Theatre Productions

QCC Theatre Auditions - Fall 2026

EURYDICE by Sarah Ruhl / Directed by Prof. C. Julian Jiménez

September 9 - 11, 2026

Auditions are OPEN TO ALL QCC STUDENTS, regardless of MAJOR

THEATRE MAJORS enrolled in performance courses (Acting I, Acting II, Voice) will audition as part of their course. THEATRE MAJORS who are not enrolled in a performance course are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED to audition. This does not require you to perform in the production.

Students cast in EURYDICE are required to enroll in the Actors’ Workshop course (TH 122/TH 222). The class serves as the rehearsal period and meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:10 PM – 8:30 PM.

● Auditions are an opportunity to demonstrate how much you know about acting.

● Acting is imagining yourself in the character’s circumstances. Consider who, what, where, and when. Then communicate your circumstances through your body and voice (how).

● If this is your first audition and/or you are currently enrolled in Acting I, you are encouraged to use one of the audition sides provided by the director. Rehearse as much as you have time before the audition. It is more important to express the character’s circumstances than to recite the lines.

● If you’ve completed Acting II and/or Voice and Movement for the Actor, and/or you’ve participated in Actor’s Workshop, we expect students to audition with a memorized monologue. Ideally, you will memorize and prepare one of the sides provided by the director.

● If for any reason you are unable to memorize your text, you are welcome to hold the script. If you need to hold the script, practice acting while referencing the lines. This will help you demonstrate how much you know about acting, rather than simply reading the words on the paper.

You can find the monologues below.

EURYDICE will be performed in the Humanities Theatre this November.

Email Prof. C. Julian Jiménez for full script and with any questions at cjimenez@qcc.cuny.edu

WHEN:

DAY 1: Wednesday, September 9 at 12:15 PM
Actors will be seen one at a time in order of the time of their arrival

DAY 2: Thursday September 10 at 6:00 PM
(following Theatre Department Meet and Greet @ 4pm)
Actors will be seen one at a time in order of the time of their arrival

DAY 3: Friday, September 11 at 12:00 PM (no classes scheduled)
Actors will be seen one at a time in order of the time of their arrival

WHERE: Z-Building / Room Z-111

WHAT TO PREPARE: If this is your first audition and/or you are currently enrolled in Acting I, you are encouraged to use one of the audition sides provided by the director. Rehearse as much as you have time before the audition. It is more important to express the character’s circumstances than to recite the lines.

If you’ve completed Acting II and/or Voice and Movement for the Actor, and/or you’ve participated in Actor’s Workshop, we expect students to audition with a memorized monologue. Ideally, you will memorize and prepare one of the sides provided by the director.

REMEMBER to bring your class and work schedules with you. You will need to fill out an audition form when you arrive and will need to know your fall 2025 schedule.

Any member of the QCC community is invited to audition, regardless of their race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics. QCC Theatre maintains an equal opportunity casting policy that ensures that all individuals are considered for roles based on their talent and suitability for the part. This policy aims to create a fair and inclusive environment for our community.

Audition Sides/Monologues

EURYDICE
Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music. If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much. But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats. This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Words can mean anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing.

ORPHEUS
Eurydice! Before I go down there, I won't practice my music. Some say practice. But practice is a word invented by cowards. The animals don't have a word for practice. A gazelle does not run for practice. He runs because he is scared or he is hungry. A bird doesn't sing for practice. She sings because she's happy or sad, So I say: store it up. The music sounds better in my head than it does in the world. When songs are pressing against my throat, then, only then, I will go down and sing for the devils and they will cry through their parched throats. Eurydice, don't kiss a dead man. Their lips look red and tempting but put your tongue in their mouths and it tastes like oatmeal. I know how much you hate oatmeal. I'm going the way of death. Here is my plan: Tonight, when I go to bed, I will turn off the light and put a straw in my mouth. When I fall asleep, will crawl through the straw and my breath will push me like a great wind into the darkness and I will sing your name and I will arrive. I have consulted the almanacs, the footstools, and the architects, and everyone agrees: I found the right note. Wait for me.

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QCC Theatre Stream

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 & Spring 2026

Theatrical Poster with a Jack in the Box and Hammer

This is a poster for the spring 2026 production of ’11:59PM’ created by the Ensemble and Directed by C. Julian Jimenez; Assistant Director, Jadiah Murray. In the Shadowbox Theater. The poster displays a student overwhelmed with books and time. The production information contained on the image is provided via text below.

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.