The Milford Arts Council’s Eastbound Theatre will host auditions June 8-11 for East/West PlayFest 2025, a festival of short original plays. The auditions will be June 8 and 9 at Westport Community Theatre, 110 Myrtle Ave. in Westport, and June 10 and 11 at the Margaret Egan Center at 35 Matthews St. in Milford. Auditions begin at 7 p.m. at each location.
Co-produced by the MAC’s Eastbound Theatre in Milford and Westport Community Theatre, the festival of five original works will be presented with two 4 p.m. matinee performances July 12 and 13 at the Milford Historical Society, and repeated the following weekend with two evening shows at 7:30 p.m. July 18 and 19 at Westport Community Theatre.
The short plays featured in this year’s festival are: “Candy Store” by James McLindon of Northampton, Massachusetts; “Timeshare” by Judy Klass of Nashville, Tennessee; “Letter to the Editor, 1971” by Brian Cox of Ypsilanti, Michigan; “The Actress” by Ryan Kaminski of Flemington, New Jersey; and “Hello” by Dana Leslie Goldstein of Brooklyn, New York.
Actors will be reading from the scripts which have male and female roles for performers from their 20s through their 70s. Resumes and headshots are preferred but not required.
For more information about the East/West PlayFest 2025, contact the Milford Arts Council/Eastbound Theatre at 203-878-6647 or visit milfordarts.org/about-eastbound-theatre.