AUDITIONS

QCC Theatre Auditions - SP 2026

Blood at the Root by Dominique Morisseau

Directed by Prof. Georgia McGill

OPEN TO ALL QCC STUDENTS, regardless of MAJOR

Performances in Shadowbox Theater / March 25th – March 28th

**If you are cast in Blood at the Root, you MUST be available Tues. & Thurs. at 6:10 PM-8:40 PM for Actors’ Workshop (TH 122 / TH 222). The class serves as rehearsals for the production.

WHEN: Actors will be seen in order of their time of arrival

OPTION 1: Tuesday, December 9th from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

OPTION 2: Wednesday, December 10th from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

OPTION 3: Wednesday, December 10th from 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

WHERE: Z - Building / Room Z-111

WHAT TO PREPARE: - A memorized 1-1 ½ minute Dramatic monologue from Blood at the Root, or from a play or film. You may find your own monologue or choose one provided from the show, available on the QCC Theatre Website. Physical copies available in H-126 and at auditions for cold readings. - When you arrive, you will fill out an audition form. Please bring your Spring 2026 schedules for class and work.

CALLBACKS: Invitation Only Thursday, December 11th at 6:00 PM Z - Building / Shadowbox Theater (Z-104)

QUESTIONS: Contact Prof. Georgia McGill / gmcgill@qcc.cuny.edu Auditions will be filmed for faculty review in support of student learning. QCC Theatre explicitly prohibits all forms of discrimination based on race, creed, gender identity, age, disability, national origin, or sexual orientation.

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Blood at the Root Monologues available for Auditions

Character Description - Raylynn: Black woman, young adult, eighteen

RAYLYNN. You know what day today is? — Today a hot as hell day at school. Today the day my ten-page paper in Miss Lawson's class is due and I over-wrote and have eleven. My brother say I'm the only person he know do MO' homework than I'm given. Today I don't care what's on the lunch menu cuz I probly ain't eatin' it no way. Today different. Today got a weight to it. Today makes three years since my mama passed. Today I woke up to the sound of my daddy cryin', even though he pretended like he wunn't. Today my brother walked outta the house befo' breakfast was finished talkin' 'bout he mmn't hungry. Today I ate extra flapjacks just so I wouldn't waste no food cuz Mama used to hate that. Today gonna mean somethin' different, y' heard. Today can't be like no other day. Today gotta count for somethin '.

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Character Description Toria: White woman, young adult, eighteen

TORIA. Justin, I'm tryin' to be a journalist. In real life. Do you get that? In real life! Not in some pretend lil' high school basement where the most interesting thang in print is whether or not we're having fake horsemeat on the lunch menu or who in God's name among the popular ahd stuck-up is gonna win Prom King and Queen. I am not interested in whether or not the auditorium gets a fresh coat of paint before December or whether or not the football team wins a single game this year. I am not interested in these pathetic little trifles that make up our sad existence as sheltered brats this side of the Mason-Dixon line. I am interested in the true art of journalism. I want to tell the stories everybody else at this school and in this town is too pussy to cover.

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Character Description Asha: White woman, young adult, eighteen

ASHA. People don't know this 'bout me but I used to have a lotta anger. You might not think it by lookin' at me, but I could really throw down. When I was nine, my mama and daddy got a divorce. Was fightin' and fightin' all the time and couldn't never get on the same page. So they split. I went to stay with Mama in Florida for awhile 'fore she moved here to Louisiana. But when I was 'bout ten, I started gettin' in all this trouble at school. Fights and everything. Just mad all the time and didn't know why. So my mama sent me over to live Mith Daddy in Georgia for a coupla years. Ele had himself a new wife and everythang. Livin' good in Hotlanta with a new house and all that. Wife was a Black woman. Her name Sharon and she was cool as hell. I liked her.

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Character Description Justin: Black man, young adult, eighteen

JUSTIN. Things at Cedar High can be real divided. Lots of lines get drawn and everybody wanna know what side you standin' on. Now me? I get by like I always done. Be studious. Be focused. Be attentive. That's never done me much for popularity. Doesn't give me the most friends. Keeps me... well... I don't like Toria callin' it invisible. I mean what does she...who does she...she doesn't know me. Nobody knows me, that's the point. But at this stage in the game, I'm not askin' for that anymore. Sure, it might've bothered me when I was a kid. What kid likes to be the outcast? Sure, it might've made me sad or like some story from a after school special. But that's not the case anymore. I figured out that none of that matters anymore. Folks like me... there's no space where we really fit, y'know? No side we really make sense on. I've always just existed in the cracks. So when they come askin' me where I stand, what do I say? Whose side am I supposed to take?

