Audition Form

Audition Form

2024/2025 Season Auditions for Bag&Baggage Productions are now closed. Check back for show-specific calls. 2025/2026 Season Auditions will be held in Spring 2025.
About Native Theater Project: Native Theater Project produces work as part of Bag&Baggage's season, with all shows helmed by Native creatives. In addition to producing work by Native playwrights, NTP also commissions, develops, and supports new work by Native writers. Writers interested in NTP programs can register at: https://form.jotform.com/240157671495159

NTP shows rehearse and perform in multiple locations in Portland, OR and Hillsboro, OR, including:
The Vault Theater, 350 E. Main St, Hillsboro, OR 97123

Contract: AEA/Guest Artist: $350/week
Non-Union $15.95/hour
20 hours/week rehearsals; 4 performances/week

Native Theater Project (NTP) seeks to improve outcomes for Native people by actively supporting storytelling sovereignty, improving representation, developing Native leaders, and enhancing the American theater ecosystem’s cultural competency in producing Native stories by Native artists.

About Bag & Baggage: We are Hillsboro's only professional theater company, operating since 2005, and since 2017 out of The Vault Theater and Event Space in Historic Downtown Hillsboro. We are an anchor organization for the Cultural Arts District and provide access to our space for community conversation to uplift the city of Hillsboro and Washington County. The 24/25 season is the second season curated by Producing Artistic Director Nik Whitcomb. Our season includes mainstage productions, co-productions, and collaborative workshop productions. All projects pay a minimum of $15.45/hour. We are thrilled to welcome Native Theater Project to the Vault for the next two seasons and join Jeanette Harrison in amplifying Native voices in the American theatre!

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Are you a local hire to the Portland metro area?*

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Bag & Baggage Productions is located in Hillsboro, OR. Do you have local housing in the Portland metro area?*

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Are you a singer?

YesPowwow singer or traditional singerIf you give me the sheet music, I can sing itIf you play it for me, I can pick it upMusical theater singerNot a trained singer but I can carry a tuneNo
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Which role(s) are you submitting for?

You can find links to the script and sides in the next field. You can always return to this form anytime before the submission deadline and adjust your selections. If you have any questions, feel free to email casting@bagnbaggage.org
Project 1: An Oregon Premiere Written by Anna Ouyang Moench

Character 1: A scientist and an avid birder. Ages throughout the play from his late 50s to late 60s. White, probably.Character 2: A copy editor for a conservative news outlet. Ages throughout the play from her late 20s to her late 30s. John’s daughter. BIPOC.
Project 2: Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson

Jolene: 17, Female. Navajo. An athlete with Olympic dreams and hopes to meet Billy MillsShawna: 17, Female. Navajo. Applied to Dartmouth and strives to lead like Annie Dodge WaunekaKaylene: 18, Female. Navajo. Comes from a long line of warriors and unsure about her futureRosie: 18, Female. Navajo. A pageant queen and admires Radmilla CodyMs. B: 65-70, Female. A traditional Navajo woman who leads the Song n’ Dance GroupMs. K: 40s, Female. An educated Navajo woman
Project 2: Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or A Boarding School Play by Blossom Johnson

Ms. B: 60s, Female. A traditional Navajo woman who leads the Song n’ Dance GroupMs. K: 40s, Female. An educated Navajo woman
Project 3 (workshop concert production): Is You Is, book by L.C. Bernadine & Nik Whitcomb, lyrics by L.C. Bernadine, music by Erik Olsen

