Pallas Theatre Collective

Pallas Theatre Collective will hold auditions for our 2015 season on Saturday January 31st and February 1st, 2015 in NW DC. Pallas is seeking actors of all ages and ethnicities, and is very interested in singers who are able to sight-read well.

Auditioners should prepare prepare 16 bars of any song that showcase your vocal talents and a monologue from George Bernard Shaw or one of his contemporaries (Ibsen, Chekhov, etc.). Monologues should be no longer than a minute and a half.

Pallas Season is listed below. Please note, Left to Our Own Devices is in need of several young singers ranging from 13 to 17 years old.

Major Barbara
by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Pallas Artistic Director Ty Hallmark
May 13-31 2015
George Bernard Shaw’s great drama of moral ambiguity will place the Undershafts in early 1930s Washington when the Bonus Army camped on the banks of the Anacostia River. As directed by Pallas Artistic Director Ty Hallmark this Major Barbara grapples with gun culture and class warfare as we continue to live in a world decades deep in wartime economies and racial strife.

Left to Our Own Devices
Book and Lyrics by Stephanie Salzman
Music by EllaRose Chary
Directed by Erin Bone Steele
June 8-14 2015
A high-energy dance musical for young audiences. When faced with the proposition that the city is going to take away her favorite playground and turn it into a stick museum, Alexis must convince her gadget-obsessed friends that they need to use the playground non-digitally. After numerous readings in New York, Pallas is thrilled to present the DC premiere of this charming new work.

The 5th Annual TableRead Series
June 2015
Directed by Tracey Elaine Chessum

Code Name : Cynthia
Book and Lyrics by Steve Multer
Music by Karen Multer
Directed by Pallas Founder and Associate Artistic Director Tracey Elaine Chessum
July 29-August 16 2015
A Washington, DC premiere production. Set during World War II, Betty Thorpe (Code Name: Cynthia) is a stunning beauty and master spy. She is blackmailed into seducing the enemy to save civilization from a ruthless dictator – and her own delicate world from falling to pieces. Based on the true story of an American patriot, Washington, DC becomes a chessboard where honor, sex, and political ethics are up for grabs as the fate of the free world hangs by a thread.

The Clover Adams Project
by Ty Hallmark and Laura Rocklyn
Directed by Sara Bickler
October 2015
Henry James coined her “Voltaire in Petticoats.” Gregarious, intelligent, and worldly, Clover Adams dove into the political and social scene upon arriving in DC in the 1870s. But after years of dinner parties with Presidential cabinet members, scotch-fueled evenings with the Hay family, and portrait sitting sessions, Clover’s spark began to dim. In 1885, while coping with her beloved father’s death and the possible philandering of her husband, the darker forces that brewed through her family line finally caught Clover in their grasp. Directed by Sara Bickler, The Clover Adams Project will connect today’s Washington, DC audience to Clover’s Washington in a site-specific and roving new work.

Performances of Major Barbara, Left To Our Own Devices, TableRead, and Code Name: Cynthia will be held at the Anacostia Arts Center. The Clover Adams Project is a site specific piece – location in DC but specifics are TBD.

To schedule an audition, please email casting@pallastheatre.org with headshot and resume. Because we are looking for a diverse array of artists, we will be reviewing submissions before scheduling appointments. Starting December 8, those chosen for scheduling will receive a link to book their appointment. We will then instruct you on audition location. We look forward to seeing you!

Pallas Theatre Collective (a member of theatreWashington) exists to showcase and highlight American voices and the multiplicity of their perspectives through theatre. We seek to identify, develop, and preserve new voices, especially those often unheard. We desire to be an incubator for talented and visionary artists, providing resources and a home for theatrical practitioners to share their voices in the Washington, D.C. area and around the United States. Pallas’s mission includes two hallmarks: (1) to foster the continuation of the American musical theatre legacy, and (2) to assist in the growth of theatre artists as they share their own American stories. We, as an artistic collective, seek to reflect the diversity of American life and creativity on our stage.