Employment

Actors

Kentucky Shakespeare will hold General Auditions for our 2025 Spring Tour and (Macbeth) 2025 Summer Season of Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Central Park (titles TBA) – Monday, December 9, 4pm-8pm. These are our primary auditions for the season, and one of the best ways for us to get to know actors in the community.

These are professional paid positions. We’re seeking adult actors, based in the Louisville area, who can rehearse and perform during daytime weekday hours. We encourage actors of all backgrounds, races, identities, body types, and genders to audition! Some roles in Macbeth are already cast, as are several positions in the summer company. Titles for the 2025 summer season will be announced in February.

Contract dates for the spring tour are February 3 – May 25, 2025. The summer contract is April 29 – July 27, 2025.

Audition Process – as of Sunday, December 9: please contact Amy (amy@kyshakespeare.com) for information.

    1. Contact Amy.
    2. Send your headshot and resume, in the same PDF document with headshot first, to Associate Artistic Director Amy Attaway, amy@kyshakespeare.com.
    3. Amy will contact you with a five-minute time slot for your audition.
    4. Please prepare two contrasting Shakespeare monologues. The pieces should be fairly short (around a minute each).
    5. On the day of the audition, you’ll see Matt Wallace (Producing Artistic Director), Amy Attaway (Associate Artistic Director), and Crystian Wiltshire (director of the Macbeth tour). They’ll watch your audition, maybe ask you some questions, maybe give you an adjustment on your monologues.
    6. Callbacks, if needed, will take place later the same week. Don’t stress about callbacks, please. If we need to see more from you, we’ll make it as easy as possible.

Associate Artistic Director Amy Attaway (amy@kyshakespeare.com) is happy to answer questions anytime.

 

Technicians
For overhire or summer consideration, please send resumes or inquires to Amy Attaway, Associate Artistic Director.

 

Paid Summer Internships

We offer paid internships in every technical and administrative department of the theatre during the summer season in our Bekki Jo Schneider Intern Company.  Associate Artistic Director Amy Attaway leads the intern company, and she will be happy to answer your questions any time.

The Bekki Jo Schneider Intern Company is an important part of our summer season, and it’s essential to our mission of education and outreach. We are actively seeking interns of diverse backgrounds – race, ethnicity, gender identity and sexual preference, geography, socio-economic status, and all other underrepresented identities. We take seriously our role in developing the next generation of theatre-makers!

Important notes for 2025:

*Acting internships are based on our casting needs each summer and will require an audition.

*We are not able to provide housing for interns this summer.

Intern Application Process

    1. Complete this google form.
    2. Send your resume and a short statement of interest to Associate Artistic Director Amy Attaway, amy@kyshakespeare.com
    3. You will receive a confirmation email when all your materials have been received.
    4. Interviews will take place in February and March, and decisions will be made by the end of March.
    5. The website will indicate when each position is filled; we aren’t able to contact all applicants.