Auditions & Cast Calls

This page lists all open auditions and acting opportunities. Audition calls will be viewable up to their deadline at which point they will disappear from the page.

For advice and guidance on auditioning take a look at the OUDS website. OUDS also publish a monologue bank full of good suggestions for monologues from both classical and contemporary drama, alongside lyrics and sheet music for musical theatre auditions.


The Children's Hour
Oct
11

The Children's Hour

As one of the first plays of its time to feature a queer character whom the audience empathises with, The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman is a historically significant landmark. Despite being banned in several locations for its portrayal of a lesbian character, it received positive reviews, reflecting the beginnings of a slow but crucial change in the perception of queer media in the first half of the 20th century.

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Henry IV, Part One
Oct
10

Henry IV, Part One

We are looking for a large, diverse, and gender-balanced cast from across the university to stage 'Henry IV, part one', Shakespeare's most comic, energetic and thrilling history play as the first production of the 2026/2027 Jesus College Shakespeare Project season.

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Cloud Nine
Oct
8

Cloud Nine

Churchill’s riotous and heartbreaking play has all the actors crossdressing and multiroling at different times of the play. We want our production to focus on what it means to be British, taking the good parts with the bad. We want liminal spaces to feature anachronistic details to evoke contemporary fears of Reform, celebrations of ‘Cool Britannia’, and all the ugly elements of Britain’s history.

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Next To Normal
Jun
13

Next To Normal

This deeply moving piece of theatre provides a wonderful opportunity for performers to explore dramatic material and showcase vocal talents with an energetic pop/rock score. next to normal is an emotional powerhouse that addresses such issues as grieving a loss, ethics in modern psychiatry, and suburban life.

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The Welkin
Jun
12

The Welkin

Fennic Fox Productions are now casting for The Welkin. Lucy Kirkwood’s savagely beautiful play tells a gripping story of justice, rationality, superstition and intuition.


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I Am a Camera
Jun
8

I Am a Camera

Chris, an English writer living in 1930s Berlin, who acts as both narrator and "camera", observing the lives around him with detached honesty. Through his friendship with the lively but financially unstable Sally Bowles, Chris witnesses the economic hardship and uncertainty faced by many in Berlin during the rise of Nazism.

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A Streetcar Named Desire
Jun
7

A Streetcar Named Desire

Cross Keys Productions are now casting for a new production of Tennessee William's exploration of the ways in which the institutions of postwar America placed restrictions on women's lives, and the destructive power of sexual desire.

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Shooting Hedda Gabler
Jun
1

Shooting Hedda Gabler

An American actress and faded child star arrives on a small film set in Norway, having been offered the lead part in a Norwegian film adaptation of ‘Hedda Gabler’.

Bidding Grove Theatre MTW7

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