Upcoming Auditions for Season 117
AUDITIONS: September 14 & 15, 2025
Talk Radio by Eric Bogosian: On-air radio personality Barry Champlain likes to push buttons -- and the envelope. The talk show host has gained popularity by being controversial, and now his show is going national. But as Barry enjoys his professional success, his personal life is unraveling. He is still battling with his ex-wife, and also receiving sizable amounts of hate mail. When Barry hits the airwaves for a lengthy session, he gets a deranged caller who just may prove to be his match.
AUDITIONS: October 26, 27 & 28
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee by Rachel Sheinkin & William Finn: An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
Show Casts for Season 117
Cast: June 2025
Dancing at Lughnasa: Winner of the 1992 Tony Award® for Best Play.
Set during the late summer harvest focused Festival of Lughnasa (LOO-na-SA) in 1936 just outside the fictional Irish town of Ballybeg, county Donegal, Dancing at Lughnasa follows the lives of the five Mundy sisters. The story of the play is told through the memories of Michael Evans, the illegitimate son of Christina Mundy and Gerry Evans, as he recalls the five women who raised him: his mother and four aunts. He is only seven in 1936, the year his elderly uncle, Father Jack, returns after serving for twenty-five years as a missionary in a Ugandan leper colony. For the young boy, two other disturbances occur that summer. The sisters acquire their first radio, whose music transforms them from correct Catholic women to shrieking, stomping banshees in their own kitchen. And he meets his father for the first time, a charming Welsh drifter who strolls up the lane and sweeps his mother away in an elegant dance across the fields. From these small events spring the cracks that destroy the foundation of the family forever.
Cast: August 2025
It’s 1930’s in the American Mid-West and a troupe of traveling Commedia Dell’Arte performers have come to town. Their mission is to relieve the bleakness of the dust bowl with the whimsy and humor associated with Moliere' and Commedia.
Utilizing the Italian style of Commedia Dell’Arte, in which masking and slapstick are employed, an ensemble of actors will bring these three classic comedies by Moliere’ to life in an environmental carnival atmosphere.
Each one-act includes mistaken identities and unrequited love amidst and atmosphere of jealousy and greed. The Jealous Husbandconcerns a husband who imagines his wife in love with a younger man and receives no help what-so-ever from a self-absorbed lawyer. In The Flying Doctorwe encounter a capable servant who outwits everyone to protect his master with his convincing impersonation of a doctor. AndThe Imaginary Cuckoldfinds us again wondering who is in love with whom?
Cast: August 2025
anthropology by Lauren Gunderson is a timely drama with a small, intimate cast. The group of four female presenting roles will get to work together collaboratively to dig into these engaging characters.
Synopsis: Merril’s younger sister, Angie, disappeared over a year ago and is presumed dead. Since then Merril has not been able to move away from her grief over this sudden and tragic loss. She cuts herself off from the outside world and decides to use her considerable computer skills to create an AI version of her sister. Virtual Angie is designed to aid Merril in coping with her guilt and depression and it works well. So when Virtual Angie suddenly offers the possibility that real Angie might still be alive, Merril does everything she can to to work with her creation to find her sister. But as the search continues, it becomes less and less clear whether an AI creation that Merril programmed to help her might have developed motives of its own.
Audition With The Players
Interesting in performing in one of our shows? That’s amazing! Our auditions are open to all.
We post auditions on this page, Facebook, and Instagram pages, as well as several other local sites when audition dates for upcoming shows are set. Members are also notified via email.
While reservations are not required, we do supply an online form to collect and provide information in advance, making the onsite process more efficient for our Production Committee and actors who audition.
If a non-member is offered and accepts a role, we do require them to become a Full or Artist* member. Please see our FAQ page for more information.