Auditions for these Spring 2027 Productions:
Stick Fly
by Lydia R. Diamond
The Little Prince
by Rick Cummins and John Scoullar
Lungs
by Duncan Macmillan
will be held
November 16, 2026
Location: Coliseum Rm. 2005
Time: 6pm - 9pm
Callbacks will be held in the same location from 6pm - 9pm on the following dates:
November 17 for "Stick Fly"
November 18 for "The Little Prince"
November 19 for "Lungs"
Audition Requirements
- Prepare a one-minute monologue from a role you believe you could play now.
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Choose material that you connect with and believe in —s omething that allows you to bring the character’s circumstances and needs to life through honest, engaged storytelling. Your monologue must be fully memorized.
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- Sign up for an audition time.
- Fill out an audition form.
About the productions
Stick Fly
By Lydia R. Diamond
Directed by Terrance Henderson
Rehearsals start January 15, 2027
**Please note that there will be rehearsals on Saturdays from 11am – 5pm**
Tech Dates: February 10-18, 2027
Performances: February 19-28, 2027
Synopsis: The affluent, African-American LeVay family is gathering at their Martha’s Vineyard home for the weekend, and brothers Kent and Flip have each brought their respective ladies home to meet the parents for the first time. Kent’s fiancée, Taylor, an academic whose absent father was a prominent author, struggles to fit into the LeVay’s upper-crust lifestyle. Kimber, on the other hand, is a self-described WASP who works with inner-city school children, fits in more easily with the family. Joining these two couples are the demanding LeVay patriarch, Joe, and Cheryl, the daughter of the family’s longtime housekeeper. As the two newcomers butt heads over issues of race and privilege, long-standing family tensions bubble under the surface and reach a boiling point when secrets are revealed.
Content Notes: Strong language, Implied and physical intimacy, conversations around code switching and slavery, topics of race, class, gender and infidelity.
Characters:
Kent (Spoon) - 31, youngest son of the LeVay family. He has grown up with an artistic disposition
in a family of doctors and lawyers. Though financially privileged, he has struggled
to find his place in life and with his family.
*Choreographed intimacy with Taylor
Taylor - 27. Daughter from an earlier marriage of renowned, recently deceased, public intellectual,
James Bradley Scott. She was raised by a single mother college professor. Though she
carries his name, and so has had entrée to some social privileges, her father was
not a part of her life. She also has gone without financially.
*Choreographed intimacy with Kent
Cheryl - 18, The daughter of the family maid. Pretty, bright, always well-intentioned. Cheryl has always had a crush on Flip.
Flip - 36, oldest son of the LeVay family. The ―golden boy who, with some compromises,
has fallen in line with his father‘s expectations. He is an incorrigible ladies man.
*Choreographed intimacy with Kimber
Joe LeVay (Dad) - 58, LeVay patriarch. He is a well-intentioned man, who rules his family with a firm, loving hand. He, like Flip, has always had a way with women.
Kimber - 32, White. Kimber is an intelligent woman with a quick wit and sincere warmth.
Unlike Taylor, her social status matches that of the LeVays, with of course, the undeniable
privilege of whiteness. Of this she is aware, and on some level appalled.
*Choreographed intimacy with Flip
The Little Prince
By Rick Cummins and John Scoullar (Based on the book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Directed by Peter Duffy
Rehearsals Start: February 15th
Tech Dates: March 24th -April 1st
Performances: April 2nd-April 11th
**Please note that there will be 2 school shows -10am Thursday April 8th & Friday,
April 9th**
Synopsis: A pilot crash-lands in the Sahara Desert and meets a strange, golden-haired boy who asks him to draw a sheep. Over several days, as the Aviator struggles to repair his plane and survive on dwindling water, the Little Prince recounts his journey from his tiny home planet, where he left behind a beautiful but difficult rose, through a string of solitary planets inhabited by a king, a vain man, a businessman, a lamplighter, and a geographer, and finally to Earth, where a fox teaches him the meaning of taming and loving something enough to be responsible for it. The Little Prince realizes he must return to his rose, even though reaching her means accepting the bite of a snake and leaving his body behind. The Aviator, who is now changed by their friendship, is left to wonder whether his little friend made it safely home.
