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San Francisco Playhouse
San Francisco, CA
US

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Seeking Equity actors for our upcoming 2025/26 season. See breakdown.

All races, ethinities, genders, sexualities, and dis/abilities are encouraged to audition.


2025/26 SEASON:

'Noises Off' - written by Michael Frayn
Director: Bill English
Casting Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: 8/26/2025
Opening: 10/1/2025
Closing: 11/8/2025

'Into the Woods' - music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by James Lapine
Director: Susi Damilano
Choreographer: Nicole Helfer
Music Director: Dave Dubrosky
Casting Director: Nick Ishimaru
First Rehearsal: 10/21/2025
Opening: 11/26/2025
Closing: 1/17/2026

'M. Butterfly' - written by David Henry Hwang
Director: TBD
Casting Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: 1/6/2026
Opening: 2/11/2026
Closing: 3/14/2026

'Flex' - written by Candrice Jones
Director: Margo Hall
Casting Director: Karina Fox
First Rehearsal: 2/24/2026
Opening: 4/1/2026
Closing: 5/2/2026

'Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really' - written by Kate Hamill
Director: Bill English
Co-Director: TBD
Casting Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: 4/14/2026
Opening: 5/20/2026
Closing: 6/27/2026

'Hairspray' - music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, and book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan
Co-Directors: Margo Hall & Bill English
Choreographer: TBD
Music Director: Dave Dubrosky
Casting Director: Nick Ishimaru
First Rehearsal: 6/9/2026
Opening: 7/17/2026
Closing: 9/12/2026

Other Personnel Present:
Associate Artistic Director: Marie-Claire Erdynast
Casting Coordinator: Adria Swan
Executive Producers: Bruce Colman, Margaret Sheehan, Linda Brewer

AUDITION DATE:

Monday, April 21st
1:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Break from 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

LOCATION:

323 Geary Street, Room 211, San Francisco, CA 94102
*Building requires code access to enter; someone will be available to let you in.

APPOINTMENTS:

To schedule an appointment, please fill out BOTH of these forms:

Actor Profile:

Audition Form:

PREPARATION:

Slots will be 5 minutes. Please prepare material that showcases your abilities as an actor or singer/actor. You are welcome to perform 2 monologues or 1 song and 1 monologue. An accompanist will be available. Please bring sheet music clearly marked, in the correct key, and no more an 32 bars.

CONTRACT:

Bay Area Theatre (BAT) Tier 5
$863 weekly minimum (39-hour week)

San Francisco Playhouse rehearses 6-days per week, typically Tuesday-Sunday. Rehearsal times vary.
Performances are 8 shows per week.

OTHER:

sfplayhouse.org

A Monitor will be present.

Equity鈥檚 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:

'Noises Off'

Lloyd Dallas: The director of a play-within-the-play, Nothing On. Temperamental, exacting and sarcastic. Involved with both Brooke and Poppy.

Dotty Otley: A middle-aged television star who is not only the top-billed star but also one of the play's principal investors. Dating the much younger Garry.

Garry Lejeune: The play's leading man, a solid actor who is completely incapable of finishing a sentence unless it is dialogue. Constantly stutters and ends sentences with "you know..." Dating Dotty and prone to jealousy.

Brooke Ashton: A young, inexperienced actress from London. She pays no attention to others, either in performance or backstage, and persists in her role as scripted regardless of any interruption or mayhem. She is always losing her contact lenses without which she is blind. Part of the Lloyd鈥揚oppy鈥揃rooke love triangle.

Frederick (Freddie) Fellowes: Has a serious fear of violence and blood, both of which give him nosebleeds. Well-meaning, but lacks confidence and is rather dim-witted.

Belinda Blair: Cheerful and sensible, a reliable actress and the company's de facto peacemaker. Something of a gossip, and a bit two-faced. Has a rather protective attitude towards Freddie.

Selsdon Mowbray: An elderly, half-deaf "pro" with a long, storied career and a drinking problem. If he is not in sight while rehearsing, the stage crew must find him before he finds anything alcoholic.

Poppy Norton-Taylor: Assistant Stage Manager and understudy to the female roles. Emotional, skittish and over-sensitive. Part of the Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle and, by act two, pregnant with Lloyd's baby.

Tim Allgood: The over-worked and easily flustered Stage Manager, who must understudy, fix the set and run Lloyd's errands on top of his usual duties.

'Into the Woods'

Narrator: An intellectual and pleasant story-teller who helps to orchestrate the show and illustrate lessons to the audience.

Cinderella: A young, earnest maiden who is constantly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters.

Jack: The feckless Giant killer who is 'almost a man.' He is adventurous, naive, energetic, and bright-eyed.

Jack's Mother: Browbeating and weary, Jack's protective mother who is independent, bold, and strong-willed.

The Baker: A harried and insecure baker who is simple and loving, yet protective of his family. He wants his wife to be happy and is willing to do anything to ensure her happiness but refuses to let others fight his battles.

The Baker's Wife: Determined and bright woman who wishes to be a mother. She leads a simple yet satisfying life and is very low-maintenance yet proactive in her endeavors.

Cinderella's Stepmother: The mean-spirited, demanding stepmother of Cinderella.

Florinda and Lucinda: Cinderella's stepsisters who are black of heart. They follow in their mother's footsteps of abusing Cinderella.

Little Red Ridinghood: A spoiled young girl who is strong-willed, quick-wited, fearless, yet youthful and naive.

The Witch: Sarcastic, ugly-then-gorgeous, obsessive protector of Rapunzel who is straightforward and aggressive.

Cinderella's Mother: Deceased with her soul guarding and aiding her daughter from a tree.

