2025-2026 General Auditions
Audition Dates:
Monday, June 9th, 2025
11:00 AM – 7:00PM
Break: 2:00 – 3:00PM
Submit for Monday, June 9th, 2025
Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
11:00AM – 7:00PM
Break 2:00 – 3:00PM
Submit for Tuesday, June 10th, 2025
SEEKING
Actors who would like to present a general audition to our Casting Artistic Producer for consideration in our season as a principal actor, an understudy, or a reading actor.
CONTRACT
Our base compensation for Non-Equity actors is $590/week (40-hour weeks).
Our base compensation for AEA actors was $761/week last season- we anticipate the rate to rise between $761 and $790 this season (40 hours weeks, compensation for overtime).
PREPARATION
You will have a six-minute slot. Please prepare two contrasting monologues – no Shakespeare please! We like him, we just don’t regularly produce him. You may also perform a song if you are so inclined, but we will NOT have accompaniment provided so it will either be acapella or self-accompaniment with an instrument (no piano will be available).
LOCATION
The Broadway Theatre Center
158 N. Broadway
Milwaukee, WI 53202
5th Floor – Rehearsal Hall B
Please enter under the smaller marquee and take the elevator to our 5th floor. There will be signs to guide you once you are on the 5th floor.
PERSONNEL
Artistic Producer: Josie Trettin
Artistic Director: Brent Hazelton
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Josie Trettin (Artistic Producer)
2025-2026 Productions
OLD WICKED SONGS by Jon Marans
Director: Elyse Edelman
Roles:
Joseph Mashkan (PRECAST)
Character Description: Viennese music professor, late 50s. Jewish and a Holocaust survivor. He is masterful but severe and suffers from deep self-hatred that he takes out on Stephen.
Stephen Hoffman (PRECAST)
Character Description: American, 25 years old. Jewish. A pianist who was once considered a prodigy but is struggling with severe burnout and has not performed in a year. Looking to reconnect with his music.
Understudy Tracks Open
Dates:
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 26th, 2025
Load In: Sunday, September 14th, 2025
Focus: Monday, September 15th, 2025
Tech Starts: Tuesday, September 16th, 2025
Preview: Friday, September 19th, 2025
Opening: Saturday, September 20th, 2025
Closing and Strike: Sunday, October 5th, 2025
Potential Extension through and Strike: Sunday, October 12th, 2025
Synopsis: Burnt-out American prodigy Stephen Hoffman arrives in 1986 Vienna desperate to reignite his concert pianist’s passion—and instead finds himself assigned to the irascible Josef Mashkan for beginner’s lessons in basic accompaniment and singing. As political ghosts escalate the tension of emerging personal secrets, the bond between student and teacher becomes a powerful reckoning with identity, memory, and the possibility of hope.
MURDER GIRL by Heidi Armbruster
Directed by Brent Hazleton
Roles:
LeeAnn (PRECAST)
Character Description: Marty’s owner, Eric’s twin. Neurotic, a talker, deeply wounded. Her various coping methods include pills, visualization and affirmations, and pushing Eric’s buttons, but they aren’t enough to keep her anxieties from slipping through the cracks and threatening to overwhelm.
Eric (PRECAST)
Character Description: Marty’s owner, LeeAnn’s twin. Quick to explosive anger. Hesitant to reminisce or examine the past. He was in a relationship with Emily prior to her disappearance.
Ted (PRECAST)
Character Description: The cook. Mysterious and quiet. He may not always say much, but he’s always listening. Went out with LeeAnn once, and very well may still carry a torch for her. Late 20s- early 30s man.
Charlotte (PRECAST)
Character Description: Waitress, 50s-60s. The “old guard” at Marty’s Supper Club. Rougher edges than Other Charlotte. Outwardly pretends not to want to get involved with the drama, but secretly she’s just as invested as everyone else.
Other Charlotte (PRECAST)
Character Description: Waitress, 50s-60s. The “old guard “at Marty’s Supper Club. A sweetheart who enjoys festive sweaters, Murder She Wrote, and getting involved in things.
