Audition

Center REP EPA GENERAL AUDITIONS 2026/27

Performance Venue: Lesher Center for the Arts, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Artistic Director: Matt M. Morrow
Managing Director: Carolyn Jackson
To reaching Casting Directly, please send an email to kim@ksdcasting.com.

If you are interested in AEA stage management opportunities please contact Production Manager, Frankie Hughes at hughes@centerrep.org.

Center Repertory Company (Center REP) operates on an AEA LOA/LORT D Contract. We hire both union and non-union actors, with priority placed on local contracts. All actors are hired as employees of the City of Walnut Creek.

Union actor minimum for 25/26 in the HOFMANN THEATRE was $584/week for rehearsal & performance weeks (32 hour week) and $722/week for tech week (38 hour week).
Union actor minimum for 25/26 in the LESHER THEATRE was $577/week for rehearsal weeks (32 hour week), $679/week for tech week (38 hour week), and $577/week for performance weeks (up to 6 performances/week).
Non-union actors are paid on an hourly rate that varies per production (base pay $16.90/hour) with a guaranteed minimum of NO LESS THAN $388.70/week (23 hour week).

Center REP is a part of the City of Walnut Creek Arts + Recreation department's diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

Local Bay Area performers are encouraged to audition.

We welcome and encourage actors of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and dis/abilities to audition.

Audition Information

WHEN: April 12th 10 am-5pm, April 13th Noon-7pm

AEA Sunday April 12th, AEA and Non-Union Monday April 13th
CALLBACKS: Show specific callbacks TBD
If you can't attend, VIDEO SUBMISSIONS are welcome and can be submitted in the Audition Form.
LOCAL HIRES ONLY

WHERE: Lesher Center for the Arts, Vukasin Theatre, 1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
*Parking Garage located directly next door to the Lesher Center

Expected to attend:
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Matt M. Morrow
CASTING DIRECTOR: Kimberly Donovan, CSA (KSD Casting)
CASTING ASSISTANT: Sarah Wilcox
ACCOMPANIST: Tim Fletcher
Casting AEA and Non-union performers, ages 8 through 90, of all races, ethnicities, genders, sexualities, and dis/abilities.
In-person auditions may be recorded and then deleted as per AEA guidelines if one of the creative team cannot attend.

WHAT TO PREPARE: Please prepare a monologue(s)/song of your choice. You will have a total of 3 minutes. There will be an accompanist. If you are unable to attend this in-person audition, you may submit a video audition using the Audition Form.

Complete the form to request an appointment or upload your video submission:

AUDITION FORM

26/27 Season Information

THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennesee Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Directed by Matt M. Morrow
Venue: Margaret Lesher Theatre, Lesher Center for the Arts

A memory play narrated by Tom Wingfield, reflecting on his life in 1930s St. Louis with his suffocating mother, Amanda, and painfully shy sister, Laura. As the sole provider working a dull warehouse job, Tom dreams of escape, while Amanda pressures him to find a suitor for the fragile Laura.

First rehearsal: August 4, 2026
Tech: September 1, 2026
Preview: September 6, 2026
Run: September 12 - 27, 2026

THE MOTHER, Amanda, 55 - 65, Female Presenting, A woman of great but confused vitality clinging frantically to another time and place.

THE DAUGHTER, 20’s, This role is cast

THE SON, 20’s, This role is cast

THE GENTLEMAN CALLER, JIM, 20 - 30, Male Presenting, A nice, ordinary young man.

DRACULA, A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen

Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen, Directed by TBD
Venue: Margaret Lesher Theatre, Lesher Center for the Arts

A lightning-fast, laugh-out-loud, 90-minute, horror-romp. When her sister Mina falls ill with a mysterious disease of the blood, Lucy Westfeldt and her fiancé, Jonathan Harker, enlist the help of famed female vampire hunter Doctor Jean Van Helsing. Their hunt for the dangerous and sexy Count Dracula abounds with clever wordplay and quick-change antics. Five actors play over a dozen roles in this bloodcurdlingly hilarious send-up of the literary classic.

First rehearsal: September 22, 2026
Tech: October 20, 2026
Preview: October 25, 2026
Run: October 31 - November 15, 2026

TRACK 1, Harker/Cavendish/Worthington/Havemercy/Bosun/Gravedigger

TRACK 2, Dr. Westfeldt/Renfield/Captain/Man-Eating Wolf

TRACK 3, Lucy Westfeldt/Kitty/Driver/Man-Eating Wolf

TRACK 4, Mina/Dr. Van Helsing/Man-Eating Wolf

TRACK 5, Dracula

A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Harrison David Rivers

A Christmas Carol by Harrison David Rivers, Directed by Jared Mezzochi
Venue: Hofmann Theatre, Lesher Center for the Arts

