Experimental Quickies 2: Queer Time - Auditions
Schedule
Sun, 26 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
Spectrum Stage | Sacramento, CA
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This genre-bending queer-and-trans-focused anthology play festival consists of 7 10-minute plays. We are searching for trans and queer Sacramento actors to portray themselves on stage and queer allied actors to accompany and support them. AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF COLD READS.
AUDITION:
April 26, 2026 @ 7PM
2424 Castro Way, Sacramento, CA
CALLBACKS / READ-THROUGH:
May 3rd, 2026 @ 7PM
2424 Castro Way, Sacramento, CA
Audition Registration Form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf8YummBpfhObX9h0umPJzSutTxK1pSGitjD91BunNnZ1hMdw/viewform?usp=dialog
REHEARSALS (EXACT DATES AND TIMES DEPENDENT UPON CASTING / PLAY):
5/18-6/12
2424 Castro Way, Sacramento, CA
TECH WEEK
6/15-6/19, 6:30-9:30PM
2424 Castro Way, Sacramento, CA
2 WEEKENDS OF PERFORMANCES!
June 20th & 7th, 2026 @ 7PM
June 21st & 28th, 2026 @ 2PM
2424 Castro Way, Sacramento, CA
CASTING FOR:
We’re Here, We’re Queer, We Time Travel
by Becca Beskeen
A newly out non-binary kid discovers that they can create timeloops and is subsequently recruited by the Leader of the Queer Time Patrol, Acclaimed Star of Stage and Screen Nathan Lane and his rag-tag band of queer-trans contemporary and historical figures to join their mission of destroying the Evil Gay, Peter Thiel.
Total: 9 characters
Skylar Pryce - 18-20s, non-binary, high-school aged baby queer, they/them. grounded, learns self-confidence on their journey.
Adrian Charles - 18-20s, male-presenting, high school-aged pretty, stupid gay guy, he/him. Skylar’s crush.
Acclaimed star of stage and screen Nathan Lane - 30s-50s, male-presenting, straight-up Nathan Lane impression, he/him. Leader of the Queer Time Patrol.
Joan of Arc - 20s, pious futch, queer femme, she/her.
Christine Jorgenson - 20s, trans woman or trans fem, she/her. most badass woman in the room.
Gronk the Gay Caveman - unspecific age, male-presenting, he/him. solid physical comedian, hairy a plus.
Peter Thiel - 40s-50s, male, he/him. German accent a bonus.
AI Zombie Ninjas - A group of at least two goons with customer service voices.
Iphigenia
by Eleni Goetze
A trans retelling of the Greek Myth Iphigenia. The young daughter of an influential politician reckons with the social consequences of her transition and her prophesied death with the help of her best friend.
Total: 4 Characters
Iphigenia - 18-20s, trans woman, she/her. bookish, moody high school student (understandably, what with the looming death).
Achillia - 18-20s, queer femme, she/her. athletic, a little awkward, Iphy’s futch lesbian bodyguard.
Clytemnestra - 30s-40s, female, she/her. Iphy’s mom. stern demeanor masking concern/worry.
General Menelaus - 40s-50s, male, he/him. leader of the enemy army. military guy and a bigot.
brainrotting
by Bender Kynaston
A young trans man starts work at the drive-in movie theatre from his childhood and is quickly unnerved by the uncanny reality and subtle horrors of working a dead-end job in your twenties.
Bell - early to mid 20s, trans man or trans masc, he/him. an anxious, compassionate, nostalgic drive-in employee developing a strong sense of justice in his newfound sobriety.
Ashlan - 18-22, trans woman or transfemme, she/her. Bell’s trainer at the drive-in, a disillusioned movie fan jaded by capitalism.
Angelique - 20s-30s, female-presenting, she/her. the apathetic and vapid manager of the drive-in.
Lillia - mid 20s-30s, female-presenting, she/her. a young, married mother of two; incredibly comfortable with her life and the state of the world.
Daria - mid to late 20s, femme non-binary, she/they. apathetic stoner and gas station attendant.
Ethan - mid to late 20s, male-presenting, he/him. a compassionate social justice activist.
Franklin Delacour / Declan: 30s-40s, man, he/him. the smooth-talking spokesperson for Buzzy Cola, a deeply sinister, capitalist company.
The Man - 30s-40s, male-presenting, he/him. a violently passionate superhero fan.
Degrassomnia
by Frankie Lord
A trans man in his 40s experiencing second puberty has an anti-depressant fueled fever dream about having to return to high school. Or is it a dream?
Jacob - 40s, trans man, he/him. goofy and light to mask profound anxieties
Emma - hollywood teens girl (so actually anywhere between 20 and 35), she/her. mean and popular.
William, hollywood teens boy (so actually anywhere between 20 and 35), he/him. popular jock-type.
Mr. Schrodinger Trolleyproblem - 30s high school teacher, male-presenting, he/him. turns the chair around cool guy.
Hat Man, unspecific age, male-presenting, guy with impressive hat who usually shows up when one has taken too many Benadryl, he/it?
Something Borrowed
by Jack Marie
A young woman is being rushed down the aisle by her over-bearing mother when she encounters a strange but familiar man.
Total: 5 characters
Bride - 20s, female-presenting (non-binary or genderfluid a plus), she/her. “not like other girls” girl.
Crooner - 30s-40s, trans man, he/him. charming and forboding wedding singer.
Mother - 40s-50s, woman, she/her. image-obsessed, keeping up with the joneses in her mind.
He/Him - 20s, man, he/him (duh). ominously charming.
Bridesmaid - 20s, woman, she/her. there for all the wrong reasons.
Gay People Walk Fast
by Heather Rogue
A trans person experiences existential panic around lost time against the backdrop of a train station flooded with content, slow straight people.
Total: 5 characters
Gay Walker - late 20s, trans person, specifics open-ended. learns to be less panicked about lost time.
Angel - unspecific age and gender, voice of reason to our protagonist.
Announcer - unspecific age and gender, a train station announcer having a subplot crisis.
Rick - unspecific age, male; oh, sorry, “just normal.”
Super Gay Walker - unspecific age, a non-binary person who hasn’t yet learned patience and process.
The Ugly Butterfly
by Danika Wright
An Ugly Butterfly in a sea of religious perfectionists fails to assimilate and is shunned. In the darkness, he discovers his gender and his identity with the help of like-minded creatures of the night.
Total: 5 characters
Teacher - cis or female-presenting - 35-45yrs - Monarch Butterfly - A severe adherent to the Rainbow God faith, a purist, and the reason the butterflies are so good at identifying outsiders and ostracizing them
If - trans man or trans masc - 18-25yrs- Puss Moth (The Ugly Butterfly / Moth Man) - A young man trying to fit into a community system that was designed to exclude him; eventually, someone who learns to accept himself by singing love songs to the beautiful night
Where - cis or male-presenting - 18-25yrs - Blue Morpho Butterfly - One of If’s classmates, unobservant, devoted to how being in a relationship with When makes him look to others
How - cis-presenting, any - 18-25yrs - Western Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly - One of If’s classmates, vain, button-pusher, a little too attentive to If’s appearance, and their own
When - cis or female-presenting - 18-25yrs - Pink-Spotted Cattleheart Butterfly - One of If’s classmates, shallow, pretending not to notice how being in a relationship with Where makes her look to others
Barbastella - cis or male-presenting - 35-45yrs - Western Barbastelle Bat - A European predator
Styx - non-binary, gender-fluid, or genderqueer - 35-45yrs - Lesser Death’s Head Hawkmoth (Bee Robber) - An encouraging and self-accepting, community-oriented queer elder
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