Sign Up To Audition Live and In Person

Upcoming auditions for Murder on the Orient Express will be held at Riverside Center May 14th from 11am to 2pm

To submit a video audition, please visit our digital submission page and complete the online form to submit a video audition.

If you are submitting a video, record a one-minute monologue on video and read the sides with an off-screen voice. You only need to submit one scene.

We hope to see you at auditions!

Murder on the Orient Express

EQUITY AND NON-EQUITY, PAID

Riverside Center for the Performing Arts will now be accepting auditions submission for AEA (Guest Artist) and non-Equity actors for its upcoming production of: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS

LOCATION

  • 95 Riverside Pkwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22406

PERSONNEL:

  • Patrick A’Hearn: Producing Artistic Director

  • Anita Gonzalez: Director

DATES

  • August 14 - September 8, 2024
    Rehearsals will begin in July

INFORMATION

1 short one-minute monologue performed with broad character gestures. 

  • You may be asked to be asked to return the same day (May 14) to attend a callback from 4-6pm to read sides for characters with and without accents. 

SEEKING

We are considering all races and ethnic types for broadly drawn character roles based upon European and American personalities. All ethnicities and genders are invited to audition.

  • Hercule Poirot (lead character). Middle aged Belgian detective with a tenacious personality.

  • Michel Conductor/Head Waiter – Frenchman. Around 40.  Efficient and professional. A bit of a worrywart.      (open casting) 

  • Miss Mary Debenham. English. Ingenue. Late twenties. (open casting)

  • Mrs. Hubbard. American. In her 50s. A flamboyant Woman 

  • Hector McQueen. American. Thirties and nervous (open casting) 

  • Monsieur Bouc. Belgian. In his 50s pleasant and outgoing. 

  • Princess Dragonmiroff. Russian. In her Seventies. Gaudy. (open gender) 

  • Greta Ohlsson. Swedish. In her thirties Plain, sharp and mousy. Once a missionary, once a governess. 

  • Colonel Arbuthnot. Scottish. Mid Thirties. Doubles as Ratchett. American. Middle aged brusque businessman.     Double cast as Samuel Ratchett.

  • Countess Andreyni. Hungarian. In her twenties. Known as a fairytale beauty. Impeccable. Married a Count.