Student Auditions

THEATER EMORY   

EMORY STUDENT AUDITIONS FOR SPRING 2025 PRODUCTIONS OF  

STATIC HEAD (A WORKSHOP) 
&  
LYSISTRATA  
A New Performance translation by David van Schoor 

AUDITION DATES: 
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 10 AM.-5 PM. 
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 11 AM.-2 PM. 

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 1 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: 
  
  
• Audition Sign-Up   
• PLEASE FILL OUT THE GOOGLE AUDITION FORM (LINK ABOVE) PRIOR TO SIGNING UP FOR YOUR 8-MINUTE TIME SLOT.  

•  You may also bring two pictures and a 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    

1. 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 

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. 

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN (Subject to change): 

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   

 Roles available:   

Cast Size: 8 We expect 1 or 2 professional actors to join the cast, however, students will be considered for all roles.  

• Aimee - F. Largely uninterested in online, but social and sociable. Righteously angry most of the time, lately. 

• Also plays Wendy - Aimee’s twin sister. 

• Paige - F. Serial lurker online, borderline-hermit offline. 

• Blair - M. Type A. Affable online presence, but pitiful follower count. Self-described born leader. 

•  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.  

• Dorothy - F. Paige’s roommate. Thought she was an overachiever, now just a workaholic. 

• Ben - M. Fellow student, fast-talking and persuasive. Presents as laid-back but always attentive. 

• The Shape- F. A digital something that has a teenage girl’s face. 

• The Hornet – Great and Terrible. Stalking, babbling, hungry 

2. LYSISTRATA by ARISTOPHANES
   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 

Director:Park Krausen:  website: parkkrausen.com 

with Original Music by Eugene H. Russell IV 

Intimacy Choreographer: Kayla Ibarra 

First rehearsal: February 25, 2025 (Please note: there will be 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 students, 3 possible pros). Most will be members of the Chorus (very important part of any Greek play!) and will also play other named characters. 

• 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 

• Lucy  Waugh (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.  She is a great Orator.  

• Victoria (Kleonike in the original) is Lucy’s next-door neighbor and is the first to show up at Lysistrata's meeting of women. She loves high fashion and negliées.   

• Jolene (Myrrhine in the original)-perhaps the second strongest woman in the play. She creatively seduces her husband, Ryder but she refuses sex with him at the last minute. 

• Brittany or Emmy Lou– (Lampito of Sparta in the original) –Representative of Florida Ms. Florida. She is a strong, well-built woman. An Athlete.  She brings women from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and New Orleans into Lucy’s plan 

• Miss Mississippi (Ismenia is a Boitian)curvy and keeps her nether regions beautifully manicured.  Possibly non-speaking role 

• Miss Orleans (Korinthian Girl in the original)-She accompanies Mississippi and Emmy Lou to Lucy’s meeting and is known for her vast posterior bodily feature. 

• Guard-The guard offers her flag or shield up for the women to make a sacrifice upon. 

• Old Men’s Chorus Leader*-a stubborn and rather grouchy fellow, leads the Chorus of Old Men around Athens. (possible pro role) 

• Chorus of Old Men-The Chorus of Old Men live up to their title; the chorus is made up of twelve old men who teeter around Athens attempting to keep the women in line. Although, unsuccessful in their civic duties, the Chorus of Old Men strike up some fantastical misogynistic melodies and are a generally comedic element of the play. 

• Old Women’s Chorus Leader-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. (possible pro role) 

• Chorus of Old Women-The Chorus of Old Women seizes and then protects the capital/treasury from the Chorus of Old Men. The Chorus of Old Women, although frail, fights to the last with the men and finds victory in the end. 

• Floridan Diplomat or Ambassador 

• Atlanta State Senator -is the head of security and law in Atlanta, but is completely overwhelmed by the women and disguises himself as a woman as well. Lucy hashes out a plan for Atlanta and peace in the entire region, but he is slow on the uptake 

• Senator’s Body Guard-humiliated again and again by the women. It takes very little to scare them off 

• Ryder (based on Kinesias)  Atlantan.  Georgia Congressman/Foreign Secretary-Jolene’s husband Ryder is the first man we specifically meet who is affected by the sex strike and shows up on the scene with a major erection.  
• Peace/Reunion* – The Deus Ex Machina (likely played by a pro who is a professional dancer-possibly doubles with Head of the Old Women’s or Men’s Chorus)- Lucy’s handmaid whom she puts on display with a drawn map of the sibling states who are at war.  Lucy uses her during her final plea for peace between Atlanta and Florida.  The men aroused and uncomfortable, quickly move to discuss the terms of a truce over Peace’s body.
     

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.       

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.