Fall 2025 Auditions Information!

Auditions for Sanctuary City.

Please prepare two contrasting one-minute monologues. Please read the play in advance to help you to choose material that suits the character(s) you would like to be considered for, but also make sure to choose material that sparks you and speaks to you.*

Callbacks will include sides, and also some improvisations, so that you can get a sense of the way I work as much as I can get a sense of the way you work.

Any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Larissa at llury@nmsu.edu

*The contrasting monologues will help to give me the strongest sense of you as an actor in this first round. However, (especially if you are not a theater major), if you only have one monologue, or if you have never worked on a monologue before and don’t know what to do, please don’t let that stop you from coming in. I will have some text on hand you can use, or you can tell a one-minute story.

If you are not available during the initial audition dates/time, you may submit a self-taped audition by Tuesday, April 29th at 11pm. Please email the link to Larissa and Bobbi or upload the file to this folder: Sanctuary City Self Tapes (password:BedroomWindow) If you will not be available for callbacks on Friday, 5/2, then please contact Larissa directly to set up an alternate time.

The characters:

G ages 17-21, female

B ages 17-21, male

Henry older, male

G and B were born in other countries and brought to America young. Henry is first generation. Born in America of immigrant parents. All have American mouths. All raised working class.

A note from the playwright on the characters:

“The countries of origin can suit the actors chosen. No character, however is of Western European origin/ethnicity, or from a country of greater liberalism than the United States, especially as it relates to marriage equality in 2006 or earlier. These characters have grown up within working class multicultural America. They have connections, feelings, and knowledge of their countries of origin (or, in Henry’s case, the country of his parents) but I limited moments this in the script in an effort to encourage wider, more inclusive casting across subsequent productions, which need not replicate the casting of the original production. I hope this translates into more opportunities for actors from various backgrounds—as well as more opportunities for and versions of this story. In the original production at NYTW, G was Dominican, B was Haitian, and Henry was of Ghanaian descent. But G or B or Henry can be Vietnamese, Pakistani, Ecuadorian, Uzbek, Uighur, Eritrean, Brazilian – just amongst the many options and possibilities. In invite you to use

this play to mindfully reflect the realities of your community as it relates to class and immigration. B wants to stay in America because this is where he’s made his life, not because he isn’t proud of or does not love where he comes from. He feels his home to be here, as well as the specific future he imagines for himself.”

To sign up for auditions, please use the following link: NMSU Department of Theatre Arts and the American Southwest Theatre Company: Auditions for Fall 2025- SANCTUARY CITY

Any questions you have, please email Bobbi Masters at masteb@nmsu.edu.