Tuesday, June 10, 2025
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (C)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSezfg-P-0lA2P4Xj0-zR51aOrpuYKB1aJsHRqJVimccu9vhNQ/viewform. You will receive an email confirming your audition time.
SPT
$761 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for roles in Milwaukee Chamber Theatre's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare two contrasting monologues – no Shakespeare please! We like him, we just don’t regularly produce him. You may also perform a song if you are so inclined, but we are not producing any musicals this season and will NOT have accompaniment provided so it will either be acapella or self-accompaniment with your own instrument (no piano will be available). You will have a six-minute slot.
Broadway Theatre Center (Milwaukee Chamber and Skylight Music Theatre)
158 N Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202-6037
5th Floor - Rehearsal Hall B. Please enter under the smaller marquee and take the elevator to our 5th floor. There will be signs to guide you once you are on the 5th floor.
Artistic Director: Brent Hazelton
Artistic Producer: Josie Trettin
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
https://www.milwaukeechambertheatre.org/generals
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
Director: Elyse Edelman
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Load In: Sunday, September 14, 2025
Focus: Monday, September 15, 2025
Tech Starts: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Preview: Friday, September 19, 2025
Opening: Saturday, September 20, 2025
Closing and Strike: Sunday, October 5, 2025
Potential Extension through and Strike: Sunday, October 12, 2025
Burnt-out American prodigy Stephen Hoffman arrives in 1986 Vienna desperate to reignite his concert pianist’s passion — and instead finds himself assigned to the irascible Josef Mashkan for beginner’s lessons in basic accompaniment and singing. As political ghosts escalate the tension of emerging personal secrets, the bond between student and teacher becomes a powerful reckoning with identity, memory, and the possibility of hope.
Joseph Mashkan (PRECAST): Viennese music professor, late 50s. Jewish and a Holocaust survivor. He is masterful but severe and suffers from deep self-hatred that he takes out on Stephen.
Stephen Hoffman (PRECAST): American, 25 years old. Jewish. A pianist who was once considered a prodigy but is struggling with severe burnout and has not performed in a year. Looking to reconnect with his music.
Understudy Tracks Open
Directed by Brent Hazelton
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Load In: Sunday, November 9, 2025
Focus: Monday, November 10, 2025
Tech Starts: Tuesday, November 11, 2025
Preview: Friday, November 14, 2025
Opening: Saturday, November 15, 2025
Closing and Strike: Sunday, November 30, 2025
Potential Extension through and Strike: Sunday, December 7, 2025
At Marty’s Supper Club, everybody knows two things: just how you like your Old Fashioned and all your secrets. Twins LeeAnn and Eric are trying to keep their family business alive after their mother’s sudden death, but when a waitress drops a chilling revelation on the local news their cozy Northwoods holiday plans tilt off their axis. A hilarious and heartfelt new mystery from Wisconsin favorite Heidi Armbruster, MURDER GIRL blends classic suspense with small-town soul, proving that sometimes the family you’d kill for are the same people you’d love to kill.
LeeAnn (PRECAST): Marty’s owner, Eric’s twin. Neurotic, a talker, deeply wounded. Her various coping methods include pills, visualization and affirmations, and pushing Eric’s buttons, but they aren’t enough to keep her anxieties from slipping through the cracks and threatening to overwhelm.
Eric (PRECAST): Marty’s owner, LeeAnn’s twin. Quick to explosive anger. Hesitant to reminisce or examine the past. He was in a relationship with Emily prior to her disappearance.
Ted (PRECAST): The cook. Mysterious and quiet. He may not always say much, but he’s always listening. Went out with LeeAnn once, and very well may still carry a torch for her. Late 20s-early 30s, man.
Charlotte (PRECAST): Waitress, 50s-60s. The “old guard” at Marty’s Supper Club. Rougher edges than Other Charlotte. Outwardly pretends not to want to get involved with the drama, but secretly she’s just as invested as everyone else.
Other Charlotte (PRECAST): Waitress, 50s-60s. The “old guard” at Marty’s Supper Club. A sweetheart who enjoys festive sweaters, Murder She Wrote, and getting involved in things.
