General Note: You must sign up online per the instructions for each audition notice below. Please note that there is a specific opening date for signup listed in each notice. Once the lists fill up, the online signup will close, but provide instructions for anyone who missed the signup. If you have questions, please click on the signup links for contact information.
The Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama is committed to diversity in its production seasons and casting of roles. By definition this means considering and casting actors of color in any role and/or production presented by the Department. The Department is also dedicated to exploring and implementing non-traditional casting.
Auditions for regular season IU Theatre productions in the Halls and Wells-Metz Theatres are open to all registered students of Indiana University Bloomington. With the exception of thesis roles for M.F.A. actors, no role is pre-cast.
Directors and other members of a production team will not invite an actor or actors to audition for their production. If, after open auditions, a director cannot cast a role, that director may contact students to audition or to consider doing a role in that production.
If a director who is not yet auditioning, but knows he or she may want to consider using an actor who is auditioning for another director, he or she may contact that director to discuss the actor’s casting.
In IU Theatre productions, three M.F.A. acting students should be cast in any one production, if possible.
M.F.A. acting students with acting fellowships will audition for all regular season IU Theatre productions for which they are available.
M.F.A. acting students with teaching fellowships who are teaching a full load must perform each year in at least two regular season IU Theatre productions. Beginning with the first production of the year, they must audition for all productions until this requirement is met.
While M.F.A. acting students may express role preferences at the time of auditions, they must accept roles as cast.
The first six productions of the season will be cast during the first semester. Because the first three productions usually audition during the first two weeks of classes, directors may hold group auditions if they so choose. The fourth, fifth, and sixth productions may audition separately. The seventh and eighth productionis will be cast during the spring semester, and auditions may be held together or separately.
Auditions are being held for the Indiana Festival Theatre production of The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs adapted from the book by Jon Sciezka and illustrated by Lane Smith. Book and Lyrics by Robert Kauzlaric, music by Paul Gilvary and William Rush and the Bloomington Playwrigths Project production of Maggie Cassidy by Chris Jeffries.
Both shows are directed by Chad Rabinovitz.
Auditions will be held Tuesday, March 27, 2012, from 5:00 pm-6:30 pm in the Studio Theatre of the Lee Norvelle Theatre adn Drama Center (west wing).
Important Time Notes:
5:00-5:30 pm is for those interesed in auditioning for The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs only.
5:30-6:00 pm is for those interested in auditioning for both shows.
6:00-6:30 pm is fo those interesed in auditioning for Maggie Cassidy only.
For either/or both shows, please bring a headshot and resume, 16-32 measures of a song and a one minute contemporary monologue. All callbacks are TBA. If no slot is available on the sign up list, please come at 5:00pm and all efforts will be made to find a slot for you.
The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs – 2 men, 3 women.
A children's musical based on the popular children’s book by Jon Scieszka, this retelling of "The Three Little Pigs" features a courtroom drama as the story is told from the A. Wolf’s point of view.
Rehearsals for The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs will begin on Friday, June 15, 2012 from 12-4pm daily. Show opens Saturday, June 23 with 11am Tuesday through Saturday performances until July 7.
Maggie Cassidy – 8 men, 3 women, (plus multiple for ensemble)
An adaptation of Jack Kerouac's biographical predecessor to "On the Road", Maggie Cassidy is the first stage play ever produced with the support of the Kerouac estate. It's commissioned by ACT (A Contemporary Theatre), a regional theatre in Seattle, and the BPP will be working closely with the playwright and future director to develop it for an eventual production there. Maggie Cassidy tells the story of Kerouac's early years as a French-Canadian high school athlete and would be writer on whom everyone in town pins their hopes. He has everything, but no one understands his passion for writing except the girl he meets on the other side of the tracks, Maggie Cassidy.
Rehearsals for Maggie Cassidy will begin evenings of Tuesday, April 17, 2012, AND will work around Cabaret and other projects. Show opens Friday, May 18, 2012 with 8pm Thursday through Saturday performances until June 2, with possible matinee on Sunday, May 27.
To sign up go to www.mysignup.com/3lpmaggie
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