AUDITIONS: Murder at the Faerie Ball

YAM Productions is enchanted to announce auditions for our third annual murder mystery: Murder at the Faerie Ball by Megan Fraedrich! (Direction by Brianna Lau.)

All roles are unpaid volunteer roles, and nothing has been pre-cast. This production is co-produced by YAM Productions and Centreville Regional Library. This is designed to be a fun, lower-stress production, and we have performed to full houses for the last two years. We hope to see you at auditions!

Auditions

Auditions will be 7pm-8:30pm in Centreville Regional Library Conference Room on Monday, June 22. They will consist of readings from the script. You do not need to register in advance. Please let us know when you arrive if you have any time constraints that we need to be cognizant of.

There's an option for virtual auditions as well. Please record video yourself performing 1-3 selections from this document and complete this audition form by June 22 at 10pm. There is a spot on the audition form for you to share a link to your video(s) on Google Drive, YouTube, or similar. Please reach out to yamproductions.director@gmail.com if you have any questions.

Characters

Mara Kay Dross: Fantasy author, awful person, very litigious (F)

Terry Fyde: Her personal assistant

Libby Card: The librarian, extremely harassed (Alternate name: Dewey)

Phil Anders: Mara’s ex-boyfriend and a plumber (M)

Lavender Prose: Gnomance novelist (F)

Katrina Grace Parker-Thompson: Booktokker with a huge following, @KatReads (Alternate name: Chet)

Adonis Blue: cosplayer who is only ever asked to cosplay as King Philander despite his many other costumes and skills (M)

Frannie Filkes: massive fan as a restraining order (Alternative name : Danny)

Desiree de Tuit: Cozy bookstore owner (Alternate name: Desmond)

Rehearsals

We will build a rehearsal schedule around actor/space availability with once or twice weekly rehearsals at Centreville Library. The possible rehearsal blocks are:

• Monday, July 6: 7pm-9pm

• Monday, July 13: 7pm-9pm

• Monday, July 27: 7pm-9pm (Centreville Library not available; would be elsewhere in Centreville/Chantilly if scheduled)

• Monday, August 3: 7pm-9pm

• Wednesday, August 5: 7pm-9pm

• Saturday, August 8: 10am-6pm (We will select a 2-3 hour block from this window to rehearse.)

• Monday, August 10: 7pm-9pm

• Wednesday, August 12: 7pm-9pm

• Saturday, August 15: 10am-6pm (We will select a roughly 3 hour block from this window to rehearse and take photos.)

• Saturday, August 22: 11am-2:30pm

• Monday, August 24: 7pm-9pm

• Wednesday, August 26: 7pm-9pm

• Saturday, August 29 - anticipated 1pm call, 2pm start, ending around 3:30pm *FIRST PERFORMANCE*

• Saturday, September 5 - anticipated 1pm call, 2pm start, ending around 3:30pm *SECOND PERFORMANCE*

Performances

Performances will be two consecutive Saturdays August 29 and September 5 at 2pm. These performances are open to the public, free to patrons, and are an official library program.