Open, Diverse Cast Sought

Because our goals at Main Street Theatre include fostering a fun, inclusive, community-building environment, our open casting encourages actors of all ages, colors, sizes, identities, cultures, and abilities to audition for any part they are interested in.

Auditions for Women Playing Hamlet
A Comedy by William Missouri Downs
Directed by Maria Karres-Williams

Saturday, August 2, 10am to noon
Tuesday, August 5, 7 to 9pm
Thursday, August 7: Callbacks, 7 to 9pm​

Jessica has been cast in the role of a lifetime. She is in rehearsal to be Hamlet in the play by the same name! While rehearsing with her drama coach and thinking back on her lessons in Shakespearean drama, she learns a lot about herself. Just like Hamlet, she is full of self-doubt. Many Shakespearean scholars paint Hamlet as having more feminine traits, so perhaps a woman in the role is a natural?

Come explore this question with a small all-female cast that plays all the parts and relives the lessons and events that brought Jessica to this crossroad. Should she open in Hamlet or retreat to Los Angeles and accept a much more lucrative job offer?

To be or not to be? That is the question in this hilarious take on a classic. 

Seeking 4 - 8 female actors ages 20+. All roles are no pay/no stipend.
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​Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Auditioners may be asked to stay up to one hour after their arrival time slot. Resume and headshot not required, but please bring a recent picture that we may keep. Sign-ups encouraged; walk-ins welcome. 

Auditions will take place at the Main Street Theatre office at Rehoboth Baptist Church in Tucker (2997 Lawrenceville Hwy,, ​Tucker, GA 30084).  

Performances: October 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 26, 2025

Any questions? Feel free to contact Director Maria Karres-Williams at [email protected].

Character Descriptions 
All but one female cast member (Jessica) will play multiple roles.

Jessica: late 20s, an actress, attractive, quirky, smart
Gwen: female, an acting coach
Humanities Professor: male, overconfident
Ghost: male, Hamlet's father
Starbucks Actress: female, works at Starbucks
Priest: male, Catholic, celibate
Bicycle Messenger: male, streetwise and hip
Emily Ostergaard: female, Jessica's computer-geek niece
Barfly: female, alcoholic
Home Shopping Network Model: female, bubbly
Rosy: female, a young soap-opera starlet
Lord Derby: male, English Shakespeare scholar
Minnesota Mother: female, Jessica's mother
Male Psychiatrist: male, a Jewish Freudian psychiatrist
Bartender: male, rough, tough and tattooed
Home Shopping Network Hostess: female, bubbly
Gilda: female, grande dame soap-opera star and stroke victim
Gravedigger: male, a Cockney pun-master
Stage Manager: female