First rehearsal: November 10, 2026
Tech: December 3, 2026
Preview: December 9, 2026
Run: December 11 - 23, 2026

Track 1 EBENEZER SCROOGE, This role is cast

Track 2 BOB CRATCHIT, This role is cast

Track 3 FRED HOLYWELL, This role is cast

Track 4 MAN, This role is cast

Track 5 MRS. CRATCHIT, This role is cast

Track 6 FAN, This role is cast

Track 7 BELLE, This role is cast

Track 8 APPRENTICE EBENEZER, This role is cast

Track 9 TIM, This role is cast

Track 10 YOUNG EBENEZER, This role is cast

Track 11 ARTHUR, This role is cast

Track 12 CLARENCE, This role is cast

Track 13 BELINDA, This role is cast

ENSEMBLE, Adults and Children

We will be casting understudies for this show.

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO THE END OF THE WORLD by Keiko Green

You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World by Keiko Green, Directed by Elizabeth Carter
Venue: Margaret Lesher Theatre, Lesher Center for the Arts

Greg’s been so good: he recycles, eats right, loves his wife, and has only a slightly uncomfortable relationship with his grown-up kid. But when he’s faced with a terminal illness, he becomes obsessed with climate change and the fate of the planet while his wife and child try to cope with their own world's ending. This play about grief—and cringe-y family dinners, and lawnmowers, and Greta Thunberg, and gay bars, and awkward support groups—is an exquisitely touching and hilarious story that anyone who’s ever lost a loved one (or laughed at a funeral) can relate to.

First rehearsal: January 12, 2027
Tech: February 9, 2027
Preview: February 14, 2027
Run: February 20 - March 7, 2027

M, they/them, 20. The star. Our MC. Swinging wildly between pissed, sweet, and mystical, maybe mythical. Sometimes in control of the narrative, sometimes being swept away by the story. M is an emerging drag performer moonlighting as a bar back at the local hole-in-the-wall gay bar downtown.

GREG, This role is cast

VIV, she/her, 40's-50's. M's mother. The space between. Slightly neurotic and easy to get riled up, she wants with all her might to spend her last days with Greg, alone in a bed with M by their side. She can come across cold, but it's because she is always ready to protect her family.

LILA & OTHERS, she/her, 20's-30's. Viv's younger sister, a high-maintenance yoga gal, who's the center of her own universe. But she's ride-or-die for family and can be a surprisingly great listener.
Also plays: Greta, Part-Greta Thunberg, part-Peter Pan, part-screaming-teenage-girl-at-a-Taylor-Swift-concert, part-Angel of Death.
As well as: Grocery Clerk, Shelly, Kathy, Ensemble A.

WILL & OTHERS, he/him, 20's-30's. Good-natured and well-meaning, but uncomfortable in social situations and too smart for his own good. M's boyfriend.
Also plays: TV Narrator, Frank, Kev, Army Guy, Neighbor 1, Melomys, Ensemble B.

JANET & OTHERS, she/her, 60's. Dealing with her wife's cancer diagnosis by at times lashing out, at times being the best older sister you could ever hope for. Blue collar.
Also plays: Dr. Thomas, Greg's doctor with a near-robotic, perhaps excessively cold bedside manner.
As well as: Toad, a now extinct Golden Toad. A kind of washed-up rockstar, quick to sob.
In addition to: Doordash Gal, Suzie, God Mic, Ensemble C.

BAT BOY, The Musical, Story & Book by Keythe Farley & Brian Flemming, Music & Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe

Bat Boy, The Musical Story and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming, Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, Directed by Matt M. Morrow.
Venue: Margaret Lesher Theatre, Lesher Center for the Arts

A dark comedy/rock musical inspired by a Weekly World News tabloid story. It follows a half-boy, half-bat creature discovered in a West Virginia cave, who is adopted by a veterinarian’s family, named Edgar, and tries to assimilate into society.

First rehearsal: May 4, 2027
Tech: June 1, 2027
Preview: June 6, 2027
Run: June 12 - July 4, 2027

BAT BOY (Edgar), Tenor, Male, Late Teen, Young Adult, Good Mover

MEREDITH PARKER, Mezzo-Soprano, Female, Mature Adult

DR. THOMAS PARKER, Tenor, Male, Mature Adult, Good Mover

SHELLEY PARKER, Soprano, Female, Late Teen/Young Adult

SHERIFF REYNOLDS/DELIA, Baritone

RICK TAYLOR/LORRAINE/DOCTOR/MR. DILLON, Tenor

RON TAYLOR/MAGGIE/CLEM, Baritone

RUTHIE TAYLOR/NED, Mezzo-Soprano

MRS. TAYLOR/ROY/REV. HIGHTOWER/INSTITUTE MAN, Tenor

BUD/DAISY/PAN, Tenor