UMass Theater productions are cast throughout the year; check here for audition information.
Time and place may be subject to change; updates will be posted as they become available.
Sign up sheets for auditions are posted on the Department of Theater Call Board outside Fine Arts Center Room 112 about a week before auditions. Copies of the scripts may be signed out from Room 112 for two hours at any time. Call (413) 545-3490 if you have further questions.
Auditions for Fall Productions
The Department of Theater holds joint auditions for all three fall productions (Love the Doctor, Hell in High Water, and Solstice).
Sept. 12 and 13 from 6-10:30
p.m.
Rand and Curtain Theaters, Fine Arts Center
Call backs:
Love the Doctor: Sept. 14 from 6:30-10:30 p.m., Room TBA
Hell in High Water: Sept. 15 from 6:30-10:30 p.m., Room TBA
Solstice: Sept. 14 and 15, time and room TBA
Directors will post details on the department callboard about what they would like actors to prepare as audition dates near.
Please BE READY TO BEGIN YOUR AUDITION PROMPTLY at your chosen audition time (Plan to arrive early for your audition to allow check-in and warm-up time).
Please check the callboard for the callback list and schedule. Callbacks will also be posted online. Stage management staff will have instructions at the auditions.
Please see the Production Calendar for rehearsal and performance information.
CALLBACK AND CASTING INFORMATION UPDATED BY STAGE MANAGERS AT http://umassauditions.blogspot.com/
Cabaret 204 Auditions
Cabaret 204 auditions are arranged by production teams independently; check callboards for details.
Urinetown auditions
Oct. 17, 18 and 19 from 6-10:30
p.m., Curtain Theater, Fine Arts Center
Call backs:
Oct. 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Curtain Theater, Fine Arts Center
Director will post details on the department callboard about what they would like actors to prepare as audition dates near.
Please BE READY TO BEGIN YOUR AUDITION PROMPTLY at your chosen audition time (Plan to arrive early for your audition to allow check-in and warm-up time).
Please check the callboard for the callback list and schedule. Callbacks will also be posted online. Stage management staff will have instructions at the auditions.
Please see the Production Calendar for rehearsal and performance information.
CALLBACK AND CASTING INFORMATION UPDATED BY STAGE MANAGERS AT http://umassauditions.blogspot.com/
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE REHEARSALS FOR THIS PRODUCTION DURING JANUARY BREAK.
Audition Workshop
In preparation for next week's auditions, Professor Julie Nelson has offered to lead an audition workshop on Wednesday, January 25 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm in FAC 204. Free, open to everyone who is thinking about auditioning for any department shows this semester.
Beyond the Horizon and A Midsummer Night's Dream joint auditions
The Department of Theater holds joint auditions for the two remaining spring productions (Beyond the Horizon and A Midsummer Night's Dream).
Jan. 30 and 31 from 6-10:30
p.m.
Rooms 201, 204 and 206, Fine Arts Center
Call backs:
Beyond the Horizon: Feb. 1 from 6:30-10:30 p.m., Room TBA
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Feb. 2 from 6:30-10:30 p.m., Room TBA
Audition information for Beyond the Horizon
Please prepare 2-3 minutes of material that best showcases your talents. This could include a monologue, a poem, a joke, song, dance, a musical instrument performance, a movement piece, storytelling, circus arts, puppetry, a display of your own special talent or any combination of those. Whether choosing one or more of the above, what is most important is that you use the time to show us what you do best. Sign up sheets for auditions are posted on the Department of Theater Call Board outside Fine Arts Center Room 112 about a week before auditions. If you have further questions, please email the project's Artistic Director, Megan McClain.
Mission of the Project
In light of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf and subsequent environmental catastrophes, the Beyond the Horizon Festival seeks to use performance to map and explore our changing relationship to the natural world and offer models of community response to ecological crisis. Three original collectively-created performance pieces will be developed by an interdisciplinary community of artists, musicians, scientists, and ecologists across the Five-College Consortium and presented as part of the UMASS Theater Department season April 5-7 and 10-14.
Audition information for A Midsummer Night's Dream
Planning to Audition for A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, directed by Department of Theater guest artist Tony Simotes? Please become thoroughly familiar with the play and begin to consider choices for a 1 - 2 minute monologue from the text. Auditions will be Monday, January 30 and Tuesday, January 31 with callbacks on Thursday, Feb. 2. Stay tuned for more information to come during the winter break.
General information
Please BE READY TO BEGIN YOUR AUDITION PROMPTLY at your chosen audition time (Plan to arrive early for your audition to allow check-in and warm-up time).
Please check the callboard for the callback list and schedule. Callbacks will also be posted online. Stage management staff will have instructions at the auditions.
Please see the Production Calendar for rehearsal and performance information.
CALLBACK AND CASTING INFORMATION UPDATED BY STAGE MANAGERS AT http://umassauditions.blogspot.com/
Casting Policy
The Department of Theater is committed to racial, cultural and individual diversity.
Casting for all department-sponsored productions is open to any student, staff,
or faculty member of the Five College Consortium, any member of the community,
or any invited guest artist regardless of race, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
Equal-opportunity casting is encouraged.
All Theater majors are welcomed and strongly encouraged to audition. The
Department chooses plays each year with the intention of using
as many majors as possible, but casting of any individual major is not guaranteed.
Most casting will be determined by open auditions.
You are expected to sign up for a given audition appointment, and to arrive at
the audition site well ahead of the scheduled time. Students who arrive after
their scheduled time may not be allowed to audition.
After open auditions have been completed, the director will post
call back announcements. If you are called back, you are expected to initial
next to your name to acknowledge the call back.
Additional audition policy information may be found in the student
handbook.
