Undermain Theatre 2026-27 Season Equity Principal Actors - Undermain Theatre Auditions

UNDERMAIN THEATRE 2026-27 SEASON - DALLAS, TX EPA

Undermain Theatre | Dallas, TX

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AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Monday, June 15, 2026
Undermain Theatre
3200 Main St
Dallas, TX 75226-1562
11:30 AM - 6:30 PM (C)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Basement Space.

APPOINTMENTS

PERSONNEL

To schedule an audition appointment please contact Casting Associate, Paul Semrad at: 214-747-1424 during business hours or
Auditions@Undermain.org Include your preferred date and time slot, with the subject line: “UNDERMAIN AUDITION - NAME - EQUITY STATUS”. People who do not have an appointment will not be seen.

CONTRACT

SPT
$333 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - until 1/3/27
$343 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - after 1/4/27

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Undermain Theatre's 2026-27 Season (See breakdown). An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Local Dallas area actors are encouraged to audition. Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds, and all abilities are encouraged to attend.

PREPARATION

Please prepare one contemporary or classical monologue not to exceed 3-minutes in length. No self-written material please. Bring your picture and resume stapled together as well as your Equity Membership Card. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

UNDermain THEATRE 2026-27 SEASON

EVENING AT THE TALK HOUSE

by Wallace SHAWN
Director: TBA
A Regional Premiere
Rehearsals: 8/25/26 – 9/16/26
Preview Performances: 9/19, 9/20/26
Performances: 9/21/26 – 10/6/26
Performance schedule: Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm.

SYNOPSIS

Evening at the Talk House by Wallace Shawn is a chilling, dystopian play where theatre artists reunite at their old haunt ten years after an unsuccessful show. Over drinks, nostalgic chatter turns sinister as they casually discuss their roles in a new, government-led program utilizing artists for violence, blurring the lines between art, complacency, and terror.

SEEKING

• ROBERT - late 50s-early 60's, male, any race or ethnicity, attractive, articulate, given to long speeches, a writer and sometimes actor. A big thinker and romantic.
• NELLIE - female, any race or ethnicity, late 50s-early 60s, well dressed, presentable, a very welcoming presence whose outward sweetness hides a troubled life. She is the hostess and proprietress of The Talk House. She knows all audience members and clientele.
• JANE - 30s, any race or ethnicity, a friendly and kind woman who looks after audience members of the Talk House serving as Nellie's assistant. A sometimes actress and waitress, she has a secret life and knows everyone else’s secrets.
• DICK - male, 50s, any race or ethnicity, of medium or small build. He is an actor, well known in public, he is friendly and affable and has a unique dark sense of humor. His face shows signs of fatigue as he has become a victim of beatings by various groups. No onstage violence. Simply stories he tells of the beatings.
• ANNETTE - female, 40s-50s, any race or ethnicity, average height and build. She is a costumer and wardrobe assistant who has taken on a clandestine job with the government that has her fulfilling various nefarious activities all over the world. Outwardly, she is very polite and thoughtful. Knows everyone, a longtime friend. Everyone thinks they know her. But they don’t know her deadly, desperate side.
• BILL - male, any race or ethnicity, 40s-50s, not tall, formerly a theatrical producer, he is now a successful talent agent. He represents the compromised and detached elite in the dystopian society of the play.
• TOM - male, 50s-60s, tall, pleasant, attractive, engaging, a well-known actor appearing in many television series. Represents the polite, successful though deeply compromised intellectual and artistic class within the dystopian society.
• TED - male, 40s-50s, any race or ethnicity. He’s a dapper yet morally compromised musician and composer who has traded artistic integrity for commerce in a dystopian society.

FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES

by Erin Malone Turner
Director: Vickie Washington
Professional Premiere
Rehearsals: 10/13/26 – 10/28/26
Preview Performances: 10/29/26 and 10/30/26
Performances: 10/31/26 – 11/22/26
Performance Schedule: Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm.

