EIU Department of
Theatre Arts

Open Auditions

Roles are open to all. See our production eligibility policy here for details.

Our casting policy can also be found here.

See below for audition details/requirements for each production for which you may audition.

Upcoming Auditions

Scripts may be read at http://thekeep.eiu.edu/theatre_auditions_materials/ 

Spring 2019 auditions

MARMALADE and FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF

January 14 general auditions; January 15 call backs, by invitation

Registration begins in The Globe at 5:30 p.m.  Be prepared to have a photo taken!

Please prepare a contemporary audition monologue – 1 minute or less.  For first-time auditioners, a reading from the script will be provided if no monologue is prepared.

Please see above for a link to reading copies of each.

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For Colors is a show set in a meta black girl world with monologues happening all over the country, as the playwright expresses in her opening we are outside St Louis, New Orleans, New York...and few other cities I see this as an opportunity to cast diversely because a Colored Girl in New York could be Afro Latina or Asian or any number of things. So I am looking to utilize the diversity in the department and also to educate non minority & non-cis binary actresses unto empathy for women of color through color inclusive casting. I hate to say color blind I identify more as color brave and what better way to show that than through creative casting of Colored Girls. As a repeat director and performer in the play myself I have participated in and produced very diverse productions already and understand at its core For Colored Girls is a play about women and I’m looking for women of all races who get the matierial on human level.