Human Race Theatre Co | Dayton, OH
Saturday, May 17, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please contact Tara Lail at: 937-461-3823 x3113 from 10a - 4p Monday - Friday. If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, video submissions will be accepted until May 18, 2025, at 6pm ET, and should be emailed to:
submissions@humanracetheatre.org.
SPT
$605 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
Equity actors for roles in Human Race Theatre Company's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown). All ages, races and ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations and abilities are encouraged to audition.
Prepare two 1.5-minute contrasting contemporary monologues. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Human Race Theatre Company
126 N Main St Ste 300
Dayton, OH 45402-1766
Rehearsal Studio. On street parking and surface lots nearby.
Tara Lail, Creative Producer
Expected to attend:
Emily N. Wells, Artistic Director
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
www.humanracetheatre.org
The Human Race Theatre Company is a fully Covid vaccinated workplace.
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
by Jake Lockwood
First Rehearsal: August 11, 2025
Performances: September 3 – 14, 2025
A World Premiere
Paul briefly steps away from a lucrative writing career in LA to help his father, Karl, go through an apartment that’s overrun with “stuff”. Paul seeks to use this time away from corporate clients to write something more meaningful, but the distractions of Karl’s life prove to be more than Paul’s creative inspiration can overcome. In the end, Paul finds he has just as much “stuff” to work through.
TRACK 1: THE ROLE IS CAST: Paul – a writer in his early fifties
TRACK 2: THE ROLE IS CAST: All others, including:
Terry – Paul’s writing partner
Amazon Guy – Amazon delivery guy
Karl – Paul’s Father
Super – the building Superintendent
Mortimer – Window washer
Aunt Ceil – Karl’s Sister-in-law
by Kate Hamill
First Rehearsal: October 6, 2025
Performances: October 29 – November 9, 2025
Bouncing between horror and humor, Kate Hamill’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel is a thrilling play that questions where the true monsters hide. No damsels in distress, no romanticized villains – just a gleeful stake through the heart!
Doctor Van Helsing: 40s+. American. A female vampire hunter. She takes no nonsense from anybody. She wears dusty beaten clothing and a big cowboy hat. She has a long nasty old scar all up and down the side of her face, as if someone has taken their hand and RIPPED down, long ago. It’s from an encounter she’d rather not talk about. She’s been through it. She’s a bit of a know-it-all; okay, she’s a lot of a know-it-all. She’s prickly. She’s strong. She’s brilliant. She’s no Lady. She’s on the hunt. She is badass — and 19th century men do not, as a rule, appreciate it.
Mina Harker: 20s-30s. Very smart. Caring. Loyal. Wants to do the right thing. Was raised to be a Lady and is thus suppressing an inner fire that emerges throughout the progression of the play. Great emotional depth, good sense of humor. Must face her darkest fears — comes out stronger at the end of it. Secretly an adventurer, and fighter. Is called to be more than she once was.
Lucy Westenra: 20s-30s. Bright, funny, vivacious, playful, and mischievous. Feels trapped and torn by expectations. About to be married, and deeply conscious of how that puts her under a 19th century man’s control. Reflexively flirtatious. Believes she must pretend to be less than she is. Yearns for freedom. Falls desperately ill after being bitten by Dracula... and then becomes a completely different being — an animalistic vampire demon — a naturally manipulative predator. Lucy’s vampire self is deeply unpredictable and frightening.
Marilla: THE ROLE IS CAST. 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human. Was lured into vampirehood by Dracula, who then proceeded to exploit her. Enjoys being a predator. Finds pleasure in consuming others. Resents her objectification. Manipulative; vicious; probably sociopathic. Capable of moving very fast – blink and oh God, she’s right behind you. Sister-wife to DRUSILLA. Doubles as MAID – an underpaid, resentful servant.
Drusilla: THE ROLE IS CAST. 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human. Was lured into vampirehood by Dracula, who then proceeded to exploit her. Enjoys being a predator. Finds pleasure in consuming others. Resents her objectification. Manipulative; vicious; probably sociopathic. Capable of moving very fast – blink and oh God, she’s right behind you. Sister-wife to MARILLA. Doubles as MILLER – a casually brutal asylum attendant, and MERCHANT – a merchant looking to make a sale.
Renfield: any age. A madwoman. Worships Dracula. Believes that if she can earn his approval, she will be free. Not a bad soul, really, but capable of extreme brutality or duplicity in service of her religious zealotry. Almost a child, in her way.
Dracula / as cast: late 30s-late 50s. A physically imposing man. He is... extremely confident. Strong. Funny. Charming. Sexy. You’d like him, reader — no, really, you would. He makes people lose their heads. Manipulative. Commanding. Capable of being very, very frightening. Unpredictable. Physically strong. Incredible with language. Unimaginably powerful. Brilliant. Casually takes pleasure in cruelty. An equal-opportunity sexual sadist. A toxic predator; a wolf in the fold; a very old and clever parasite, capable of adapting and surviving. Fundamentally enjoys himself.