SYNOPSIS

A science fantasy following two souls who follow each other as lovers over 300 years and multiple incarnations. In the first two acts, set in ancient times and the 18th century, the forces working against our central romance are almost entirely external. And in the final act, two irresistible nerds embark on the most unobstructed path to love ever depicted—with any sense of friction not just distant but unlikely.

SEEKING

• TRACK 1: PETRA/LILY/AMIRA and Woman - a woman of color, age 25 to 40, in multiple lives - A princess, a painter, a homemaker, a book binder, a museum archivist. And a woman portraying the soul between lives. A young woman age 17 to 25.
• TRACK 2: ORION/JUDE/KISMET and Man - a male of color, age 25 to 40, in multiple lives - a musician, a baker, a farmer, a key collector, a museum archivist. And a man who is the soul between lives.

VEAL

by Jojo Jones
Director: Christina Cranshaw
A Regional Premiere
Rehearsals: 2/2/27– 2/24/27
Preview Performances: 2/25/27 and 2/26/27
Performances: 2/27/27 – 3/21/27
Performance Schedule: Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm.

SYNOPSIS

What if you were to become the Queen of North America? Would you be a benevolent ruler concerned with the affairs of state and the wellbeing of your subjects? In Jojo Jones’ bitter allegory, Chelsea, the Queen of North America is not. The state of her state is not as much a concern as it is an inconvenience. And when her former middle-school friend group requests an audience with her, her focus isn’t so much on their present needs as it is on the cruelties and humiliations she was once subjected to by them. As she guides them to reenact scenes from their time as classmates, the cruelty they inflicted upon her comes back to them in painfully embarrassing recollections. Beneath the comedy of this turnabout scenario lies a danger and darkness that is only made palatable through Jojo Jones’ wit and the absurdity of it all.

SEEKING

• CHELSEA – woman mid-twenties - a young woman recently crowned Queen of North America reunites with a small group of former classmates, forcing them to confront lingering power dynamics, long-held resentments, and the consequences of childhood cruelty.
• FRANNY - reminiscent of a ‘Mean Girl’, but much more sinister. She moves between desperation for medication to schoolyard frenemy, while coming face to face with the impact of her own childhood actions.
• NOA - young woman, mid-twenties, one of three former friends - along with Franny and Lulu, who visit their former peer turned dictator, Queen Chelsea, to request a favor. Noa is characterized as part of a group involved in a tense, nostalgia-driven game of retribution, forced to revisit past bullying and power dynamics with the new queen.
• LULU - young woman, mid-twenties. One of three former middle school bullies, forced to face their former victim, who has since become the Queen. Lulu is a deeply conflicted figure. Powerless, starving and haunted by the consequences of her past actions.
• Unnamed male Concubine - male, mid-twenties, an automaton-like silent attendant to Queen Chelsea, serves with absolute devotion.

THE TWO-CHARACTER PLAY

by Tennessee Williams
Director: Stefan Novinski
A Regional Premiere
Rehearsals: 4/27/27 - 5/19/27
Previews: 5/20 & 5/21
Performances: 5/22/27 - 6/6/27
Performance Schedule: Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 pm and Sunday matinees at 2pm.

SYNOPSIS

The Two-Character Play (also known as Out Cry) by Tennessee Williams is a haunting Southern Gothic drama about two actor siblings, Felice and Clare, who are deserted by their troupe at a “theater in the boonies”. They perform a play within a play to escape their fear, blurring the lines between reality and illusion.

SEEKING

• Felice – CAST. a fragile, potentially mentally unstable actor/playwright who, along with his sister Clare, is abandoned by their troupe to perform a play-within-a-play in a decrepit, unknown regional theater. Age 50s-60s. Open to any race or ethnicity.
• Clare - CAST. an actress and sibling, trapped with her brother, Felice, in a decaying theatre, forced to perform a play-within-a-play while battling paranoia, and mental instability. She navigates between extreme vulnerability and sudden coarse outbursts. Age, 45-55.