SEEKING: Equity actors for roles in North Carolina Stage Company production of JEEVES AT SEA adapted by Margaret Raether, based on the characters created by PG Wodehouse.
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These are Actors’ Equity Association required show auditions and Equity members are given priority. North Carolina Stage Company operates on a SPT-4 Contract. Non-union actors are welcome to audition.
Performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, ages, and body types, as well as performers with disabilities, are encouraged to submit audition materials.
Dates for rehearsals and productions are listed in Character Breakdowns below.
IN-PERSON AUDITIONS – PREPARATION & APPOINTMENTS:
Please bring your headshot and resume and prepare sides from the script. Sides will be provided when appointment is confirmed.
For appointments, please email [email protected] or call 828-239-0263 between 12noon – 5pm, Wednesday – Friday. Email preferred.
In-Person Audition Day/Times:
Friday, November 20th, 2026
11:30 AM – 7:30 PM (EST)
BREAK: 3:30PM – 4:30PM
In-Person Audition Location:
North Carolina Stage Company
15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801
VIDEO AUDITIONS – PREPARATION & SUBMISSIONS:
If you are unable to attend the in-person auditions, video submissions will be accepted. For video submissions please submit headshot, resume, and private or password protected links of audition videos via the online audition form linked below. Please state your name and the role being auditioned for at the beginning of the submission. Please email [email protected] for specific sides. Video submission deadline is Friday, 11/20/26, 7:30PM EST.
Click here to submit a video audition.
IN-PERSON REHEARSALS & PERFORMANCE LOCATION: North Carolina Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801
For questions, please email [email protected] or call 828-239-0263.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS
JEEVES AT SEA
adapted by Margaret Raether, based on the characters created by PG Wodehouse
Director: Angie Flynn-McIver
Production Dates: 7 Week Contract – Rehearses 1/12/27, Previews 2/03/27, Opens 2/06/27, Closes 2/28/27
BERTIE WOOSTER
20s-40s. British. A good-natured man with more money than sense. On a yacht cruise, he ends up pretending to be a romance novelist and gets pulled into his friend Crumpet’s trouble.
JEEVES
40s-60s. British. Bertie’s imperturbable valet, composed, quietly brilliant, and always several steps ahead of the chaos unfolding around him.
LADY STELLA VANDERLEY
she/her, 20s-40s. British. Lively, quick-witted hostess of the yacht, fond of Bertie despite, or because of, his flaws, and never shy about telling him so. Quick-witted and outspoken.
SIR PERCIVAL “CRUMPET” CRUMPWORTH / ALFRED CRUMPWORTH
he/him, 20s-40s. British. Bertie’s old friend. After an embarrassing run-in with a prince, he pretends to be his own long-lost twin brother. Doubles as Crumpet and the twin.
COUNT OTTO VON DIETRICHSTEIN
he/him, 30s–50s. European. A foreign count who arrives on the yacht with a grudge against Crumpet and an interest in Miss Pilbeam.
MISS PILBEAM
she/her, 40-60s. British. Lady Stella’s proper, watchful companion, whose composed exterior hides a past connection to the Count that resurfaces to complicate matters further.
