Recruiting for Actors for The Wizard of Oz
We are looking for some wonderful, resilient, funny and friendly actors to join us for our Summer 2025 outdoor tour of our original adaption of The Wizard of Oz
The Roles
Actor-Musician (Multirole)
Essential Skills/Experience
Chordal Instrument - Highly Proficient (ideally accordion but open to others)
Good comedic instincts
Ability to Multirole
Desirable
Experience of outdoor touring
Trainee Actor
We are delighted to be running our trainee actor scheme for the second time.
This is a role reserved for a West Midlands based actor with limited professional experience or training. We are also opening this opportunity to more established actors with no outdoor theatre experience.
Desirable Skills/Experience
Ability to multirole
Good comedic instincts
Even better if!
Ability to play an instrument and/or sing
Dates
Rehearsals:
W/C Monday 23rd June
W/C Monday 30th June
W/C Monday 7th July (including day-off on Thurs 10th and first performance on Sunday 13th July)
Tour Dates:
W/C Monday 14th July
W/C Monday 21st July
BREAK WEEK
W/C Monday 4th August - only required Wednesday 6th August
W/C Monday 11th August
Fees
Both roles will receive a weekly fee of £523 for three weeks of rehearsals and three weeks of tour. They will receive an additional day rate of £104 for Wednesday 6th August and any additional days booked.
Currently the contract total comes to £3242, the final amount will be confirmed at the point of offer.
Where holiday days cannot be taken within the contract, this will be paid in lieu at the end.
There is no relocation budget for rehearsals, as such these roles are only open to actors with a West Midlands base, able to commute to Birmingham.
Accommodation and Travel will be provided by the company on tour and a small meal allowance provided where appropriate.
Paperback Theatre are proud to be signatories of Equity’s Charter for Outdoor Theatre, and all schedules, pay and per diems will be calculated in accordance with this.
How to apply
Please send a CV/Spotlight link & headshot + a short covering note detailing your interest in the project to paperbacktheatre@gmail.com by 5pm, Friday 11th April
If successful, we’ll invite you to send us a short tape, and final in-person auditions will take place in Birmingham on Saturday 26th April.