"Eureka Day" Audition for the Theater
Seeking Equity actors for the "Eureka Day" play. Please find the breakdown below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: When a mumps outbreak hits Eureka Day, a small, fiercely progressive Berkeley private school, its parent executive committee, a body built entirely on consensus and everyone-has-a-voice process, has to decide whether to make vaccination mandatory. What starts as a policy question turns into a referendum on who gets to be right, who gets to be heard, and what "community" actually means when it's tested. Rate: LORT Non-Rep, $889 weekly minimum (LORT D). Additional info: Local actors are encouraged to audition. All races, ethnicities, body types, gender identities, actors with disabilities, and actors of all ages are sought. Gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors are invited to submit for the roles they most identify with. Prepare sides. Always bring your Equity membership card to auditions. An Equity monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of the audition. Callbacks by invitation only: Saturday, October 24, 2026. Rehearsals: February 15 - March 12, 2027. Monday-Saturday, up to eight hours daily (with a break) between 10:00 AM and 8:00 PM. Additional hours will be added for technical rehearsals beginning March 5, 2027. Performances: March 12 - March 27, 2027. If interested, please apply.
5 roles
Moved to Berkeley after college when her boyfriend nowhusband started graduate school. Raising her family and nurturing the school are her life’s work, and fully entwined. Once her youngest was in school she started working part-time as a life coach after being encouraged to do so by many friends who she’d helped through difficult times. She thinks of herself as “comfortable” rather than “wealthy.” Mother of six.
Head of School. A serene presence with real gravitas. He’s very good at his job and his equivocating language is an intentional way to make everyone feel comfortable and never appear to be pushing things in one direction, even while gently guiding them. He worked hard to become the man he is. Came to Berkeley in the mid-’80s chasing the last of the counterculture; started as a music teacher and still thinks about going back some days.
A joiner, and good at it — a Foreign Service childhood spent moving between eight schools made her skilled at landing in a new environment, figuring out the rules, and putting people at ease. Moved to Berkeley nine months ago for her wife; still working out how she feels about it, but her wife never wants to leave. She’s worked in non-profits her whole professional life, so has spent A LOT of time in board meetings — and dealing with well-intentioned white people. Mother of Victor.
(Biracial Japanese/White — identifies as Hapa, Mid-30s) Berkeley native, lifer, wry sense of humor. A landscape architect who's good at her job and a little bored by it. Became a single mother by choice a year after an on-and-off eight-year relationship ended. When her daughter was young, Meiko’s mother was effectively a co-parent, but less so now. Would like to have another child, but feels she’s too old to think about doing it alone, again. Mother of Olivia.
Oblivious but well-meaning. From Southern California, went to Stanford, then a tech start-up he cashed out of three years ago and hasn't quite known what to do with himself since. Rock climber, pickler, manager of the family's money — and still carrying some shame from an Ayn Rand phase in college he's never fully shaken.
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