Understudy Tracks Open for Eric, Ted, Charlotte and Other Charlotte
Dates:
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, October 21st, 2025
Load In: Sunday, November 9th, 2025
Focus: Monday, November 10th, 2025
Tech Starts: Tuesday, November 11th, 2025
Preview: Friday, November 14th, 2025
Opening: Saturday, November 15th, 2025
Closing and Strike: Sunday, November 30th, 2025
Potential Extension through and Strike Sunday, December 7th, 2025
Synopsis: At Marty’s Supper Club, everybody knows two things: just how you like your Old Fashioned and all your secrets. Twins LeeAnn and Eric are trying to keep their family business alive after their mother’s sudden death, but when a waitress drops a chilling revelation on the local news their cozy Northwoods holiday plans tilt off their axis. A hilarious and heartfelt new mystery from Wisconsin favorite Heidi Armbruster, MURDER GIRL blends classic suspense with small-town soul, proving that sometimes the family you’d kill for are the same people you’d love to kill.
I AM MY OWN WIFE by Doug Wright
Directed by Alexander Coddington
Roles: Charlotte
Character Description:
Requires a performer of enormous vocal and physical dexterity who can play not only Charlotte von Mahlsdorf but over thirty additional characters with clarity and nuance. We are exclusively looking for actors who identify as LGBTQ+ and, even more ideally, trans and/or nonbinary. Proficiency and comfortability performing with a dialect is a must, most specifically German (though the actor will also have a Dialect Coach).
Charlotte is a cunning, graceful, and deeply complex survivor. She is a warm, natural storyteller and enjoys hosting. She is the keeper of many secrets and contradictions. She is a natural curator and a self proclaimed "collector of junk."
Brief Historical Bio:
Born in 1928, she survived an abusive Nazi father who she killed when she was a child and subsequently served time in a juvenile prison until she was released early when the Red Army took control of Berlin. After saving Berlin's last traditional bar and then saving the furniture when the building was demolished in 1963 and rebuilding the bar in her basement, it became a place for the queer community to gather in secret. The Homosexual Interest Group of [East] Berlin held meetings there until the Stasi (secret police of East Germany) interfered. Her preservation of primarily 1870-1900 German artifacts became the Gründerzeit Museum, which she curated and guided guests through from 1960 until 1995. After the reunification of Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, she became a nationally decorated hero awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her service to the queer community under authoritarianism and a minor cult celebrity. She died in 2002 of a heart attack while visiting the grounds of the museum.
A Note on Charlotte's Nomenclature in the Revised Edition:
Charlotte von Mahlsdorf evolved her ideas about gender, gender expression, sexuality, and sexual preference in the early half of the twentieth century. Her vocabulary around these issues differs markedly from our own current vocabulary. But Charlotte was very clear: She was happy inhabiting her body, which was assigned male at birth. And yet - often, especially in her later years when it became constant - she presented as feminine. In contemporary parlance, Charlotte falls under the umbrella of trans identities.
Understudy Tracks Open
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Load In: Sunday, January 18th, 2026
Focus: Monday, January 19th, 2026
Tech Starts: Tuesday, January 20th, 2026
Preview: Friday, January 23rd. 2025
Opening: Saturday, January 24th, 2026
Closing and Strike: Sunday, February 8th, 2026
Potential Extension through and Strike Sunday, February 15th, 2026
Synopsis: Based on an unbelievable true story, this Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning tour de force explores one of the most singular lives of the 20th century: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, an eccentric, openly gender nonconforming antiques collector who boldly endured two of history’s most repressive authoritarian regimes during Nazi and East German Communist rule in East Berlin with cunning and grace. But as the story goes deeper, what begins as a celebration of queer resilience and the transgender experience shifts into a far more complicated portrait of survival, truth, and the cost of living an authentic life.
IS THIS A ROOM originally Conceived and Directed by Tina Satter
Directed by Brent Hazelton
Roles:
Special Agent Justin C. Garrick (PRECAST)
Character Description: Lead FBI Investigator. Highly trained. Laser focused on coaxing information out of Reality. Only concerned about her comfort when it helps him. “Menacing in their relentless blandness.”
