Kitchen Theatre 2026 - 2027 Season (07.31.26), (08.02.26), & (08.03.26)

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Friday, July 31, 2026

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM (E)

AND

Sunday, August 2, 2026

5:00 PM - 9:00 PM (E)

AND

Monday, August 3, 2026

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

BREAK: 2:00PM - 3:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

For Appointments, fill out https://forms.gle/uxrKcmb71dqk... or contact Gwyneth Cole, Arts Administration Associate, (607) 272-0570 [email protected] , T-F 10 am-3 pm

CONTRACT

SPT

$576 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Kitchen Theatre's 2026 - 2027 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare all sides for all roles you are interested in. All sides are in this folder: https://drive.google.com/drive... and are organized by show and role.

LOCATION

Kitchen Theatre

417 W. State St/MLK Jr. St

Ithaca, NY 14850-4351

PERSONNEL

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Producing Artistic Director, Emily Jackson

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER

kitchentheatre.org

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

Breakdown

KITCHEN THEATRE 2026 - 2027 SEASON

SEEKING:

N/A

by Mario Correa

Directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni

1st Rehearsal: 08/17/26

Opening: 09/11/26

Closing: 09/27/26

SEEKING:

N (Female, White, 60s+) — The Democratic Leader of the U.S. House. Formidable, precise, and not without wit. Not her first rodeo.

A (Female, Latina, late 20s) — A newly elected Congresswoman running on conviction. Her first rodeo.

SOMETHING ABOUT MONEY

by Alexander Thomas

Directed by Daniel Brunet

1st Rehearsal: 10/06/26

Opening: 10/16/26

Closing:10/25/26

SEEKING:

ALEX (CAST) (Male, Black) — A solo performer mining his own biography — poverty, survival jobs, money across cultures and continents — with wit and disarming precision.

MAYTAG VIRGIN

by Audrey Cefaly

1st Rehearsal: 11/10/26

Opening: 12/04/26

Closing: 12/20/26

SEEKING:

JACK KEY (Male, thirties/forties) — High school physics teacher. Southern. Nearly unflappable.

LIZZY NASH (Female, thirties/forties) — High school English teacher. Southern. Endearingly neurotic and quick-witted.

YOU WILL GET SICK

by Noah Diaz

Directed by Wendy Dann

1st Rehearsal: 02/09/27

Opening: 03/05/27

Closing: 03/21/27

SEEKING:

1 (Male, 30s; person of color) — A man with a serious diagnosis he can't bring himself to share.

2 (Female, 70s+; White) — The stranger he hires to tell his family. Practical, unsentimental, with ambitions of her own.

3 (Female, 30s; person of color) — His sister. Sharp-tongued and protective.

4 (Male, 30s–40s; White) — Doubles multiple roles. Warm, ebullient, emotionally transparent.

5 (Male, 20s or younger; person of color) — 1's older brother Patrick. Has been sick before him. Narrates 1's experience in second person throughout — until, near the end, he is finally seen.

BORN WITH TEETH

by Liz Duffy Adams

Directed by Emily Jackson

1st Rehearsal: 04/06/27

Opening: 04/30/27

Closing: 05/16/27

SEEKING:

KIT (Male; any age/race) — Christopher Marlowe. Iconoclastic, punk-edged, dangerously brilliant.

WILL (Male; any age/race) — William Shakespeare. Ambitious and hungry. Arrives as a supplicant and refuses to stay one.