AUDITONS

RIVER & RAIL THEATRE COMPANY

MORE THAN A BUILDING

Audition for our 11th Season

Currently accepting virtual submissions!

Currently auditioning for: 

  • Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias
  • The soon-to-be announced River & Rail Reading Series
At this time, Every Brilliant Thing and The Last Five Years have been cast.
AUDITION REQUIREMENTS
 

Those auditioning MUST fill out the audition form below. 

  1. Please prepare a One-Minute Contemporary Monologue
  2. Optionally, provide a contrasting One-Minute Monologue
 
CALLBACKS
  • Callbacks for Native Gardens will take place closer in time to the show. 

OUR SEASON 

  • The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown (September 10 – 27)
  • Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe (December 3 – 20)
  • Native Gardens by Karen Zacarias (April 15 – May 2)
 

SYNOPSES AND CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS

At this time, The Last Five Years has been cast.

SYNOPSIS:

An emotionally powerful and intimate musical about two New Yorkers in their twenties who fall in and out of love over the course of five years, the show’s unconventional structure consists of Cathy, the woman, telling her story backwards while Jamie, the man, tells his story chronologically; the two characters only meet once, at their wedding in the middle of the show.

CASTING BREAKDOWN: 1M, 1F

  • Catherine Hiatt
    • Character arcs from an ambitious, fresh-faced girl in a new relationship to a woman stunned by a betrayal and a divorce that she is only beginning to understand.
    • Can be played by any race or ethnicity
    • Gender: female
    • Playing Age: 25 to 35
    • Vocal range top: D#5
    • Vocal range bottom: F3
  • Jamie Wellerstein
    • Character arcs from an ambitious guy on a promising first date with a dazzling career to someone who is blinded by success and ego. He is very lovable, yet makes unintentional choices that sabotages his own happiness.
    • Can be played by any race or ethnicity
    • Gender: male
    • Playing Age Age: 25 to 35
    • Vocal range top: Bb4
    • Vocal range bottom: A2

At this time, Every Brilliant Thing has been cast.

Synopsis: 

Every Brilliant Thing opens with a mother’s suicide attempt and her seven-year-old’s subsequent search to understand it and help lift her depression by documenting the joys all around them. Starting with the basics, like ice cream and the color yellow, the list is maintained throughout their lifetime and highlights the narrator’s ever-changing view of what is beautiful about the world as they reach adulthood. This interactive solo show incorporates audience participation.

Character Breakdown:

This is an interactive solo show; the Narrator can be played by anyone of any ethnicity.  Audience members round out the cast. Casting a playing age of 25+.

SYNOPSIS: 

Pablo, a high-powered lawyer, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, are realizing the American dream when they purchase a house next door to community stalwarts Virginia and Frank. But a disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out war of taste, class, privilege, and entitlement. The hilarious results guarantee no one comes out smelling like a rose.

CASTING BREAKDOWN: 2M, 2F

  • TANIA DEL VALLE – early thirties; smart, likeable, positive, passionate, highly-energized, pregnant PhD candidate and gardener. Latinx.
 
  • PABLO DEL VALLE – early thirties; smart, likeable, ambitious, savvy young attorney. Latinx.
 
  • VIRGINIA BUTLEY – sixty to mid-seventies; smart, likeable, assertive, direct, no-nonsense engineer. White.
 
  • FRANK BUTLEY – sixty to mid-seventies; smart, likeable, excitable, caring, detail-oriented federal employee and gardener. White.