The Pasture - Minneapolis, MN EPA (06.22.26) & (06.23.26)

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 22, 2026

10:30 AM - 6:30 PM (C)

AND

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

10:30 AM - 6:30 PM (C)

Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please email [email protected] with your name and availability for auditions by Monday June 15th.

CONTRACT

SPT

$697 weekly minimum (SPT 7)

SEEKING

Equity actors for THE PASTURE (See breakdown).

World Premiere

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting contemporary one-minute monologues. Nothing classical or verse please. Also, bring 1 copy of your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Mixed Blood Theatre

1501 S 4th St

Minneapolis, MN 55454-1106

We'll be upstairs in the Mixed Blood rehearsal room. Please enter from the purple door at the back, facing the parking lot, up the wooden ramp. There is street parking as well as an open air, paid parking lot.

PERSONNEL

Written by Mark Valdez and ashley sparks

Directed by ashley sparks

Expected to attend:

ashley sparks: Director, Writer

Mark Valdez: Writer, Artistic Director

Alejandro Tey: Associate Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: March 8th, 2027

Performances: April 1st - April 18th, 2027

OTHER

mixedblood.com

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

Breakdown

THE PASTURE

OUR MISSION: Mixed Blood uses theater to disrupt injustice. We are a social justice organization catalyzing action and change through art. Our work is guided by deep community engagement and rooted in radical hospitality.

SEEKING:

JANE (30s-40s any race, female identifying) Young pastor. She’s taken over a church with a shrinking congregation. This was in 2020, just as the COVID shutdown began. Since then, she has struggled to maintain, much less grow, the congregation. She understands that they must sell their building. She knows what she needs to do, now she just has to get everyone on board.

STEPHEN (40s-50s, any race, male identifying) He is a woo-woo developer. Committed to the art of astrology, the smell of patchouli follows him around. He wants to buy the church and convert it into a high-end hotel, making lots of money in the process. He doesn’t like taking no for an answer.

SAM (70s-80s, any race, female identifying). Long time congregant. Having spent her whole life there, she is deeply committed to the church and opposes any idea that doesn’t preserve the church as she’s known it.

TASHA (30s-40s, female identifying, any race). An independent developer. She is staking everything she owns on the purchase and development of the church property, converting the church into a mixed-used, mixed income property. She views this as a path for wealth generation for herself.

LEX (20s, male identifying, any race). Like many of his generation, Lex joined the church, looking for deeper meaning and spirituality. He is estranged from his parents and has been living in the church. He has a big dream that serves for him and others like him: convert the church into a dorm and gym. They live there and tend to the church in return.

AARON (70s-80s, male identifying, any race). He’s a single man who has a long association with the church. He understands that they must sell it, but he advocates that it goes to the community, through a community land trust, in this way keeping to the church’s mission. He lives in an RV on the church lot and is close to Lex, acting as a big brother/surrogate dad.

SALARY

SPT $697 weekly minimum (SPT 7)

• UNION
  AEA