UPCOMING AUDITIONS

City Theatre Company 
2026 Young Playwrights Festival Auditions

 
Date: Video submissions due by 9am Thursday, July 30th, 2026

Callbacks: Thursday, August 13, 2026, 2pm –7pm (In-person) 

Seeking:

City Theatre Company is hiring an ensemble of 9 diverse, professional, non-Equity actors for this year’s Young Playwrights Festival, directed by Kelly Trumbull.

Actors will play multiple roles in six fully produced one-act plays, so we are seeking imaginative, outgoing creative spirits who can easily shift between comedy and drama.

 
City Theatre is committed to non-traditional casting and encourages actors of all backgrounds to audition.

Schedule:

Table Reads & First Rehearsal: Saturday, September 19  
Tech: Wednesday, October 7 – Saturday, October 11  
Full Dress: Sunday, October 12 
Performances: Tuesday, October 13 – Friday, October 23

*Rehearsals will take place weekday evenings and weekend daytimes

**Performances will take place during the morning hours on weekdays with a brief talkback following each performance; and in the afternoon and evening hours on the weekend. 

Compensation:

Company members will be paid a $1,500 stipend for their participation.

We are only seeking non-Equity actors at this time.

 
How to Audition:

Interested actors must email their headshot, resume and a recorded one- two-minute contemporary monologue- comedic preferred- to auditions@citytheatrecompany.org.

Please upload your video audition to YouTube or Vimeo and send us a link to this email (auditions@citytheatrecompany.org) by 9am Thursday, June 30, 2026. Please do not share via WeTransfer, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud or other file sharing platforms. Just use the sharable link straight from YouTube or Vimeo.  

Please include a slate with the following information: 

Name

Pronouns (if that’s part of your practice)

Any conflicts the evenings and weekends of Saturday, September 19 – October 18^th?

Would be available for matinee performances October 13^th – 23^rd?

Do you sing or play musical instruments?

2-minute contemporary monologue

 
If invited to attend callbacks, actors will be sent specific sides to prepare; monologues are not required. These callbacks will take place on Thursday, August 13t, 2026, 2pm –7pm (In-person)

About the Festival:

City Theatre’s annual Young Playwrights Contest encourages 7-12th grade Western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia students to make their voices heard by writing and submitting original one- act plays. The Young Playwrights Festival, in its 26th year, highlights five middle school and high school aged one-act plays. Student playwrights develop their scripts in collaboration with professional theater artists- a director, dramaturg, designers, and actors. Students from the region are invited to attend the eight (8) daytime performances, and family and friends are encouraged to attend the weekend public performances, all held in the Lillie Theatre.