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Several Off-Broadway theaters are holding a set of Equity Principal Auditions for their upcoming seasons on July 23rd, 25th, and 26th! New York Theatre Workshop’s Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole and Playwrights Horizons’s The Antiquities are seeking principal roles including two for child actors. See below:

Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole
New York Theatre Workshop
First Rehearsal: March 18, 2025
First Preview: April 23, 2025
Opening: May 12, 2025
Closing: June 22, 2025

BILLY PRESTON/OTHERS – Character portrayed is an 11-year-old Black boy. Multiple roles, including BILLY PRESTON, a musical prodigy who appears on the Nat King Cole Show. Vulnerable but full of joy. An excellent singer and mover.

The Antiquities
Playwrights Horizons
First Rehearsal: 12/3/24
First Preview: 1/11/25
Opening: 2/3/25
Closing: 2/23/25
Possible Extension: 3/16/25

BOY – 10-14. Game, facile, young. A range of pre-adolescent boys, from 1910 to the future. Quick, sharp, sensitive, funny, and above all real.

Note: Auditions will take place over a course of three days, but you only need to attend one audition day.

Please prepare a brief monologue and/or a brief song. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring three (3) copies of your headshot and resume stapled together.

For tips on how to attend an Equity audition as a Non-Equity performer, please visit ActorsAesthetic.com.