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Fall 2026 Auditions
Big Love by Charles L. Mee
About Big Love: Blending myth, comedy, and brutality, Charles Mee’s iconic, Big Love (a post-modern riff on Aeschylus’s, The Suppliants) explores freedom, desire, and the costs of resisting tradition, bringing one of our earliest surviving dramas, kicking and screaming, into our own time.
Because this production starts rehearsals prior to the Fall 26 semester, its auditions were held (and its cast determined) at the end of the Spring 26 semester. We are still looking for an Assistant Director for this production! If you're interested, let us know! Additionally, if you'd like to be involved as a stage manager or work backstage or in technical theatre, let us know that too.
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T.I.M.E. (Time, Identity, Memory, and the End of History Illusion) by Nigel Maister (in collaboration with students and community members)
AboutT.I.M.E. (Time, Identity, Memory, and the End of History Illusion): How old are you? And how old do you think you are? Time, and how we perceive, experience, and engage with it determines how we think about who we are and what we are. Be part of the development of a new work for the theatre (to have its world premiere in Spring 27) that will engage, challenge, and explore your own story and make a real impact on how we all see the world!
Auditions are open to everyone.
Audition dates : Friday, September 4 starting at 7 p.m. and Saturday, September 5 starting at noon.
Audition location: Todd Union 107 (Sloan Studio) (first floor, Todd Union)
Audition requirements: Prepare any monologue from any play of your choice! (Or just show up!)
Questions? Contact Nigel FAQs! Audition Tips!
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24th Annual One-Act New Play Festival
Auditions are open to everyone.
Audition dates : Thursday, November 5 at 6pm & Friday, November 6 at 6 p.m.
Audition location: Todd Theatre Lobby (in Todd Union)
Audition requirements: Prepare any monologue of your choice! (Or just show up!)
Questions? Contact Sara FAQs! Audition Tips! More about the Annual One-Act New Play Festival.
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The Secretary by Kyle James Schmidt
- This production performs in the Spring 27 semester but auditions in Fall 26.
About The Secretary: Ruby runs a small-town gun company that aims to protect women by helping them protect themselves. With products like The Bridesmaid, The Babysitter and The Mallwalker, each of the company's guns is named after a woman who used a gun and saved a life—more often than not, her own. When an elderly secretary at the local high school confronts a threat in her office, Ruby names her latest gun after the reluctant hero: The Secretary. But as production begins on The Secretary, guns start going off all around town—and no one’s pulling the trigger. Kyle John Schmidt's contemporary comedy speaks directly to America's obsession with firearms and the NRA's idea that "guns don't kill people; people kill people." A sharp, prescient, and drop-dead funny (you had to go there, didn't you?!) contemporary comedy!
Auditions are open to everyone. [Please NOTE: The Secretary's cast consists only of female-identifying characters.]
Audition dates : Friday, December. 11 starting at 7 p.m. and Saturday, December 12 starting at noon.
Audition location: Todd Theatre Lobby (first floor, Todd Union)
Audition requirements:
- Prepare any comedic monologue from any play of your choice! (Or just show up!)
Questions? Contact Nigel FAQs! Audition Tips!
Spring 2027 Auditions
T.I.M.E. (Time, Identity, Memory, and the End of History Illusion) by Nigel Maister (in collaboration with students and community members)
AboutT.I.M.E. (Time, Identity, Memory, and the End of History Illusion): Audition and be part of the world premiere cast of this groundbreaking, devised new work for the theatre about time, age and who we think we are.
Auditions are open to everyone.
Audition dates : Friday, January 22 starting at 7 p.m. and Saturday, January 23 starting at noon.
Audition location: Todd Theatre Lobby (in Todd Union)
Audition requirements: Prepare any monologue from any play of your choice! (Or just show up!)
Questions? Contact Nigel FAQs! Audition Tips!
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Fall 2027 Audition Schedule (1st production of the Fall only!)
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Auditions are open to everyone.
Audition dates : Friday, April 30 starting at 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 1 starting at noon.
Audition location: Todd Union 107 (Sloan Studio) (first floor, Todd Union)
Audition requirements: Prepare any monologue from any play of your choice! (Or just show up!)
Questions? Contact Nigel FAQs! Audition Tips!
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ACTORS and PERFORMERS of COLOR—We need you!
Theatre is often viewed as a site of privilege and whiteness. The UR International Theatre Program acknowledges this and wants to be part of meaningful change. We know this is an ongoing project, and we want to build on the Theatre Program's record of and commitment to casting students from all communities in key roles over the course of its 34+ years. In addition to staging important works of theatre from BIPOC playwrights like Suzan-Lori Parks, Maria Irene Fornes, Carlyle Brown, Sam Chanse, and Jose Rivera, we're committed to diversifying our artistic staff and faculty. Every production has outstanding roles for all actors, including actors of color, but we still can do better!
Make a contribution to real change: show up and audition! You'll pave the way for more diverse offerings in the Theatre Program and greater enrichment for all at the University of Rochester!