Jonathan Harker: 20s-40s. A nice man. A truly decent man. A lawyer; a man of letters; a slight man; a slightly fussy man. If being unkind, one could say he’s delicate. He’s very, very British. Cares about people. Is maybe a little rule-bound. Loves his wife, Mina, deeply. Is bitten by Dracula and then loses his mind — becoming an easily confused, raving shambles. After recovering from sickness, he slowly gives in to Dracula’s darkness — becoming an abusive, toxic man. Once he’s under Dracula’s influence, we can’t always tell if he’s telling the truth. Can quickly switch from likable to extremely volatile.
Doctor George Seward: 30s-40s. The head physician of a lunatic asylum. A good man but starts out the play as a product of his era — has some trouble listening to women. Believes only in the evidence of his own eyes. Tends to mansplain. Deeply in love with his fiancée Lucy Westenra, of whom he is overprotective. Has a very contentious relationship with Van Helsing. Doesn’t like to not feel in control. Chivalrous. Thinks of himself as a modern man, a man of science. Over the course of the play, he learns to accept female leadership and question his assumptions. A brave man. Likeable.
by Kelsey Celek, Chris Leyva, Marley Masterson, Aleah Vassell, Torie Wiggins, Robb Willoughby
First Rehearsal: November 24, 2025
Performances: December 10 – 21, 2025
A World Premiere
Six short plays celebrating seasonal memories, moments and silliness — for adults only! Featuring all the ups and downs of winter, our local playwrights' original plays will have your sides splitting and leave the theatre in a festive mood.
TRACK 1 – Dramatic, deep thinking, capable of big acting moments.
TRACK 2 – Funny, breezy, timing is everything, quick.
TRACK 3 – The foil, the straight shooter, the grounded one.
By Sally Mayes with Director, Brett Cullen
First Rehearsal: February 2, 2026
Performances: February 24 – March 1, 2026
A World Premiere
An actress returns to her East Texas hometown in the wake of a family tragedy to make peace with the past and accept the future. A love letter to people to her family, this memory play with music sparks the human need for connection.
Billie: THE ROLE IS CAST: An actress and singer, deeply connected to family and her East Texas roots and who has been performing all her life. Struggling with letting go of the past, accepting the present and moving into the future.
By Noël Coward
First Rehearsal: March 16, 2026
Performances: April 8 – 26, 2026
Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, Judith and David Bliss, a retired actress and her novelist husband, find peace to be impossible when their children, Simon and Sorel, appear with guests of their own. A houseful of misunderstandings, tempers, and drama ensue as the quiet weekend comes to a hilarious and exhausting end.
Judith Bliss - (50s) – Retiring Actress, center of the household.
David Bliss – (50s) – Novelist, distracted and not fully aware of all the household drama.
Sorel Bliss – (19-24) – Nonconformist, intelligent.
Simon Bliss – (20s) – Sorel’s older brother, artist, fluid sexuality.
Myra Arundel – (20s) – Multidimensional, upwardly mobile, intelligent, metrosexual.
Richard Greatham – (30s-50s) – Diplomat, strait-laced, a little slow on the upswing.
Jackie Coryton – (20s) – Flapper, a bit ditzy and out of her depth.
Sandy Tyrell – (20s-30s) – Amateur Boxer, athletic, unspoiled, youthful sense of honor.
Clara – (50s) – The (not so great) Maid to the Bliss family, Judith’s former dresser, unkempt, overworked.
by Katori Hall
First Rehearsal: May 11, 2026
Performances: June 3 – 14, 2026
A Regional Premiere
It’s time for the annual “Hot Wing Festival” in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Crutchfield knows he has the wings that’ll make him king. Supported by his beau Dwayne and their culinary clique, The New Wing Order, Cordell is marinating and firing up his frying pan in a bid to reclaim the crispy crown. When Dwayne takes in his troubled nephew, however, it becomes a recipe for disaster. Suddenly a first-place trophy isn’t the only thing Cordell risks losing.
Cordell (40s) - the head chef of the clique. Recently emerged from the closet to cohabitate with Dwayne. In a not so former life, had a wife and 2 kids.
Dwayne (40s) - might not be the head chef but is the head of the household. Holds Cordell and everyone down. Has been a mentor to his struggling nephew for years. Holds resentment towards Cordell for taking so long to legitimize their relationship.
Isom (30s) - new friend. Playlist includes gospel and trap and that’s exactly how he talks. Met the duo at church.
Big Charles (40s) - old friend. Met the duo at the barber shop. Observant, laid-back. The Rock.
Everett EJ (16) - Dwayne’s nephew. In need of guidance and a new home.
TJ (35) - Everett’s father. A long-time dealer who is “about that life”. Struggles with teaching his son how to be a man, but unsure if Cordell and Dwayne can be good father figures to his son.
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