Perisphere Theater 2025 Season Auditions

Perisphere is seeking to cast the following roles for our 2025 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 September 29th.

For the self-tapes, please tape yourself performing a 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 “Perisphere2024”
      • Please do not share links via Google Drive or Dropbox.

    Callbacks will be throughout the fall and winter as needed. We will be in touch ASAP if we would like to see you further for a role in the season.

    The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks

    Director: Gerrad Alex Taylor

    Company Meeting: There will be a meeting of the entire artistic and production company before rehearsals start at a mutually beneficial time for all company members sometime during the first week of November

    1st rehearsal: December 9, 2024

    Technical Rehearsals: January 23 – 26, 2025

    Dress Rehearsals: January 28 & 29, 2025

    Preview: January 30, 2025

    Opening: January 31, 2025

    Closing: February 15, 2025

    Rehearsals will take place weekends and evenings no more than 5 days a week. There will be no rehearsal December 23-January 5. Performances run January 31, 2025-February 15, 2025. 

    BREAKDOWN

    THE FOUNDLING FATHER: The central character of the play. He is a gravedigger, born into a family of African-American “diggers,” turned actor who performs as Abraham Lincoln in reenactments of Lincoln’s assassination. His role reflects themes of identity, history, and performance. He is deeply immersed in the role of Lincoln, using it to explore and cope with his own sense of displacement and heritage. Black. Male-identifying.

    LUCY: The Foundling Father’s wife. She is practical and supportive, often contrasting with her husband’s obsessive immersion in his role as Lincoln. Her character represents the grounding force in the family and reflects the struggles of maintaining personal identity amidst historical and theatrical roles. Black. Female-identifying.

    BRAZIL: The child of the Foundling Father and Lucy. He is a symbol of innocence and the future. Black. Male-identifying.

    2 ACTORS: They play amusement park visitors in Act One and assume the roles in the passages from Our American Cousin in Act Two. These actors will also serve as understudies to the Foundling Father and Lucy. Black. One male-identifying and One female-identifying.

    Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh, by Joel Gross

    Director: Lizzi Albert

    Company Meeting: There will be a meeting of the entire artistic and production company before rehearsals start at a mutually beneficial time for all company members sometime during the month of March.

    1st rehearsal: April 28, 2025

    Technical Rehearsals: May 29 – June 1, 2025

    Dress Rehearsals: June 3 & 4, 2025

    Preview: June 5, 2025

    Opening: June 6, 2025

    Closing: June 21, 2025

    Rehearsals will take place on evenings and weekends no more than 5 days per week. Performances run June 6-21. 

    BREAKDOWN

    ALEXIS DE LIGNE: A handsome young aristocrat with showily progressive principles, who grows into a battle-hardened soldier. Ardent, charismatic, and in the end, brave. Male-identifying. Any ethnicity. Mid-20s-early 40s. 

    MARIE ANTOINETTE: Awkward, vulnerable, sheltered, imperious. Female-identifying. Any ethnicity. 20s-30s. 

    ELISABETH VIGÉE LE BRUN: Beautiful, passionate, worldly, resilient. Female identifying. 20s-40s. Casting for replacement or understudy only.