Auditions
Auditions for film and theatre productions are held at the beginning of each semester and are open to all SJSU students, regardless of major.
Students who are cast must enroll in TA 117 - Practice in Acting or Directing to participate.
Theatre productions also provide opportunities for students to work as crew members
(e.g., lighting, sound, wardrobe, make-up, etc.) to earn required/elective units for TA 191 - Activity Projects in Theatre
Production.
Spring 2025 Productions
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
Directed by Theatre Arts Lecturer Kathleen Normington
Play by: William Shakespeare
Performed in the Hal Todd Theatre:
- March 20, 21, 22, 27, 28 and 29 at 7:30 pm
Audition Information
Auditions will be held in Hugh Gillis Hall's University Theatre (UT) on Monday, February 3rd & Tuesday, February 4th, 6:00 - 9:00pm.
Audition Materials
- One monologue, preferably from a Shakespearean comedy (not from The Comedy of Errors)
- Not to exceed three minutes
AUDITION SLOT SIGN UP FOR THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS AUDITION FORM (Completed Before Audition Day)
Callbacks will be held in the Todd Theatre in Hugh Gillis Hall on Wednesday February 5th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
About the Production
The Comedy of Errors is a farcical comedy centering on family reconciliation, mistaken identities, and how we resolve our expectations with reality. It is Shakespeare at his silliest but revealing deeper issues of gender and social inequities.
Shakespeare's brilliance is seen in his early slapstick comedy involving two sets of identical twins, one seething wife, an immigrant with a death sentence on his head, lonesharks, a Vegas showgirl, and a rotund kitchen wench. What will happen in the town of Ephesus during the course of this one day? Find out in March 2025!
OUR TOWN
Directed by Theatre Arts Lecturer Scott Cummins
Written by Thornton Wilder
Performed in the Hammer Theatre:
- May 2, 8, 9 at 7:30pm
- May 3,10 at 2pm
- May 7 at 11am
Audition Information
Auditions will be held in Hugh Gillis Hall's University Theatre (UT) on Monday, February 3rd & Tuesday, February 4th, 6:00 - 9:00pm
Audition Materials
- One Contemporary Monologue
- Not to exceed three minutes
AUDITION SLOT SIGN UP FOR OUR TOWN
OUR TOWN AUDITION FORM (Completed Before Audition Day)
Callbacks will be held in the University Theatre (UT) in Hugh Gillis Hall on Thursday, February 6, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM.
About the Production
In Thornton Wilder’s timeless tale of a small town, we see the daily lives of its locals, depicts a childhood friendship turn into marriage, and sets the stage for magnificent truths of what it means to be alive. Described by Edward Albee as "the greatest American play ever written." In this production the director, Scott Cummins, uses metatheatrical devices offered up by Wilder, setting the play in the actual theatre where it is being performed.
