(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- East Lynne Theater Company (ELTC) is having one day of Equity open-call virtual submissions for its 2022 Season on March 7.  Submissions by non-union actors will be seen after the Equity actors' videos have been viewed. The theater is located in Cape May, NJ where all shows will be rehearsed. The company operates under an Equity SPT 3 Contract.

On Monday, March 7, a 2-minute video per actor may be submitted between 1:00am - 11:00pm to [email protected].  The preference of delivery is either YouTube or WeTransfer, but if videos are submitted through other means, they will be seen. If there are difficulties in viewing any video, the actor will be contacted.    

Producing Artistic director of ELTC, Gayle Stahlhuth, and director Mark Edward Lang will be viewing the videos. Stahlhuth is directing "Who am I This Time? (& Other Conundrums of Love)" and Lang is directing "Possessing Harriet."

Please present a comic monologue if auditioning for "Who Am I This Time?" and a dramatic monologue if interested in "Possessing Harriet." Actors may do 2 different monologues within the 2-minute time frame. Auditioning with a comic piece will not prevent being considered for "Possessing Harriet" and vice versa. ELTC is committed to nontraditional casting and equal employment opportunities.   

"Who Am I This Time? (& Other Conundrums of Love)," by Aaron Posner, is an adaptation of three charming love stories by Kurt Vonnegut: "Long Walk to Forever," "Who Am I This Time?," and "Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son."  Vonnegut would have been 100 in 2022.  Time frame for this play is 1962; location - a small town in Connecticut. Rehearsals begin on Monday, July 11 and the show runs from July 27 - Sept. 3, Wednesdays - Saturdays at 8:00pm.

Seeking actors for the following:

ACTOR 1: TOM NEWTON - the engaging narrator as well as being in the telling of each tale, age range 45 – 55;

ACTOR 2: KATE NEWTON - Tom's wife, who enjoys performing in local community theater productions, age range 45 – 55;

ACTOR 3 portrays NEWT - Tom Newton in his 20's, a soldier in 1940 gone AWOL to talk to a sweetheart, HARRY NASH - shy, but plays all the leads in the community theater, and GEORGE MURRA - a successful writer married to an actress, age range 20 – 50;

ACTOR 4 portrays CATHERINE - Kate Newton in her 20's, HELENE SHAW - shy, but falls in love with Harry when acting with him in community theater, and GLORIA HILTON - a demanding movie star, age range 20 – 50;

ACTOR 5 portrays JOHN "DOODLES" BROOKES - stage manager at the community theater and JOHN MURRA - George and Gloria's son, age range 20 – 25;

ACTOR 6 portrays VERNE MILLER - a hardware store owner who longs to be the lead in every show at the community theater and ROY CROCKER, JR. - a plumber who enjoys life, age range 45 – 55;

ACTOR 7: PAULA NEWTON - Tom and Kate's daughter, age range 20 – 25;

ACTOR 8: DORIS SAWYER - a librarian and community theater director, age range 60 – 70.

"Possessing Harriet," a four-character play by Kyle Bass, and a New Jersey premiere, was originally cast and scheduled for the 2020 season. ELTC is only looking for possible replacements if those already cast can no longer be in this production. In 1839, a runaway slave is hiding in an attic. With her are suffragist Elizabeth Cady and abolitionist Gerrit Smith. Based on a true story it premiered in 2018, at Syracuse Stage. Mr. Bass received a commission from the Onondaga Historical Association to write "Possessing Harriet."  

Rehearsals begin on Monday, September 5, and the show runs from September 21 – October 15, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8:00pm. 

Seeking actors for the following: 

GERRIT SMITH - wealthy abolitionist living in upstate New York, Caucasian, age range 45-55;

THOMAS LEONARD - a freed slave who "conducts" on the Underground Railroad, Black, age range 35-45;

ELIZABETH CADY - future icon of the Women's Suffrage movement, young and eager to learn, Caucasian, age 24;

HARRIET POWELL - escaped slave. Will she leave her mother and sister to risk a free life in Canada? Mixed race Black and Caucasian, age 24.

For more on East Lynne Theater Company, visit their website here.