AUGUST WILSON'S TWO TRAINS RUNNING — Principal Actors Auditions

AUGUST WILSON'S TWO TRAINS RUNNING - AURORA, CO EPA

Aurora Fox Arts Center | Aurora, CO

Notice: Audition | Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Monday, October 5, 2026
6:30 PM - 10:00 PM (M)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:
https://www.aurorafoxartscenter.org/twotrains-auditions. If you have any questions, send them to:
scorbin@auroragov.org. By appointment only, no walk-ins. Please schedule at least 24 hours in advance. We are not accepting video submissions at this time.

CONTRACT

Independent Theatre

CONTRACT

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in AUGUST WILSON'S TWO TRAINS RUNNING (See

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PREPARATION

Please read the play and understand its setting and themes. Prepare a short monologue that reflects the character's voice, emotional range, and ability to convey the play's tone. Choose something that shows your range OR you may prepare a monologue from the play for the role you are interested in. Please check in at Fox Box Office/Lobby 10 minutes ahead of your appointment.

LOCATION

Aurora Fox Arts Center
9900 E Colfax Ave
Aurora, CO 80010-5013

Please check in at Fox Box Office/Lobby 10 minutes ahead of your appointment.

PERSONNEL

Written by August Wilson

Expected to attend:

• Director: donnie l. betts
• Interim Director of the Aurora Fox: Lisa Rigsby Peterson
• Administrative Assistant: Sierra Corbin
• Production Manager: Brandon Case

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: 12/28/2026
Tech Begins: 01/21/2027
Opening: 02/05/2027
Closing: 02/21/2027

Additional performances:

• Preview Night: Thursday 02/04 at 7:30 PM
• Weekday Matinee: Thursday 02/18 at 2 PM
• Industry Night: Tuesday 02/09 at 7:30 PM

Anticipated Rehearsal schedule: Sundays - Thursdays, 6 p.m. to 10 p.m., at the Fox.

Performance schedule: All Fridays and Saturdays are at 7:30 PM. Sundays at 2 PM.

OTHER

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

Equity's

CONTRACT

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

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AUGUST WILSON'S TWO TRAINS RUNNING

SYNOPSIS: Memphis Lee's coffee shop lies in Pittsburgh's Hill District, a neighborhood on the brink of economic development. The restaurant serves as a hangout for a host of regulars: a local intellectual, an elderly man who imparts the secrets of life as learned from a 322-year-old sage, an ex-con, a numbers runner, a laconic waitress who slashed her legs to keep men away, and a developmentally disabled man who was once cheated out of a ham. With Chekhovian obliqueness, the author reveals simple truths, hopes and dreams, creating a microcosm of an era and a community on the brink of change.

SEEKING:

MEMPHIS: Male presenting, Black, 50–65. Owner of a Pittsburgh Hill District diner, fighting for what he believes he is owed. A self-made man whose values of hard work, diligence, persistence, and honesty have been consistently challenged by the circumstances of his life. His greatest asset is his impeccable logic. A dialogue heavy role.

WOLF: Male presenting, Black, 40–55. A survivor, popular with the community but necessarily with Memphis. A man who enjoys his notoriety and popularity as the community's numbers runner. While he manages to keep money in his pocket and a decent pair of shoes on his feet, his inability to find secure female companionship is the single failure that marks his life. A dialogue heavy role.

RISA: Female presenting, Black, 20s–early 30s. The only apparent employee of Memphis' diner, kind, sharp, devout, keen observer. A young woman who, in an attempt to define herself in terms other than her genitalia, has scarred her legs with a razor.

HOLLOWAY: Male presenting, Black, 60–70. A community elder who serves as a seer, sage, knower, dispensing his perspective from a table at the diner. A man who all his life has voiced his outrage at injustice with little effect. His belief in the supernatural has enabled him to accept his inability to effect change and continue to pursue life with zest and vigor. A dialogue heavy role.

STERLING: Male presenting, Black, 30s. Dreamer, recently released from prison, achingly and sometimes angrily trying to make a new start in a place with few opportunities. Sterling appears at times to be unbalanced, but it is a combination of his unorthodox logic and straightforward manner that makes him appear so. A dialogue heavy role.

HAMBONE: Male presenting, Black, 40–50. Fixated on getting justice by demanding to be paid for work he did years ago. Self-contained and in a world of his own. His mental condition has deteriorated to such a point that he can only say two phrases, and he repeats them idiotically over and over.

WEST: Male presenting, Black, 60–70. Funeral home director, successful businessman. Since his wife's death he has allowed his love of money to overshadow the other possibilities of life.