2025 – 2026 General Season Audition Announcement

Saturday, July 19, 2025

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Thunder River Theatre Company

67 Promenade, Carbondale, CO. 81623

True West

By Sam Shepard

Directed by Missy Moore

This American classic explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Sal Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and Lee’s trashy Western tale.

Rehearsals start on or around August 4, 2025

Opens August 29, 2025

Closes September 14, 2025

Characters:

Austin – Male. Age range – Early 30s

Lee – This role has already been cast.

Sal –  Male. Age range – Late 40s

Mom – Female. Age range – Early 60s

The Secretary

By Kyle John Schmidt

Directed by Brittany Crooke

Ruby runs a small-town gun company that aims to protect women by helping them

protect themselves. With products like The Bridesmaid, The Babysitter and The Mallwalker, each of the company’s guns is named after a woman who used a gun and saved a life–more often than not, her own. When an elderly secretary at the local high school confronts a threat in her office with six bullets, Ruby responds by naming her latest gun after the reluctant hero: “The Secretary.” But as production begins on The Secretary, guns start going off all around town–and no one’s pulling the trigger. The Secretary is an offbeat comedy about safety, survival, and guns for a world that’s up in arms.

Rehearsals start on or around September 1, 2025

Opens October 3, 2025

Closes October 19, 2025

Characters:

Ruby – Female. Age Range – Late 60s.

Janelle – Female. Age Range – Mid 30s.

April – Female. Age Range – Mid 20s.

Lorrie – Female. Age Range – 40s – 50s.

Brandy – Female. Age Range – 30s 

Shirley – Female. Age Range – Late 60s.

Annie

Book by Thomas Meehan

Music by Charles Strauss

Lyrics by Martin Charnin

Directed by TBA

(This is a co-production between TRTC and SOL Theatre Company)

Based on the popular comic strip by Harold Gray, Annie has become a worldwide phenomenon and was the winner of seven Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The beloved book and score by Tony Award winners, Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, features some of the greatest musical theatre hits ever written, including “Tomorrow.” With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone’s hearts despite a next-to-nothing start in 1930s New York City. She is determined to find the parents who abandoned her years ago on the doorstep of a New York City Orphanage that is run by the cruel, embittered Miss Hannigan. With the help of the other girls in the Orphanage, Annie escapes to the wondrous world of NYC. In adventure after fun-filled adventure, Annie foils Miss Hannigan’s evil machinations… and even befriends President Franklin Delano Roosevelt! She finds a new home and family in billionaire Oliver Warbucks, his personal secretary, Grace Farrell, and a lovable mutt named Sandy.

Rehearsals start on or around November 10, 2025

Opens December 12, 2025

Closes December 21, 2025

(There will be two show days throughout the run)

Characters: 

(We are auditioning for ADULT principal roles only at this time – Children’s auditions will be at a later date.)

Warbucks – Male. Age Range – 40 to 55. 

Vocal range top: Gb5 & Vocal range bottom: B3

Grace Farrell – Female. Age Range – 20 to 35. 

Vocal range top: G5 & Vocal range bottom: Bb3

Miss Hannigan – Female. Age Range – 30 to 45. 

Vocal range top: F5 & Vocal range bottom: A3

Rooster – Male. Age Range – 25 to 35.

Vocal range top: G5 & Vocal range bottom: B3

Lily – Female. Age Range – 20 to 30.

Vocal range top: G5 & Vocal range bottom: B3

Bert Healy – Male. Age Range – 30 to 45.

Vocal range top: G5 & Vocal range bottom: E4

Roosevelt – Male. Age Range – 40 to 60.

Vocal range top: F4 & Vocal range bottom: Eb3

K2

By Patrick Meyer

Directed by Missy Moore

The setting is an icy ledge high up on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. Two climbers, Taylor and Harold, are stranded at 27,000 feet, and Harold has suffered a broken leg in the precipitous descent. They have also lost one of their ropes, and the remaining one is neither long nor strong enough to serve as a sling to lower Harold to the next ledge. As Taylor climbs back up the mountain in an attempt to recover the other rope, the two men keep up a running conversation that begins in a lighthearted vein but gradually shades into an absorbing discussion of the meaning and value of life. Taylor, an arch-conservative, womanizing assistant district attorney, sees personal gratification as the focus of existence, while Harold, a physicist, has found an almost mystic satisfaction in his selfless love for his wife and young son. When Taylor’s attempts to rescue the second rope fail, and the desperation of their situation can no longer be denied, it is, finally, the bond between the two men that is put to the test as Harold, in a scene of shattering emotional impact, calmly but firmly orders Taylor to save himself – to salvage the one life that can be saved and to live on for both of them.

Rehearsals start on or around January 12, 2026

Opens February 13, 2026

Closes March 1, 2026

Characters:

Taylor – Male. Age range – 30s.

Harold – Male. Age Range – 30s – 40s.

For Peter Pan on her 70th Birthday

By Sarah Ruhl

Directed by Renee Prince

When Ann thinks of her father, she immediately remembers playing Peter Pan in her hometown theater in Iowa, particularly when he used to bring her flowers after her performance. Her memory is jogged by the fact that she and her four siblings are in their father’s hospital room during his final moments. His death sparks a conversational wake that includes everything from arguments over politics to when each sibling realized that they grew up. A loving look at a family’s view of death, life and the allure of never growing up.

Rehearsals start on or around March 30, 2026

Opens May 1, 2026

Closes May 17, 2026

Characters:

Ann – Female. Age Range – 60s – 70s.

John – Male. Age Range –  Late 60s.

Jim – Male. Age Range – Mid 60s.

Michael – Male. Age Range – Early 60s.

Wendy – Female. Age Range – Late 50s.

Father – Male. Age Range – 80s.

Casting is open to all genders, ethnicities, and ages.

All roles are paid.  Minimum of $1150, depending on the project, and TRTC will consider equity contracts.  We offer Special Appearance or Guest Artist Tier 2 contracts.

Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue from a published play and come with a current headshot and resume.  Directors will be present and might ask you to do your monologue more than once.  Please have some sense of your availability for the year, as we will be holding callbacks for the season in the coming months.

Please click on the link provided and sign up for your audition time.

Audition Sign Up HERE

If you are unable to attend general auditions, but are still interested in being considered, please send a video submission following the above guidelines to Missy Moore directly, along with a current headshot and resume. Please submit video submissions before July 19, 2025, to missy@thunderrivertheatre.com