Monday May 26th & Wednesday May 28th, 2025
Deadline for applications: Wednesday May 14, 2025
Concrete Theatre and Alberta Workers’ Health Centre are co-hosting general auditions this spring. Auditions are for touring productions throughout our 2025-26 theatre seasons. Please only send materials if you are interested in work that tours primarily to schools.
We will be attending Emerge 2025. Please do not sign up for an audition if you are participating in Emerge this year. We will call you back from your Emerge audition if we are interested in seeing more!
Equity members will be seen first at all open audition calls; however, all artists are welcome to apply. Both organizations encourage people from a diversity of backgrounds to apply for this opportunity, including but not limited to people who identify as racialized, neurodivergent, Disabled, newcomer, LGBTQIA2S+, or gender diverse.
All artists will be engaged through the Canadian Theatre Agreement, Theatre for Young Audiences agreements. Accommodations and per diems will be supplied for out-of-town touring.
Audition Requirements for Performers:
Auditionees are asked to prepare one (1) contemporary monologue from a play, running no more than two minutes in length.
When:
Monday May 26 and Wednesday May 28, 9am-5pm in 15 minute slots
Where:
The Playhouse- 102, 10033 80 Ave NW, Edmonton
To apply:
Please enclose a headshot and resumé (pdf) as attachments in one email by May 14, 2025, at 4:00 PM (MDT) with attachments named in the following format: YourName_Headshot and YourName_CV.
In the body of the email please indicate if you are an Equity member and if you have a valid class 5 driver’s license or equivalent. Email your application to bookings@concretetheatre.ca with the subject line: GENERAL AUDITIONS – Your Name. You are also welcome to submit a note in your email letting us know a little bit about yourself and what interests you about theatre for young audiences, but it is in no way required.
Our audition space, The Playhouse, is wheelchair accessible, and offers a gender-inclusive and wheelchair-accessible washroom.
If there are any accessibility obstacles (language, disability, or any other considerations) please let us know and we will work with you to overcome them.
Anti-Racism/Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Justice Statements
Concrete Theatre: Concrete Theatre Society is proud to call amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and Treaty 6 territory our home. We acknowledge and uphold the past, present and future Indigenous stewards of this land, and our responsibilities to this peace and friendship treaty. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on.
Through our work, and in the spaces we hold, lead and share, we strive to create an environment and a culture that welcomes all people. To do that, Concrete Theatre prioritizes practices, processes and structures in our organization that enable a safe, inclusive, inviting and welcoming space for everyone and all bodies. In order to build and sustain an equitable culture, we continue to actively search out stories, artists and audience engagement that reflect our values of relevance, diversity, excellence and inclusion.
Alberta Workers’ Health Centre: The WORK PLAYS SCHOOLS PROGRAM (WPSP) is the flagship program of the Alberta Workers’ Health Centre (AWHC). Our work takes place on the lands of diverse Indigenous Peoples including First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples. The AWHC is a community organization created and governed by workers, we strive to be strategic and responsive to the changing needs of a diversity of working people. The WPSP uses Touring TYA to engage, educate and empower young people on their workplace rights. We encourage and remind the Artists they are also workers, the rehearsal hall, tour van, and multiple venues are their workplace, and as workers they have rights and responsibilities as per the CAEA ITA collective agreement.
We acknowledge that many of our workplace structures are based in the same colonial structures that continue to contribute to the oppression of Indigenous Peoples who have lived and worked on this same land for generations.
Through our educational programming like the WPSP, we strive to empower workers to challenge harmful workplace practices. As Treaty people, we are committed to collaborating with others to achieve health, safety, and justice for all workers on this land. As theatre makers and storytellers, we are intentional with our practice of diverse identities being valued, invited and welcomed.
Find more information about 2025/26 General Auditions here: https://www.concretetheatre.ca/generals/
Find more information about the Work Plays Schools Program here: https://workplaysab.ca/
Find more information about Concrete Theatre here: https://www.concretetheatre.ca/
