Casting Breakdowns for Spring 2026 Theatre Productions
All students who audition will be considered without regard to physical ability, age, race, national/ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender.
We welcome students from across the university, no matter what your major.
Everyone is welcome!
Several MFA in TVFT students are working on projects and will be sitting in the auditions to see the amazing talent pool. There are a handful of undergraduate projects also casting.
Those directors may also be in the room. All will be casting separately.
Continuity
Written by Bess Wohl
It’s magic hour in the New Mexico desert as an exhausted film crew races against the setting sun to shoot their blockbuster (but artsy) action movie, which takes place on an arctic (Styrofoam) ice floe, and features an ecoterrorist plotting a bombing mission to save all of humankind (supposedly). As the clock ticks and the desert sun beats down on the not-so-frozen landscape, personalities clash, artistic vision meets Hollywood demands, and the gap between fiction and science grows wider than ever. A dark but hilarious “play in six takes,” Continuity interrogates the role of storytelling in a world on the brink of actual environmental crisis.
CHARACTERS
EVE/NICOLE: Eve is an ecologist. Nicole is a thirty-something international movie star
DR. ANNA GERBER/LILY: Dr. Anna Gerber is twenty-two years old and one of the top climatologists in the US. Lily is twenty-two years old, and, as she will quickly tell you, Nigerian/ British and just out of RADA.
GEORGE/JAKE: About thirty, George is a bad boy. Jake wishes he were.
DAVID CAXTON: Fifty-something, and way too tan and fit to be a writer.
MARIA: Forty-seven years old, a first-time studio film director.
LARRY: The science advisor. Sixties, a climatologist.
The PA: The nameless, faceless person who is working right now to make your life better and you don't even know it.
THE SETTING
The melting ice in Greenland aka somewhere in New Mexico.
Fiddler on the Roof
Book by Joseph Stein, Music by Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
Fiddler on the Roof is a timeless, Tony Award–winning musical that celebrates the unbreakable bonds of family, faith, and community. Set in a small village in Tsarist Russia at the dawn of the 20th century, it tells the story of Tevye, a poor dairyman who dreams of a better life for his five daughters while striving to uphold the traditions that have guided his people for generations.
As change sweeps through his beloved Anatevka, Tevye finds himself caught between the sacred circle of family, community, and faith—and the new hopes and choices of a younger generation. His daughters find love in unexpected places, and in doing so, discover their own voices, challenging the boundaries of tradition and the strength of a father’s heart.
Filled with laughter, warmth, and unforgettable music, Fiddler on the Roof remains one of the most beloved musicals of all time—a powerful and universal story that reminds us that while traditions may bend, the ties that bind us together endure.
CHARACTER LIST:
TEVYE, the Dairyman
GOLDE, his wife
TZEITEL, the oldest daughter
HODEL, the next oldest daughter
CHAVA, the middle daughter
SHPRlNTZE, next to youngest daughter
BIELKE, the youngest daughter
YENTE, the Matchmaker
MOTEL, the Tailor
PERCHIK, the Student
LAZAR WOLF, the Butcher
MORDCHA, the Innkeeper
MENDEL, the Rabbi’s Son
AVRAM, the Bookseller
NACHUM, the Beggar
GRANDMA TZEITEL, who appears in the
dream
FRUMA-SARAH, the butcher’s dead wide, who also appears in the dream
CONSTABLE, the tough guy
FYEDKA, a young Russian man
SHAINDEL, Motel's Mother
ENSEMBLE — The villagers, the celebrants, the Russians, the others, and the very heartbeat of Anatevka