Theater Arts Productions

Dance Nation Additional Auditions

Auditions for the role of Ashlee will take place on Friday, September 5 at 6:00 pm -  email jbbarricklo@brandeis.edu to request an audition.

Please arrive at Spingold Room 206 - The Rehearsal Room (map) promptly at 6:00 pm. 

Requirements for Auditioning:

1. Read the entire script (available HERE).
2. Read the Department's Audition Policy. 
3. Arrive ready to read some scenes with the director and choreographer and please dress to move during the audition. You may be asked to dance but no experience is required! 

Auditions will take place Monday, September 15, 2025, 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. in the Merrick Theater in the Spingold Building. All those interested in auditioning should: reserve an audition slot on our Eventbrite page, read the entire script, and prepare the appropriate materials.

Reserve Your Audition Slot

Perusal Script

Students needed for callbacks, will be asked to attend the Callbacks at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 16. Any issues with this schedule should be noted when registering for an audition slot.

Please prepare 1 contemporary monologue around 1 minute long. Comedic monologues are preferred. 

Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally woke teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month.

Read the script

Actors of all backgrounds and experience asked to audition for the following roles:

LOGAN: W presenting, caucasian looking.

• The High School Drama Teacher.
• Pushes the envelope in potentially inappropriate ways. 
• Earnest about theatre and proving herself. 
• Eager to get it right.

JAXTON: M presenting, caucasian looking.

• The Yoga Teacher / Actor Guy. 
• Politically correct to a fault, a big one. 
• He’s that confident guy everyone loves, but his logical PC thinking takes weird turns. 
• Definitely loves matcha and hugs for too long.

ALICIA: W presenting, ethnicity is ambiguous but not caucasian looking.

• The Professional Actress.
• Guileless, personable, and not the sharpest tool in the shed. 
• Knows how to dress for the male gaze. 
• Does not understand the assignment.

CADEN: M presenting, caucasian looking.

• The Academic. 
• Awkward elementary school history teacher who fancies himself a playwright.
• Has zero experience in the theater.
• Understands history better than people.

THE ENSEMBLE (4 people): any gender, any ethnicities.

• Will perform a handful of cringey (at best) and offensive renderings of the Thanksgiving story as written by real school teachers and performed by their students. 
• Please read the material and assess your comfort level for performing these excerpts.

Department Information and Conflict Acknowledgement

In consultation with the Center for Spiritual Life at Brandeis, the Department of Theater Arts has updated its auditions and casting with regards to religious observance and our production season. The Department invites and encourages all students to audition, including students who have religious observances which may have previously prevented them from participating as actors in our productions. Requests for religious observances will not adversely affect casting decisions. Please know that accommodations for religious observances – such as but not limited to Shabbat observance, religious services and prayer times, private spaces for prayer, private bathroom space, clothing/costume adjustments, and dressing room assignments – will be made to the best of our abilities. In a situation where additional expertise is needed about a student’s request for a religious accommodation, the Department will consult with the Center for Spiritual Life.

Conflict Policy

Students cast in a production with the Department of Theater Arts are expected to attend all rehearsals unless they have an academic conflict or an accommodation as detailed above. In general, rehearsals are held weekday evenings and weekend days. Cast members are expected to arrive on time to all rehearsals and performances. At the beginning of the rehearsal process, all academic conflicts must be communicated to the Stage Manager. Should other conflicts arise, the Stage Manager and the Director have the discretion to decide upon conflict approval on a case-by-case basis, based on the size of the actor’s role, nature of the conflict, and timing in regards to the rehearsal schedule. Tech Week conflicts, other than academic or accommodation-related, are not permitted. While it may be that a weekly schedule is utilized, the Daily Call (your daily specific schedule) will be sent out each night with 24 hours’ notice.

Any questions or concerns regarding the conflict decisions of the Stage Manager and Director should be brought to Cameron Anderson, Chair of the department.