2024-2025 SEASON AUDITIONS

SEAT OF THE PANTS announces auditions for LETTING GO, our 2024-25 season of plays that center on the endings of things - and the new beginnings that then emerge. Please read the below information thoroughly and feel free to reach out with any questions.

GENERAL AUDITIONS
This season, our general auditions will be conducted entirely by video submission.

  • If you’ve auditioned for Seat of the Pants before or have been involved in our productions, proceed directly to the SHOW-SPECIFIC AUDITIONS section below.

  • If you’ve not auditioned for us before, please submit your headshot, resumé, and a video of two contrasting monologues to submissions@seatofthepants.org by end-of-day on Sunday, May 12th. We’ll follow up with you either way to set up a show-specific audition or let you know that we won’t need anything further from you.

SHOW-SPECIFIC AUDITIONS
Our show-specific auditions will take place in person, so that we have the opportunity to watch you play with others in the space and experience aspects of our rehearsal process.

If you’ve auditioned for Seat of the Pants before or have been involved in our productions, we invite you to send us a headshot, resumé, and Equity status, also letting us know for which show you’d like to audition and if you have any accessibility needs that we can help accommodate. We’ll get you signed up and confirmed for a specific slot. If you’re interested in auditioning for more than one show, you may sign up for multiple sessions OR come to one session and let us know you’d like to be considered for other shows as well.

During these sessions, you:

  • do NOT need to bring another headshot and resumé

  • should bring along your calendar

  • should arrive 10-15 minutes early to fill out an audition form

  • can expect to hang out with us for 1-2 hours, depending on what you’re being considered for

  • will, we hope, feel relaxed and comfortable to just play with some other actors in a room around a given text

Audition sessions will be as follows:
GRAND CONCOURSE: Saturday, May 18th from Noon-5 PM
THE FIRST SNOW OF SUMMER: Thursday, May 23rd from 5-10 PM
AMERIKIN: Thursday, May 30th from 5-10 PM

OTHER THINGS TO KNOW:

*We’re an itinerant theatre company, moving around Northeast Ohio. We select our locations based on where the cast is coming from - and we schedule rehearsals as centrally as possible. Be thinking about how far you’re willing to drive for both rehearsals and performances - and we’ll give you a chance to answer that question on your audition form.

*Our rehearsal processes are about three months long; we do this because we relish the chance to build an ensemble and really live with a play for a season before mounting it for an audience. What does this look like? For the first 4 weeks, we rehearse just once a week to play and experiment together. During this time, we’re learning technique, experimenting with tools that may or may not make their way into the final process, and building a common vocabulary together as an ensemble. We continue in the same fashion for the next 2 weeks, meeting twice a week. The final 4-5 weeks are a more traditional rehearsal schedule of five or six times a week. While monetary compensation begins in this last leg of the rehearsal process, our actors receive other forms of compensation through getting to work with guest artists who teach technique during the earlier process weeks and gaining an arsenal of new tools to enhance their craft. Will we ask you to work differently? Yes. Will it be a rewarding experience? Also yes.

*All roles are paid. We hire both Equity and non-Equity actors, and we anticipate having 1-2 Tier One Guest Artist or Special Appearance contracts for each show.

*The video submissions and in-person auditions will be observed by Seat of the Pants directors and producers Jeannine Gaskin, Craig Joseph, Anne McEvoy, and Fabio Polanco.

*Unless you elect not to be, everyone who auditions will also be considered for a series of new play readings we’ll be doing over the course of the year.

Read this far? Congrats! Here are the plays:

CHARACTER BREAKDOWN

GRAND CONCOURSE, by Heidi Schreck
Process: Once a week beginning week of July 29 / Twice a week beginning the week of August 26
Rehearsals: Five-six times a week beginning week of September 9
Performances: October 11-27, 2024

SHELLEY: Late 30s-early 40s. In charge of the kitchen for 15 years. Catholic nun and former high school basketball star. Female-presenting, person of color.
EMMA: 19. Has an edge to her. Loves horror movies. Recently dropped out of college. Female presenting, any race.
OSCAR: Late 20s or early 30s. Security guard working his way through community college. Completed a year of dental school in the Dominican Republic. Male-presenting, Dominican.
FROG: 50s-70s. Homeless former hippie and academic. Writes joke books. Male presenting, any race.


AMERIKIN, by Chisa Hutchinson
Process: Once a week beginning week of December 30 / Twice a week beginning week of January 27
Rehearsals: Five-six times a week beginning week of February 10
Performances: March 14-30, 2025

JEFF BROWNING: white, male-presenting, in his late 30s-early 40s
POOT SPANGLER: white, male-presenting, in his late 30s-early 40s
ALMA TILLERY: white, female-presenting, in her late 30s-early 40s
DYLAN HOFFENBERGER: white, male-presenting, in his early 40s
MICHELLE BROWNING: white, female-presenting, in her 30s
GERALD LAMOTT: black, male-presenting, 40s-60s
CHRIS LAMOTT: black, female-presenting, 20s


THE FIRST SNOW OF SUMMER, by Eric Coble
Process: Once a week beginning week of March 31 / Twice a week beginning week of April 28
Rehearsals: Five-six times a week beginning week of May 12
Performances: June 13-29, 2025
Casting Note: Though four of these characters are siblings from the same family, they do no not all need to be the same race. The text and playwright indicate that they’re a progressive, liberal clan whose history could have included adoption. The character of Peg is autistic; we are specifically seeking an actor who identifies as neurodiverse to play this role. Please familiarize yourself with the script below to see how this manifests in Peg’s life specifically and to discern if you’re comfortable with and capable of portraying this onstage.

TESS ANDERSON: oldest daughter, late 50s, female-presenting, any race
MARNIE ANDERSON: middle daughter, mid 50s, female-presenting, any race
PEG ANDERSON: youngest daughter, mid 40s, female-presenting, any race
CLARK ANDERSON: second oldest brother, mid 50s, male-presenting, any race
CATHERINE ANDERSON: wife of Clark, 40s, female-presenting, any race
ALECIA DAVENPORT: a neighbor, mid 50s, female-presenting, any race


Read Grand Concourse HERE.
Read Amerikin HERE.
Read The First Snow of Summer HERE.