Professional Auditions
NON-UNION PROFESSIONAL AUDITIONS
Theater Emory is the producing affiliate of Theater Studies within the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. Theater Emory, offering performances during the academic school years since the late 1980s, primarily utilizes and showcases student actors in its Fall and Spring productions. However, non-union acting professionals are invited to audition for certain roles where appropriate.
When professional actors are included in the Theater’s productions, they are encouraged to take part in group activities with students and faculty, including special skills workshops, text study sessions, group warm-ups, and post production activities.
Theater Emory 2024-2025 Season
NON-UNION PROFESSIONAL AUDITIONS FOR SPRING 2025 PRODUCTION OF:
THEATER EMORY PRO AUDITION NOTICE
Callbacks:
- STATIC HEAD: Sunday, October 27 at 5 PM.-8 PM.
- LYSISTRATA: Monday, October 28, 5 pm.-9 pm.
- Those called back may not be needed for this entire time but will likely be needed for a 60-90 minute time slot.
PREPARATION:
- Prepare a contemporary mid-20th century to current monologue of one to two minutes in length. If you have any musical ability, dance training, play an instrument, etc, please be prepared to share your talent in the audition, up to one minute in length total. Singing can be a capella-no accompanist provided.
- Please upload your headshot, your resume, and complete audition information online through the Audition Google Form:
- PLEASE FILL OUT THE GOOGLE AUDITION FORM (LINK ABOVE) PRIOR TO SIGNING UP FOR YOUR 8-MNUTE TIME SLOT.
- You may also bring two pictures and resume stapled together, but online submission is preferred.
- Please review scripts for content. Please be advised these scripts are works in progress. Please do not share with others.
CASTING COORDINATOR: ROSALIND STAIB
LOCATION FOR AUDITIONS AND CALLBACKS
Rich Memorial Building, Room 210
Located at 1602 Fishburne Dr., across from the Fishburne Parking Deck (Park in Visitors’ Parking at Fishburne Deck. Parking is free on weekends.) For more information on parking and visiting our Emory Campus, click here: https://theater.emory.edu/stage/plan-your-visit.html
Emory University Main Campus, Atlanta, GA 30322
Have questions? Email: teauditions@gmail.com
Project / Character Descriptions
- STATIC HEAD by RYAN STEVENS
A WORKSHOP
Performances: February 20, 7:30 PM; February 21, 7:30 PM; February 22, 2:00 PM; February 22, 7:30 PM; February 23, 2:00 PM
Non-union Actor Pay: $575/week for 5 weeks
Director:Ibi Owolabi: https://www.ibiowolabi.com
First rehearsal: January 21, 202 6 PM
Performances: Location/Venue: Theater Lab, Schwartz Center, 1700 North Decatur Rd., Atlanta, GA 30322, Emory University campus
Overview/Description:
Static Head follows engineering students at a technological academy as concerns and confusion begin to take hold of the campus when students who are no longer a part of this mortal coil suddenly start posting on a TikTok analog app. This paranoid sci-fi tale is about technology and how it changes us as organisms.
Cast Size: 8
We expect 1 or 2 professional actors to join the cast, however, students will be considered for all roles.
*All gender identities, ethnicities, body types, and abilities encouraged to audition
Non-union Pro Roles available:
- Dr. Priscilla Osman - F. Early to mid-40s. Headmaster at Osman-Haskill Advanced Computing Academy. Warm, and obfuscating.
- Eliza Babbage - F. Late 20s, early 30s. Dr. Osman’s assistant. Brilliant, but simmering.
