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Audition Opportunities

Audition times, sign-up links, and casting information will be posted two to four weeks before each audition. If cast, performers must commit to every tech rehearsal, preview, and performance for the show, and as many regular rehearsals as possible.

General Audition Form

Upcoming Auditions

Akeelah and the Bee

Mainstage

Auditions: November 24-26, 2024

Performances:  February 7-23, 2025

Akeelah has a crazy passion for words: the more abstruse and labyrinthine, the better. But this gift is almost overwhelmed by the challenge of her daily life in a tough, Chicago neighborhood. Akeelah’s aptitude earns her a spot in the National Spelling Bee, which inspires the people in her neighborhood with her courage and tenacity.

Director: Ashley Levells

Character Descriptions can be found HERE

What to Prepare: Please prepare a 1 minute monologue to perform for auditions. Callbacks will consist of readings from the script.

Please complete this FORM

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Next to Normal

Mainstage

Auditions: December 9 – 10, 2024
Callbacks: December 12, 2024 6:30-9:30. Callback notifications will go out via email December 11.
Callbacks may be held off site – tbd
Auditions are open to performers ages 15+

Performances: March 14-30, 2025

Dad’s an architect; Mom rushes to pack lunches and pour cereal; their daughter and son are bright, wise-cracking teens, appearing to be a typical American family. And yet their lives are anything but normal because the mother has been battling bipolar disorder for 16 years. Next to Normal takes audiences into the minds and hearts of each character, presenting their family’s story with love, sympathy and heart.

Director: Jenn Dobby

Music Director: Julie Johnson

Thank you for your interest in auditioning for NEXT TO NORMAL!  

Please carefully include all known conflicts within your audition form, and note that any changes to availability will need to be approved after initial conflicts have been communicated.

Reach out to Director Jenn Dobby with any questions – jdobby@carrollu.edu 

What to Prepare: 

  • Prep 32 bars, or a 1-minute cut, of any contemporary song that best shows off your vocal ability
  • Bring sheet music with you in the key in which you plan to sing (and be sure it’s not just a melody line, but is actually piano accompaniment) 
  • If you’d prefer to audition holding your sheet music, memorization is not required (though advanced familiarity with the cut is expected)
  • If possible, refrain from singing songs from the production itself, and from singing acapella

Rehearsals: Rehearsals start Monday, January 6 and will generally take place Monday-Thursday from 6:30-9:00 p.m., and some Sundays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. (when necessary, due to weather.)

Character descriptions can be found HERE

Please be sure to complete the Actor Comfort Survey along with your audition form, which will outline multiple content warnings and intended intimacy moments. The form can be found HERE

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Black Box Production

Auditions: January 14-16, 2025

Performances: Feb 28-March 9, 2025

Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, PA, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. Suddenly, their movie-star sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike. Old resentments flare up, eventually leading to threats to sell the house. Also on the scene are sassy maid Cassandra, who can predict the future, and a lovely young aspiring actress named Nina, whose prettiness somewhat worries the imperious Masha.

Director: Mary Rynders

Enchanted April

Auditions: March 4 – 6, 2025

Performances: May 2 – 18, 2025

From the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim. Feeling lost in the shadows of marriage and forgotten in the rush of 1920s post-war society, two London housewives pool their savings to rent a villa in Italy for a ladies-only holiday away, reluctantly recruiting a pair of difficult upper-class women to share the cost and the experience. Together under the Mediterranean sun, the four women clash—and then begin to bond and bloom—until men once again upset the balance.

Director: Mark Nuefang

Audition info and signup coming soon!

The 39 Steps

Auditions: April 15 – 16

Peformances: June 6 – 22

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have The 39 Steps, a hilariously fast-paced whodunit for anyone who loves the magic of theatre! This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning treat is packed with nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters (played by a ridiculously talented cast of four), an onstage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers, and some good old-fashioned romance!

Director: Laura Kloser (assisted by Rhonda Schmidt)

Audition info and signup coming soon!

Commitment to Diversity and Equity

WCT is committed to increasing representation of our whole community on our WCT stage, artistic teams, staff, and volunteer groups, and are dedicated to creating a safe, respectful, and equitable workplace for all. 

We acknowledge that while we have come a long way to become equitable and accessible to our community with disabilities, and have proudly provided opportunities of leadership for all gender identities, we have not yet had a proportionate cultural representation and equity in our theatre and we are working intentionally to improve. 

If you are interested in joining the Diversity and Equitable Practices Committee, please reach out.