ANNOUNCING SHOW AUDITIONS FOR OUR 2026 SEASON:
Second Thought Theatre is seeking Equity and Non-Equity actors for roles in our 2026 Season!
Local actors are encouraged to submit. Performers of all gender identities and ethnicities are encouraged to submit.
Second Thought Theatre embraces non-traditional casting and encourages the casting of ethnic minority actors, female actors, and physically challenged actors where possible.
Second Thought Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.
Second Thought Theatre operates under an SPT-1 Contract with Actor’s Equity.
PLEASE NOTE: All potential cast members will have ample opportunity to review the script and address any questions/concerns with the director and STT staff before accepting any roles and beginning rehearsals.
AUDITION LOCATION:
Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphrey’s Campus
3400 Blackburn St.
Dallas, TX 75219
Please enter the door at the top of the stairs.
An audition monitor will be there to check you in and bring you in to the audition room when ready.
AUDITION DATES & INSTRUCTIONS:
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Dance Nation by Clare Barron:
A Co-Production with The University of Texas at Arlington Division of Theatre
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Monday, May 11th:
2PM -6 PM
6PM - 7PM (Dinner Break - there will be no auditions during this time)
7PM - 10PM
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Dance Nation AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please prepare the sides for the character(s) you are interested in auditioning for.
To reserve a time slot, please email jobs@secondthoughttheatre.com to reserve an audition time by Saturday, May 9th at 9pmCST.
Email should include your name, equity status, headshot, resumé and please provide at least a one hour window of availability on the date or dates you are available.
Email Subject Line: "Actor Name” - STT 2026 Dance Nation Auditions
Ex.: Glenn Close - STT 2026 Dance Nation Auditions
If unable to attend the auditions in person, please email a video submission of the sides you are auditioning for to the email above. Video should consist of a slate and sides. Please use a reader if available, and include a headshot and resume via email submission.
Deadline: Saturday, May 9th by 9PM
Submit to:
jobs@secondthoughttheatre.com
CALLBACKS for Dance Nation will be held on Tuesday, May 12th from 6PM - 11PM
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Camp Siegfried by Bess Wohl:
A Co-Production with Stage West Theatre
+ Special Collaboration with Watering Hole Collective
Saturday, May 16th:
10AM - 1PM
1PM - 2PM (Lunch Break - there will be no auditions during this time)
2PM - 6PM
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Camp Siegfried AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS:
This is a traveling Co-Production with Second Thought Theatre in Dallas and Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth. This production will begin and rehearse at Second Thought Theatre and then travel to Stage West Theatre with a few put-in tech rehearsals and then resume performances. The AEA rate will start at SPT-1 during the rehearsals and run at Second Thought Theatre and then will move to SPT-4 for the run at Stage West Theatre.
Please prepare the sides for the character(s) you are interested in auditioning for.
To reserve a time slot, please email jobs@secondthoughttheatre.com to reserve an audition time by Friday, May 15th at 9pmCST.
Email should include your name, equity status, headshot, resumé and please provide at least a one hour window of availability on the date or dates you are available.
Email Subject Line: "Actor Name” - STT 2026 Camp Siegfried Auditions
Ex.: Glenn Close - STT 2026 Camp Siegfried Auditions
If unable to attend the auditions in person, please email a video submission of the sides you are auditioning for to the email above. Video should consist of a slate and sides. Please use a reader if available, and include a headshot and resume via email submission.
Deadline: Friday, May 15th by 9PM
Submit to:
jobs@secondthoughttheatre.com
CALLBACKS for Camp Siegfried will be held, if needed, on Sunday, May 17th from 1PM - 5PM at Stage West Theatre
PLEASE NOTE:
Callback Auditions will be held at Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth.
Stage West's Address:
821/823 West Vickery Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
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SHOW INFORMATION & DATES FOR OUR 2026 SEASON
A SEASON OF COLLABORATION
Dance Nation by Clare Barron
Directed by Shyama Nithiananda
A Co-Production with The University of Texas at Arlington
"Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all."
Dates:
1st Rehearsal: 8/17/26
10/12 Tech: 9/12/26
1st Preview: 9/16/26
Open: 9/18/26
Close: 10/03/26
Performances:
on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday nights.
Monday and Thursday nights at 7:30PM
Friday and Saturday nights at 8PM
(Preview Performances on the first Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30PM)
Roles Available:
DANCE TEACHER PAT - the head of the dance studio
AMINA - the star dancer
ASHLEE - future president of post-apocalyptic USA
ZUZU's MOM - Means wel
All characters except Dance Teacher Pat and The Moms are between the
ages of 11 and 14 years old. However, they should be played by adult
actors (for the most part) and should range in age from 12 to 75+ There is
no need for any of the actors to resemble teenagers.
