SPRING & Summer 2024 AUDITIONS
Audition Registration for our Spring 2024 Season is now closed
Any remaining questions please email us at production@mudlarktheater.org
On your audition form, you will be required to select a 1-hour time slot on one of the audition dates.
ELIGIBILITY: Actors must be 10 to 16 years of age on the day they audition.
SIGN-UP FORM: To secure an audition slot, you’ll need to fill out an Audition Registration Form. On this online form you can pick an audition time slot, provide us with contact info, and indicate your scheduling conflicts.
AUDITION MATERIALS: Everyone who auditions must prepare a short monologue.
LOCATION: Auditions will take place at Mudlark Headquarters, 1417 Hinman Avenue in Evanston. The building is a community center known as the “Church House” because it looks like a church (it is not a church). Street parking is usually available in front of the building, on Greenwood Street to the south, or on Lake street to the north.
General Audition info
Practice your monologue! You don’t have to memorize it, but you should at least be very familiar with it. We want to see you act it, not just read it. Monologues can be found here.
On the day of your audition, try to arrive 10 minutes before your scheduled time. A volunteer or Mudlark staff member in the front lobby will check you in.
If you forget to register online, you can still show up! We’ll have paper forms at the table for you to fill out.
How to prepare
When you audition, you will be part of a group of actors.
At the start, we will all go around and do introductions and share our pronouns.
In the course of the hour, you’ll have a chance to perform your monologue and be in a couple scenes with other actors.
We’ll assign and hand out the scenes at the audition and give you time to practice them with your scene partner(s). Some actors need additional time to practice things that are to be read aloud. We can accommodate this a few days before the audition by sending you the scenes ahead of time. To inquire about this, email Christina Lepri-Stringer at christina@mudlarktheater.org
the audition
Cast lists
Young actors should be prepared for the possibility that not everyone who auditions will get a role (see MUDLARK’S CASTING POLICY, below).
Whether cast or not, everyone who auditions will receive an email about their casting status.
Cast lists will NOT be posted on the Mudlark website. You will receive an email at the contact emails provided in the Audition Registration form.
As a policy, Mudlark does not respond to questions about casting decisions until after the shows are cast.
Mudlark's Casting Policy
Although we do our best at Mudlark to accommodate as many actors as we can each season, inevitably there will be some auditionees who don't get cast. We urge disappointed actors to remember that a cast list is not a judgment on you or a ranking of acting talent; it is just the director's imperfect attempt to match the actors who tried out the roles in the script. Sometimes it just comes down to chance. So if you try out and don't make it, please DON'T GIVE UP. Come back and try out for our next show. Sign up for a different Mudlark program. Or, to heck with us—look to other youth theaters and experiences. Theater is for everybody, and a cast list cannot define who you are or what you can become.
As a non-profit youth theater company not affiliated with the City of Evanston or the public schools, Mudlark must charge a participation fee in order to operate. The participation fee for an actor is $450. Unconditional scholarships for part or all of the fee are available. Scholarships have no bearing on casting decisions.
Participation Fee & ScholarShip Policy
Rehearsal Schedules
Not every actor will be called to every rehearsal. At the end of each week, the director will communicate by email about who is called for the following week.
With the exception of tech week, when attendance is ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY, we do our best to work around all schedule conflicts as long as they are listed on the audition sheet.
We’re always looking for High School Production Assistants. If you’re interested in serving as a Production Assistant (or assisting with another role on the production team), please email us at production@mudlarktheater.org
