AUDITIONS
NEW
AUDITION DETAILS
NEW AUDITION DETAILS
MARY SHELLEY
EXTENDED AUDITIONS!
All roles still open.
No appointments necessary.
Auditions Sunday, June 8th 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Callbacks Tuesday, June 10th 6 p m. - 9 p.m.
Veritas Theater
226 W. Ojai Avenue #102
Self-tapes accepted. Please email to our producer: kelseyrosegordon@gmail.com
AEA Actors: Paid per SPT Category 1 Agreement ($293/week minimum)
Non-Union Actors: All roles receive a $250 stipend
Mary Shelley: A Year with No Summer
Written by Jule Selbo
Directed by Richard Camp
This world-premiere script, written by Jule Selbo, reframes history through a modern lens: female authorship, climate anxiety, and the power of creation in a collapsing world.
Seeking UNION AND NON UNION ACTORS AEA
Actors: Paid per SPT Category 1 Agreement ($293/week minimum) ~ Non-Union Actors: All roles receive a $250 stipend
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director: Richard Camp
Executive Producer: Bob Kemper
Producer: Rosie Gordon
Stage Manager: Hannah Luyet
🎥 Self-tapes accepted
📧 Email: Rosie Gordon with questions or submissions
PRODUCTION SCHEDULE
Rehearsals Begin: Week of June 10
Tech Week: August 2–7
Performances: August 8–10 & August 15–17
Matilija Auditorium, Ojai
BUTLER: 40s, the storyteller. Jaded, hip, sarcastic, omniscient.
LORD BYRON: 28, (George Gordon Byron, the Sixth Lord Byron) tall, elegant, arrogant, the epitome of the sultry, sexual romantic poet.
PERCY SHELLEY: 26, passionate, thin, troubled.
CLAIRE CLAIRMONT: 21, giddy, not bright but socially ambitious.
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN: 19, slight with light hair. Intelligent and ambitious. In love with Percy.
JOHN POLIDORI: 20, a newly graduated doctor, a need-to-please in every aspect.
CREATURE: middle-aged. Tall, broad-shouldered, thick. His face and bald head hold a patchwork of scars, sutures and bruises. Strong, determined and can be malevolent and violent.
HARRIET: mid-20’s, non-speaking, a specter.
SEE BELOW FOR SIDES
CHARACTERS:
Sides
1. SHELLEY & BYRON
In, p. 9: Byron: “Oh she will brighten up the place…”
Out, p. 14: Byron: “Nor I.”
2. POLIDORI, BYRON, SHELLEY
In, p. 15, P: “Master Shelley it is an honor
Out, p. 18, B: “Leave me”
3. SHELLEY, MARY
In, p. 34, S: “it soothes the nerves”
Out, p. 36, S: “The Light!”
4. BYRON, MARY
In, p. 38, B: “how fares our delicate man?”
Out, p. 39, B: ‘Mmmm”
5, BYRON, CLAIRE
In, p. 42, C: “I am with child…”
Out, p. 43, C: “he will come to see..”
6. MARY
In, p. 44, M: “We will create then
Out, p. 46, end of act 1
7. BUTLER
Monologue on p. 66
8. BUTLER
Monologue on top of p. 78
9. MARY, CREATURE
In, p. 66, M: It’s all right you can come In
Out, p. 70, M: Stop, stop, stop!
10. BYRON, CLAIRE
In, p 83, C: I am feeling off peak
Out, p 85, C: Take me with you
11.POLIDORI, CLAIRE, BYRON
In, p. 51, B: Go on Poli
Out, p. 54, P: to ensure real and sure death