GOLDEN THREAD PRODUCTIONS 2027 SEASON — Principal Actors Auditions
Golden Thread Productions
AUDITION INFORMATION
Notice: Audition | Call Type: EPA
AUDITION DATE:
Sunday, November 8, 2026
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (P)
APPOINTMENTS
To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:
https://calendly.com/reyes97wendy/golden-thread-auditions?month=2026-11. Once you have secured your audition appointment, please fill out this audition form at:
https://airtable.com/appHPPycOcRo9BQv9/pag0CyQzJ0i7ZHwdI/form. Please submit for an audition by November 6th, 2026, at 11:59pm PT.
CONTRACT
Bay Area Theatre
$404 weekly minimum (Intro Tier)
SEEKING
Equity actors for Golden Thread Productions' 2027 Season General (See
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).Actors auditioning for General Auditions may be considered for mainstage productions and for roles in the 2027 programs (New Threads Reading Series).
Actors of all ages, races, genders, ability and experience levels are welcome to audition.
We are a company focused on the Middle East, so we do have numerous roles in productions and staged readings for actors of Middle Eastern heritage. Actors looking to showcase physical movement experience, such as clowning; dance; ensemble, devised work; and musicians are encouraged to audition.
Local (Bay Area) actors are encouraged to audition.
PREPARATION
If this is your first time auditioning with us, please prepare a one-minute monologue that showcases your vocal, physical, and emotional range. For New Threads Reading Series: Please select a Side to perform on the day of your audition. Sides are available at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LLGJngzN0f5YXO-k77RKdG2Fz_g4hjN9. To read the full scripts, please go to:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TqGvp9J2lF6_sNpCWDkk6W8ZFgzJMs21.
LOCATION
Potrero Stage
1695 18th St
San Francisco, CA 94107-2376
PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
- Nabra Nelson, Artistic Director
- Salim Razawi, Artistic Producer
- Wendy Reyes, Company Manager
See
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for production specificPERSONNEL
.OTHER INFORMATION
For other questions, reach out to
auditions@goldenthread.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity's
CONTRACT
s 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.
NEW THREADS READING SERIES: KHOSROW & SHIRIN
Workshop: 2/23/27 – 3/1/2027
Synopsis: Khosrow & Shirin is a classic Persian epic poem by Nizami Ganjavi, telling the tragic romance between Sasanian King Khosrow II (590-620 AD) and the Armenian princess Shirin, and Farhad, the sculptor. It's a tale filled with political turmoil, treachery, betrayal, and ultimate tragic union, highlighting themes of love, loyalty, and destiny, where Shirin's steadfastness contrasts with Khosrow's shortcomings despite his blessings of royal birth, good fortune, and loyal friends.
SEEKING:
- Shirin (F, 30) – Armenian princess, smart, energetic, straight forward, expert horsewoman; hunter
- Khosrow (M, 30) – Iranian prince; later King of Kings, exuberant, entitled, expert horseman; hunter
- Farhad (M, 30) – expert sculptor; engineer, capable of accomplishing impossible tasks for love
- Shapur (M, 30+) – expert painter, friend and confidant of Khosrow
- Mahin Banu (F, 50) – Armenian queen, Shirin's wise; caring aunt
- Barbad (M) – expert oud (barbat) player and singer
- Nakissa (F) – expert harp player and singer
- Ensemble: narrators, court people, towns people and international dignitaries. (Byzantium, China, India, Zanzibar, Ethiopia specifically named)
EMPIRE
Rehearsal: 5/17 - 5/21/2027
Performance: 5/22-23/2027
Synopsis: Inspired by the real-life story of a man imprisoned for eight years at Guantánamo Bay, adapted from detailed accounts originally written by his lawyer, Joshua Colangelo-Bryan. Drawing on interviews with a wide range of voices connected to Guantánamo, The Empire, based on Joshua Colangelo-Bryan's book, Through the Gates of Hell: American Injustice at Guantánamo Bay, weaves together a mosaic of perspectives spanning Cuba, the United States, Bahrain, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Saudi Arabia. Through this lens, Majumdar seeks to illuminate the human, political, and moral dimensions of American Imperialism and Presence around the world.
