San Jose Stage Company 2026-27 Season - San Jose, CA EPA (08.29.26)

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, August 29, 2026

11:00 AM - 5:00 PM (P)

No break scheduled

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email: [email protected] with your Equity status.

CONTRACT

Bay Area Theatre

$651 weekly minimum (Tier 3)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in San Jose Stage Company's 2026-27 Season (See breakdown).

Local Bay Area actors are encouraged to audition.

San Jose Stage Company is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in casting and uses a color and culturally conscious approach to casting. Actors of any race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, and ability are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary monologue no more than two-minutes. If you wish to be considered for the musical, please prepare 16-bars of an up-tempo song in the style of the show. An accompanist will be provided.

LOCATION

San Jose Stage Company

490 South 1st St

San Jose, CA 95113-2815

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Artistic Director: Randall King

Executive Director: Cathleen King

Associate Artistic Director: Johnny Moreno

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

www.thestage.org

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

San Jose Stage Company 2026-27 Season

BARCELONA

By Bess Wohl

First Rehearsal: Sept 1, 2026

Tech: Sept 17, 18, 19, 2026

First Preview: Sept 23, 2026

Opening: Sept 26, 2026

Closing: Oct 18, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Late night in Barcelona. A drunk American woman goes home with a tall, dark stranger—an older Spanish man. What begins as a carefree one-night stand becomes an invitation to danger, as the personal and political intertwine. Over the course of a single night– by turns funny, sexy and surprising–BARCELONA explores the gap between the fantasy of who we pretend to be and the truth of who we are.

THIS PRODUCTION HAS ALREADY BEEN CAST.

CLUE

By Sandy Rustin, Based on the Screenplay by Jonathan Lynn

Additional Material by Hunter Foster and Eric Price

First Rehearsal: Oct 27, 2026

Tech: Nov 12, 13, 14, 2026

First Preview: Nov 18, 2026

Opening: Nov 21, 2026

Closing: Dec 20, 2026

*5-week run

SYNOPSIS: It’s a dark and stormy night, and our cast of oddball characters has been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well, dead. So whodunit? Join the iconic oddballs known as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock and

Mustard as they race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before the body count stacks up. Based on the cult classic film and the popular board game, Clue is a madcap comedy that will keep you guessing until the final twist.

THIS PRODUCTION HAS ALREADY BEEN CAST.

THE FULL MONTY

Book by Terrance McNalley, Score by David Yazbek

First Rehearsal: Jan 12, 2027

Tech: Jan 28, 29, 30, 2027

First Preview: Feb 3, 2027

Opening: Feb 6, 2027

Closing: Feb 28, 2027

SYNOPSIS: While spying on their wives at a "Girls' Night Out," a group of unemployed steelworkers from Buffalo sees how much they enjoy watching male strippers. Jealous, out of work and feeling emasculated, the men come up with a bold and unclothed way to make some quick cash. In preparing, they find themselves extremely exposed; not merely physically but emotionally. As they conquer their fears, selfconsciousness and prejudices, the men come to discover that they're stronger as a group, and the strength that they find in each other gives them the individual courage to "let it go." Based on the cult hit film of the same name, The Full Monty, a ten-time Tony Award nominee, is filled with honest affection, engaging melodies and the most highly anticipated closing number of any show.

The roles of Dave, Harold, Malcolm, and Ethan have already been cast.

SEEKING:

Jerry - (Male-presenting, 32 years old) An unemployed mill worker, fighting to maintain his pride and the custody of his only son. All-American jock and the definitive man's man. Spontaneous. Very prideful.

Pam - (Female-presenting, Late 20s/Early 30s) Jerry's estranged wife and high school sweetheart. She wants what is best for her son. Strong businesswoman, but also compassionate and motherly.

Nathan - (Male-presenting, 10, Jerry and Pam's son.

Georgie - (Female-presenting, 30s/Early 40s) Dave's wife. She loves her husband and worries about him. Loud, outgoing and brash. She is the "leader" of her group of girlfriends.

