Every summer at the end of the first week, we hold a joint unified audition for local actors. Our directing students will be required to attend these auditions, as well as help facilitate them. They are held at Mill Mountain Theatre, which is our local equity playhouse, and go all day on Saturday and Sunday. All of our students in the Certificate for New Play Performance are also required to audition, and our playwrights are also strongly encouraged to audition so that even if they are not cut out to be performers themselves, they know just how difficult an audition can be for the person on the stage. Lots of our playwrights are pretty good actors, though and we encourage you to cast from that pool when appropriate–but you are not allowed to cast a playwright in their own show.
Festival casting happens the following Monday in the Collaboration class. Most Mondays the actors will also attend this class as part of their Ensembles in Collaboration course–but NOT this Monday. While we are making sausage, they will be meeting with their instructor doing a post mortem review of their auditions.
Casting notices WILL go up by NOON on that Monday, and then the lamentations and celebrations will commence.