TheatreSquared
477 W Spring
Fayetteville, AR 72701
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Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Robert Ford
Associate Artistic Director: Amy Herzberg
Senior Artistic Associate: Rebecca Rivas
Director of New Play Development: Dexter Singleton
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
For questions and/or more information, please contact our casting team, by phone at (479) 777-9802 or via e-mail at
casting@theatresquared.org.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, March 14, 2025
12:30 PM - 8:30 PM (C)
Break 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
https://app.youform.com/forms/j1mgcrt3. Appointments must be requested by Thursday, March 13th, 2025, at 10am CDT. TheatreSquared will not be accepting video submissions for this year’s EPA auditions.
LOA
$825 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - until 8/31/25
$850 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - after 9/1/25
Plus travel and accommodations.
Equity actors for roles in TheatreSquared's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown). TheatreSquared celebrates diversity and commits to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Actors of all backgrounds are strongly encouraged to audition.
Please prepare two contrasting pieces. You may also perform a song of your choice. Songs are optional. All auditions are not to exceed THREE MINUTES total. For those auditioning with a song, we strongly encourage choosing a selection that you feel best showcases your work and what you can do. We will have an accompanist available during the audition, please bring in sheet music. Do NOT bring a physical copy of your headshot/resume. We will be using the documents you submit on our audition sign up form. Please bring your Equity membership card or EMC card to the auditions.
TheatreSquared 2025-26 Season
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
Rehearsals begin: Friday July 25th, 2025
Performances: Wednesday August 20th, 2025 - Sunday September 7th, 2025
Possible extension through Sunday September 14th, 2025
This adaptation is based on the timeless swashbuckler by Alexandre Dumas, a tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes, and above all, honor. The story, set in 1625, begins with D'Artagnan, who sets off for Paris in search of adventure. Along with D'Artagnan goes Sabine, his sister, the quintessential tomboy. Sent with D'Artagnan to attend a convent school in Paris, she poses as a young man – D'Artagnan’s servant – and quickly becomes entangled in her brother’s adventures. Soon after reaching Paris, D'Artagnan encounters the greatest heroes of the day – Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, the famous musketeers – and he joins forces with his heroes to defend the honor of the Queen of France. In so doing, he finds himself in opposition to the most dangerous man in Europe, Cardinal Richelieu. Even more deadly is the infamous Countess de Winter, known as Milady, who will stop at nothing to exact revenge on D'Artagnan – and Sabine – for their meddlesome behavior. Little does Milady know that the young girl she scorns, Sabine, will ultimately save the day.
Note: Any role in this production may need Sword Fighting stage combat experience or training.
D'ARTAGNAN: Male. A young man who is brave, noble, and intelligent, and is eager to become a musketeer. He is driven by love and chivalry but can sometimes be amoral.
ATHOS: Male. Lead musketeer in the King's Guard. He is noble, honest and just with a broken-hearted melancholy that no one questions.
PORTHOS: Male. A musketeer in the King's Guard. A Falstaffian character who is strong, tough, loyal with a sense of humor. He enjoys wine, fine clothes, women, dueling and song.
ARAMIS: Male. A musketeer in the King's Guard who is torn between his love of women and his desire to join the priesthood.
CARDINAL RICHELIEU: Male. The second most powerful man in France. Appears chaste and noble but is short tempered, conniving, and crafty. He wants to take over France by any means necessary.
ROCHEFORT: Male. Rochefort is a skilled swordsman, a master strategist, and a henchman of Cardinal Richelieu. He is also arrogant, sadistic, and ruthless with excellent comic timing.
KING LOUIS: Male. The King of France, powerful in name only. He would like to be a strong and effective leader but just can't find his way. Equally lost when it comes to loving his beautiful Queen.
TREVILLE: Male. A gruff military man who is the respected and loyal commander of the King's Musketeers and a close advisor to King Louis XIII. He loves his men above all else.
SABINE: Female. D'Artagnan's younger sister. A young woman of spirit with a ferocious appetite for adventure that matches her brother's. Brave, curious and sweet.
MILADY: Female. A beautiful, cunning, and manipulative femme fatale, often using her beauty and charm to achieve her goals. She is a cunning spy for the Cardinal and is Athos's ex-wife.