Vickie - (Female-presenting, Late 30s/40s) Harold's wife. She enjoys the finer things in life. Loves her husband more than anything and supports him no matter what.

Horse - (Male-presenting, 50s, Black) A retired mill worker. Embarrassed about being an "average sized" Black man. Despite being old and slow when walking, he still has explosive dance moves. Frequently grumpy.

Jeannette - (Female-presenting, Late 60s/Early 70s) A piano player of indeterminate years and showbusiness pro. Sassy, quick-witted, and larger than life. Has slowed down in recent years.

Female Ensemble

Male Ensemble

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG

By Susan-Lori Parks

First Rehearsal: March 9, 2027

Tech: March 25, 26, 27, 2027

First Preview: March 31, 2027

Opening: April 3, 2027

Closing: April 25, 2027

SYNOPSIS: This darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks’ groundbreaking, Pulitzer-winning riff on the way we are defined by history. The play tells the story of Lincoln and Booth, two brothers whose names were given to them as a joke, foretelling a lifetime of sibling rivalry and resentment. Haunted by the past, the brothers are forced to confront the shattering reality of their future.

SEEKING:

Lincoln (Linc) - (Black, male-presenting, 30s/40s) The older brother. He used to be a master Three-Card Monte hustler, but he gave it up after a partner was killed. He is weary, protective, and trying to live an honest, steady life despite being haunted by his past.

Booth - (Black, male-presenting, 20s/30s) The younger brother. He is flashy, high-strung, ambitious, and deeply insecure. He is obsessed with mastering the Three-Card Monte hustle himself and dreams of bigmoney success.

NETWORK

Adapted by Lee Hall, Based on the Paddy Chayefsky film

First Rehearsal: May 4, 2027

Tech: May 27, 28, 29, 2027

First Preview: June 2, 2027

Opening: June 5, 2027

Closing: June 27, 2027

SYNOPSIS: Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn't pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, the network seizes on their newfound populist prophet, and

Howard becomes the biggest thing on TV.

SEEKING:

Howard Beale - (Male-presenting, 60s) The UBS television news anchor who after being fired for low ratings, announces on-air that he will kill himself. When instead he begins ranting prophetically about the emptiness of modern life, his madness is commodified into high ratings, turning him into the "mad prophet of the airwaves.”

Max Schumacher - (Male-presenting, 60s) Veteran head of the news division and Howard's longtime friend. He struggles with his own midlife crisis, personal morality, and the death of traditional journalism. He briefly enters a doomed, hollow affair with Diana before realizing how toxic the corporate television landscape has become.

Diana Christensen - (Female-presenting, 40s) A ruthless, ambitious Vice President of Programming. She represents cold corporate calculation. She sees Howard's nervous breakdown and human misery not as a tragedy, but as raw material to build shocking, highly profitable reality television programs.

Frank Hackett - (Male-presenting, 40s/50s) Executive Senior Vice President of the network. A new breed of management executive who seeks to become Arthur Jensen’s go-to man at the network.

Louise Schumacher - (Female-presenting, 30s/40s) Max Schumacher’s neglected wife, who anchors the emotional reality of the collateral damage caused by the media business.

Edward Ruddy - (Male-presenting, 50s/60s) Chairman of the board of UBS. An older, traditional network news executive whose moral authority is cast aside by the younger, profit-hungry regime.

Harry Hunter - (Male-presenting, 30s/40s) An ambitious Associate Producer at the UBS television network who assists in packaging the unstable news anchor Howard Beale’s rants into profitable, ratingsgrabbing entertainment.

Nelson Chaney - (Male-presenting, 60s/70s) A high-ranking UBS television executive who represents traditional corporate morality and old-school broadcasting standards before being pushed aside by ruthless, ratings-obsessed modern media.

Arthur Jensen - (Male-presenting, 50s/60s) The omnipotent conglomerate chairman and CEO. Believes the world is a corporation of corporations and rebukes any notion of separate national identities or human values.

SALARY

Bay Area Theatre $651 weekly minimum (Tier 3)

• NON-UNION