Theatre and New Dance

Audition Information


Upcoming Fall 2025 General Auditions:

Date & Time:

General Auditions: Tuesday, August 19, 3pm - 7pm
Callbacks: Thursday, August 21, 5:30pm - 8:30pm

Auditions and callbacks will take place in the Theatre building (Bldg. 25)

  • All CPP students in any major/minor, and members of the CPP community, are eligible to audition
  • Show scripts are available on the TND Canvas page HERE. Please familiarize yourself with the shows!
  • An announcement with cast breakdownssign-up links and what to prepare will be sent out soon and posted on the canvas link!

Shows open to auditions:

Harbur Gate by Kathleen Cahill
Performance dates: October 10-19, 2025
Directed by Bernardo Solano
Anon(ymous) by Naomi Iizuka
Performance dates: November 14-23, 2025
Directed by Sayda Trujillo

Department of Theatre, Repertory Performance Company

Objective 
Establish a performance program dedicated to providing students with specialized training in acting, professional etiquette and the tools necessary to enter graduate school and/or the professional arena. In order to accomplish these goals, the company has established a set of standards that will encourage students to be highly disciplined: to be completely focused on the challenges that will be placed in front of them egularly: to be resilient in their spirit to use instruction and their talent to achieve new levels of excellence.

 

MISSION  

The Department of Theatre and New Dance provides opportunities within a diverse and inclusive environment to explore and develop meaningful, innovative ideas that engage the interdependence of process and creation. Students develop critical thinking and disciplinary excellence through experiential learning, collaboration and interdisciplinary practices to prepare them to be current and relevant artists. Students work within established and experimental processes utilizing trends in new technologies, community and contemporary performance practices. 

 

VISION 

In an accessible, innovative and fearless laboratory environment, we will nurture and challenge students from a diversity of backgrounds and circumstances to become whole artists with multiple frames of reference who create in their own, distinct voices, and engage with community and society at large. 

 

VALUES 

COLLABORATION:  Ensemble, respect, working as part of a team 

COMMUNITY (Inclusion in gender/sexuality/etc., outreach, diversity, social justice 

OPPORTUNITY (exposure to range of skills) 

PROGRESSIVE ARTISTRY  

ARTISTIC INTEGRITY (Rigor, professional etiquette, process-oriented) 

EQUITY (Accommodate and help flourish)