Rodeo Clown - Detroit, MI EPA (08.05.26) & (08.06.26)

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

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

AND

Thursday, August 6, 2026

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM (E)

APPOINTMENTS

To make an appointment please contact the Detroit Rep office, 313-868-1347, [email protected], Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

CONTRACT

SPT

$406 weekly minimum (SPT 2)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in the world premiere of RODEO CLOWN (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Auditions will consist of reading sides from the script. Sides will be provided at the audition. NOTE: Knowledge of the script is highly recommended. Copies of the script are available at the theatre and may be taken overnight for a refundable deposit of $20.

LOCATION

Detroit Repertory Theatre

13103 Woodrow Wilson St

Detroit, MI 48238-3686

PERSONNEL

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Director: Leah Smith

Assistant Director: James Herriotte

Playwright: Will Street

OTHER DATES

First rehearsal: February 22, 2027

Opens: April 2, 2027

Closes: May 2, 2027

OTHER

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

RODEO CLOWN

SEEKING:

Jonah Moody: 20s, Black. Gifted-child burnout and a massive killjoy. The perfect victim and his only suspect. Can’t make eye contact with a gun to his head. Played defensive lineman on his pee wee football team but really wanted to be the kicker.

Bryce Williams: 20s, POC. One of the few med students who won’t graduate with crippling debt (thank you generational wealth). Was almost certainly the line-leader in elementary school with a board full of gold stars. Friend and former lover of Jonah.

Ben-Spencer Evans-Thomas: Mid to late 20s and country. Any race/ethnicity. Real down home. Can’t recite Whitman but can jimmy rig a tractor. If the SEC had a pulse and a pair of lungs.

J.B.: Middle-aged and country. Any race/ethnicity. James Benjamin Mulvaney. A vengeful, failed rodeo clown turned league commissioner. Worse than a tactless broadway producer staring down the barrel of a shitty biographical musical. Well, even JB has a little bit more tact than that. But only a little bit.

Mrs. Mary Moody: Middle-aged. Black. Baptist, bad wig wearer. Classy in an old school but tacky way. Her comfort zone is life— anything beyond is death. She’ll point to Leviticus 18:22 (thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman), but just loves her some Billy Porter. He’s so talented.

Louetta Stephens: ROLE HAS BEEN CAST. Middle-aged, country, Any race/ethnicity. AKA One-eyed Etta. A rodeo legend, bullfighting instructor and one-eyed lesbian.