Special Agent R. Wallace Taylor
Character Description: FBI Agent. Looser than Garrick, but just as interested in answers. Trying to be unassuming. “Menacing in their relentless blandness.”
Reality Leigh Winner
Character Description: Air Force Veteran and NSA translator. Highly intelligent, but somewhat short sighted. Athletic lean build, rock climber. Woman, 25-early 30s.
Unknown Male (PRECAST)
Character Description: Identified in the transcript only as “Unknown Male.” Pops in and out of the interrogation. Definitely a bit bumbling.
Understudy Tracks Open
Dates:
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, February 24th, 2026
Load In: Sunday, March 15th, 2026
Focus: Monday, March 16th, 2026
Tech Starts: Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
Preview: Friday, March 20th, 2026
Opening: Saturday, March 21st, 2026
Closing and Strike: Sunday, April 5th, 2026
Potential Extension through and Strike: Sunday, April 12th, 2026
Synopsis: Air Force veteran and NSA translator Reality Leigh Winner thought she was doing the right thing; the government didn’t see it that way. Chronicling one of the most controversial acts of whistleblowing in American history, this acclaimed Broadway thriller (drawn entirely from an FBI transcript) stages an interrogation with every pause, cough, and contradiction intact—and leaves us to read between the lines. More than docudrama, IS THIS A ROOM is a razor-sharp examination of language, power, and the uneasy tension between truth and duty.
A RAISIN IN THE SUN by Lorraine Hansberry
Director to be announced
Roles:
Ruth Younger (PRECAST)
Walter Lee Younger (PRECAST)
Travis Younger (Young Performer)
Beneatha Younger
Lena Younger
Joseph Asagai (PRECAST)
George Murchison
Bobo
Karl Lindner
Moving Men
Understudy Tracks Open
Character Descriptions:
Ruth Younger: Walter’s wife, a pragmatic and strong woman battling poverty and domestic struggles. Earns a living by cooking and cleaning for her clients. Black woman, 30s.
Walter Lee Younger: Mama’s son, the protagonist of the play who desires to be rich by investing his father’s insurance money into a liquor store. Considers himself something of an entrepreneur. He currently works as a driver. Black man, 30s.
Travis Younger: Ruth and Walter Lee’s son. Young performer.
Beneatha Younger: Mama’s daughter, an intellectual who attends college and dreams of becoming a doctor. Progressive. Black woman, 20s.
Lena Younger - mother to Beneatha and Walter, a religious and maternal character with morals and dreams of her family having a better life. Black woman, 50-60s.
Joseph Asagai: Beneatha’s friend from college. Nigerian student who is in love with Beneatha. Very proud of his African heritage. Has political ambitions. Black man, 20s.
George Murchison: Beneatha’s friend from college. He’s from a wealthy family and is pursuing Beneatha romantically. The Youngers approve of him, but Beneatha finds him less interesting and engaging than Asagai. Black man, 20s.
Bobo: Walter’s partner in liquor store plan. Black man, 30s.
Karl Lindner: White representative from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association. He attempts to entice the Younger family to reconsider their plans to move to Clybourne Park by offering to buy them out. White man, 30s.
Moving Men: Two men who appear at the end of the play to move the Younger family’s belongings into the moving truck. Non-speaking role.
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, April 14th, 2026
Load In: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026
Focus: Monday, May 4th, 2026
Tech Starts: Tuesday, May 5th, 2026
Preview: Friday, May 8th, 2026
Opening: Saturday, May 9th, 2026
Closing and Strike: Sunday, May 24th, 2026
Synopsis: Lorraine Hansberry’s trailblazing classic—the first play produced on Broadway written by a Black woman and still one of the American theater’s most impactful—follows the Younger family as they wrestle with big dreams in the face of economic hardship and the harsh injustices of discrimination on Chicago’s South Side. With language as lyrical as it is unflinching, A RAISIN IN THE SUN remains a triumphant, deeply human portrait of the determination to build a better life than the one the world is willing to give you, and a powerful reminder that the right to dream belongs to everyone.
Please direct any questions to Artistic Producer Josie Trettin at josie@milwaukeechambertheatre.org