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Character Description Colin: White man, young adult, eighteen

COLIN. It was like some shit out of a Civil Rights documentary. Like the kind they be showin' in class. And most of the folks be fallin' half asleep. Seen this one kid in third period start droolin' on the desk when we was watchin' this one — Eyes on the Prize it called. Real interestin' to me, but guessin' not to most everbody else. I interested cuz it's nice to know what done happened before I showed up somewhere. Nice to know how thangs used to be and that thangs as they is now come from somethin'. It all got roots. Way somebody choose not to sit next to somebody in the lunchroom — got roots. Way somebody got problems with the flag somebody else wear on they t-shirt — got roots. Way some people talk the way they talk, or hang out with who they hang out with, or love who they love, or hate who they hate — all got roots. It feel halfway comfortin' knowin' it ain't just start with us. That it been this way. That somebody's been plantin' these awful feelins in the soil somewhere. Long before we came along and started pulling up crops.

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Character Description De’Andre: Black man, young adult, sixteen

DE'ANDRE. You thank I'm part of some gang or somethin'? You got me wrong if you thank I do anything to kill my chances at havin g somethin' better. And I ain't oot no problems with no folks of no kinda.... This ain't got nothin' to do with that. I hit somebody — sho, But that was in self defense. Why would I wanna mess all this up, hunh? You tell me why would I wanna... I got plans. Lost my mama. Years ago. Got shot right on our front porch. Driveby. And now my daddy sit on that porch 'til he rot. You know that? He sit there like the whole porch gonna collapse on 'im and he can't stop it. Move my family outta this 'hood so we ain't got to think on this no mo'. Won't even have to go to no college. I got on a fast track to somethin' better. So why would I —?? Wouldn't mess this up, y'heard? Not for no... Like I say. I was provoked. I ain't started nothin'.

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We wish we could share all our work, but cannot due to copyright protections. Please enjoy the following available productions:

The @s written & directed by C. Julian Jimenez (47 min., Spring 2022).

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, adapted & directed by Arthur Adair (1 hr. 21 min., Spring 2019).

The Taming! A vaudevillian adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, adapted by C. Julian Jimenez & Jodi Van Der Horn-Gibson, directed by C. Julian Jimenez (1 hr. 59 min., Fall 2018).

Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, adapted & directed by Arthur Adair (1 hr. 29 min., Spring 2017).

anOTHER by J. Julian Christopher & the Ensemble, directed by J. Julian Christopher, a.k.a C. Julian Jimenez (1 hr. 28 min., Fall 2016).

Hamlet by William Shakespeare, adapted & directed by Georgia McGill (1 hr. 49 min., Fall 2016).

Fall 2025

Theatrical Poster with a Jack in the Box and Hammer

Fall 2024 & Spring 2025

This is a poster for the spring 2025 production of ‘HIT THE WALL’ by Ike Holter and Directed by C. Julian Jimenez. In the Shadowbox Theater. The poster displays a brick wall with a rainbow hand breaking through. The production information contained on the image is provided via text below.

Fall 2023 & Spring 2024

Fall 2022 & Spring 2023

This is a poster for the fall 2022 production of ‘Small Mouth Sounds’ by Bess Wohl and Directed by Professor Liisa Yonker. The poster displays a pair of lips and a finger making the sssshhhh sound against a backdrop of forest leaves.

This is a poster for the spring 2023 production of ‘Wunderkammer’ by Francesca Pazniokas and Directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a plaque with a human skull with deer antlers protruding from its forehead.

Fall 2021 & Spring 2022

This is a poster for the fall 2021 in-person and online streamed production of ‘The Ghost Moments’ by Randy Wyatt and Directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays a lone young individual on a swing suspended in a house set against the backdrop of a blue sky and clouds.

This is a poster for the spring 2022 production of ‘The @s’ Written and Directed by Professor C. Julian Jimenez. The poster displays a lone young individual peeking out behind a social media post with a television as a head.

