AUDITIONS
CATNIPS AUDITIONS
We are gearing up for our annual CATNIPS festival and we are looking for actors for a few of our plays. Auditions will be held this week Thursday February 27th at CAT from 5pm-8pm. Please book your 10 minute slot with Jeremy artisticdirector@centralalbertatheatre.ca or call at 403-309-0522. Those who audition are not asked to prepare anything but will be doing a cold read of the scripts. The name of the one acts are "Westbrook: A Victorian Love Story" written by Jessica Swainson and "King Trump" written by Courtney Boniface. Below is a rundown of characters they are hoping to cast.
Westbrook
A Victorian Love story
A young man in love must choose between love and and his overbearing fathers business wishes.
Rehearsals will be scheduled to fit the actors schedule - more likely a
few weeknights near the end of march. plus tech week. Open to actors having roles in other plays and will schedule rehearsals accordingly.
Charles - 18-30 year Male - Lead character - Young man
Melissa - 18-30 year old Female - Charles Fiance'
Robert - 35-65 year male Charles Father (very patriarchal, harsh)
Mary - 35-65 year female Charles mother (supportive of both son and husband. torn between their competing wishes)
Thomas - 18-99 Probably male, but could be open to female. The family butler.
King Trump
A Trumped Up Fairy Tale
In King Trumps quest to make his kingdom great again, a fairy offers a solution, if he can answer the question "What do women want?"
Rehearsals likely Sundays and perhaps 1 or 2 other evenings in the week.
Some characters will be needed at every rehearsal. others will have some
rehearsals off as they are only in 1/3 of the show. Willing to arrange
around actors schedules, and open to performers taking on other shows too.
King Trump - (Can you do a good Donald Trump impression? We want to see it!)
The Fairy - Strong preference for a Trans Female or Non-binary actor for this role. Age is not important.
Narrator - News Media Personality - any gender or age
Fox Narrator - News media personality - Female preferably
Podcast Narrator - Alex Jones type character - Male Preferably
First Son - Cocky and Ambitious - male 15-35
Second Son - Sex driven - Ambitious - male 15-35
Third Son - Very kind and empathetic, supportive - male 15-35
Hermit - Female - any age - will be made to look old and undesirable.
Stay tuned for Our 2025/26 season, coming soon.
Each individual will be asked to prepare a 2 minute monologue, and also do a cold read from one of our featured plays of the season. If you do not have a monologue, we can provide one for you from our library which can be either gender neutral or gender specific. We ask that you arrive at least 10 minutes before your audition.
If you would like to book an audition, and request an audition package with monologues, please contact our Production Manager Jeremy Robinson at jeremycentralalbertatheatre@gmail.com or call at 403-309-0522 for more information.
Best regards,
The Central Alberta Theatre Team