Adji: (tenor). Music student, Black, male, studying music history, a sweet-tempered seeker. He likes to connect the dots even if they are imaginary and has always felt a connection to the pastCarter: Music student, white, any gender; talented, flippant, insecure. Means well. Often says the wrong thing just to make the room laughBriahna (soprano-belt). BIPOC student, female, a few years ahead of Adji, working as an intern at Field Museum on a project connected to the famed 1930s exhibit called Races of Mankind, which is being re-purposed in an effort to to tell a new story about the social construction of the idea of race and The Field Museum’s own role.Steenie Mayfield (alto-belt). Female, Black, 1933 public school bath attendant who came to Chicago during the Great Migration in hopes of getting a teaching job, but is caught in crush of the Depression and related attacks on public education.Adela: (mezzo), Female, 1933 school janitress, BIPOC (Note: many of the “janitresses” who worked in BSEU Local No. 7 janitress union were Italian/Latinx /Irish/Black/ Eastern European; the union prided itself on being one of the few that was “integrated.”)Ghost Ensemble (4 extremely gifted singers): A diverse chorus of four; junior high students from immigrant and Black communities on Chicago’s near west side in the 1930s, themselves in the past and appearing as ghosts in the present-day world. (Students in upper grades were often older than today, because of delays in learning English, and also staying in school because there were no jobs.) Ensemble serves as the foundation of the jazz sound in the show.One actor to play Intern Supervisor, 1933 Museum Rep, and Principal O’Brien: Male, white. Non-singing. The representation of “authority” and “institution” in our play.
Project 4: Oregon Premiere Written by Zack Peercy. All roles are open to all actors no matter race, gender, size, or other demographic markers.

ACTOR 1: An elf detectiveACTOR 2: A new widowACTOR 3: An eternal beingACTOR 4: A working class elf who bakesACTOR 5: A reindeer bartender & a snowman of few words. (Doubled)ACTOR 6: A working class elf with some snark and a snowman of a few more words. (Doubled)ACTOR 7: A yeti lounge singer & a kindly old neighbor. (Doubled)
Project 5: World Premiere TYA (Theatre for Young Audiences) Production, written by Elliot Lorenc. All roles are open to all actors no matter race, gender, size, or other demographic markers. Actors with musical ability (specifically stringed instruments) preferred but not required. (Actor 2 has already been cast)

ACTOR 1: Our protagonistACTOR 3: A tree stump and various others. (Puppetry skills required)ACTOR 4: A business owner and various others. (Puppetry skills required)
Readers copy available by request. Link will be provided via email.

Links to Audition Sides:

Project 2:

Ms. B

Ms. K
Audition Materials:

We welcome two contrasting monologues, of up to 3 minutes. If you don't have a monologue prepared, you have two choices. You can either tell us a story for up to 3 minutes. Or you can prepare one of the sides for a character you're interested in. We look forward to getting to know you and your work!
Appointment
If you are unable to audition on these dates (or if there are no more slots available) for Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or A Boarding School Play, you are welcome to record your audition and send us a link in the box below. Please send your link no later than June 1st at 10 am Pacific.
Please paste a link(s) to your audition file(s) (if applicable)
Can you please talk to us about your general availability as well as any specific conflicts? Please include weekday daytime as well as weekend availability, from 10 am to 10 pm, August 19th - October 13th
Demographic Information (OPTIONAL)

Bag&Baggage Productions practices identity conscious casting and strives to be accessible and inclusive to all peoples no matter race, gender, sexual orientation, size, or any other identity markers. The following information assists us in making conscious casting choices and also lets us know who is NOT in the room so that we can continue doing our work to make sure that everyone has a seat at the table. Please only complete what you feel comfortable sharing!
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Please note that Native Theater Project co-commissions and collaboratively produces works written by Native writers from a wide variety of backgrounds. To help our writers authentically portray the worlds they write about, we invite you to share as much as you'd like about your identity and your experience. Native Theater Project is in residence at Bag & Baggage Productions, a Black-led organization. We do not share your info, nor do we police identity. The only people who will read what you write are NTP's director (Jeanette Harrison) and B&B's artistic director (Nik Whitcomb). Our goal is to tell so many Native stories that all Natives feel represented.
Statement of Native Identity
We work with a number of LGBTQIA+ playwrights who seek actors who authentically inhabit the identities they write. Is there anything you'd like to share with us that can help us achieve their goals?
What accommodations can meet your access needs?
Bag & Baggage is trying out a new system for audition scheduling. Anytime we add new systems, we also interrogate them for best practices in inclusion and anti-racism. If there's anything you'd like to share about your experiences with or reactions to this form, please email info@bagnbaggage.org

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Which role(s) are you submitting for?

Demographic Information (OPTIONAL)