FRANK THEATRE 2025-26 SEASON - MINNEAPOLIS, MN EPA
Frank Theatre | Minneapolis, MN
AUDITION DATE
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
1:00 PM - 10:00 PM (C)
Break 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
APPOINTMENTS
To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:
https://www.theaterforms.com/franktheatre/2025-26/auditionform/
CONTRACT
SPT
$323 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - until 1/4/26
$333 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - after 1/5/26
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Frank Theatre's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
PREPARATION
Please prepare a 2-minute monologue.
LOCATION
Frank Theatre rehearsal studio
Ivy Building for the Arts
2637 27th Ave S, Suite 208
Minneapolis, MN 55406
We are on the second floor of the Ivy Building for the Arts.
PERSONNEL
Beth Cleary: Dramaturg
Carol Brady and Lucas Erickson: Board members
Expected to attend:
Wendy Knox: Director/Artistic Director
OTHER DATES
THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
1st Rehearsal: September 29 (tentative)
Performances: October 31 - November 23
THE WELKIN
Rehearsal: February 3, 2026 - March 5, 2026
Opening: March 6, 2026
Performances: March 29, 2026
OTHER
www.franktheatre.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
BREAKDOWN
Frank Theatre 2025-26 Season
THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI
A diverse cast of 12 men and women, many of whom play multiple roles.
SEEKING:
- Announcer/Ragg/Sheet/Actor/Butler/Grocer – announcer; reporter; shipyard owner; butler employed by Dosborough; grocer
- Clark/Prosecutor – member of the Cauliflower Trust; prosecutor
- Caruther/Bodyguard/Young Dogsborough – member of the Cauliflower Trust; young son of alderman Dogsborough
- Butcher/Judge/Dullfeet/Grocer/Gunman – member of the Cauliflower Trust; Judge; journalist; gunman
- Flake/Hook/Inna/Grocer – member of the Cauliflower Trust; grocery warehouse owner; young gangster recruit; grocer
- Dogsborough/Pastor – Chicago alderman
- Ernesto Roma – Ui's first lieutenant
- Arturo Ui – mob chieftain
- Dockdaisy/Short Gunman/Grocer – gangster moll, gunman, grocer
- Emanuele Giri – gangster
- Giuseppe Givola – gangster, florist
- Public Defender/Betty Dullfeet/O'Casey/Bowl – public defender; business woman; chairman of the Investigation Committee; shipyard accountant
THE WELKIN
An ensemble cast of diverse actors (age, race, ethnicity), many of whom play multiple roles.
SEEKING:
- Sally Poppy – 19, young woman accused of murder
- Elizabeth Luke – local midwife
- Judith Brewer – village woman, loves to gossip
- Charlotte Cary – widow of an army lieutenant, new to town
- Kitty Givens – Elizabeth's daughter
- Helen Ludlow – has had 12 miscarriages in 8 years
- Sarah Hollis – village woman, hasn't spoken in 20 years
- Emma Jenkins – village woman
- Ann Lavender – village woman married, mother of 4 daughters
- Mary Middleton – village woman, mother of five
- Hannah Rusted – village woman
- Sarah Smith – 83, married three times, 21 children
- Peg Carter – married to a gardener
- Mr. Coombes – bailiff
- Fred/Mr. Willis – Sally's husband
- Katy Luke/Alice Wax – young girl
- The Justice – decides on Sally's sentence
