Monday, August 25, 2025
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050A4AABA822A5FF2-57615299-2526#/. Once you have secured your audition time, please fill out this audition form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVjl59NWzpiU-BQZrS7ULbQAI73FxyJnDDQhDkHLOT8N8f5g/viewform?usp=preview. If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may submit a video audition. See breakdown for instructions.
SPT
$605 weekly minimum (SPT 6) until Jan. 4th, 2026
$623 weekly minimum (SPT 6) after Jan. 5th, 2026
Equity actors for roles in Theater Mu's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
Please bring two contrasting monologues, ideally one dramatic and one comedic, no longer than 3-minutes total.
Theater Mu
755 Prior Ave N,
Saint Paul, MN 55104
Parking in gravel lot across the street. Building entrance near “Yellow Lot” sign, underneath green tower.
Playwrights and directors TBD
Written By Katie Ka Vang
Expected to attend:
Fran de Leon (Mu Artistic Director)
Katie Ka Vang (Hmong Futures Playwright)
Morgen Chang (Mu Programs Manager)
Jane Peña (Mu Office & Literary Manager)
Start Rehearsal: August 12, 2025
Preview: September 11-12, 2025
Opening: September 13, 2025
Close: September 28, 2025
January 2026, exact dates TBD
First Rehearsal: March 10, 2026
Previews: April 9 & 10, 2026
Opening: April 11, 2026
Closing: May 3, 2026
theatermu.org
For questions contact
auditions@theatermu.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
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.
Video submission instructions:
Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video at:
auditions@theatermu.org
Also, please fill out this audition form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVjl59NWzpiU-BQZrS7ULbQAI73FxyJnDDQhDkHLOT8N8f5g/viewform?usp=preview
(if you have difficulties accessing the form, contact
auditions@theatermu.org)
SYNOPSIS: Two childhood friends must choose between arranged marriages or leaving their families’ Islamic culture, which is made more complicated in light of their own growing love for each other.
PLEASE NOTE: There may be partial states of undress and implied nudity, but no full nudity onstage. There will also be an intimacy director present for these moments in the play.
ALL ROLE CAST.
NOOR - Female, Asian/MENASA/BIPOC, 20s-30s. Unable to confront her sexuality due to the expectations placed from her parents and brothers. Hardened by the world and gets what she wants.
NOTE: In addition to their adult age, actor will also portray character at 8-years-old and 17-years-old.
SAJIDA - Female, Asian/MENASA/BIPOC, 20s-30s. Closeted young Muslim woman yearning for the love of her best friend. Her parents are divorced, and Sajida wants to leave her hometown and the stringent conservative community.
NOTE: In addition to their adult age, actor will also portray character at 8-years-old and 17-years-old.
MU’S LONGEST RUNNING TRADITION: Our play-reading festival has been around since 1993 as a showcase for new Asian American works and as an artistic incubator for thoughts and ideas. In 2024, we opened it up for national submissions for the first time in almost a decade. And this season, we’re asking artists to submit short plays or excerpts that respond to a specific prompt: What is freedom?
Our annual festival of new work is curated by submission, so plays have not been selected and will not be until the fall. Selections will be ten-minute scenes that answer a prompt what does freedom mean to you?
HMONG FUTURES (See below) will be one of the pieces to have a reading in the NEW EYES FESTIVAL before having its own production later (April-May).
SYNOPSIS: This theater project commemorates 50 years of Hmong communities in the Twin Cities and dreams about what it looks like for these communities to thrive in the next 50. Playwright Katie Ka Vang created this with the Hmong community, including interviews, story circles, workshop readings, family-style dinners, and facilitated conversations.
“As a first-generation Hmong American, my worldview was largely shaped by my refugee parents' lived experiences related to political persecution, traumatic experiences, displacement, and poverty, and I hope my work is a vessel for myself and my community to co-create ideas that point toward liberation and transformation,” says playwright Katie Ka Vang.
Fhoua, female presenting, 40s, GenX, burned out, been surviving for so damn long she can’t even tell anymore, but she’s gonna learn, daughter of Zong, mother to Maly.
Maly, female presenting, 18, second gen, GenZ, an Instagram and TikTok learned activist, ready to tear it all down, for the/a revolution aka living off the grid.
Zong, female presenting, 75+, refugee-immigrant, was in survival mode for too damn long but no longer, might be the only one who’s not in survival mode, a plant whisperer.
Unclefriend, male presenting, 70s, refugee-immigrant, Zong’s neighbor, and comrade.
David, male presenting, 18, second gen, a business major at a local college, a realist, charming.
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