AUDITIONS: Juice--a secret revealed!
Schedule
Sun, 11 Jan, 2026 at 02:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
4915 Alton Parkway, Irvine, CA, United States, California 92701 | Irvine, CA
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AUDITION NOTICE: JU1CE – A 10-Minute Play FestivalThe Wayward Artist is seeking actors for JU1CE, our annual 10-Minute Play Festival. This evening of short plays is a co-production with the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and will be co-directed by Craig Tyrl and Teddy Pagee.
We are casting eight actors to form a strong ensemble. Each actor will play multiple roles across several 10-minute plays, requiring versatility, clarity of character work, and a collaborative spirit.
GENERAL AUDITIONS
Sunday, January 11, 2026 | 2:00–4:00 PM
Monday, January 12, 2026 | 6:00–9:00 PM
CALLBACKS
Tuesday, January 13, 2026 | 6:00–10:00 PM
AUDITION PREPARATION
Please prepare one 1-minute monologue of your choosing
Monologues may be contemporary or classical
Be prepared to take direction
HOW TO AUDITION
Actors interested in auditioning should complete the audition form using the link below. Audition details, location, and scheduling information will be shared after submission.
Requests an audition here:
https://www.thewaywardartist.org/auditions
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Rehearsals begin February 2, 2026
Opening night is Friday, March 6, 2026, with three performances total
All actors will receive a stipend
JU1CE celebrates new work, bold storytelling, and ensemble-driven performance. Actors of all backgrounds, identities, and experience levels are encouraged to audition.
ACTOR 1
Female | 20s–30s | Asian / Asian-American
Michi (The Gravity of Black Holes); Nina (The Takeaway); Cynthia / Future Cynthia (Tempus Fugit)
Requires an actor with strong emotional subtlety and intelligence. Must handle poetic language, grounded realism, and heightened theatrical time shifts. Comfort with science-inflected text, intimacy, and emotional vulnerability is essential.
ACTOR 2
Female | 30s–40s | Asian / Asian-American
Lily (The Takeaway); Abigail / Young Girl (Trapped in Limbo); Raelyn (Merely Players)
Requires range and precision. Actor must shift between controlled restraint, childlike physicality, and raw emotional exposure. Strong command of psychological realism and the ability to hold the stage in intense, dialogue-driven scenes.
ACTOR 3
Female | Late 30s–40s | Any ethnicity
Katie (The Green Grocer); Amara (Your Pleasure Is All Mine); The Cowgirl (Anteros Was Here)
Requires warmth, wit, and authority. Actor must balance comedy and vulnerability, handle contemporary naturalism and stylized narration, and project confidence as both a grounded protagonist and a mythic, choral presence.
ACTOR 4
Female | 50s–60s | Any ethnicity
The Baroness (Trapped in Limbo); Isabel (Merely Players); Mabel (The Gravity of Black Holes)
Requires gravitas and nuance. Actor must portray power, emotional restraint, and historical or “out of time” presence. Strong text work and the ability to suggest inner life beneath stillness are key.
ACTOR 5
Male | 40s–50s | Any ethnicity
Dr. Kertz / Father (Trapped in Limbo); Hanahan (Merely Players); Niles (Your Pleasure Is All Mine)
Requires authority and complexity. Actor must convincingly inhabit institutional power, moral ambiguity, and controlled menace. Strong vocal control and comfort with intellectually dense dialogue.
ACTOR 6
Male | 20s–30s | Black / African-American
Timo / Fury / Grace (Anteros Was Here); Grocer (George) (The Green Grocer)
Requires warmth, physical presence, and emotional clarity. Actor must move fluidly between grounded realism and mythic embodiment. Comfort with physical storytelling and ensemble work is important.
ACTOR 7
Male | 20s–30s | Any ethnicity
Mel / Fury / Grace (Anteros Was Here); Gary (Tempus Fugit); Keegan (Your Pleasure Is All Mine); Shawn / Shawna (The Green Grocer)
Requires versatility and stamina. Actor must handle romantic vulnerability, comic timing, and heightened theatricality. Strong emotional accessibility and ease shifting between styles.
ACTOR 8
Male | 40s–60s | Asian / Asian-American
Mr. Wu (The Takeaway); Anteros / Fury / Grace (Anteros Was Here); Big Z / Fury / Grace (Anteros Was Here)
Requires calm authority and symbolic weight. Actor must ground realism as well as embody mythic, godlike presence. Strong stage presence, restraint, and ensemble awareness are essential.
Anteros Was Here
A myth-inflected Western where cowboys, gods, and choral figures collide. As violence, desire, and power play out on a ranch, the god Anteros watches humanity wrestle with love, justice, and consequence. The play blends ritual, poetry, and physical storytelling to end in something closer to reckoning than resolution.
The Gravity of Black Holes
A quiet, poetic two-hander connecting a contemporary Japanese-American science student with a woman from another era. Through physics, grief, and time, the play explores loneliness, inherited pain, and the mysterious forces that pull people together across generations.
The Green Grocer
A sharply funny and tender look at aging, desire, and self-image. When Katie develops an unexpected crush on her younger grocer, fantasies and insecurities collide with the reality of her marriage. The play balances humor with honesty about love, longing, and choosing what matters.
Merely Players
Three people meet at the intersection of faith, death, and moral compromise: a priest, a hospice nurse, and a woman in emotional free fall. Darkly comic and deeply human, the play questions hypocrisy, grace, and what it means to perform belief rather than live it.
Tempus Fugit
A playful yet piercing meditation on time, ambition, and regret. When Cynthia encounters her future self, the conversation becomes a battle between idealism and lived experience. The play moves quickly, using humor and imagination to ask what we owe our future selves.
The Takeaway
Two estranged sisters meet in a Chinese restaurant, forced to confront old wounds and cultural expectations while waiting for food that becomes a catalyst for truth. Observed by the quietly perceptive owner, the play explores family, identity, and the cost of silence.
Trapped in Limbo
Set in a psychiatric institution, this unsettling drama blurs past and present as a wealthy baroness relives childhood trauma under clinical observation. With mandated doubling that exposes cycles of power and abuse, the play examines memory, control, and the violence hidden inside respectability.
Your Pleasure Is All Mine
In a near-future world, a grieving woman lives with an AI replica of her deceased partner. As intimacy, consent, and control blur, the play probes the ethics of artificial love and the human need to be known—even when the cost is emotional risk.
SCRIPTS AVAILABE UPON REQUEST:
email: [email protected]
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