstocktheatre@gmail.com.
Submission Materials
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Headshot
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Resume
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Select one of the below sides and upload a 30-60 second video.
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Select one question and answer as yourself:
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What is your favorite role you've ever played, and why?
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If you had to be one inanimate object, what would you choose and why?
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Tell us a story from your week.
Zanni: A hard-working servant with good intentions, but also naive and uncultured.
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Zanni enters, looking for someone.
I'm supposed to be delivering this message to Pantalone, but I don't see him anywhere.
They look from side to side, straining to find their boss. Then they hear their stomach growl.
I'm so hungry - I haven't eaten in days. Or at least in hours! I think I might starve if I don't eat something soon. My life is so hard.
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They notice a fly buzzing nearby, and have an idea.
Oh, look! That will at least tide me over until I can find some dinner...
Zanni chases the fly, but the insect is too quick. After a struggle, Zanni gives up.
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So much for that idea. (Beat.) Where was I going again? Oh, right! A message for Dottore. I'm going to be late!
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Exit.
Pantalone: A miserly old man who loves his family (but maybe his money more). He came from nothing, and is jealous of every cent.
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Pantalone enters, peeking over both shoulders
I think I'm alone. Perfect!
He pulls out a coin purse and begins to count the coins - his favorite part of the day. Each coin gets its own loving gesture,
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One... Two... Three...
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The bag is empty.
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Four? (Beat.) How could it be missing? Number four is my favorite!
Pantalone yells, in his grief and/or anger.
It must have been that buffoon Dottore, jealous of my success. My hard-earned successes! No no, surely it was one of my servants. They're always skulking about and looking for scraps. Surely it wasn't my own child! Why, that ungrateful, little...
Suddenly Pantalone stops and reaches into a pocket.
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There you are! What a relief. Don't scare me like that again.
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Again looking over each shoulder, Exit.
Innamorati: The child of Pantalone, well-educated and in love with the idea of love. They are very serious with heightened emotions - surrounded by clowns, they're simply in the wrong play.
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The Lover enters, as if floating on air.
I am here in the park to meet my love. It has been so long since I've seen them, and my heart aches with desire to once again be in their presence.
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They see a letter on the ground, and bend to pick it up.
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What's this? Perhaps it is from my love! (Beat.) Indeed, it smells of their perfume.
They open the letter, and begin to read.
"My dearest love..." Oh, it is the happiest of days to read their gentle words! "I write these words full of longing and sorrow..." Sorrow? But why sorrow? Perhaps they mean to end our courtship!
They continue to read.
"I love you with all my heart..." Oh, that is a relief indeed! "But I have terrible news..." Most unhappy letter, to bear ill tidings. I can scarcely continue!
Beat. They continue to read.
"I have been delayed..." Delayed?! "...but will meet you in one hour, with fresh roses." Oh joy! I can forgive an hour's delay, when it is accompanied by roses. I will return, perhaps bearing a gift of my own.​​​
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Exit.