- LYSISTRATA by ARISTOPHANES
Lucy’s Strategy- The Imperfect Union: Atlanta’s Stolen Erection –
New Performance Translation by David van Schoor
With Original Music by Eugene H. Russell IV
Performances:
- Week One: April 10, 11, & 12 at 7:30 pm., April 13 at 2:00 pm
- Week Two: April 16, 17, 18, & 19 at 7:30 pm
Non-union Actor Pay: $575/week for 8 weeks (no rehearsals during Emory’s Spring Break, March 10-14, 2025)
Director:Park Krausen: website: parkkrausen.com
with Original Music by Eugene H. Russell IV
Intimacy Choreographer: Kayla Ibarra
First rehearsal: February 25, 2025 (No rehearsals during Emory’s Spring Break, March 10-14, 2025)
Performances: Location/Venue: Mary Gray Munroe Theater, AMUC, Emory Campus
630 Means Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322
Overview/Description:
Aristophanes’ classic comedy is an account of a woman's extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city-states by denying all the men of the land any sex. This new performance translation sets the play in a fictional American South. We are working on a new, living, breathing translation currently in rewrites and thus subject to change. Character names are changed from the Greek. Production will have original music composed and performed by a musician who is also part of the cast (the musician has been cast already).
Lizaor Lucy (Lysistrata in the original) is an Atlanta woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in the Southern City States. Lysistrata gathers the women of Alabama, Florida, and Atlanta together to solve these social ills and finds success and power in her quest by requesting the women withhold sex from their husbands/partners/lovers so they will stop the fighting.
A Note about Lysistrata’s bawdy nature: At its core, Lysistrata is an antiwar, pro-peace play where sex is analogous with peace and the giving life while at war is about absence, abstinence and the taking of life. The message is delivered in a raucous, bawdy ancient Greek text, translated into an English that honors the original. Both on the page and on the stage, it may be disturbing for some while hilarious for others. The intention in rehearsal will be to create a bold space together, in the spirit of curiosity, generosity, respect and exploration. The performers all roleplay to interrogate power dynamics in gender, sex, place and social status. There are explicit and implicit references to sex, violence, and threats of violence. It is all in the language and potentially in stylized movement. There will be no actual nudity. This is an R rated comedy.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN (All subject to change):
- Cast Size: 16 (12-13 Emory students plus 2 non-union pro actors, 1 pro musician (musician already cast).
- We expect 3 professional actors to join the cast, however, students will be considered for all roles.
- Women and men as they appear on the page can played by any person, gender, presentation, manifestation.
*All gender identities, ethnicities, body types, and abilities encouraged to audition
Musicians (Novice and expert) are strongly encouraged to audition.
Non-union Pro Roles available:
- Head of the Old Men’s Chorus -a stubborn and rather grouchy fellow, leads the Chorus of Old Men.
- Peace/Other characters/Head of the Old Women’s Chorus -Dancer/mover-Like the Head of the Men’s Chorus, she leads the Chorus of Old Women around. The Old Women’s Chorus leads a successful seizure of the capital/treasury and outwits the men in every possible way.
Theater Emory is the producing affiliate of Theater Studies within the Department of Theater and Dance at Emory University. Theater Emory, offering performances during the academic school years since the late 1980s, primarily utilizes and showcases student actors in its Fall and Spring productions. However, non-union acting professionals are invited to audition for certain roles where appropriate.
When professional actors are included in the Theater’s productions, they are encouraged to participate in group activities with students and faculty, including special skills workshops, text study sessions, group warm-ups, and post-production activities.
Upon hiring, pro actors must be processed through the Emory University payroll system to receive compensation. This requires submitting personal and tax information through an online system and also requires a background check through the Emory University police department [POSSIBLE INSERT] as well as provide proof of Covid-19 Vaccinaction and booster. If hired, be prepared to submit all information online in a timely fashion to ensure timely payment of salary.
THEATER EMORY REHEARSALS:
Theater Emory productions typically rehearse a 5-day week with Sundays and Mondays off (but Sundays are used during tech and performance). Rehearsals can happen Tuesday-Friday, between 6 pm.-10 pm., and Saturdays from 10 am.-7 pm., however actors will not be called for every rehearsal, and each production will have different days and rehearsal hours within those times listed above based on the needs of the production. We schedule rehearsals around your class/work conflicts as much as possible however, as we near performance dates there is little flexibility and actors must make themselves fully available to rehearse.
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