Auditions for Spring 2024

Audition means "Opportunity!"

Willamette University Theatre proudly announces auditions for its upcoming spring productions Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and Dancing at Lughnasa. We are looking for talented individuals passionate about theatre and are excited to be a part of Willamette's diverse productions.

IMPORTANT: Please complete an audition and/or tech form
by 12:00 pm on Wednesday, Nov 29, 2023.

All Majors, Minors and Scholarship holders must fill out the Tech Position form, regardless of emphasis. This means Theatre students auditioning for the play will need to fill out both forms.

AUDITION FORM    TECH POSITION FORM

Before auditions, please read our Disclosure Form
regarding expectations and play content.

Audition Information

Auditions will be held at the Pelton Theatre on the campus of Willamette University. 

General auditions: Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023

• 5:45 pm:  Arrive at Pelton Theatre. You will receive an individual audition timeslot.
• 6:00 pm:  Auditions begin.

Callbacks

• Too Much Light: Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023 • 6:00 - 10:00 pm
• Dancing at Lughnasa: Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023 • 11:00 am - 3 pm

Rehearsal and performance dates, and show descriptions are listed below.

Audition Requirements

• Please prepare (memorize) a 60 to 90-second monologue from a contemporary play, and your favorite joke.
• Audition time limit: 2 minutes total for monologue and joke.

All auditions at Willamette University's Theatre department are "open calls." Any and every Willamette and Salem community member is welcome to come and play with us!

If you are a theatre major, minor or scholarship holder, you are required to participate in all auditions. Details are at the bottom of this page.*

About the Plays

By Greg Allen

Directed by Jonathan Cole

Rehearsals:  Jan. 16 – Feb. 14, 2024
Performances: Feb. 15 – 25, 2024

The longest running play in Chicago theatre history! Each performance is different, an ever-changing menu of 30 short plays, all chosen at random by the audience. Sometimes with pizza! Created by the Neo-Futurists, the show is “a fusion of sport, poetry and living-newspaper” that pits the artists against a 60-minute timer and the whims of the audience.

By Brian Friel

Directed by Susan Coromel

Rehearsals:  Feb. 26 – April 10, 2024
Performances: April 11 – 27, 2024

One man’s childhood memories of his 1936 summer in Ballybeg, Ireland, unfold before us – the time of the festival of Lughnasa, which celebrates the pagan god of harvest with drunken revelry and dancing. His crowded home includes his mother and her four extraordinary sisters, all changed forever by a surprise visitor and their first radio. Widely regarded as Brian Friel’s masterpiece, this haunting play is Friel’s tribute to the spirit and valor of the past.

Again, please fill out form/s.

About our casting

Willamette University Theatre is committed to providing equal opportunity and prohibits all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment based upon age, color, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, military and veteran status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, including breastfeeding or medical condition relating to breastfeeding, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by law.

_{* Significant involvement in each main stage production each semester is required of all majors, minors, and scholarship students. If you received your scholarship based on an acting audition, you must audition for all main stage shows. If you interviewed as a design/tech student, you are welcome but not required to audition. Significant involvements include acting or a major contribution to technical aspects of the production. The faculty will assign students their production roles. It is the student's responsibility to check with the Production Stage Manager to confirm their assignments to crew positions.}