CenterRep EPA GENERAL AUDITIONS 2026/2027

Performance Venue: The Lesher Center for the Arts at 1601 Civic Drive Walnut Creek CA 94596

Artistic Director: Matt M. Morrow

Managing Director: Carolyn Jackson

To reach Casting directly, please send an email to kim@ksdcasting.com

 Center Repertory Company (Center REP) operates on a 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 was $584/week rehearsals (32 hour workweek - rehearsal & performance weeks), $722/week (38 hour workweek - tech). Non-union actors are paid on an hourly rate that varies per production (base pay $16.90 an hour) with a guaranteed minimum of NO LESS THAN $388.70 per week (23 hour work week). Union actor minimum for 25/26 In the LESHER was $577/week 32 hr week, $679 tech week (38 hrs), and $577/performance week (up to 6 per wk).

Center REP is a part 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 INFO:

WHEN: April 12th 10am-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 this form 

LOCAL HIRES ONLY 

WHERE: Lesher Center for the Arts, Vukasin Theatre

1601 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek, CA 94596

*Parking Garage directly next door to the Lesher Arts 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. Details below 

Season Details

THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennesee Williams, Directed by Matt M. Morrow, The Lesher 

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

Characters 

•    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, Directed by TBD, The Lesher 

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, Directed by Jared Mezzocchi, The Hofmann  

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, Directed by Elizabeth Carter, The Lesher 

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 and Book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming Music and Lyrics by Laurence O’Keefe, Directed by Matt M. Morrow, The Lesher 

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 

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