SEEKING:
- WM: White Male, 30s
- AM: Arab Male, 30s
- AF: Arab Female, mid 20s to early 30s
ICU
Rehearsal: 5/24 - 5/28/2027
Performance: 5/29-30/2027
Synopsis: Inspired by Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement, ICU illuminates the events and human experiences of the uprising through the intersecting lives of five Iranian women.
SEEKING:
Daria – Fifteen years old and luminous with the particular courage of youth that doesn't yet fully comprehend mortality. She's all possibility, all forward motion, full of passion, full of the confidence that she can change the course of things. She sneaks away to join the protests without her parents' knowledge because she cannot fathom not participating in the creation of a more just world.
Zoha – Sister to Tara. She's spent twelve years studying in the United States to become a Doctor of Ophthalmology. Finally able to return to Tehran to visit family, she carries the particular displacement of someone who's left their homeland for many years, only to realize they no longer fully belong to either culture. She sneaks to the protest, intending only to witness from a distance, to observe rather than participate. She is fierce, headstrong.
Tara – Older sister to Zoha, she works as an ICU nurse at a Tehran hospital. Tara doesn't attend protests wanting to remain neutral, outside of the political landscape. She tries to walk an impossible line: appearing compliant enough to avoid regime suspicion while using her position to care for injured protestors who arrive at the hospital. Clear headed, practical, the captain of the ship.
Jamshid – Zaftab's older brother, and eventually a friend to Shabnam. A loving brother whose shyness is transformed into determination and courage.
NUBIAN STORIES (SPRING MAINSTAGE)
Rehearsals: 3/16-4/4/2027
Performances: 4/19-5/9/2027
Synopsis: Sabila, a Nubian woman who was forcibly relocated from her village in the south of Egypt due to its intentional flooding for the construction of the Aswan High Dam, tells the story of her people through her own incredible biography as well as through the ancient Nubian folkloric tales.
SEEKING:
SABILA – Black woman, 40s-70s: A middle-aged Fadija Nubian woman. Full of energy, confident, intense, exuberant, hilarious, and extroverted. She also holds the deep sadness of loss and time's passage.
MUSICIAN (non-speaking instrumentalist) – Oud Player or Percussionist. Familiarity with Middle Eastern, African, and/or Nubian music preferred.
SUMMER SHOW: TITLE TBA
Directed by: Torange Yeghiazarian
Rehearsals: 6/28-7/18/2027
Tech: 7/19-7/30/2027
Performance: 7/30-8/22/2027
Synopsis: Written by one of the most prominent contemporary women playwrights in Iran, this play gives the audience a glimpse of what goes on inside an Iranian household.
Actors of MENA descent are encouraged to audition. Folks who have familiarity with Palestine and Iran are encouraged to audition.
SEEKING
(Tentative characterBREAKDOWN
):- TRACK 1 – Man, middle-aged – husband
- TRACK 2 – Woman, middle-aged – wife
- TRACK 3 – Boy – Their son
- TRACK 4 – Girl – Their daughter
- TRACK 5 – Blind cast, young
- TRACK 6 – Boy – appears only as text messages
- TRACK 7 – Man – good-looking
- TRACK 8 – Woman – ghost-like appearance
EL-MANSHIYYEH (FALL MAINSTAGE)
Rehearsals: 8/17-9/5/2027
Performances: 9/17-10/10/2027
Synopsis: El-Manshiyyeh, by Samer Al-Saber, takes audiences on a journey through time, memory, and the Palestinian neighborhood of El-Manshiyyeh in Yafa. Moving between the life of the community before 1936, the Nakba of 1948, the present day in 2025, and an imagined future, the play brings a neighborhood erased from the landscape back to life on stage.
Most characters appear as the same person across multiple periods: 1936, 1948, 2025, and the imagined future. All performers besides Ali and Stage Manager play actors 1-6 for a brief moment in Act 2. All characters are Palestinian. We welcome Palestinian performers and also invite performers from across MENA/SWANA communities to audition.
SEEKING:
- Stage Manager: any gender, 40-70, a hakawati: a storyteller and guide through the world of the play.
- Sanniyeh: woman, 20-40
- Maryam: woman, 30-50
- Aisha: woman, 30-50
- Ali: man, 20-40
- Zahran/Abu Shamsiyyeh/Police Officer: man, 30-60
- Mustafa: man, 30-50
- Ahmad/Journalist: man, 20-40
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