CASTING NOTICE
Non-Equity Call; $50/performance
Trinity Theatre Company is seeking actors to fill all roles for Dead Man’s Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Sean Boyd and performing October July 12, 2026.
Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play
Auditions: In-Person appointments on August 5th. Please prepare a 1-2 minute monologue of your choice. Submissions are being taken online through Sign Up Genius. All submissions must be submitted through this platform.
Prior to auditions, you will be emailed to submit a digital copy of your headshot & resume. Hard copies are not required, and will not be taken.
Important Dates for Dead Man’s Cell Phone:
September 15 – October 4, 2026 – First Rehearsal
October 5 – October 15, 2026 – Tech Rehearsal
October 16 – October 25 – Performances
All Rehearsals & Performances will take place at the Trinity Theatre Company, 1640 Camino Del Rio N, Suite 129, San Diego, CA 92108.
Rehearsals Tuesdays – Fridays from 6p-10p.
Performances Fridays & Saturdays at 7p; Sundays at 2p.
Character Breakdown:
***Actors of all ethnicities, race, age, and gender are encouraged to apply***
JEAN – a woman
GORDON – a dead man
MRS. GOTTLIEB – Gordon’s mother
HERMIA – Gordon’s widow
DWIGHT – Gordon’s brother
THE OTHER WOMAN – Also plays the stranger. Has an accent.
About the Show:
An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins Dead Man’s Cell Phone, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.
CASTING NOTICE
Non-Equity Call; $35.00 performance rate
Trinity Theatre Company is seeking actors to join our Storytime Troupe, a year-round program that tours libraries around San Diego. These positions are on-going, as needed (approximately 1-4 times per month, around actor availability). Performers should generally be available weekdays during the day. At each performance, two actors of the troupe will be scheduled, with a third scheduled as Coordinator. Performances are typically 75 minutes, including setup and tear down (required of Troupe performers & coordinator). Storytime Director: Marcy Ledvinka. Artistic Director: Sean Boyd.
Only Self-taped Auditions are being accepted. All submissions must be emailed to casting@trinityttc.org by 5:00 PM on April 3, 2026.
***Actors of all ethnicities, race, age, and gender are encouraged to apply***
To submit, email casting@trinityttc.org. Include:
1) Your name
2) Your email & phone number
3) Digital copy of your headshot and resume
4) General availability, including daytime and weekend availability
5) A recording of you performing the side below
***If you do not receive a response confirming materials have been collected within 48 hours, please resend your information.***
Other essential duties and requirements of Storytime Actors:
- Must pass Background Checks and LiveScan certification
- Audience participation with children, including post-show craft supervision
- Learn the Knick or Knack track and the Coordinator responsibilities
- Set-up and Take Down of Trinity approved set, costumes, and props
- Maintenance of Storytime Marketing Kit (Coordinators)
- Submit timely performance reports (Coordinators)
- Attendance at Monthly Storytime Meeting (scheduled around actor availability, though often 4th Sunday at 10a OR Saturday at 6p)
- Performances are county-wide. Reliable transportation is required.
SIDE TO RECORD:
KNACK. Well, that’s everyone on our farm! Maybe we can spend some more time all
together. Can I show you my garden? (*INTERACTION MOMENT*) I have so much I could
show you! I have recently just started growing daisies! Ooh! I am so excited. I know exactly
what I want to show you first—(Knack notices a seed on the ground and picks it up.) What is
this? Sorry everyone…I did not put this here. What do you think this is? (*INTERACTION
MOMENT*) Wait! I have seen this before. It’s…it’s a seed of wheat! Wow! If we plant the seed,
we could make fresh bread! Oh yum! (Beat.) But I’ve never planted anything like this before.
You know…I think I want some help planting this seed of wheat. Let’s go ask Don the Dog!