Perisphere Season 2026 Audition Breakdown
Perisphere is seeking to cast the following roles for our 2026 season. All roles are paid a stipend of $1,100. Currently we are unable to consider AEA performers. Rehearsals and performances will take place at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.
TO BE CONSIDERED: Submit your headshot, resume, and a link to your self-tape using
this Google form by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7th.
For the self-tapes, please tape yourself performing a 60-90-second contemporary monologue.
Please slate at the top of your video with your name and the name of the play and character you are presenting.
Please use a solid, neutral color backdrop.
Please record yourself at eye level using a tight frame that goes from your chest to just over the top of your head and if using a phone, please make sure to record using a horizontal orientation.
Only actors aged 18+ should submit.
Your video should either be loaded as “unlisted” on YouTube or on a private Vimeo channel.
If you need to password protect the video, please use “Perisphere2025”
Please do not share links via Google Drive or Dropbox.
Callbacks will be held in October 2025. We regret that we cannot respond to all submissions.
SILENT SKY by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Susan Stroupe
Company Meeting: There will be a meeting of the entire artistic and production company before rehearsals begin at a mutually beneficial time for all company members sometime during the first week of November.
1st rehearsal: December 8, 2025
Technical Rehearsals: January 22 - 25, 2025
Dress Rehearsals: January 27 & 28, 2025
Preview: January 29, 2025
Opening: January 30, 2025
Closing: February 14, 2025
Rehearsals will take place weekends and evenings no more than 5 days a week. There will be no rehearsal December 22-January 4. Performances run January 30, 2025-February 14, 2025.
BREAKDOWN:
HENRIETTA LEAVITT: This role is cast.
MARGARET LEAVITT: 30s, homebody, creative, sweet, sister. Female-presenting. Any ethnicity.
PETER SHAW: 30s, the head astronomer’s apprentice…and the man. Male-presenting. Any ethnicity.
ANNIE CANNON: 40s, the leader, terse and sure, grows into a firebrand. Female-presenting. Any ethnicity.
WILLAMINA FLEMING: 50s, smart as whip and fun, Scottish. Female-presenting. Any ethnicity.
I KNOW HOW TO CURSE: a re-blackening of Shakespeare
Written and performed by Gerrad Alex Taylor
Directed by Nigel Semaj
All roles are cast.
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