Mysterious Man: A mischievous vagrant and nosy meddler. He is a good-natured protector and observer.

Wolf: Hungry and insatiable hunter who takes advantage of the weak by misleading and captivating his prey.

Rapunzel: A loopy-but-lovely maiden who is sheltered by the Witch and terribly lonely. She yearns to experience the world.

Cinderella's Prince: Vain and gorgeous, he is a disloyal lover who is currently searching for the next new, exciting thing.

Rapunzel's Prince: Just as vain and gorgeous as his Prince brother, he is always chasing the newest, most exiting endeavor.

Giant: Voiceover. The Giant's wife is an angry and vengeful 'monster.' She is seeking restitution for her loss.

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Rene Gallimard (White Male): A French diplomat who is on assignment in Beijing.

Song Liling (Asian Male but female presenting): A Chinese actor who plays the role of the female in Chinese opera. He manipulates Gallimard's affections in order to act as a spy for the Communist Party in China.

Marc / Sharpless (White Male): A friend from Gallimard's youth who encourages Gallimard to take advantage of women.

Chin/Suzuki (Asian Female): A member of the Red Guards, a paramilitary arm of the Communist Party in China, who Song communicates with to pass on information.

Helga (White Female) : Gallimard's wife, a sensible and unimaginative woman.

Renee (White Female): A young, sexually liberated Danish woman with whom Gallimard has an affair.

Toulon (White Male): The French ambassador to China and Gallimard's superior at the embassy.

Opera Dancers: Dancers appear onstage to perform a scene from a Chinese opera, to enact Song鈥檚 punishment and reeducation, and, later, to help Gallimard commit suicide.

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Starra Jones: 17-year-old, African American girl. The team captain, motivated by her mother's basketball success, is determined to have the full team play at the state championship game.

Sidney Brown: 17-year-old, African American girl. A transplant from California who is poised to get recruited.

Cherise Howard:17-year-old, African American girl. A devout teammate who provides a moral compass for the team.

April Jenkins: 17-year-old, African American girl. A shooting guard who gets pregnant.

Donna Cunningham: 17-year-old, African American girl. Center of the team. A levelheaded teammate.

Coach Francine Pace: 48-year-old, African American woman. A former player with a strict code Cares deeply about her players.

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Doctor Van Helsing: 40s+ American, female vampire hunter. She takes no crap from anybody. She is badass 鈥� and 19th century men do not, as a rule, appreciate it.

Mina Harker: 20s-30s. Very smart. Caring. Loyal. Wants to do the right thing.

Lucy Westenra: 20s-30s. Bright, funny, vivacious, playful, and mischievous.

Marilla: 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.

Drusilla: 20s-30s. A vampire. More animal than human.

Merchant: A merchant looking to make a sale.

Renfield: A madwoman. Worships Dracula. Believes that if she can earn his approval, she will be free.

Dracula: 30s-50s. A physically imposing man. He is extremely confident. Strong. Funny. Charming. Sexy.

Jonathan Harker: 20s-40s. A nice man. A truly decent man. A lawyer; a man of letters; a slight man; a slightly fussy man. If being unkind, one could say he鈥檚 delicate.

Doctor George Seward: 30s-40s. The head physician of a lunatic asylum.

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Tracy Turnblad: (White female, plus-sized, strong dancer). Confident, talented, and incredibly determined. A romantic with a good heart and desire to cut up the dance floor. Always on top of the latest trends.

Edna Turnblad (Older white male): Tracy's big and blonde mother. She is a working housewife who has lost her confidence and dream to be a plus-size clothing designer. Boisterous and commanding. Often played by a male in drag.

Penny Pingleton (White female): Tracy's best friend and dorky sidekick. Not the brightest girl, but she has good intentions. Bursting to get free of her mother's dominating control, she falls for Seaweed with childlike curiosity.

Prudy (Older white female): Penny's strict mother. Very conservative, controlling, and closed minded.

Amber Von Tussle (white female): Link's girlfriend and Tracy's nemesis. She is pretty, thin, shallow, snobby, and racist. Can't dance but is expected to win Miss Baltimore Hairspray. Always feels the need to be the center of attention.

Velma Von Tussle (older white female): Amber's mother and the director of Corny Collin's show. She is a devious taskmaster and snobby racist. The former Miss Baltimore Crabs will go to any length to ensure her daughter is the next big thing.

Corny Collins (White male): The charismatic host of the Corny Collins' Show. Good looking and smooth talking, he is a genuinely nice guy both on and off camera.

Link Larkin (white male): The star heartthrob on Corny Collins' show. He is extremely attractive and talented. Hoping to get his big break with a recording contract, he unexpectedly falls for Tracy.

Wilbur Turnblad/Principal (older white male): Tracy's simpleminded and kind father. He owns a joke shop and supports his daughter in spite of everything else. He also loves his wife, Edna, very much.

Seaweed J. Stubbs (Black male, strong dancer): Tracy's classmate and friend, who is discriminated against due to his skin color. He is cocky but surprisingly lovable. Talented in song and dance. He falls for Penny.

Little Inez (young Black female, strong dancer): Seaweed's little sister.

Motormouth Maybelle (older Black female): Seaweed and Little Inez's mother, she also appears as the Guest DJ on the Corny Collin's Negro Day show. Big, blonde, beautiful and proud of it. She is sassy and confident.

Dynamites (three Black women, strong vocalists): Negro Day talented and vibrant singers on the Corny Collin鈥檚 show.

Ensemble: Strong dancers/singers to play various roles.

DURATION

Aug 19, 2025 - Sep 12, 2026

SALARY

$863.00 – $863.00 per week

UNION

BAT Tier 5