Free Theatre Casting Calls, Props Exchange & Indie Resources

Free

Three free public-facing services maintained regardless of whether the user is a paying client.

The Casting Calls Newsletter is a free weekly roundup of every independent theatre audition we can find across Sydney, Montreal, and New York. The Resource Exchange is a free directory of set, props, costumes, and rehearsal materials being passed between productions. The Free Resources Index is a maintained library of operational guides and reference material.

Casting Calls Newsletter — free

A free weekly newsletter of every independent theatre audition in Sydney, Montreal, and New York.

Intake

Two flows:

To read:

• Email subscription via the site
• Double opt-in
• Three-click unsubscribe

To be listed:

• Structured submission form
• Free
• Editorially reviewed before publication

Editorial standards

Submissions are returned with notes if they:

• Lack a casting contact
• Lack clear payment status
• Frame unpaid work as "exposure"
• Lack role descriptions or submission requirements

Process

• Submission window closes Sunday midnight each week
• Editorial curation runs Monday
• Newsletter sends Tuesday morning

Listings go live on the site immediately on acceptance and remain archived after the audition deadline passes.

Deliverables

Surfaces:

• Weekly newsletter — Tuesdays
• Live page per city
• Per-listing detail page
• RSS feed per city (optional)
• Weekly social cross-post tile (optional)

Per-listing schema:

• show-title
• producing-entity
• role-summary — one to three sentences per role
• audition-deadline
• audition-location — and whether remote tape is accepted
• rehearsal-period
• performance-dates
• payment-status — paid / profit-share / unpaid / stipend
• union-status — MEAA / UDA / AEA / Equity (UK)
• accessibility-provisions
• apply-link

Resource Exchange — free

A directory of set, props, costumes, and rehearsal materials being passed between productions. Plus referrals to third-party services that redirect corporate event waste into theatre use.

Intake

• Item description, condition, dimensions if relevant
• Item photograph
• Collection window — by when the item must be picked up
• Pickup location
• Contact method
• Production of origin (optional)

Process

Listings are moderated as they come in. Stale listings are expired after 30 days or the collection window, whichever comes first.

Deliverables

Per-listing schema:

• item-description
• item-photograph
• collection-window
• pickup-location
• contact-method
• production-of-origin (optional)

Third-party referrals (organisations that redirect corporate event waste into theatre use):

• Sydney — Mismatch, Reverse Garbage
• Montreal — Écoscéno
• New York — Materials for the Arts, Build It Green!NYC

Free Resources Index — free

A maintained library of operational guides and reference material for independent theatre.

Process

• New guides, interviews, and case studies added quarterly
• Existing guides reviewed annually for currency, particularly city-specific information (free listing platforms, sustainability partners)

Deliverables

Operational guides:

• how-to-write-an-audition-notice
• public-liability-101 — what to ask, where to start
• free-listing-platforms-by-city
• marketing-checklist-for-indie-productions
• intimacy-coordination-and-fight-direction-by-city

Written work:

• essays-on-theatre-marketing
• interviews-with-independent-practitioners
• case-studies-from-our-own-producing-years
• resource-exchange-write-ups

Out of scope

• Editorial discretion is final. Listings that fail standards are returned with notes; we don't negotiate over listings that frame unpaid work as exposure or omit casting contact information
• Productions with publicly known unresolved harm or safety issues are not listed
• The free layer is not a free version of paid services — it is editorial infrastructure for the wider independent theatre scene

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