Wednesday, August 27, 2025
12:00 PM - 8:00 PM (E)
No break scheduled
To schedule an audition appointment, please fill out the form at:
https://form.typeform.com/to/dVKwnI
SPT
$800 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
Equity actors for roles in Quantum Theatre's 2026 Season (See breakdown).
Quantum encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities to attend every audition.
Please prepare up to 2 monologues of your choice: Each no longer than 1-minute in length; preferably from either Shakespeare or from a contemporary play.
Quantum Theatre Offices
212 45th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
Expected to attend:
Karla Boos (Artistic Director)
Alex Ungerman (Director of Production)
Hazy J (Associate Producer)
Callback dates:
September 4th - 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
September 5th - 5:00 PM - 9:30 PM
September 6th - 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM
September 7th - 11 AM - 3 PM
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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
Written by Anne Washburn
Directed by Andrew Smith
Rehearsals begin: March 3, 2026
Performances: April 3 - April 26, 2026
SYNOPSIS: Welcome to tech rehearsal: a company of 14 is engaged in the very peculiar — and peculiarly impossible — task of making a new play. You’ll have a seat next to the sound designer as he mixes cues. You’ll eavesdrop on backstage gossip as it happens over headset. You’ll watch the director struggle to contain the uncontainable. Writer Anne Washburn took notes during her tech rehearsals over the years. 10 Out of 12 is a wry and absorbing look at how work forms us and deforms us.
ALL ROLES OPEN TO ANY BACKGROUND / ETHNICITY
BEN: M, adult, middle age. Male presenting. A mid-career actor in the play, playing the role of Charles. His career has had its ups and downs, with an initial interest in being a Shakespearean actor.
EVA: F, 20s or early 30s. Female presenting. An early career actress in the play, playing the role of Marie. Has a natural positivity and excitement for this role. Has ambition to climb higher in her acting career.
SIGET: F, 20s - 40s. Female presenting. A mid (or early) career actress in the play, playing the roles of Old Lady and Lucille. Has range as a character actor.
PAUL: M, 30s - 50s. Male presenting. An actor who holds some prestige and mystique with those around him. Passionate and opinionated. Plays the role of Carstairs in the play.
JAKE: M, 20s - 30s. Male presenting. An early career actor who has attracted notable attention in his professional career and has a cool Los Angeles vibe to him. He has a six pack, and a personal trainer to help make it happen. Idolized Paul. Plays the role of Richard in the play.
JAMIE: Any gender, 20s - 30s. Assistant Stage Manager for the play. Excellent at their job: efficient, helpful, and comfortable climbing ladders onstage.
ELLIOTT: M, 30s - 50s. Male presenting. The mid-career Director of the show. Sarcastic, cynical, and also eternally hopeful for the magic of theatre. Sometimes doubts his instincts, at other times is exactly clear with what he wants.
MOLLY: F, 30s - 50s. Female presenting. The Stage Manager for the show. Excellent at the job: patient, has command, and slightly exhausted from trying to keep this show moving forward.
M, 20s - 30s. Male presenting. Early career, with many hopes and dreams in fitting in and being relevant. Likes to socialize.
E2: Any gender, 20s - 60s. Any gender. One of the two stagehands/electricians who does a number of tasks for the production, both onstage and behind the scenes. Quirky and funny. Willing to do anything to help the play stay on track.
JULIE FORD: F, 30s - 50s. Female presenting. The mid-career Light Designer for the show. Particular, deft at their job, and wanting to get the looks just right.
ROBERT: M, 30s - 50s. Male presenting. The mid-career Sound Designer for the show. Hard worker. Determined to make this show successful.
BETH: F, 30s - 50s. Female presenting. The midcareer Costume Designer for the show. Cares deeply about her design and is trying to work within the budget.
E3: Any gender, 20s - 30s. Any gender. An early career backstage hand and technician. Funny. Likes shrimp chips.
