AUDITIONS POSTPONED

Upcoming Auditions

When: AUDITIONS ARE POSTPONED. Please stay tuned for further updates.

What: cold read from the script - sides provided

Where: New Surry Theatre office
26 Hinckley Ridge Rd

Rehearsal schedule (tentative)
beginning March 31
Monday/Wednesday 6:30-9pm
Saturday 11am-3pm
(will depend on cast availability)
Tech rehearsals May 31-June 3 (mandatory)

Performance dates: June 5, 6, 12, 13, 19 & 20 at 7pm and 14 at 3pm

Eureka Day by Jonathan Spector - Directed by Lori Sitzabee

The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, acceptance, social justice. In weekly meetings Eureka Day’s five board members develop and update policy to preserve this culture of inclusivity, reaching decisions only by consensus. But when a mumps outbreak threatens the Eureka community, facts become subjective and every solution divisive, leaving the school’s leadership to confront the central question of our time: How do you build consensus when no one can agree on truth?

Casting:

DON
Male presenting (will consider anyone in this role) 60-64 y.o. All ethnicities

Head of school. A calming presence. Has worked hard to become the man he is. From New England, moved to Berkeley in the mid-80s chasing the last gasp of hippie-dom. Started in education as a music teacher, and on difficult days fantasizes about going back to it. Has lived with his partner in the same rented in-law unit for 25 years. She makes pottery. They do silent meditation retreats at Esalen three times a year. No kids.

SUZANNE
Female presenting 53-57 y.o .All ethnicities

Mid-50s. Warm and gracious. Moved to Berkeley after college when her then-boyfriend now-husband started graduate school at UC Berkeley. Raising her family and nurturing the school are her life’s work and fully entwined. Once her youngest was in school, she started working part-time as a life coach after being encouraged to do so by many friends who she’d helped through difficult times. Mother of Sebastian, Arlo, Izzy, Juniper, Tompkins, and Walden.

CARINA
Female presneting 40-44 y.o. of African decent

A joiner. Her parents were in the Foreign Service. She grew up overseas and had gone to eight different schools by the time she graduated from high school. This made her skilled at landing in a new environment, figuring out the rules, and putting other people at ease. Her wife is from Berkeley and always wanted to come back, so they moved nine months ago from the East Coast. Isn’t sure how much she loves living here, but is working hard to convince herself she does. Mother of Victor.

MEIKO

Female presenting 33-37 y.o. All ethnicities - East Asian decent preferred

Mid-30s, Berkeley native. Wry sense of humor. Went to UC Berkeley and has never lived anywhere else, or wanted to. A landscape architect, which she’s good at but a little bored by. A year after the end of a tortured on-again off-again eight-year relationship, became a single mother by choice, of Olivia. When her daughter was young, Meiko’s mother was effectively a co-parent, but less so now. Would like to have another child, but feels like she’s too old to think about doing it alone, again.

ELI

Male presenting 33-37 y.o. All ethnicities

Mid-30s, Oblivious but well-meaning. From Southern California, went to Stanford and then straight into working at a tech start-up. Cashed out three years ago, and has been in search of how to occupy his time and exercise his mind. An expert pickler, competitive rock climber, manager of family wealth. Went through an intense Ayn Rand phase in college, which now fills him with shame, but which he has also never fully shaken.

WINTER
Female presneting 30-59 y.o. All ethnicities

A parent. This is a walk-on role with no lines.

Please complete the audition form (click for link) and either email to lori@newsurrytheatre.org or bring it with you to your audition.

If you have questions or need to schedule an alternate time to audition, please contact Lori Sitzabee at lori@newsurrytheatre.org