Casting Breakdowns for Fall 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.
The RENT Play
Written by Jan Rosenberg
The year is 2007. The war in Iraq is booming. Steve Jobs is about to release the first ever iPhone. More importantly, RENT is one year away from closing its doors on Broadway. And life for a group of RENTheads is about to change forever.
This play is a love letter, an apology, a memory, a diary entry.
CHARACTERS
(from play itself. As director updates, we will add information)
Katrina: Female. 16. Latin/Hispanic and/or Black. Aspiring Mimi.
Jared: Male or Non-Binary. 16. Gay. Any ethnicity.
Marcus: Male. 18. Black. Gay. Aspiring Collins.
Zoe: Female or Non-Binary. 16. Any ethnicity.
Holly: Female. 21. Jewish. Bisexual. Aspiring Maureen.
Nell: Female. 12. Latin/Hispanic and/or mixed race.
Derek: Male. 27. Any ethnicity. Starring as Roger Davis in RENT.
Tanya: Female. 34. Latin/Hispanic and/or Black. Starring as Mimi Marquez in RENT.
Daphne: Female. 40s-50s. Latin/Hispanic. Possibly that Daphne? The OG Mimi Marquez? The legend?
THE SETTING
Time: 2007 & 2008.
Location: Manhattan, mostly outside the Nederlander Theatre on 41st Street.
The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
Translated and Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher and Paolo Emilio Landi
Identities are mistaken, engagements are broken, and lovers are reunited in this new adaptation of Carlo Goldoni’s commedia dell’arte masterpiece. Set in Venice, mayhem erupts when the wily—and chronically hungry—servant Truffaldino hatches a zany scheme to double his wages (and his meals) by serving two masters at once. This physical comedy classic will have you laughing at and loving our hapless hero.
CHARACTERS
Truffaldino
Silvio
Clarice
Pantalone
Lombardi
Brighella
Smeraldina
Beatrice
Florindo
Porter
First Waiter
Second Waiter
Ensemble
THE SETTING
Place: Venice
Time: The Eighteenth Century
The Birthday Party
Written by Harold Pinter
In Pinter’s classic comedy of menace, a small birthday party in a rundown seaside boarding house becomes a nightmare when two sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly.
CHARACTERS
(from play itself. As director updates, we will add information)
PETEY – A man in his fifties
MEG – A woman in her fifties
STANLEY – A man in his late thirties
LULU – A girl in her twenties
GOLDBERG – A man in his fifties
McCANN – A man of thirty
THE SETTING
Time: 1960 something
Location: The living room of a house in a seaside town in England.