Season Auditions

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Season casting information:

Every Brilliant Thing

By Duncan Macmillan

Directed by Mike Monroney

Rehearsals start on August 10, 2026

Opens September 11, 2026

Closes September 27, 2026

Characters:

Narrator – This role has already been cast.

Beyond Reason

By Kristin (K.D.) Carlson

Directed by Missy Moore

***This is a World Premiere***

Rehearsals start on October 12, 2026

Opens November 13, 2026

Closes November 29, 2026

Characters:

Alice James – Female. Age Range – 30ish.

Smart and deeply grounded wife of William James.

Lizzie Connelly – Female. Age Range – 20ish.

The James’ Irish maid, as clever as she is pretty.

Leonora Piper – Female. Age Range – 30ish.

A mother and a psychic medium, in that order.

Gianina Provontsky – Female. Age Range – 40ish.

A famous medium of vaguely royal lineage, extravagantly confident.

William James – Male. Age Range – 40ish.

Philosopher and ambitious social scientist.

Every Christmas Story Ever Told (And Then Some!)

By Michael Carleton, James FitzGerald, and John K. Alvarez

Directed by TBA

Rehearsals start on November 16, 2026

Opens December 11, 2026

Closes December 20, 2026

Characters: 

Jim – Male, Female or Non-Binary. Age Range – Any.

John – Male, Female or Non-Binary. Age Range – Any.

Michael – Male, Female or Non-Binary. Age Range – Any.

* Actors are encouraged to use their own names.

** Or, you could use your adult film star names, by taking the names of your first pet and your mother’s maiden name.

The Shark is Broken

By Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon

Directed by TBA

Rehearsals start on January 11, 2027

Opens February 12, 2027

Closes February 28, 2027

Characters:

Richard Dreyfuss – Male. Age range – 25 – 35.

Roy Scheider – Male. Age Range – 40 – 50.

Robert Shaw – Male. Age Range – 45 – 55.

The Revolutionists

By Lauren Gunderson

Directed by Kate Gleason

Rehearsals start on March 29, 2027

Opens April 30, 2027

Closes May 16, 2027

Characters:

Olympe de Gouges – Female. 38. Badass activist playwright and feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman. Widowed and never remarried to ensure her personal freedom.

Charlotte Corday – Female. 25. Badass country girl and assassin. Very serious, hardened by righteousness, never been kissed. Has a pocket watch she keeps checking.

Marie Antoinette – Female. 38. Less badass but fascinating former queen of France. Bubbly, graceful, opinionated, totally unaware, unintentionally rude, and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend.

Marianne Angelle – Female. 30’s. A badass black woman in Paris. She is from the Caribbean, a free woman, a spy working with her husband, Vincent. Tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of them all.

Casting is open to all genders, ethnicities and ages.

All roles are paid.  Minimum of $1150 depending on project and TRTC will consider equity 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.

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 10, 2026 to missy@thunderrivertheatre.com