CONSTANCE BONACIEUX: Female. A young and idealistic lady-in-waiting to the Queen. She is loyal to the Queen and will do anything to protect her. She is the love interest of D'Artagnan.
QUEEN ANNE: Female. The Queen of France, married to a lovable imbecile who can't find the way to love his wife. She knows her duty to her crown but is conflicted in her own feelings of love.
Written by Jonathan Norton
Rehearsals begin: Friday September 5th, 2025
Performances: Wednesday October 1st, 2025 - Sunday October 26th, 2025
Possible extension through Sunday November 2nd, 2025
1943. Two young Harlemites — Little and Foxy — form a friendship over leftover fried chicken and dirty dishwater. But a long, hot summer of heartbreak, betrayal, and racial uprisings moves them closer to the men they will become and farther from each other. Commissioned by TheatreSquared.
FOXY: African American Male. 21 years old.
LITTLE: African American Male. 19 years old.
Adapted from It's A Wonderful Life the film by Robert Ford
Rehearsals begin: Tuesday October 28th, 2025
Performances: Wednesday November 19th, 2025 - Wednesday December 24th, 2025
Seven actors portray 64 roles in this virtuosic live stage version of “the century’s most inspirational film” (American Film Institute). The story follows George Bailey, who puts his dreams on hold to take over the family business until it nearly slips out of his grasp. On Christmas Eve he stands alone on a highway bridge, wishing he’d never been born, when a mysterious stranger appears. A remarkable tale of redemption and old-fashioned holiday magic, newly reimagined for the stage, It’s a Wonderful Life reminds even the cynics among us that there’s so much to be treasured in life.
TRACK 1: Male. George Bailey 30s, a dreamer who gives his life to helping others; a can-do banker, often the smartest in the room; sometimes short-tempered; at one point down enough to contemplate suicide.
TRACK 2: Male. A range of characters, including: Potter: 50s, the heavy; shrewd, self-interested banker. Capable of cruelty. Clarence: 40s-60s, the angel, huge heart, his bumbling exterior hides his essential wisdom.
TRACK 3: Male. A range of characters, including: Peter Bailey: 50s/60s, quintessential, benevolent patriarch. Uncle Billy: 50s/60s, sweet, well-meaning but completely unreliable; fond of the bottle.
TRACK 4: Female. A range of characters, including: Mary: 30s, hugely capable, tolerant of George’s temperament, but with limits; directs her bottomless capacity for love toward holding her family together.
TRACK 5: Female. A range of characters, including: Violet: 20s/30s, leans into sultry; desperate to leave her bad reputation behind for a fresh start. Mrs. Bailey: 50s/60s, a wise mom who can read her son George like a book.
TRACK 6: Male: YOUTH. A range of characters, including: Young George: early-mid teens, already thinking big; loves sharing what he knows. Charlie/Marty/Cousin Eustace: 20s-40s, Bailey extended family, friends, characters around town.
TRACK 7: Female: YOUTH. A range of characters, including: Zuzu: 6, everything 1940s girl, daddy’s girl, curious, joyous. Young Mary: 10, but a shy, young-adult 10; smart; knows who she wants. Mrs. Hatch/Mrs. Davis/Reporter: a variety of young-to-mature townsfolk.
Written by Karen Zacarías
Rehearsals begin: Tuesday December 30th, 2025
Performances: Wednesday January 21st, 2025 - Sunday February 8th, 2026
Possible extension through Sunday February 15th, 2026
Loads of laughter and literature collide in this smart hit comedy about books and the people who love them. Ana is a Type A personality who lives in a letter-perfect world with an adoring husband, the perfect job and her greatest passion: Book Club. But when her cherished group becomes the focus of a documentary film, their intimate discussions about life and literature take a turn for the hilarious in front of the inescapable camera lens. Add a provocative new member along with some surprising new book titles, and these six friends are bound for pandemonium. Sprinkled with fun theatrical references to documentaries and novels galore from Moby Dick and Age of Innocence to Twilight and The Da Vinci Code, this buoyant comedy on contemporary culture will have everyone laughing … and reflecting. The Book Club Play is a delightful new play about life, love, literature and the side-splitting results when friends start reading between the lines.
