Eden Prairie Players is holding auditions for our 2026 Collection of One Acts.
Our 2026 Collection of One Acts features seven unpublished plays. We have 25 roles for actors of a wide range of ages and any genders and ethnicities. Details of the plays are below.
To ensure smooth running auditions, we ask you to please fill out and submit our online audition form and schedule your audition appointment in advance. You will be asked to upload a recent photo of yourself (portrait-style preferred, but a formal headshot is not required) and a theatrical résumé if you have one. Please also mark your conflicts during the rehearsal period.
Eden Prairie Players is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We strongly encourage people with disabilities and members of the BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities to audition.
When
- Tuesday, July 21, 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
- Wednesday, July 22, 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Auditions are by appointment. Choose a time slot in the audition form. Scripts will be available to read at the audition starting at a half hour before the start time.
If you are unable to attend in-person auditions, we allow you to create an audition video and link to it in your audition form. If you aren't familiar with posting videos online, TheaterForms has a page explaining different ways to put a video online and get a link to it to paste into the form, including using YouTube, Google Drive, or Dropbox. Click here for these instructions. Make sure the video is set to be visible to anyone with the link. You may use a 1-2 minute monologue of your choice or read from one of the sides provided below.
Where
Eden Prairie Senior Center (Map)
8950 Eden Prairie Road, Eden Prairie
Community Room on the lower level. Park and enter through the rear entrance.
Preparation
Auditioners may choose to read a side from one of the plays or prepare a monologue of up to two minutes. We will provide sides from each play. You may choose one side and role to read for your audition. You will still be considered for all of the plays. Actors will be paired together to help read the other roles in a scene. You can ask to read with someone you know if they are there at the same time.
We have sides available to download. Choosing a particular side doesn't limit you to being considered for just that play.
Go to folder to download sides.
We recognize that you may not wish to be considered for every play in the collection. You can get a feel for all the plays by reading the sides ahead of time. We will have full copies of all of the plays available to read starting 30 minutes before the audiitions begin. If there are any plays you would prefer not to be considered for, please inform the volunteer at the check-in table.
Production Schedule
Rehearsals will be scheduled individually for each play, around the availability of the actors and directors, from August 11 to tech week. Typical one acts rehearse about twice a week, and we are flexible enough to work around summer vacations.
Tech and Dress Rehearsals
Monday, September 14 through Thursday, September 17 at 6:30 pm
Performances
Friday and Saturday, September 18 and 19, 7:00 pm
Sunday, September 20, 2:00 pm
Thursday through Saturday, September 24-26, 7:00 pm
Sunday, September 27, 2:00 pm
Click here to sign up for the audition.
Plays and Roles
All characters can be cast as any race or ethnicity.
A Case Of Anxiety
by Mark Harvey Levine, directed by Nick Suchomel
Robert keeps dying, over and over again. An Agatha Christie-like Inspector tries to solve the case, but only his wife Marissa can truly save him.
Robert: 30's-60’s, glass is half empty
Marissa: 30's-60’s, glass is half full (probably with wine)
Inspector: Straight out of Agatha Christie
Gorilla: Straight out of the jungle
Several Pirates: At least three, maybe more.
Geronimo!
by F.J. Hartland, directed by Lori Alsdurf
Two young brothers discover that it takes courage to jump off the roof (literally and figuratively).
Buddy: A boy of 9 (but played by an adult)
Cal: His older brother, 12 (but also played by an adult)
Dances With Wives
by Guy R. Newsham, directed by John Haynes
Claire and Jordie are divorced, and watch on as their newly-married daughter takes her first dance with her husband. Claire and Jordie seem prickly at first, and take shots at each other's new partners. But as they recall their prior courtship, and the DJ plays "their song", perhaps there's reconciliation.
Jordie: Adult, middle-aged, Father-of-the-Bride
Claire: Adult, middle-aged, Mother-of-the-Bride
Toward the Unknown Region
by William Ivor Fowkes, directed by Emma Paquette
Four strangers in a waiting room disagree about what’s going to happen next. One by one, they are called into the next room, where the ultimate answer awaits.
The four onstage characters in this play have no names and no character descriptions, because they are meant to represent a cross-section of people from all walks of life.
4 adult actors: Any race, ethnicity, gender, or physical type
A Voiceover
Such Dreams as Stuff is Made On
by Dan McGeehan, directed by Brand Willey
An upscale couple are surprised to find their house was broken into; they are more surprised to find that nothing was stolen; and they are most surprised when the burglars return with a message.
Poppy: Upscale wife
Tucker: Upscale husband
Chip: Downscale burglar
Sparky: Downscale burglar
Justice Served
by Ed Friedman, directed by Andrew Nawrocki
A lawyer in the city’s District Attorney’s office is about to prosecute a case of gay-bashing. He encounters unexpected interference as well as a complication in the case.
Mark Schiff: 30-35, from the District Attorney’s office
Nelson Gonzalez: 25, victim of assault
Larry Walker: 30-35, a “shark” but working for an LGBTQ organization
Christmastown
by Kayla Hambek, directed by Katlyn Moser
Every day is Christmas in Christmastown! When Allie wakes up in this strange Hallmark movie of a town, she must decide whether to stay with strangely perfect movie boyfriend Lance, or return to her real life in Kansas City. Nothing a little hot chocolate can't cure, right?
Allie: 20s-30s. A cynic with a good heart. Hates Christmas
Eve: Any age. The town's greeter and chief hot chocolate dispensary
Lance: 20s-30s. The quintessential perfect Christmas movie boyfriend
Mrs. Harris: 45+. The best Christmas matriarch ever
For more information visit EdenPrairiePlayers.com.