Actor/Interpreter - Lantern Lights (Seasonal)
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Mystic Seaport Museum
Stonington, CT, US
Summary
Performers will alternate between scripted plays, solo readings, and educational talks while dressed in period costume. They are expected to participate in rehearsals and perform during scheduled holiday-themed events.
Job Description
Description
Mystic Seaport Museum is seeking seasonal non-union actor/interpreters for the Museum’s Lantern Lights Holiday theatrical programming in Mystic, CT.
Lantern Lights – Actors will alternate between scripted plays/solo readings, and scripted interpretive/educational talks on various holiday-themed topics. Performers will be dressed in period costume circa 1876.
Performances are Thursday – Sunday December 3rd through December 20th, with additional performances on 12/21, 12/22, and 12/23. There are options for performing two out of four nights, or all four nights. Call times may be as early as 1:00PM. Work day is 2:30PM - 8:00PM.
Rehearsals begin in October.
Auditions are the week of September 21st. Ability and willingness to work evenings, weekends, and in all weather conditions is required. For a full list of audition times, please see below. You will be contacted by the director to confirm your audition time. In your application, please note times you are available to audition.
Audition Times:
? Monday, September 21st: 5:30PM-9:00PM in 30 minute slots (ex. 6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm, etc)
? Tuesday, September 22nd: 5:30PM-9:00PM in 30 minute slots (ex. 6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm, etc)
? Wednesday, September 23rd: 5:30PM-9:00PM in 30 minute slots (ex. 6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm, etc)
? Thursday, September 24th: 5:30PM-9:00PM in 30 minute slots (ex. 4:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:00pm, etc)
? Friday, September 25th: 6:00pm-9:00PM in 30 minute slots (ex. 6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm, etc)
For the audition, please prepare:
? A 1-2 minute monologue, either classic or modern, dramatic or comedic. Memorized.
? 16-32 bars of music, a capella. 19th-century Christmas Carols preferred.
? You do not need to prepare a dance; a 19th-c. dance will be taught to you at the audition.
Requirements
? Must be at least eighteen years of age
? Previous acting/public speaking experience
? Willing to work weekends and evenings throughout October, November, and December.
? Willing to work outdoors and in all weather conditions, including rain, wind, snow, and cold.
? Knowledge of historical reenactment a plus
? Experience with improvisation a plus
Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s largest maritime museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.
The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT and include a recreated 19th century coastal village, a working shipyard, exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest commercial ship still in existence.
With a full-time staff of 150 that swells to 350 during the summer season, the Museum hosts over 250,000 visitors annually. Mystic Seaport employs a diverse staff of scholars, librarians, historic interpreters, educators, scientists, musicians, and skilled artisans.
A stroll through the historic village transports visitors back to the mid-1800s where they can experience firsthand from staff historians, storytellers, musicians, and craftspeople just what life was like to earn one's living from the sea. In the Henry B. du Pont Preservation Shipyard, they can watch shipwrights keeping the skills and techniques of traditional shipbuilding alive as they restore and maintain the Museum’s watercraft collection.
The Museum’s 41,000 sq. ft. Collections Research Center (CRC) offers access to more than 2 million artifacts and is also home to the G.W. Blunt White Library, a 75,000-volume research library where scholars from around the world come to study America’s maritime history.
For more than 80 years, visitors, students, and scholars have turned to Mystic Seaport to preserve and interpret America’s maritime experience. The Museum’s commitment to that mission is as strong as ever.
Founded
1929
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Museum
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Mystic, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport Museum is the nation’s largest maritime museum. Founded in 1929 to gather and preserve the rapidly disappearing artifacts of America’s seafaring past, the Museum has grown to become a national center for research and education with the mission to inspire an enduring connection to the American maritime experience.
The Museum’s grounds cover 19 acres on the Mystic River in Mystic, CT and include a recreated 19th century coastal village, a working shipyard, exhibit halls, and state-of-the-art artifact storage facilities. The Museum is home to more than 500 historic watercraft, including four National Historic Landmark vessels, most notably the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan, America’s oldest commercial ship still in existence.
With a full-time staff of 150 that swells to 350 during the summer season, the Museum hosts over 250,000 visitors annually. Mystic Seaport employs a diverse staff of scholars, librarians, historic interpreters, educators, scientists, musicians, and skilled artisans.
A stroll through the historic village transports visitors back to the mid-1800s where they can experience firsthand from staff historians, storytellers, musicians, and craftspeople just what life was like to earn one's living from the sea. In the Henry B. du Pont Preservation Shipyard, they can watch shipwrights keeping the skills and techniques of traditional shipbuilding alive as they restore and maintain the Museum’s watercraft collection.
The Museum’s 41,000 sq. ft. Collections Research Center (CRC) offers access to more than 2 million artifacts and is also home to the G.W. Blunt White Library, a 75,000-volume research library where scholars from around the world come to study America’s maritime history.
For more than 80 years, visitors, students, and scholars have turned to Mystic Seaport to preserve and interpret America’s maritime experience. The Museum’s commitment to that mission is as strong as ever.
Founded
1929
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Museum
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Mystic, Connecticut
