Auditions
2024-2025 Actors Auditions and Designer/Technician Hiring
Theatreworks Colorado Springs, an AEA SPT theatre, is seeking actor and designer submissions for our six mainstage productions as well as our non-Equity Act Out community tour in the 2024 - 2025 season.
We are casting for the productions listed below. We will update this website with titles and casting breakdowns after our season sharing event the evening of April 12.
We are accepting designer and technician resumes for select projects in the 2024-2025 season, as well as opportunities to build director connections for future seasons. Please scroll down for designer/technician/director submission information.
Practical Season Details
For Mainstage productions, we will produce six shows at the SPT-4 level with 30 hours of rehearsal per week. AEA Actors will earn $500 per week, slightly above the projected SPT-4 minimum of ~$470 per week.
Non-Equity actors on our mainstage productions will receive $400 per week.
For out-of-town artists, transportation to and housing in Colorado Springs will be provided. For Denver or Pueblo-based artists, housing or a fuel stipend is available.
For ACT OUT, the community tour work, the rehearsal week is 20 hours. Non-Equity actors are paid a weekly stipend of $250 during rehearsals. During performances, the per performance stipend is $75. Individuals must reside in the Front Range during the rehearsal and performance period, and should have reliable transportation to performance sites or comfort collaborating with fellow actors on travel to performance sites.
All rehearsals are held at the Ent Center for the Arts, 5225 N. Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs CO 80918.
Performances are held in the Dusty Loo Bon Vivant Theater in the Ent Center for the Arts. Exceptions will be Show 4 in the Osborne Theater and ACT OUT, which will perform in community centers, parks, and libraries around the Pikes Peak region.
Please note that Shows 1-5 may have one to three potential student matinee performances for students and seniors. Please only submit yourself for consideration if your schedule will offer the flexibility for you to participate in one to three performances during school hours (with advanced notice). Typically, these are 10:00 a.m. matinees on Wednesdays or Thursdays. Show 6 does not have scheduled morning matinees.
Season Audition Information
We have no youth roles in the 2024-2025 season and are only scheduling performers 18+ for these auditions.
If you are able to join us in-person, our 2024-2025 season auditions will be held at the Ent Center for the Arts on April 14 and April 15, 2024. If you wish to be considered for Show 1 (Shakespeare) or ACT OUT (classic work in verse), please prepare a piece in verse as one of your choices. Please do not prepare musical selection as we have no musical offerings in our 2024-2025 season.
In-person audition dates/times:
Sunday, April 14: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Monday, April 15: 12:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
If you cannot join us on these dates, please submit one (1) unlisted YouTube or one (1) Vimeo link to your video of two (2) contrasting pieces. The total of both pieces should not exceed five (5) minutes. It is helpful if you have a neutral background and good sound quality. We will only consider submissions linked through our audition form. Please do not send videos through email.
We will also be attending in-person auditions in Denver, through both the Colorado Theatre Guild General Auditions and the DCPA Non-Equity Auditions. If you audition at either of those opportunities, we welcome you completing the audition form below and either also auditioning at the Theatreworks Generals, or allowing your work at the other opportunities to stand in.
To be consider for the 2024-2025 season, everyone must complete an audition form, including uploading headshot and resume:
If you attend our April in-person auditions at the Ent Center for the Arts, please complete the form AND select an audition time slot:
We encourage actors of all races, ethnicities, identities, and abilities to audition for our season and are excited to cast these worlds expansively, except when the race/ ethnicity of the character is integral to the story. The genders given are the genders of the characters; we are delighted to consider casting actors across gender but where specified, the actors must be comfortable depicting characters of the outlined gender to uphold the story.
Callbacks will be by invitation beginning in late April 2024 and continuing until fully cast.
Please email theatreworks @uccs.edu with questions, but please do not send headshots, resumes or submissions to that email.
Technicians/ Designers/ Directors
We are always happy to meet new artists.
If you are a technician, interested in overhire work, lighting supervision, audio engineering, or properties coordination please email Producer Elena Hansen and Technical Director Dan Porten with your resume. In 2024-2025, our hourly rates start at $15. Our props coordinator stipend is $1250 per production.
If you are a lighting, sound, costume or scenic designer, we would also be happy to talk to you. For 2024-2025, our sound and lighting design stipends are $2000 per production, our scenic design stipend is $2250 per production, and our costume design stipends and as follows (Show 1: $2500; Show 3: $2000; Show 4: $1750; Show 6: $2500). ACT OUT props and scenic design/ coordination stipend is $1250. Some limited ability to fly and house out of town designers is available. Please email Producer Elena Hansen and Artistic Director Caitlin Lowans with your resume.
We are not currently accepting unsolicited requests for directing work with Theatreworks. If you would like Artistic Director Caitlin Lowans to know more about your work, please email them invitations to your productions.
We are also not currently developing new scripts for production.