Spring 2021

Fall 2019 & Spring 2020

This is a poster for the fall 2019 production of ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Ken Kesey and Dale Wasserman, and Directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays various pills in a birds nest.

This is a poster for the first spring 2020 production of ‘Waiting for Lefty’ by Clifford Odets and Directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a group of arms holding signs in support of a strike.

Spring 2019

Fall 2018

Spring 2018

Fall 2017

Spring 2017

This is a poster for the past spring 2017 production of ‘Ubu Roi’, written by Alfred Jarry, and adapted and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a large clown and a spiral on its belly.

This is a poster for the past spring 2017 production of ‘Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom’, written by Jennifer Haley, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays picture frames against a red velvet wall and a creepy hand coming from behind the armchair.

Fall 2016

This is a poster for the past fall 2016 production of ‘Hamlet’, written by William Shakespeare, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays a tie-dyed arm chair and a tie-dyed dove hovering above.

This is a poster for the past fall 2016 production of ‘anOther’, written by J. Julian Christopher and the Ensemble, and directed by J. Julian Christopher (aka C. Julian Jimenez). The poster displays a grand mosaic arch and the head of a goddess.

Spring 2016

This is a poster for the past spring 2016 production of ‘The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940’, written by John Bishop, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays picture frames askew against a red velvet wall and a creepy hand coming from behind the armchair.

This is a poster for the past spring 2016 production of ‘In the Blood’, written by Suzan Lori-Parks, and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays two large hands grasping the Brooklyn Bridge as if the bridge was a prison.

Fall 2015

This is a poster for the past fall 2015 production of ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum’, book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbart, music by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays the Coliseum against a sky blue background and Romans running around.

This is a poster for the past fall 2015 production of ‘Big Love’, written by Charles Mee, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays a bride and groom against a sky blue background and a helicopter in the distance.

Spring 15

This is a poster for the past spring 2015 production of ‘Metamorphoses’, written by Mary Zimmerman, and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a child floating in the sea and a dark sky above.

This is a poster for the past spring 2015 production of ‘Nothing is the End of the World (except for the end of the World)’, written by Bekah Brunstetter, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays 5 teenagers walking to school, two of them have a sign that says robot on their backs.

Fall 2014

This is a poster for the past fall 2014 production of ‘Electra’, written by Sophocles, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays an ancient Greek vase decorated with the face of a girl crying a tear of blood.

This is a poster for the past fall 2014 production of ‘Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead’, written by Bert V. Royal, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays a dog house against a black sky and a large cloud above.

Spring 2014

This is a poster for the past spring 2014 production of ‘12 Angry Jurors’, original teleplay by Reginald Rose, adapted by Sherman Sergel, and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays the number twelve and a knife set inside the number one. A large hand pushes up against the first of twelve dominoes.

This is a poster for the past spring 2014 production of ‘Milk Milk Lemonade’, written by Joshua Conkel, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a dancing rooster and a farm in the background.

Fall 2013

This is a poster for the past fall 2013 production of ‘Spring Awakening’, books and lyrics by Steven Sater, music by Duncan Sheik, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a solo rock singer, singing into a microphone.

This is a poster for the past fall 2013 production of ‘Columbinus’, written by Stephen Karam and PJ Paparelli (and the United States Theater Project), and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays two high school teenagers in front of a row of lockers standing above the outlines of three dead bodies.

Spring 2013

This is a poster for the past spring 2013 production of ‘Our Town’, written by Thornton Wilder, and directed by Professor Yonker. The poster displays two large hands holding each, two ladders, and a full moon in the background.

This is a poster for the past spring 2013 production of ‘Marisol: An apocalyptic urban fantasy’, written by Jose Rivera, and directed by Professor Jimenez. The poster displays a large machine gun in a blood red sky and a smog-filled city below.

Fall 2012

This is a poster for the past fall 2012 production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, written by William Shakespeare, and adapted and directed by Professor Adair. The poster displays a river and vines reaching up from the water to the sky.

This is a poster for the past fall 2012 production of ‘Almost, Maine’, written by John Cariani, and directed by Professor McGill. The poster displays trees set against a night sky filled with stars.