Audition Information

2023-2024 Season

Fall Productions: Marie Antoinette and Speech and Debate

Auditions:

  • Tuesday, September 5th and Wednesday, September 6th 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm. Auditions will be held in J-Studio and actors will sign up for one 5-minute slot to perform both of their monologues for both plays in one time slot.

Callbacks:

  • Callbacks for MARIE ANTOINETTE: Thursday, September 7th from 6:45 pm to 10:30 pm.
  • Callbacks for SPEECH and DEBATE: Saturday, September 9th from 12- 3 pm.

Rehearsals:

  • First Rehearsal for MARIE ANTOINETTE: Friday, September 8th from 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm.
  • First Rehearsal for SPEECH & DEBATE: October 24, time TBA.

Sign Up:

For a slot, please sign up on the sheets outside of the main office or contact the main office to schedule a time slot (401.874.5921). Time slot sheets will be up a week or two before the auditions. If you can, please fill the Tuesday slots first, as we want to leave space on Wednesday for those students who are unable to audition on Tuesday, due to conflicts.

Audition Requirements for MARIE ANTOINETTE:

  • Please prepare and memorize a 1-2 minute comedic monologue (classic or contemporary). Please note that characters in Marie
    Antoinette speak with sharp-toothed wittiness. Look for material
    that will offer that tone (Moliere is a great example).

Audition Requirements for SPEECH & DEBATE:

  • Please prepare and memorize a 1-to-2-minute monologue that you think speaks to contemporary adolescence. It does not matter whether dramatic or comedic so long as the chosen monologue belongs to/is unique to a character who is an adolescent in the late 20th or early 21st century.

If time permits, you may be asked to make adjustments in the audition room or discuss your work. Callbacks will consist of group and individual sides from the script. Those called back for the role of Diwata should also prepare 32 bars of a playful song to be sung acapella.

Spring Productions

Macbeth

  • Auditions: Monday, December 11th and Tuesday, December 12th, 2023
  • Call Backs: Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

    Audition requirements posted in November

Little Shop of Horrors:

  • Auditions: Friday, January 25th and Saturday, January 26th, 2024
  • Callbacks: Saturday, February 3rd or Sunday, February 4th, 2024

    Audition requirements posted in December

Casting Policy

URI Theatre is committed to equal opportunity and non-traditional casting. Our productions strongly encourage any/and all students, staff, faculty or members of the community to audition and/or participate in URI productions. There will be no discrimination based on sex, race, color, age, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, veteran and/or disability status.