Understudy Tracks Open for Eric, Ted, Charlotte and Other Charlotte
Directed by Alex Coddington
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Load In: Sunday, January 18, 2026
Focus: Monday, January 19, 2026
Tech Starts: Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Preview: Friday, January 23, 2026
Opening: Saturday, January 24, 2026
Closing and Strike: Sunday, February 8, 2026
Potential Extension through and Strike: Sunday, February 15, 2026
Based on a true story, this Pulitzer Prize-winning tour de force explores one of the most singular lives of the 20th Century: antiquities collector Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, who not only survived two of the world’s most repressive regimes in the Nazis and East German Communists but preserved countless rare Weimar and Jewish cultural artifacts in her East Berlin home all the while. But as the story goes deeper, what begins as a celebration of queer resilience shifts into a far more complicated portrait of survival, truth, and the cost of living authentically.
Charlotte: The play tells the true story of Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, a transgender woman who survived both the Nazi and Communist regimes in East Berlin. An archivist who collects furniture, gramophones, clocks, and other antiques. Doubles as her interviewer (and playwright) Doug Wright.
Understudy Tracks Open
Directed by Brent Hazelton
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Load In: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Focus: Monday, March 16, 2026
Tech Starts: Tuesday, March 17, 2026
Preview: Friday, March 20, 2026
Opening: Saturday, March 21, 2026
Closing and Strike: Sunday, April 5, 2026
Potential Extension through and Strike: Sunday, April 12, 2026
Air Force veteran and NSA translator Reality Leigh Winner thought she was doing the right thing; the government didn’t see it that way. Chronicling one of the most controversial acts of whistleblowing in American history, this acclaimed Broadway thriller (drawn entirely from an FBI transcript) stages an interrogation with every pause, cough, and contradiction intact — and leaves us to read between the lines. More than docudrama, IS THIS A ROOM is a razor-sharp examination of language, power, and the uneasy tension between truth and duty.
Special Agent Justin C. Garrick (PRECAST): Lead FBI Investigator. Highly trained. Laser focused on coaxing information out of Reality. Only concerned about her comfort when it helps him. “Menacing in their relentless blandness.”
Special Agent R. Wallace Taylor: FBI Agent. Looser than Garrick, but just as interested in answers. Trying to be unassuming. “Menacing in their relentless blandness.”
Reality Leigh Winner: Air Force Veteran and NSA translator. Highly intelligent, but somewhat short sighted. Athletic lean build, rock climber. Woman, 25-early 30s.
Unknown Male: Identified in the transcript only as “Unknown Male.” Pops in and out of the interrogation. Definitely a bit bumbling.
Understudy Tracks Open
Director: to be announced
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Load In: Sunday, May 3, 2026
Focus: Monday, May 4, 2026
Tech Starts: Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Preview: Friday, May 8, 2026
Opening: Saturday, May 9, 2026
Closing and Strike: Sunday, May 24, 2026
Lorraine Hansberry’s trailblazing classic — the first play produced on Broadway written by a Black woman and still one of the American theater’s most impactful — follows the Younger family as they wrestle with big dreams in the face of economic hardship and the harsh injustices of discrimination on Chicago’s South Side. With language as lyrical as it is unflinching, A RAISIN IN THE SUN remains a triumphant, deeply human portrait of the determination to build a better life than the one the world is willing to give you, and a powerful reminder that the right to dream belongs to everyone.
Ruth Younger (PRECAST): Walter’s wife, a pragmatic and strong woman battling poverty and domestic struggles. Earns a living by cooking and cleaning for her clients. Black woman, 30s.
Walter Lee Younger (PRECAST): Mama’s son, the protagonist of the play who desires to be rich by investing his father’s insurance money into a liquor store. Considers himself something of an entrepreneur. He currently works as a driver. Black man, 30s.
Beneatha Younger: Mama’s daughter, an intellectual who attends college and dreams of becoming a doctor. Progressive. Black woman, 20s.
Lena Younger: Mother to Beneatha and Walter, a religious and maternal character with morals and dreams of her family having a better life. Black woman, 50-60s.
Joseph Asagai (PRECAST): Beneatha’s friend from college. Nigerian student who is in love with Beneatha. Very proud of his African heritage. Has political ambitions. Black man, 20s.
George Murchison: Beneatha’s friend from college. He’s from a wealthy family and is pursuing Beneatha romantically. The Youngers approve of him, but Beneatha finds him less interesting and engaging than Asagai. Black man, 20s.
Bobo: Walter’s partner in liquor store plan. Black man, 30s.
Karl Lindner: White representative from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. He attempts to entice the Younger family to reconsider their plans to move to Clybourne Park by offering to buy them out. White man, 30s.
Travis Younger: Ruth and Walter Lee’s son.
Moving Men: Two men who appear at the end of the play to move the Younger family’s belongings into the moving truck. Non-speaking roles.
Understudy Tracks Open
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