Penumbra Theatre 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - Penumbra Theatre Auditions

PENUMBRA THEATRE 2025-26 SEASON

Penumbra Theatre | Saint Paul, MN

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, March 22, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment email:
casting@penumbratheatre.org.

CONTRACT

SPT
$839 weekly minimum (SPT 9)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Penumbra Theatre's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown). Performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting 2-minute monologues from contemporary African-American canon. Please provide a headshot and resume upon arrival for your audition. For artists who sing, please prepare a brief contemporary musical theater song and bring sheet music in your key. An accompanist will be provided.

LOCATION

Martin Luther King Recreation Center
271 N. Mackubin Street
St. Paul, MN 55102
Dance studio. THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Sarah Bellamy: President, and Director of MARISOL
Lou Bellamy: Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus, and Director of BLACK NATIVITY and JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE
Patdro Harris: Director and Choreographer
Sanford Moore: Musical Director for BLACK NATIVITY
Talvin Wilks: Director
Ron Schultz: Associate Director of Production
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.
Performance schedule:
Previews on the Tuesday and Wednesday before opening night, curtain is at 7:30 PM.
After opening, Wednesday - Friday curtain is at 7:30 PM.
Saturday curtain is at 2 PM and 7:30 PM.
Sunday curtain is at 4 PM.

OTHER

www.penumbratheatre.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

MARISOL

Written by José Rivera
Directed by Sarah Bellamy
First Rehearsal: 9/9/25
Opening on 10/9/25
Closing on 11/2/25

SYNOPSIS: This Obie Award winning play follows Marisol, a young woman facing the possibility of her own death, in a world in chaos and crisis. The play examines themes of mental illness, spiritual warfare, and a dystopian, disintegration of urban society in America.

SEEKING:

• MARISOL, A young Puerto Rican woman who works as a copy editor in Manhattan
• ANGEL, A character in the play
• JUNE, Marisol's best friend and co-worker
• LENNY, A character in the play, June’s brother
• WOMAN WITH FURS, A character who becomes Marisol's nemesis in Act II
• MAN WITH GOLF CLUB, A character in the play
• MAN WITH ICE CREAM, A character in the play
• MAN WITH SCAR TISSUE, A character in the play
• SUBWAY ANNOUNCER, A character in the play (voiceover only)
• RADIO ANNOUNCER, A character in the play (voiceover only)

BLACK NATIVITY

Written by Langston Hughes
Directed by Lou Bellamy
First Rehearsal: 11/18/25
Opening on 12/4/25
Closing on 12/24/25

SYNOPSIS: Langston Hughes' Black Nativity tells the story of the Nativity from an African American perspective through a combination of scripture, poetry, dance, and song with griot style narration.

SEEKING:

• NARRATOR, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old
• SOLOIST, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old
• SOLOIST, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old
• MALE DANCER, (Pre-cast) 18 - 30 years old
• FEMALE DANCER, (Pre-cast) 18 - 30 years old

JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE

Written by August Wilson
Directed by Lou Bellamy
First Rehearsal: 4/28/26
Opening on 5/28/26
Closing on 6/21/26

SYNOPSIS: Set in a Black boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911, this tender and human drama is an installment in the author’s American Century Cycle, which chronicles Black life in every decade of the 20th century. Each resident of the boarding house has a different relationship to a past of slavery, as well as to urban life at the turn of the century. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant, a young man up from the South, a mysterious stranger searching for his wife, and two children learning the ways of a new urban future.

SEEKING:

• SETH HOLLY, a Black man in his early 50s, Seth is owner of the boardinghouse and works as a craftsman.
• BERTHA HOLLY, Seth's wife of 25 years and five years his junior; Bertha is a Black woman and runs the boardinghouse. She does all the cooking and cleaning, later with the aid of Zonia.
• BYNUM WALKER, A conjure man staying with the Hollys at the boardinghouse; Bynum is a Black man in his 60s and is a freed slave from the south.
• HAROLD LOOMIS, An odd Black man who dons an overcoat and hat in mid-August; Loomis is 32 years old and a displaced man searching for his wife. He was forced to work for Joe Turner for seven years, which separated him from his wife and daughter. He works as a deacon for the Abundant Life Church and at times was possessed by spiritual beings.
• RUTHERFORD SEILEG, A white man; Selig is a peddler who sells Seth's goods. Known as the People Finder, Selig is from a family that first brought Africans across the Atlantic to become slaves. But now he unites people by recording the names and places of all the people he peddles to.
• JEREMY FURLOW, A Black man and resident of the boarding house; Jeremy is a 25-year-old guitar player. He came to the North looking for a job and a way in life. He works construction, putting in the new road outside of town.
• ZONIA LOOMIS, Harold's daughter; Zonia is described as a tall and skinny Black girl, 11 years old.
• MATTIE CAMPBELL, Mattie is a 25-year-old Black woman who is disappointed with her position in life and is looking for love.
• REUBEN MERCER, Reuben is the Hollys' next-door neighbor, a Black boy about Zonia's age.
• MOLLY CUNNINGHAM, Molly is a good-looking Black woman of 26 who is strong and independent.
• MARTHA PENTACOST, Loomis' wife; Martha is a Black woman in her late twenties, very religious, and a member of the Evangelical church. She left the South and her daughter behind.