THE PASTURE Equity Principal Actors - Mixed Blood Theatre Company Auditions

THE PASTURE - Minneapolis, MN EPA

Mixed Blood Theatre Company | Minneapolis, MN

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Mixed Blood Theatre
1501 S 4th St
Minneapolis, MN 55454-1106
10:30 AM - 6:30 PM (C)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
We'll be upstairs in the Mixed Blood rehearsal room. Please enter from the purple door at the back, facing the parking lot, up the wooden ramp. There is street parking as well as an open air, paid parking lot.

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please email
tey@mixedblood.com with your name and availability for auditions by Monday, June 15th.

PERSONNEL

Written by Mark Valdez and Ashley Sparks
Directed by Ashley Sparks

CONTRACT

SPT
Expected to attend:
$697 weekly minimum (SPT 7)
Ashley Sparks: Director, Writer
Mark Valdez: Writer, Artistic Director
Alejandro Tey: Associate Artistic Director

SEEKING

Equity actors for THE PASTURE (See breakdown).

OTHER DATES

World Premiere First Rehearsal: March 8th, 2026
Performances: April 1st - April 18th, 2026

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting contemporary one-minute monologues. Nothing classical or verse please. Also, bring 1 copy of your headshot and resume stapled together. 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.

Breakdown

THE PASTURE

OUR MISSION: Mixed Blood uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

SEEKING:

• JANE (30s-40s any race, female identifying) - Young pastor. She’s taken over a church with a shrinking congregation. This was in 2020, just as the COVID shutdown began. Since then, she has struggled to maintain, much less grow, the congregation. She understands that they must sell their building. She knows what she needs to do, now she just has to get everyone on board.
• STEPHEN (40s-50s, any race, male identifying) - He is a woo-woo developer. Committed to the art of astrology, the smell of patchouli follows him around. He wants to buy the church and convert it into a high-end hotel, making lots of money in the process. He doesn’t like taking no for an answer.
• SAM (70s-80s, any race, female identifying) - Long time congregant. Having spent her whole life there, she is deeply committed to the church and opposes any idea that doesn’t preserve the church as she’s known it.
• TASHA (30s-40s, female identifying, any race) - An independent developer. She is staking everything she owns on the purchase and development of the church property, converting the church into a mixed-used, mixed-income property. She views this as a path for wealth generation for herself.
• LEX (20s, male identifying, any race) - Like many of his generation, Lex joined the church, looking for deeper meaning and spirituality. He is estranged from his parents and has been living in the church. He has a big dream that serves for him and others like him: convert the church into a dorm and gym. They live there and tend to the church in return.
• AARON (70s-80s, male identifying, any race) - He’s a single man who has a long association with the church. He understands that they must sell it, but he advocates that it goes to the community, through a community land trust, in this way keeping to the church’s mission. He lives in an RV on the church lot and is close to Lex, acting as a big brother/surrogate dad.