*AUDITION NOTICE*
MUSICALS: Dear Evan Hansen, Jagged Little Pill
Monday June 29 and Tuesday June 30, 2026
7:00pm | Enter at the Trustus Side Door
Please fill out this form in ADVANCE of attending auditions for the Season 42 Musicals at Trustus Theatre. We will only be able to see a maximum of 50 people each night, and want to ensure that everyone can be seen! This audition is for Season 42 Musicals: Dear Evan Hansen and Jagged Little Pill. Auditions for Cabaret have already taken place.
About the audition:
This audition is a small group audition for the musicals for our 42nd season. Groups will be sent in to audition individually in front of directors. A resume and headshot are recommended, but not required. Those auditioning need only attend one night of auditions, not both. Those auditioning must be 18 years of age or older by the first rehearsal.
Please prepare 16 bars (about 30 seconds to one minute) of a contemporary or rock/pop musical song that shows off your range, and provide piano score for accompaniment. Music should be printed and in a binder/folder to be used by the pianist accompanying the auditions. Callbacks will take place for individual shows on an as-needed basis.
Click the shows below for more information: dates, synopsis, open roles, etc.
Questions? Email [email protected].
SEASON 42 PLAYS: Cult of Love, The Niceties, Fat Ham, and The Shark is Broken
Monday July 13 and Tuesday July 14, 2026
7:00pm | Enter at the Trustus Side Door
Please fill out this form in ADVANCE of attending auditions for the Season 42 Plays at Trustus Theatre. We will only be able to see a maximum of 50 people each night, and want to ensure that everyone can be seen! This audition is for Season 42 Plays: Cult of Love, The Niceties, Fat Ham, and The Shark is Broken.
About the audition:
This audition is a large group audition for non-musical plays for our 42nd season. A resume and headshot are recommended, but not required. Those auditioning need only attend one night of auditions, not both. Those auditioning must be 18 years of age or older by the first rehearsal.
Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue from a contemporary piece. Callbacks will take place for individual shows on an as-needed basis.
Click the shows below for more information: dates, synopsis, open roles, etc.
Questions? Email [email protected].
Cabaret (1998 Version)
Book by Joe Masteroff, Based on the play by John Van Druten and stories by Christopher Isherwood, Music by John Kander, Lyrics by Fred Ebb.
Auditions: COMPLETED!
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich.
Cult of Love
by Leslye Headland
Auditions: July 13+14, 2026
It’s the holiday season for the Dahl family! In Leslye Headland’s cuttingly hilarious and deeply observant family dramedy, four adult siblings return home for Christmas, reawakening old conflicts and unearthing new revelations.
Dear Evan Hansen
Book by Steven Levenson, Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Auditions: June 29+30, 2026
Seventeen-year-old Evan Hansen has felt invisible his entire life. But when a tragedy shocks his community and thrusts him into the center of a rapidly evolving controversy, Evan is given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to be somebody else. As his web of well-intentioned lies begins to unravel, though, Evan is forced to confront the fact that the price of belonging may be far steeper than he bargained for.
Fat Ham
by James Ijames
Auditions: July 13+14, 2026
Fat Ham by James Ijames is a Pulitzer Prize-winning, modern, comedic reimagining of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Set at a backyard Southern barbecue celebrating a hasty wedding, it follows Juicy, a sensitive, queer Black college student. When his father’s ghost demands he avenge his murder, Juicy grapples with generational trauma, choosing joy and liberation over violence.
Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical
Book by Diablo Cody, Music by Alanis Morissette and Glen Ballard
Auditions: June 29+30, 2026
Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill: The Musical is an exhilarating new musical inspired by the themes and raw emotions laid bare in Alanis Morissette’s seminal album of the same name. The Healys appear to be a picture-perfect suburban family – but looks can be deceiving. When the cracks beneath the surface begin to show, they must choose between maintaining the status quo or facing harsh truths about themselves, their community and the world around them.
The Niceties
by Eleanor Burgess
Auditions: July 13+14, 2026
Zoe, a Black student at a liberal arts college, is called into her white professor’s office to discuss her paper about slavery’s effect on the American Revolution. What begins as a polite clash in perspectives explodes into an urgent debate about race, history and power.
The Shark is Broken
by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon
Auditions: July 13+14, 2026
The historic first summer blockbuster movie is being filmed – but no one working on the film would know it. Dive deep into the tumultuous, murky waters of the making of a major motion picture with dueling co-stars, unpredictable weather and a shark prop whose constant breakdowns are looking like an omen for the future of the movie. In this comedy written by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, the short tempers and short circuits of Jaws stars Robert Shaw (father of the play’s co-author Ian), Richard Dreyfuss, and Roy Scheider take center stage as they bond, argue, drink, gamble and pray for an end to the film shoot, not knowing it will change their lives forever.
Questions? Email [email protected].
