Dobama Theatre | Cleveland Heights, OH
Saturday, April 26, 2025
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
No break scheduled
To schedule an audition appointment contact:
Elise Kuklinca, Connectivity Director -
auditions@dobama.org. Tuesday - Friday, 10am-5pm. If you are unable to attend these auditions in-person, you may submit a video audition. For details on video submissions please see
https://www.dobama.org/working-at-dobama. Video auditions will be accepted until April 28th, 2025, at 11:59pm ET.
SPT
$379 weekly minimum (SPT 2)
Equity actors for roles in Dobama Theatre's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown). Actors of any gender identity are encouraged to audition for any role. Roles are open to any race unless specified in the breakdown.
Please prepare two contrasting, contemporary monologues of no more than 60 seconds each or two minutes total. Please slate at the beginning of the audition (state your name and what you’re performing). No musical selections please. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Dobama Theatre
2340 Lee Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118-5220
Second floor. Street and lot parking available at no charge.
Colin Anderson, Director of Production
Expected to attend:
Nathan Motta, Artistic Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
dobama.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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
A full content disclosure form will be provided to each actor invited to callbacks along with a full copy of the relevant script. For more detailed information on callback dates, synopses, and more, please visit
dobama.org/working-at-dobama.
by Jen Silverman
Directed by Carrie Williams
First Rehearsal: 9/2/25
Performance dates: 10/2/25 - 10/26/25
Possible extension to 11/2/25
Casting Note (from the playwright): These characters can be played by actors of any ethnicity. Sir Arthur and his son Cuddy do not have to be played by actors of the same ethnicity.
ELIZABETH SAWYER - (female) 50s/60s. An outcast.
SCRATCH - (male) 20s/early 30s. The devil.
SIR ARTHUR BANKS - (male) 50s/60s. A wealthy and powerful man.
CUDDY BANKS - (male) 20s/early 30s. Sir Arthur’s son, painfully shy, a morris-dancer. He is secretly in love with Frank (and also in hate).
FRANK THORNEY - (male) 20s/early 30s. A confident and successful young man, charming and ruthless. His ambition knows no bounds.
WINNIFRED - (female) 20s/early 30s. Sir Arthur’s servant, resigned and pragmatic, secretly married to Frank.
by Greg Banks, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien
Directed by Erin E. Dolan
First Rehearsal: 11/4/25
Performance dates: 12/3/25 - 1/4/26
BILBO
GALDALO (doubles as Eagle, Elven Queen, Thrush)
THORIN (doubles as Gollum, Eagle, Smaug)
KILI (doubles as Fili, Goblin, Wolf, Wood Elf)
BALIN (doubles as Dwalin, Eagle, Bard)
BOMBUR (doubles as Bifur, Bofur, Troll, Spider)
ORI (doubles as Dori, Nori, Troll, Goblin, Wolf, Guard 1)
OIN (doubles as Gloin, Troll, Goblin, Wolf, Guard 2)
by Lloyd Suh
Directed by TBD
First Rehearsal: 12/29/25
Performance dates: 1/29/26 - 2/22/26
LUNA (female, 23) - Luningning Ignacia Mangahas de la Rosario Bustos, Filipina.
JANE (female, 23) - Hong Jae Ha, Korean.
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Nina Domingue
First Rehearsal: 2/10/26
Performance dates: 3/13/26 - 4/4/26
EMILIO - He/Him, any ethnicity, mid to late 30s. A Berlin-based installation artist who has spent the last two years becoming accustomed to being a father, or as he would describe it, his “COVID Project.”
CAITLIN - She/Her, any ethnicity, mid to late 30s. A stepmother to the children of a well-known congressman. Death pluralizes itself in her life through a string of multiple miscarriages.
URSULA - She/Her, any ethnicity, mid to late 30s, visually impaired. The residue of her grandmother’s passing and a failed surgical attempt to save her eye has left her with a hesitancy for life, so much so that she refuses to attend the twenty-year reunion.
MARYANN - She/Her, any ethnicity, mid to late 30s. A derma surgeon whose marriage to a resentful general surgeon has perceivably driven her from a “straightedge” identity to a drinking habit that is cause for worry.
FRANCISCO - He/Him, any ethnicity, mid to late 30s. A medically discharged military serviceman. His accident has left him with seizure-inducing PTSD.
by Martyna Majok
Directed by Nathan Motta
First Rehearsal: 3/24/26
Performance dates: 4/24/26 - 5/17/26
Possible extension to 5/24/26
Casting Note (from the playwright): G and B were born in other countries and brought to America young. HENRY is first generation. Born in America of immigrant parents. All have American mouths. All raised working class.
G - ages 17-21, female
B - ages 17-21, male
HENRY - older, male
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