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AUDITION ANNOUNCEMENT

VT School of Performing Arts proudly presents
Eureka Day
By Jonathan Spector
Directed by Susanna Rinehart

Production Information:
Eureka Day is a comedy “so brilliantly yoked to the current American moment – its flighty politics, its deadly folly – that it makes you want to jump out of your skin…” (The New Yorker).

A super witty and sympathetic examination of the fragility of community; and of our competing instincts toward creating and building community vs. silencing, division, and self-interest.

If you would like to read the play, copies will be available to be checked out with Stacy Blackburn Starting on April 13th in the Production Office, Henderson 303.

CHARACTERS (all parents or members of the board of Eureka Day):

  • DON, head of school, a calming presence, lifetime educator, no children, white male
  • SUZANNE, warm and gracious, family and the school are life’s work, six children, white female
  • CARINA, a joiner, new here, works in non-profits, one child, black or biracial female
  • MEIKO, never lived elsewhere nor wanted to, landscape architect, single mother by choice, one child, biracial Asian/ white female
  • ELI, oblivious but well-meaning, cashed out of tech start-up very wealthy, Jewish or half-Jewish, one child, white male
  • WINTER, one scene, parent, person of color, possibly to be played by understudy

Actors of all races, ethnicities, nationalities, genders, identities and orientations are strongly encouraged to audition. 

  • REHEARSALS will be held August 24, 2026 – September 26, 2026. 
  • We are casting this production now, in order that rehearsals can start at the very beginning of fall semester, 2026.
  • Staging Rehearsals will be held six days a week: 6-10 pm Monday-Friday and Sundays 12-4 in Theatre 101, Room 201.  Some Friday afternoon rehearsals may be scheduled, based on availability.
  • Spacing and Technical Rehearsals will be on stage in Studio Theatre, Squires Student Center September 21-September 26.
  • Note: Technical rehearsal on Saturday, September 26 is 11 am - 9 pm, and there is NO rehearsal on Sunday, September 27.
  • PERFORMANCES are September 28 - October 1 @ 7:30 pm, and on October 3, 2026 @ 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm in the Studio Theatre in Squires Student Center. There are six performances total. Note: there are NO performances on Friday, Oct. 2.

WHEN will AUDITIONS be held?

  • Auditions are MONDAY, April 27 and WEDNESDAY April 29, 2026 between 6 pm and 10 pm. Your individual audition will be scheduled for a specific 5-minute time slot. Once you have submitted your form, you will receive an email from stage manager Maggie Scarbrough or PM Stacy Blackburn with the time of your individual audition appointment.
  • Callbacks will be held THURSDAY, April 30, 2026 between 6 pm and 10 pm. Callbacks will be in small groups, called for no more than 30-40 minutes, and you'll be provided sides (scene cuttings) from the script for that.

WHERE will AUDITIONS be held?

  • Theatre 101 Building, Rm 101, 200 College Avenue, Blacksburg.

WHAT do I need to prepare for my AUDITION?

  • For your audition, please prepare an approximately 1½ - 2 minute seriocomic or dramatic monologue from a contemporary source (strong preference for monologues from a play script; if it is from another source, it must be in first-person monologue form.) Look for monologues which ask for a strong commitment to a point of view and are based in truthful personalized connection. Memorized is strongly preferred but not required.

HOW do I sign up to audition?