NOTES:
This is a Co-Production with The University of Texas at Arlington Department of Theatre Arts. Initial rehearsals for this show will take place at The University of Texas at Arlington Campus, but all spacing and tech rehearsals and performances will take place solely at Second Thought Theatre. This show will not travel.
As this is a co-produciton with UTA, the roles of ZUZU, CONNIE, LUKE, MAEVE, SOFIA, VANESSA, and the other MOMS have already been cast.
There are two Equity contract available for this show.
The current SPT-1 rate is: $333
Non-Union performers will receive a stipend of $1200
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CALLBACKS for Dance Nation will be held on Tuesday, May 12th from 6PM - 11PM
Personnel in Attendance for Dance Nation Auditions:
Shyama Nithiananda, Director (will be attending virtually)
Carson McCain, Artistic Director
Parker Davis Gray, Executive Director
Zoë Oldenburg, Associate Director
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Camp Siegfried by Bess Wohl
Directed by Laura Lyman Payne
A Co-Production with Stage West Theatre
+ Special Collaboration with Watering Hole Collective
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"It’s 1938 and a lonely sixteen-year-old girl’s parents have made a decision: She will go to the Long Island summer camp her aunt’s been attending for the past couple of years. To be honest, she is not really into it—everyone there is really excited about their German heritage, what with the oompah music and beer flowing every night. So when a seventeen-year-old boy is the first to befriend her, they find in each other a connection that grows deeper as the summer progresses. They feel understood, and almost nothing will stop their burgeoning love. Based on the real Camp Siegfried created by the German American Bund just before World War II, Bess Wohl's play is about the compromises, self-deceptions, and hurt we endure when intoxicated by the need to be loved."
Dates:
Second Thought Theatre Dates:
1st Rehearsal: 11/22/26
8/10 Tech: 11/28/26
1st Preview: 12/02/26
Open: 12/04/26
Close: 12/19/26
Performances:
on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday nights
Monday and Thursday nights at 7:30PM
Friday and Saturday nights at 8PM
(Preview Performances on the first Wednesday and Thursday at 7:30PM)
Stage West Theatre Dates:
Tech/Dress: 1/4/27 - 1/6/27
Previews: 1/7/27 - 1/9/27 (Matinee)
Open: 1/9/27 (Evening)
Close: 1/24/27
Performances will be Thurs, Fri, Sat at 7:30PM
& Sat and Sun at 2PM
(5 performances a week, 2 shows on Saturdays)
Roles Available:
HIM
Age: to play 17. German-American. Golden.
Confident, speaks first, and the best at everything.
He belongs easily and wears his ideology proudly, like it's a letter jacket.
The most dangerous thing about him is his genuine capacity for warmth and tenderness.
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HER
Age: to play 16. German-American. More of a rose than golden.
Awkward and an outsider, quitely funny in the way someone is when they feel on the margins.
But underneath that, a deep need to belong.
Someone who could bloom in any direction someone points her.
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Note to Actors interested in auditioning:
This play features two imagined characters who are attending a very real summer camp in America, Camp Siegfried, in the 1930’s for German-American youth. This camp’s historical intention was to indoctrinate young, impressionable German-American’s through Nazi ideals - under the guise to “Meet people who think like you do."
Actors of color who are interested in auditioning are encouraged to, armed with the knowledge who this Camp was attempting to attract and its historical intentions.
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Note on Camp Siegfried Sides:
All Actors - Please prepare the HIM and HER side, as well as the sole side of the character you are auditioning for.
His dialogue is in italics
Hers is in standard type
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NOTES:
This is a traveling Co-Production with Second Thought Theatre in Dallas and Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth. This production will begin and rehearse at Second Thought Theatre and then travel to Stage West Theatre with a few put-in tech rehearsals and then resume performances. The AEA rate will start at SPT-1 during the rehearsals and run at Second Thought Theatre and then will move to SPT-4 for the run at Stage West Theatre.
In a Special Collaboration with Watering Hole Collective, Watering Hole will provide meaningful conversations and post-show conversations with local organizations to both Dallas and Forth Worth surrounding the subject matter of the show.
There are two Equity contracts available for this show.
The current SPT-1 rate is: $333
The current SPT-4 rate is: $511
CALLBACKS for Camp Siegfried will be held on Sunday, May 17th from 1PM - 5PM
PLEASE NOTE:
Callback Auditions will be held at Stage West Theatre in Fort Worth.
Stage West's Address:
821/823 West Vickery Blvd.
Fort Worth, TX 76104
Personnel in Attendance for Camp Siegfried Auditions:
Laura Lyman Payne, Director and Co-Executive Director of Watering Hole Collective
Carson McCain, Artistic Director of Second Thought Theatre
Dana Schultes, Executive Producer of Stage West Theatre
Parker Davis Gray, Executive Director of Second Thought Theatre
Garret Storms, Associate Producer of Stage West Theatre
Tiffany Aguero-Cromwell, Company Manager of Stage West Theatre
Celeste Perez, Associate Director