ANA: (White or Latina Female, 30s) Pronounced “Ah-nuh” Beautiful. Charming. Smart. Accomplished. Organized. A columnist for a Daily paper. The Mother Bee. Her grace masks a need to control.
ROB: (White Male, 30s) Her golden-boy handsome charismatic under-achiever husband who is starting to search for meaning. Met in College. Upper Crust background.
WILL: (White or Asian Male, 30s) ROB’s conservative, well read, well dressed, disciplined college roommate. Ana’s former boyfriend. History buff. Unmarried.
JEN: (White Female, 30s) Ana’s friend. Pretty. Shy. Smart. Tends to burst out with awkward truthful comments. Despite some lack of self-confidence, she is the grounding center of the group. Unorganized and oblivious to her own attractiveness. Unmarried.
LILY: (African-American Female, 20s) A go-getter, former debate captain who is on the cusp of all current trends and yet can still put her foot in her mouth in social occasions. Laughs at appropriate and inappropriate times. A great lover of books and Ana’s protégé at the paper.
ALEX: (White, Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, Jewish, 30s) The New Guy. A very smart, well-read academic who has lost his moorings and is searching for real connection. Professor of Comparative Literature.
PUNDIT: (Male or Female) All five PUNDITS: SAM WAL-MART GUY, FRANK SECRET SERVICE AGENT, ELSA - JADED LITERARY AGENT, MRS. SIMPSON - SKY DIVER, CARL - INMATE BOOK DEALER.
Written by Lindsay Joelle
Rehearsals begin: Tuesday February 10th, 2026
Performances: Wednesday March 4th, 2026 - Sunday March 29th, 2026
Possible extension through Sunday April 5th
Danny’s a white, blue-collar, New York City sanitation worker. Marlowe’s the Black, Ivy-educated newbie who just joined his route. Thrown together in the cab of a nineteen-ton garbage truck, they spend their first shifts sparring, one-upping each other, and practicing the secret art of mongo: hunting for discarded treasure. But as their lives become increasingly intertwined, these two essential workers from different worlds discover there’s more that binds them than picking up the trash.
MARLOWE: Female (she/her). Late 30s. Black. First week at DSNY. Confident and competent, both physically and mentally. Keen sense of wit and irony. Vivid inner life; even when silent, her face speaks volumes. Practiced in making you think she's got it all together, but she's guarding a secret she doesn't wear on her sleeve.
DANNY: Male (he/him). 41. White. Nine years at DSNY. Mansplaining, dad jokes, and run-of-the-mill machismo thinly mask a profound desire to love and be loved. With less wear-and-tear, he might be attractive — ruggedly handsome, even — but you'd swallow hot coals before saying that to his face.
Written by Jane Austen
Adapted by Robert Ford
Rehearsals begin: Friday March 20th, 2026
Performances: Wednesday April 15th, 2026 - Sunday May 10th, 2026
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is a witty and engaging exploration of love, class, and social expectations in Regency England. The story follows Elizabeth Bennet, an intelligent and independent young woman, as she navigates family pressures, complex relationships, and the proud yet mysterious Mr. Darcy. In this TheatreSquared adaptation, Austen’s timeless characters and sharp dialogue are brought to life on stage, highlighting the humor, tension, and romance that have captivated readers for generations. This fresh interpretation adds a unique theatrical flair while staying true to the heart of Austen’s classic novel.
16+ characters played by 12 actors
ELIZABETH BENNET: 20, intelligent, sensible, well-read and quick-witted; a brilliant conversationalist, sometimes rushes to judgement.
FITZWILLIAM DARCY: 27, a wealthy gentleman of the English upper class, decent, intelligent, honest (often too), arrogant. His marked class snobbery is more and more tempered by his love for Elizabeth.
JANE BENNET: 22, gentle, pleasant, reserved; often referred to as the most beautiful of the Bennet sisters.
CHARLES BINGLEY: 22, a gentleman in the best sense of the word; genial, well-intentioned, easygoing; couldn’t care less about social class.
