Auditions
Spring 2008 Auditions
When: January 8th and 9th (Tuesday & Wednesday)
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Thrust Theatre, located in HPES/Studio Arts building on the corner of Warnock and Floyd Streets, catty-corner from McDonald’s
The Department of Theatre Arts will be holding auditions for the following Spring 2008 productions:
Titus Andronicus, by William Shakespeare, Directed by Dennis Krausnick
- Looking for a company of 12-14 people, transgender casting.
-Auditionees should have a short monologue, or 2 contrasting monologues from Shakespeare.
Performance dates are Feb. 27- March 2
The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, by Djanet Sears, Directed by Dr. Lundeana Thomas. An AATP production
Speaking Roles: 4 Women, 4 or 5 Men
Chorus: 7 people-non-gender specific
- Prepare a church congregational song to sing (i.e. This Little Light of Mine)
We will have readings from the script. If you have a poem memorized that will be wonderful but not necessary.
Performance dates April 16-20
Casting Policy
Auditions for the Theatre Arts Department productions are open to all members of the academic community and to Louisville residents. On occasion, guest actors may be employed. Roles in Mainstage productions are not pre-cast except for contracted faculty assignments or final thesis projects. Coordinated auditions are often held for all productions in a given semester at the very beginning of the term. (The opening fall production may conduct some of its casting the previous spring.) Casting, individuals from outside the department and university must be discussed with the department chair and approved in advance.
The educational mission of the Theatre Arts Department is to provide equal training opportunities for all students. All roles will be open to all persons unless a script requires specific casting choices.
"Non-traditional" casting is the norm for all directors in all productions. Casting is "non-traditional" when all roles in a script are open to casting without bias in terms of race, gender, handicap, or age, so long as an actor can fulfill the artistic requirements of the role. The director of each production has full authority and responsibility for casting. The only exceptions occur when (1) casting would conflict with another production's performance or rehearsal time, or when (2) students facing academic difficulty or probation are assumed to need extra time to improve their standing. In both cases, the final arbitrator is the student's Graduate Advisory Committee.
If a student is to be cast twice in one semester, prior approval must come from the department chair.