For Artists
Casting
Equity Principal Auditions for the 26/27 Season at McCarter Theatre will take place in March 2026. NYC EPAs will be held on Friday, March 13th at the AEA Audition Center located at 165 West 46th Street. Local Princeton EPAs will be held on Thursday, March 19th and Friday, March 20th at McCarter Theatre Center.
Only members of Actors Equity Association may make appointments for the EPAs. If you are not a member of AEA, you may attend these auditions as a walk-in and will be seen as time permits. We encourage everyone to attend!
For more information and to sign up for an audition appointment, please click here.
We will not be accepting any digital or video submissions this year.
We are not actively seeking stage managers for the 26/27 Season, but we welcome submissions. Please submit for future consideration. We especially encourage stage managers who are local to the Princeton area to submit. Please submit your resume for future consideration to Laura Sperling, Production Manager at production@mccarter.org. The deadline for submissions is June 1st, 2026.
Youth Ensemble Auditions for A Christmas Carol 2026 are expected to be held in September. The auditions in March do not include the Youth roles in A Christmas Carol. Please monitor this page for future audition opportunities.
Scripts
McCarter employs a search rather than submission method when scouting new work. We do not accept submissions. This includes submissions from agents, writers, and other theater artists. We believe a more focused and directed approach benefits both McCarter and the artists we serve.
McCarter is committed to nurturing new plays and artists through commissions, readings, workshops, retreats, and productions. We identify new artists by carefully following the work around us through contact with other theaters, festivals, graduate programs and playwright development organizations, and through conversations with our colleagues around the country. If the project fits our needs and we believe it may be a possible fit for development or production in the next few seasons, we will respond with a request to read the script.