MADAME X AUDITIONS

WHAT: Auditions for Madame X
WHEN: Saturday, February 21, 2026 starting at 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Tapestry studios, 2015 E. Riverside Dr, Austin, Texas

By appointment ONLY. To schedule, email auditions@austinshakespeare.org with interest, headshot, and resume. Monologues may be memorized or can be read with familiarity. Welcoming all ethnicities and genders. Age is a matter of appearance.

Madame X (staged reading)

Madame X, the story of the creation of the John Singer Sargent painting, will be a Staged reading at KMFA Studio on March 21-22 performances. Rehearsals begin March 14, 2025. Four roles available. All non-Equity cast.

Roles available: (all roles are ages 20-30's)

VIRGINIE GAUTREAU the Madame X of the title. Age 23. Strong angular features, Oftentimes cold, but flirtatious in her fashion.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT Age 25. The portrait painter before his success. An American brought up in Europe. Unusually intense gaze.
BEN DEL CASTILLO, his friend: age 27. the quintessential Italian of breeding. A fellow of independent means. The most sanguine of men; a gossip at times; a manipulator at heart.
VIOLET PAGET (nom de plume: Vernon Lee) about the same age. Friend of Sargent's since childhood. A gadfly. Witty: called her contemporaries a female: Oscar Wilde.

Austin Shakespeare holds auditions periodically throughout our season in addition to a general audition at the onset of each season. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, gender expression, age, ancestry, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status in any of its activities or operations. We welcome you to submit links to your head shot, resume, and monologue/reels you would like to share with us. Submitting this form will place you on our auditions mailing list.