A Red Orchid Theatre 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - A Red Orchid Theatre Auditions

A Red Orchid Theatre 2025-26 Season - A Red Orchid Theatre

AUDITION DATE

Friday, June 13, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

CONTRACT

CAT
$389 weekly minimum (tier 2) - increase to $398/week on 10/6/25.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in A Red Orchid Theatre's 2025 - 2026 Season (see breakdown).
Actors of all ages, identities, ethnicities, and genders, as well as artists with disabilities for A Red Orchid Theatre’s 2025/26 Season. See

BREAKDOWN

PREPARATION

Please prepare one (1) contemporary monologue no more than two (2) minutes in length. We may or may not ask you for a 2nd monologue if needed or as time permits.
Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661

PERSONNEL

• Kirsten Fitzgerald, Artistic Director and Director of BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA
• Travis A. Knight, Assoc. Artistic Director
• Kyle Stoffers, Casting
• Dado, Director of VEAL

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER

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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

A RED ORCHID THEATRE 2025 - 2026 SEASON

VEAL - World Premiere

Written by Jojo Jones
Directed by Ensemble Member dado
October 2 - November 9, 2025

SYNOPSIS

Following a violent coup, a young woman named Chelsea becomes Queen of North America. Into her new palace walk three friends from middle school with whom she hasn't spoken in years. They've come to ask Chelsea for a big favor, but before she grants it, she's going to make them revisit their shared friendship.

SEEKING:

• FRANNY: Late 20s/ Early 30s, tall, any ethnicity
• LULU: Late 20s/ Early 30s, short, any ethnicity
• NOA: Late 20s/ Early 30s, in the middle, any ethnicity
• CHELSEA: Late 20s/ Early 30s, current Queen of North America, any ethnicity
• UNNAMED MALE CONCUBINE: Late 20s/ Early 30s, always around, any ethnicity

BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA - Chicago Premiere

Written by Anna Ouyang Moench
Directed by Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Kirsten Fitzgerald
January 15 - February 22, 2026

SYNOPSIS

John and his daughter Caitlyn are birders. As they scan the skies over their backyard in suburban Maryland looking for elusive birds, years go by. Relationships begin and end. Children grow up and parents age. The climate and the world change in small and vast ways. BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA takes a close look at the relationship of a father and daughter over the course of a decade as they struggle to understand the parts of one another that defy understanding.

SEEKING:

• JOHN: ALREADY CAST,

  SEEKING

  UNDERSTUDY, 50s, A scientist and avid birder. Ages throughout the play from his late 50s to late 60s. White, probably.
• CAITLYN: 30s to 40s, A copy editor for a conservative news outlet. Ages throughout the play from her late 20s to her late 30s. John's daughter. White or multi-ethnic.

THE TARGETED - World Premiere

Written by Hanna Kime
Directed by Grace Dolezal-Ng
April 23 - May 31, 2026

SYNOPSIS

Welcome to the Unity and Hope Conference. A gathering of the most persecuted, tortured, and misunderstood people in the entire world. They call themselves Targeted Individuals and they are the victims of a vast and covert program of systemic torture, surveillance, and harassment by global intergovernmental powers. Over the course of this weekend in the woods, they will discuss strategies to take down the deep state, bring awareness to their plight, and, despite their suffering, stay human.

SEEKING:

• MIA: Intense in a Type-A way, BIPOC, 20s to 30s, she/her
• ERIC: The youngest, Sweet, Gullible, BIPOC, 20s to 30s, he/him
• JEFF: ALREADY CAST,

  SEEKING

  UNDERSTUDY, Earnest, Terrifying, White, 50s, he/him
• RHONDA: ALREADY CAST,

  SEEKING

  UNDERSTUDY, Intense in a concerning way, any race, 40s to 50s, she/her
• SHERRY: ALREADY CAST,

  SEEKING

  UNDERSTUDY, Minivan mom, Lilly Pulitzer, Chardonnay, any race, 30s to 40s, she/her
• DIDI: ALREADY CAST,

  SEEKING

  UNDERSTUDY, The oldest, The Kindest, any race, 50+, she/her