CASTING NOTICE

Non-Equity Call; $50/performance

Trinity Theatre Company is seeking actors to fill all roles for POTUS by Selina Fillinger, directed by Kandace Crystal and performing January 8-17, 2027. Also seeking actors to fill most roles in the world premier of The House Between by Serhat Pala, directed by Sean Boyd and performing February 26 – March 14, 2027.

 

Auditions: In-Person appointments on October 20th. 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. (https://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050C48AEAD2CA4F49-66194263-auditions)

 

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.

 

Potus/The House Between

 

Important Dates for POTUS:

December 1 – First Rehearsal

December 29 – January 7 – Tech

January 8 – January 17 – Performances

***Break for Christmas Week and New Year Holidays***

 

Important Dates for The House Between:

January 12 – First Rehearsal

February 16-25 – Tech

February 26 – March 14 – Performances

 

Location:

All Rehearsals & Performances will take place at the Trinity Theatre Company, 9520 Padgett Street, Suite 208, San Diego, CA 92126

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***

 

POTUS:

HARRIET – His Chief of Staff

JEAN – His press secretary

STEPHANIE – His secretary

DUSTY – His dalliance

BERNADETTE – His sister

CHRIS – A journalist

MARGARET – His wife. The First Lady.

THE HOUSE BETWEEN:

 

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 – THIS ROLE HAS BEEN CAST – 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.

About the Shows:

 

POTUS – One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

 

The House Between – “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?