ReOrient Festival of Short Plays 2026 Equity Principal Actors - Golden Thread Productions Auditions

ReOrient Festival of Short Plays 2026 - San Francisco, CA EPA

Golden Thread Productions | San Francisco, CA

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

LOCATION

Potrero Stage
1695 18th St
San Francisco, CA 94107-2376
The Annex.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

• Nabra Nelson: Artistic Director
• Salim Razawi: Artistic Producer
• Wendy Reyes: Production Associate

OTHER DATES

ReOrient Festival of Short Plays:
Rehearsal begins 8/31
Performances 10/9 - 11/1

OTHER

www.goldenthread.org

For more information:
https://goldenthread.org/get-involved/casting/

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.

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, February 7, 2026
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM (P)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
https://calendly.com/wendy-goldenthread/golden-thread-auditions?month=2026-02. Once you have chosen your time slot, please fill out the following audition form:
https://airtable.com/appHPPycOcRo9BQv9/pagogaSEBzpYiVeFr/form.

For other questions, reach out to
auditions@goldenthread.org.

The deadline to choose an audition time slot is February 1st, 2026.

CONTRACT

Bay Area Theatre
$404 weekly minimum (Intro Tier)

SEEKING

Equity actors for ReOrient Festival of Short Plays in Golden Thread Productions' 2026 Season.

Actors of all ages, races, genders, ability and experience levels are welcome.

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

Please prepare 2 or 3 sides from at least 2 plays for your audition. Audition sides may be found at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z3D9h-SZOKygzeISCD26fHP94zFQVxhEltzDPAsINsY/edit?tab=t.0. Copies of the entire play(s) may be found at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jzrEKpkCXtJaLGtpoZoOqV2IH3wYXeZQ.

BREAKDOWN

DARE NOT SPEAK

Written by Hassan Abdulrazzak

Synopsis: A young woman, murdered in a genocide, pitches her story to a theatre artistic director who is reluctant to put it on stage.

Seeking:

• HIND - Woman, teenager to early 20s, MENA
• NATALIE - Woman, any age, any ethnicity

CAMOUFLAGE

Written by Ahmed Masoud

Synopsis: Thaer is a thirteen-year-old boy on a boat in the waters between Turkey and Greece; something is troubling him and it is not the fact that he might drown any minute. Nibal is a seventeen-year-old girl finishing her SAT exams in an American-style school in Ramallah. She is constantly refusing marriage proposals from well-suitors, but she can’t resist one guy. Twenty-year-old Zeid is a taxi driver in Gaza who is using Tinder to try to find a date. Sami’s dream is to become a famous actor; he has to play a few roles in Haifa in order to build his CV and get known with Israeli established directors. Camouflage is a one-person show, which presents a collage of theatrical genres taking the audience on a journey of what it means to live under occupation.

Seeking:

TRACK 1: (man, 20s, MENA) Doubles as the following roles:

• Thaer: 12-year-old boy, Palestinian refugee in Syria currently travelling on a migrant boat from Turkey to Greece in the hope of crossing to Europe
• Nibal: 17-year-old girl in Ramallah falling in love with a writer from the resistance movement
• Zeid: 20-year-old male taxi driver in Gaza, trying to find a date on Tinder
• Sami: 21-year-old male actor in Haifa trying to make it big in Israel

REGARDING ANTIGONE

Written by Banafsheh Hassani

Synopsis: A new solo show inspired by a true story, the classic Greek tragedy of Antigone, war photography, my weak memory, a revolution, state propaganda, a song she sang, and cringe diaspora poetry where “every line is a call to action”.

Seeking:

• TRACK 1 - Woman, any age, MENA

HOMING PIGEONS & CO

Written by Hasti Jafari Jozani

Synopsis: Two friends develop a weekly ritual of attending the Iranian diaspora protests in San Francisco every weekend, to try to prevent their countrymen from being executed in the Islamic Republic prisons. But their differences become more disastrous with each passing day, and as activism takes a toll on them, it takes everything they got to not murder each other.

Seeking:

• TINA - woman early 20s
• HALAN - woman early 20s, left Iran with her family when she was 13
• COP - Anti-riot policewoman, 30ish, wears a black chador and on a normal day has other duties such as morality patrolling

BLOOD FRUIT

Written by Hannah Khalil

Synopsis: It tells the true story of Mary Manning, a young shop worker in Dublin in the 1980s who refused to handle a South African grapefruit and convinced her coworkers to strike. It took years of hardship, but the women kept their nerve and eventually their actions led to a fundamental change in the Irish government’s attitude to apartheid — they stopped trade with South Africa, proving boycotts can work.

Seeking:

• TRACK 1 - Woman, 20s-30s, any ethnicity
• TRACK 2 - Woman, 20s-30s, any ethnicity
• TRACK 3 - Woman, 20s-30s, any ethnicity
• TRACK 4 - Woman, 20s-30s, any ethnicity
• TRACK 5 - Man, any age, any ethnicity