Content Notes: Mature themes of death, mortality, and grief; the Little Prince discusses and ultimately accepts being bitten by a venomous snake as a means of returning to his home planet, and the final scene depicts this death (non-graphic, stylized). A secondary character (the Fox) references hunters with guns, though no violence is depicted onstage. Several scenes involve characters crying or in emotional distress. No profanity, no romantic/sexual content, no onstage violence.
Characters:
Aviator: adult; a pilot stranded in the desert after a crash; initially closed-off, impatient, and consumed by "important" practical matters; gradually opens emotionally through his friendship with the Little Prince; serves as narrator.
Little Prince: a child or young person (actor age flexible); golden-haired; endlessly curious, persistent, emotionally earnest; travels from planet to planet trying to understand love and responsibility; returns to his rose at the play's end via the snake's bite.
Rose: a flower, anthropomorphized; vain, dramatic, demanding, yet genuinely devoted to the Little Prince; uses manipulative tactics (feigned coughing, feigned chill) to keep his attention; her goodbye to the Little Prince is left unfinished/interrupted.
King: rules a planet alone; pompous, orders everything including things beyond his control (yawning, sunsets); reframes any refusal as having been "ordered."
Conceited Man: rules a planet alone; craves admiration above all else; performs a repeated bit involving tipping his hat in response to applause.
Businessman: obsessively counts and "owns" stars; dismissive, impatient, equates ownership with meaning; never looks at what he claims to possess.
Lamplighter: elderly; trapped in an absurd, accelerating cycle of lighting and extinguishing his lamp as his planet spins faster each year; the one adult the Little Prince finds sympathetic, as his work (however pointless) is done faithfully.
Geographer: scholarly, detached; records only what explorers report and considers flowers "ephemeral" and therefore unworthy of record; sends the Little Prince to Earth.
Snake: first encountered on Earth; cryptic, seductive, philosophical; offers the Little Prince "transportation" home via a venomous bite; returns at the end of the play to deliver that bite (depicted non-graphically).
Desert Flower: a minor desert plant; brief, matter-of-fact exchange about the scarcity and rootlessness of men.
Fox: wild, wary of hunters at first; teaches the Little Prince the ritual and meaning of "taming" (establishing ties); becomes emotionally attached and weeps when the Little Prince leaves; reveals the "secret" that what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Mountain Echo (optional/ensemble): repeats the Little Prince's words back to him; can be played by ensemble/chorus.
Wall of Roses (optional/ensemble): a field of roses identical in appearance to the Little Prince's own rose; can be played by ensemble/chorus.
Sketch Artist (if included in this production's staging): visually renders the Aviator's drawings live for the audience; non-speaking or minimal lines depending on staging choices.
Lungs
By Duncan Macmillan
Directed by Adam Martin
Rehearsal Start: January 12, 2027
Tech Dates: February 15-24, 2027
Performances: February 25-28, 2027
Synopsis: A couple spirals through the pros and cons of raising a child in a world shaped by climate change, proxy wars, and an accelerating technological revolution. As they grapple with how the major decisions of their lives impact the planet, they must confront what it means to be good people. Where do they land within this moral question, and can their relationship survive the pressure of finding an answer?
Content Notes: Adult language, potentially ableist language, implied and physical intimacy including kissing, topics of miscarriage, marriage, infidelity, and sex.
Casting Breakdown: 1 F, 1 M. Both characters are in their twenties – thirties.
“W” (F): Any race. A PhD student. Incredibly smart and fast-thinking, thoughtful, anxious, invested in the future of the planet, deeply in love with her partner.
“M” (M): Any race. A musician (actor does not need to perform music). Smart and thoughtful, indecisive, interested in starting a family, influenced by his partner’s interests, unfulfilled, commits infidelity, deeply in love with his partner.
Additional Note: This is a full-length, 90-minute play performed without intermission. Each actor
carries a substantial number of lines; please consider your ability to memorize quickly.
The Department of Theatre and Dance embraces non-traditional casting and encourages the casting of ethnic minority actors, female actors, and physically-challenged actors where possible. Individual show directors, together with the artistic director and the acting faculty, make all casting decisions. While some parts may be cast before auditions, that is always the case with guest actors.