MR. BENNET: 40s-50s, a gentleman of modest income who genuinely loves his family but often uses his sarcastic, cynical wit to purposefully irritate his wife.
MRS. BENNET: 40s-early 50s, Mr. Bennet’s wife, a foolish, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behavior, Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.
LYDIA BENNET: 15, the youngest Bennet sister, loves gossip, and, like a model teenager, is immature bordering on self-involved.
CHARLOTTE LUCAS: Late 20s, as pragmatic as her best friend Elizabeth is romantic; less interested in love than in having a comfortable home, which she in no way considers a compromise.
MARY BENNET: Late teens, the middle Bennet sister, loves books, piano, and doing things properly.
GEORGE WICKHAM: Mid-late 20s, a handsome, fortune-hunting militia officer. His genuine charm hides a disreputable past.
MR. COLLINS: 25, a clergyman who strains so hard to exhibit his social status and connections, that he often comes off as pompous, snobbish, and, in the presence of the “higher-born,” obsequious.
MISS BINGLEY: 20, Bingley’s snobbish sister. Miss Bingley bears inordinate disdain for Elizabeth’s middle-class background. Her vain attempts to garner Darcy’s attention cause Darcy to admire Elizabeth’s self-possessed character even more.
The following characters double with one of the above:
LADY CATHERINE DE BOURGH: 50s/60s, a wealthy, noblewoman, who makes it clear to everyone in her path that she is superior in every respect.
MRS. GARDINER: 40s/50s, caring, nurturing, and full of common sense.
MR. GARDINER: 40s/50s, caring, nurturing, and full of common sense.
GEORGIANA DARCY: 16, immensely gifted pianist, shy.
CATHERINE BENNET: 16, girlishly, delightfully enthralled with soldiers.
Written by Sarah Gancher
Rehearsals begin: Friday May 8th, 2026
Performances: Wednesday June 3rd, 2026 - Sunday June 21st, 2026
Possible extension through June 28th, 2026
Eugene Onegin by Sarah Gancher (creator of the Obie Award-winning Russian Troll Farm) is a modern bluegrass musical that is half pickin' party and half barbeque. Pushkin's novel-in-verse and Tchaikovsky's opera have been reset and given new life in 1940s rural Arkansas, when a girl who dreams of writing songs falls for a magnetic but jaded touring musician.
TANYA: 19, then late 20s. An artist, fiercely talented, head in the clouds, dreamy, sensitive, driven, in love with the world, a little useless around the house.
OLGA: Tanya's sister, 19. Fun loving, mercurial, whip smart, sharp-tongued, determined to enjoy herself before she takes on the big job of becoming a wife and mother.
EUGENE: A musician and songwriter, 28 and later late 30s. Charming, dissolute, talented, a bit tortured, cynical, unable to resist the pleasures of the flesh. You know, a musician.
LENSKY: Olga's betrothed, 22. Songwriter, bit of a prodigy, idealist, puppy dog, deeply in love with Olga and even more in love with the idea of Olga. Constantly inspired.
1: Female/femme, 20s or 30s. Tough, smart, better, talented, wronged, angry, right about everything, funny because she has to be. Doubles as Tanya and Olga's blunt AUNT.
2: Female, 50-60s (though could go as young as 40s). Bar owner, queen bee, and eminent figure in her scene, wise. Doubles as Tanya and Olga's proper somewhat pretentious MOM.
3: Female/femme late teens to 20s. Young, romantic, idealistic, rose-colored glasses.
D: Male, 50s-60s (though could go as young as 40s). The jam leader, voice of experience, gravitas in barrels, grim humor. Doubles as Tanya’s Oil husband GEORGE.
A: Male 20s-30s. Eugene’s old friend and running partner. Ambitious, talented, trying to figure out how to stand out from the crowd, active, starting to despair. Doubles as various characters.
B: Male or male presenting, 20s. Lensky Superfan. A plugger and striver, an idealist, solid as a rock. Applies himself in craftsman-like way to tasks. Doubles as various characters.
C: Male, male presenting, or non-binary, any age. Clown prince, comic relief, wit. Doubles as a number of characters.
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