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Karla Boos
Rehearsals Begin: June 16, 2026
Performances: July 17 - August 23, 2026
SYNOPSIS: The Tempest by William Shakespeare, his last play, reflects an accumulation of his thoughts on power and control; betrayal, love, and forgiveness. It’s full of theatrical magic and is set on a remote island presided over by Prospero, a powerful magician. The play begins with a shipwreck orchestrated by Prospero which carries Alonso, the King of Naples, his son Ferdinand, and Prospero's treacherous brother, Antonio, to his domain. Twelve years earlier in Milan, Prospero was usurped by his brother Antonio, with the help of Alonso, and banished to the island with his little daughter, Miranda, now grown. Prospero is served by two spirits Ariel, whom he rescued from imprisonment in a tree, and Caliban, born on the island to the witch Sycorax. Characters include servants of the King of Naples: Stefano and Trinculo, who meet Caliban. This trio has some of Shakespeare’s greatest comedy.
PROSPERO: Male, 50+. Former Duke banished to a deserted island where he commands magical powers and controls his young daughter Miranda and two spirits: Caliban and Ariel.
CALIBAN: Male, late 20s-40s, physical and comic ability. Born on the island to a witch, enslaved by Prospero.
ARIEL: Any Gender, late 20s-40s, physical and comic ability. Called a ‘spirit of the air’, indentured to Prospero after he rescued Ariel from imprisonment in a tree on the island.
MIRANDA: Female, 20s. Innocent, grew up on the island and only knows what Prospero has taught her. Falls in love with Ferdinand.
ALONSO: Male or female, 40s-60s: King (or Queen) of Naples, father (or mother) of Ferdinand, shipwrecked on the island with an entourage of counsellors, some bent on destroying him – payback perhaps as he once helped Antonio usurp Prospero.
ANTONIO: Male or female, 40-60s: Brother (or sister) of Prospero, who usurped and sought to destroy Prospero in Milan 12 years ago. Now bent on taking advantage of the shipwreck to usurp the King.
SEBASTIAN: Male or female, 40-60s: Brother (or sister) of Alonso, persuaded by Antonio in opportunistic plot to kill the King.
FERDINAND: Male, 20s: Prince of Naples, son of Alonso, falls in love with Miranda.
STEPHANO and TRINCULO: Male or female, 30s-50s: Comic. Stephano, a drunken butler, and Trinculo, a jester, are members of the shipwrecked party. Upon encountering Caliban this trio provides a comic foil to the power struggles of Prospero and Alonso; Antonio and Sebastian.
GONZALO: Male, 60s. A true old counsellor who, unknown to Antonio and Alonso at the time, helped Prospero escape with his life. Helps define the moral center of the play.
Additionally likely to be doubled from above:
IRIS, CERES, JUNO: female (goddesses)
BOATSWAIN, ADRIAN, FRANCISCO: Male or female (members of Alonso’s shipwrecked entourage).
Written by Liza Birkenmier
Directed by Katie Brook
Rehearsals begin: September 15, 2026
Performances: October 16 - November 8
SYNOPSIS: Ellen is a crisis negotiator. When she takes her work back to her childhood home, conflicts with her injured mother bend and blur with an international hostage situation. In this stark-strange space, what begins as manageable grows to superhuman scope; who controls whom in this house, in this town, in this ocean, on this earth?
ELLEN – she/her, late thirties, Black. Is a hostage negotiator who was formerly in the military. Scrupulous and dry, but has a sense of humor.
RORY – she/her or they/them, late twenties-early thirties, not Black. Is expressive in many ways that Ellen is not. Protective, conscientious, self-serious, a journalist.
PAULA – she/her, sixties, white. Is Ellen’s mother. Deeply affectionate for her daughter but never sure how to articulate it. Often nervous, which can (at times) conceal her resilience.
SHERIFF and CONTACT MAN – he/him 50s, Black. Is Ellen’s match in logic, ambition, and cleverness. Not without humor.
Doubles as:
SHERIFF is trying to fulfill his small-town role, folksy and friendly, but tired.
REVEREND and OIL MAN – he/him 50s, white. OIL MAN is an un-slick businessman with a lot of power and very little self-control.
Doubles as:
REVEREND is warm and misguided, too forgiving of the wrong things; he misses how things used to be around here.
OPERATOR – she/her or they/them, ageless, any race or ethnicity. Is a mystical 9-1-1 dispatcher. Eternally, impossibly calm.
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