CASTING NOTICE

Non-Equity Call; $50 per performance

 

Trinity Theatre Company is seeking actors to fill roles for two developmental productions:

1. 1. True Shot Jean, a new musical by Aaron Fields, directed by Sean Boyd, music direction by Jaelyne Sanchez, and performing April 3-4, 2026
   2. A House Between, a new play by Serhat Pala, directed by Sean Boyd, and performing April 25, 2026.

 

Auditions: Submissions by video only. Please prepare a 1-minute monologue of your choice. If auditioning for True Shot Jean, please also prepare a 32-bar musical cut with backing track. All submissions must be emailed to casting@trinityttc.org by 5:00 PM on Feb 13 2026.

 

To submit: email casting@trinityttc.org. Include:

1) Your name

2) Your email & phone number

4) Digital copy of your headshot and resume

5) General availability, including daytime and weekend availability through April 25, 2026

6) A link to your video submission

 

***If you do not receive a response confirming materials have been collected within 48 hours, please resend your information.***

 

All Rehearsals & Performances will take place at the Trinity Theatre Company, 1640 Camino Del Rio N, Suite 129, San Diego, CA 92108.

 

True Shot Jean Character Breakdown:

***Actors of all ethnicities, race, age, and gender are encouraged to apply***

 

LIZA JEAN KINKAID: Cowgirl and pioneer

GRANDMA PEARL: Liza’s grandma

JASPER: Newspaper salesman

ROBERT KINKAID: Liza’s brother

JOHNNY KINKAID: Liza’s brother

ANITA KINKAID: Liza’s mother

DOC PARSONS: Quack doctor & Liza’s friend

DIRTY DAVEY: Desperado

FRANK: Dirty Davey’s accomplice

LIGHTNING JAKE: Sheriff and Liza’s love interest

 

True Shot Jean – About the Show:

Liza Jean’s father is injured while working in a mine during the California Gold Rush. Her brothers go out West to rescue him, but Liza’s mother won’t let her go because she’s a woman and it’s too dangerous. Liza’s grandmother, Granny Pearl, encourages Liza to journey to California and show the world what a woman can do. Liza fixes her dreams to the wind, her gaze to the horizon, and her heart to the West – and runs away from home.

On her journey, she learns that her brothers were captured by a debauched Desperado, Dirty Davey. She befriends a quack doctor, Doc Parsons, to help her rescue her brothers. At its core, this show is a heartfelt mother-daughter & father-son redemption story with a very strong female lead.

The House Between – Character Breakdown:

***Actors of all ethnicities, race, age, and gender are encouraged to apply***

 

CHRISSY -Greek–Australian. 50s–60s.

A painter and mother living in Melbourne. Warm, witty, and emotionally brave beneath a practiced competence. Carries the “unfinished story” of her grandfather and a restless need to stand inside the place it began.

 

JOHN -Chrissy’s son. Late 20s–30s.

Protective, skeptical, articulate. Thinks structurally (risk, logistics, consequences). His love often arrives as interrogation first, tenderness second.

 

ATHENA -Chrissy’s daughter. 20s

Bright, affectionate, and perceptive. The first to offer warmth, the quickest to name what’s happening in the room; often the bridge between generations.

 

HAKAN -Turkish–American. 50s–60s.

An academic (a professor). Disciplined, cerebral, private; until the right silence breaks him open. He’s spent a lifetime explaining history; now he has to live inside it. His emotional center is steadier than he expects.

 

ARDA -Hakan’s son. 20s.

Startup founder building AI; ambitious, fast, sincere. Wants speed and scale, but still shows up when family becomes real. Capable of surprising gentleness. Special connection to father, almost the Hakan that could have been.

 

SAM -Hakan’s longtime friend. 50s–60s.

Semi-retired executive / mentor type. Warm, dry, and socially fluent; he can defuse tension without minimizing it. A steady witness – sometimes a referee, sometimes a catalyst.

 

IRFAN -Local fixer/contractor/paperwork operator. 40s–50s.

An indispensable “solver” who sells solutions and then invents them. Big-hearted, opportunistic, funny without being a clown. Carries a tape measure like a sword. Wants to be essential (and paid). Often the play’s pressure-valve, but with real stakes underneath. Not meant to be a cartoonish character with more substance than quickly visible on the surface.

 

METIN – Local falcon enthusiast / informal guide. Age flexible (30s–70s).

Arrives with tea and an overstuffed “logbook” energy. Speaks in folk-poetic metaphor that lands more deeply than he intends. Slightly mystical, slightly practical, like the town itself.

 

The House Between – About the Show:

 

“The House Between” is about two immigrants drawn to the same ruined house from opposite histories. Chrissy, a Greek-Australian artist, and Hakan, a Turkish-American historian, meet in Ayvalık, Türkiye, and begin a late-in-life love story shaped by memory, family, and displacement. The play asks: when you carry more than one home inside you, how do you choose where you belong?