We’re seeking passionate actors to bring our 2026–2027 Season to life. This season audition will cast for plays, musicals, staged readings, cabarets, and more with opportunities for actors across a range of styles and genres.
When: Saturday, August 8 from 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Where: The Studio@620 (620 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33701)
Audition Requirements
To be considered for our plays, please prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues.
If you wish to be considered for both our plays and musicals/cabarets, please prepare one contemporary monologue and 16–32 bars of music. An accompanist will be provided, so bring sheet music.
If you would like to be considered for Where Did We Sit On The Bus?, please prepare one contemporary monologue, a spoken word poem, and 16–32 bars of a non-musical theatre song. Be prepared to be your own accompanist (preferably with a guitar).
Virtual Submissions
Virtual submissions will be accepted in the form of ONE YouTube or Vimeo link ONLY. Performers may either submit one video of themselves doing each of their audition pieces back to back, or they may be edited together into one video.
Additional Information
Callbacks will be scheduled per production.
All roles in our season are paid. Rates are determined per production.
For questions or concerns, please email auditions@thestudioat620.org.
Guidelines
Below is a casting breakdown for our mainstage 2026-2027 Season.
The Wash
SYNOPSIS
In 1881, Black laundresses in Atlanta led a strike weeks before the International Cotton Exposition came to town. Demanding $1/dozen pounds of laundry, the Atlanta Washerwomen’s Strike of 1881 was one of the largest, successful interracial labor strikes of the post-Civil War era. “The Wash” offers an intimate and often funny look at ordinary women who went from workers to fighters– and won.
CHARACTERS
ANNA: mid-40s to early 50s African American woman. She is a short woman with a tall presence. She is a caregiver and a caretaker. An entrepreneur at heart, her motivation is community survival.
JEANIE (pronounced Gee-nee): mid-40s to early 50s African American woman. She has a wry sense of humor, but is God fearing. If no one else will say it, she will, even when you don’t want her to.
THOMASINE (pronounced Tom-ma-seen): early to mid-30s African American woman. She is a devoted wife and mother of four who must find her own strength. She mixes soaps and oils to make extra money to support her family. Everyone calls her Tommie.
CHARITY: early 20s dark-skinned African American woman. She is a sweetheart, but not a pushover. She is newly married and hopes to have children someday.
JEWEL: early 20s, light-skinned African American woman. She has a strong sense of self and believes that education is the key to a better life. She is preparing to go to college.
MOZELLE (pronounced Moe-zel): early to mid-30’s, poor white woman. She is a single mother who is taking care of her mother and daughters as a laundress. She joins the Washing Society and encourages other white women to join her. She has dignity. This role can also double as the offstage voice in act one scene four.
Cabaret
SYNOPSIS
In a Berlin nightclub, as the 1920s draw to a close, a garish Master of Ceremonies welcomes the audience and assures them they will forget all their troubles at the Cabaret. With the Emcee’s bawdy songs as wry commentary, Cabaret explores the dark, heady and tumultuous life of Berlin’s natives and expatriates as Germany slowly yields to the emerging Third Reich. Cliff, a young American writer newly arrived in Berlin, is immediately taken with English singer Sally Bowles. Meanwhile, Fräulein Schneider, proprietor of Cliff and Sally’s boarding house, tentatively begins a romance with Herr Schultz, a mild-mannered fruit seller who happens to be Jewish.
CHARACTERS
EMCEE: Male. (Range: C3-G4) (cast, looking for possible back up) Any age, any race. Strong Singer/Mover. Fearless performer. Underlying sinister attitude. Must be comfortable with sexualized dancing.
SALLY: Female. (Range: E3-C5) (cast, looking for possible back up) 20’s to early 30’s, any race. Strong Singer/Actor/Mover. Ambitious, driven, wants more than anything to be a star. Must be comfortable with sexualized dancing.
CLIFF: Male. (Range: C#3-E4) 20’s – 30’s -Seeking man of color. Singer/Actor. Intellectual, naive, bi-sexual. He is a writer trying to overcome his writer’s block. Must be comfortable with kissing another man.
