Audtions

AUDITION NOTICE: JU1CE – A 10-Minute Play Festival

The Wayward Artist is seeking actors for JU1CE, our annual 10-Minute Play Festival. This evening of short plays is a co-production with the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and will be co-directed by Craig Tyrl and Teddy Paige.

We are casting eight actors to form a strong ensemble. Each actor will play multiple roles across several 10-minute plays, requiring versatility, clarity of character work, and a collaborative spirit.

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GENERAL AUDITIONS

• Sunday, January 11, 2026 | 2:00–4:00 PM

• Monday, January 12, 2026 | 6:00–9:00 PM

CALLBACKS

• Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | 6:00–10:00 PM

 

AUDITION PREPARATION

• Please prepare one 1-minute monologue of your choosing

• Monologues may be contemporary or classical

• Be prepared to take direction

 

HOW TO AUDITION
Actors interested in auditioning should complete the audition form using the link below. Audition details, location, and scheduling information will be shared after submission.

 

PRODUCTION DETAILS

• Rehearsals begin February 2, 2026

• Opening night is Friday, March 6, 2026, with three performances total

• All actors will receive a stipend

 

JU1CE celebrates new work, bold storytelling, and ensemble-driven performance. Actors of all backgrounds, identities, and experience levels are encouraged to audition.

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8-actor roster (types) + role assignments
F1 — Female, Asian-American / Japanese-American, early 20s–early 30s
 The Gravity of Black Holes: Michi (early 20s, Japanese-American / Asian American)
 The Takeaway: Nina (early 30s, Asian / Asian-American)
 Trapped in Limbo: Abigail / Young Girl (early 20s / ~12)
 Tempus Fugit: Cynthia (mid-20s) + Cynthia Body Double

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F2 — Female, Asian-American, late 30s–40s
 The Takeaway: Lily (mid-to-late 30s, Asian / Asian-American)
 Your Pleasure Is All Mine: Olivia (45)
 Merely Players: Raelyn (30s)
 Tempus Fugit: Future Cynthia (40s)

F3 — Female, white-presenting, 50s–60s (can read 45+ when needed)
 Trapped in Limbo: The Baroness (50s–60s, implied white)
 Merely Players: Isabel (50s)
 The Gravity of Black Holes: Mabel (appears 20s–50s, implied white)

F4 — Female, 40s–mid 40s
 Your Pleasure Is All Mine: Amara (45)
 The Green Grocer: Katie (39/40)
 Anteros Was Here: The Cowgirl (adult, female-identifying)

M1 — Male, Asian-American, 50s–60s (older Asian-American male)
 The Takeaway: Mr. Wu (40s–60s implied, Asian)
 Merely Players: Hanahan (50s)
 Your Pleasure Is All Mine: Niles (male-presenting voice)

M2 — Male, Black / African-American, young adult (the “handsome younger African
American actor” slot)
 Anteros Was Here: Timo (young adult, Black / African-American)
 The Green Grocer: Grocer / George (mid-to-late 20s)

M3 — Male, white-presenting, mid-20s–early 30s
 Tempus Fugit: Gary (mid-20s)
 The Green Grocer: Shawn (spouse, choose the male version)
 Anteros Was Here: Mel (young adult, implied white)

M4 — Male, 40s–50s
 Your Pleasure Is All Mine: Keegan (appears 45)
 Trapped in Limbo: Dr. Kertz / Father (40s–50s)
 Anteros Was Here: Anteros (ageless, male-identifying)

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Anteros Was Here

A myth-inflected Western where cowboys, gods, and choral figures collide. As violence, desire, and power play out on a ranch, the god Anteros watches humanity wrestle with love, justice, and consequence. The play blends ritual, poetry, and physical storytelling to end in something closer to reckoning than resolution.

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The Gravity of Black Holes

A quiet, poetic two-hander connecting a contemporary Japanese-American science student with a woman from another era. Through physics, grief, and time, the play explores loneliness, inherited pain, and the mysterious forces that pull people together across generations.

 

The Green Grocer

A sharply funny and tender look at aging, desire, and self-image. When Katie develops an unexpected crush on her younger grocer, fantasies and insecurities collide with the reality of her marriage. The play balances humor with honesty about love, longing, and choosing what matters.

 

Merely Players

Three people meet at the intersection of faith, death, and moral compromise: a priest, a hospice nurse, and a woman in emotional free fall. Darkly comic and deeply human, the play questions hypocrisy, grace, and what it means to perform belief rather than live it.

 

Tempus Fugit

A playful yet piercing meditation on time, ambition, and regret. When Cynthia encounters her future self, the conversation becomes a battle between idealism and lived experience. The play moves quickly, using humor and imagination to ask what we owe our future selves.

 

The Takeaway

Two estranged sisters meet in a Chinese restaurant, forced to confront old wounds and cultural expectations while waiting for food that becomes a catalyst for truth. Observed by the quietly perceptive owner, the play explores family, identity, and the cost of silence.

 

Trapped in Limbo

Set in a psychiatric institution, this unsettling drama blurs past and present as a wealthy baroness relives childhood trauma under clinical observation. With mandated doubling that exposes cycles of power and abuse, the play examines memory, control, and the violence hidden inside respectability.

 

Your Pleasure Is All Mine

In a near-future world, a grieving woman lives with an AI replica of her deceased partner. As intimacy, consent, and control blur, the play probes the ethics of artificial love and the human need to be known—even when the cost is emotional risk.

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SCRIPTS AVAILABE UPON REQUEST:

email: info@thewaywardartist.org