FRAU SCHNEIDER: Female. (Range: Eb3-B4) late 40’s – 60’s, Caucasian. Strong Singer/Actor. She has seen it all come and go. She has lost a husband, a fortune and is a surviver above all.
HERR SHULTZ: Male. (Range: C3-G4) (Cast, looking for possible back up). 50’s – 60’s Caucasian. Character Singer/Actor. Possible double as Max (club owner) and Conductor. Charming, kind. A Jew who is open enough to fall in love with a non-jew. He thinks the Nazis are just a trend. Must be comfortable with being on stage in Boxer shorts and Tank Top.
ERNST: Male. (Range: D3-F#4) 20’s – 30’s. Caucasian. Singer/Actor. A con man and smuggler who is also a devout Nazi. He is bi-sexual. Must be comfortable kissing another man.
KOST: Female. (Range: F#3-Eb5) Double as Kit Kat Girl) 20’s – 40’s. Any race. Singer/Actor/Dancer. A prostitute who lives in Frau Schneider’s boarding house who is also a Nazi sympathizer. Must be comfortable with sexualized dancing.
KIT KAT GIRL/BOY: 20’s 30’s. Any gender, any race. Singer/dancer. Particularly interested in male who will perform in drag as Kit Kat Girl and play other male roles. Must be comfortable with sexualized dancing.
Where Did We Sit On The Bus?
SYNOPSIS
WHERE DID WE SIT ON THE BUS? is an electric one-person show pulsing with Latin rhythms, rap, hip-hop, spoken word, and live looping. During a third-grade lesson on the civil rights movement and Rosa Parks, a Latinx eight-year-old raises their hand to ask, “Where did we sit on the bus?” and the teacher can’t answer the question. This coming-of-age story examines finding identity in art, family, and culture, and what being Latinx means through the eyes of a child, turned teenager, turned adult.
CHARACTERS
THE PERFORMER: Female or male presenting. Latiné. Age 20 and older. Speaks proficient Spanish. Must be comfortable with rapping/spoken word and playing the guitar/instruments. Whoever is cast will need to learn how to live loop if they don’t already know how to. Resources will be provided if needed.
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
SYNOPSIS
The story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the “American Dream” kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.
CHARACTERS
WILLY LOMAN: Male, early 50s to mid 60s. African American. A traveling salesman who believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he has never achieved it.
BIFF LOMAN: Male, 34 years old (late 20s to late 30s). African American. Flawed older son of Willy and Linda Loman. He was a popular jock in high school, but as an adult has failed to live up to his potential.
LINDA LOMAN: Female, 50 to mid-60’s. African American. Loyal and loving wife of Willy. Occasionally, she seems to be taken in by Willy’s hopes for future glory and success, but at other times, she seems far more realistic and less fragile than her husband.
HAPPY LOMAN: Male, 32 years old (mid 20s to mid 30s). African American. Happy has lived in Biff’s shadow all of his life, he has a job and is more successful than his brother.
CHARLEY: Male, 50 to mid-60’s. Any ethnicity. Wise-cracking, kind neighbor of Willy. His son Bernard is the same age as Willy’s boys.
BERNARD: Male, late 20s to late 30s. Any ethnicity. Charley’s son. He is a nerd and has always worshiped Biff. Is very successful.
UNCLE BEN: Male, between 20 and 60. Any ethnicity. Willy’s older brother. He appears to Willy in his hallucinations.
THE WOMAN: Female, 30-45. Any ethnicity. “Miss Francis,” as Willy calls her. Willy’s one-time mistress.
HOWARD: Male, 35-45. Any ethnicity. Willy’s boss. Sees Willy as a liability to the company.
JENNY: Female, 25-45. Any ethnicity. Charley’s secretary.
STANLEY: Male, 30-45. Any ethnicity. Waiter and friend of Happy’s.
MISS FORSYTHE: Female, 20-30. Any ethnicity. A girl Happy picks up in a bar.
LETTA: Female, 20-30. Any ethnicity. Friend to Miss Forsythe.