CASTING CALL for MARGARET
POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
by Selina Fillinger
OpenStage Theatre & Company in Fort Collins is seeking a non-union actor to play MARGARET in its upcoming production of POTUS, a fast, ferocious political farce about seven women trying to keep a presidential PR disaster from becoming a full-blown catastrophe.
MARGARET — Black, Female Presenting, 40s–60s
The First Lady. Polished, composed, accomplished, and accustomed to being the most capable person in the room. Margaret projects impeccable control even as the world around her descends into absolute chaos. Beneath her public-facing elegance is a fiercely competitive, independent woman with a wonderfully unexpected streak.
The role requires exceptional comedic timing, strong physical comedy skills, and an actor who can play heightened farce with absolute commitment and truth. Margaret has some of the play’s biggest physical and comedic turns, so we are especially interested in performers who are fearless, inventive, and comfortable throwing themselves fully into the absurdity.
POTUS is an ensemble-driven, fast-paced comedy with strong language, sexual content, political satire, and adult humor. This is FARCE! It is wild, dirty, and unhinged. However, these characters must be believable as people to unlock the comedy. If we can’t see truth in these characters, it’s hard to relate the disaster to our own current state of untrustworthy leaders, unabashed liars, and ethical dumpster fires. In the auditions, play these high-stakes situations honestly. Each character is living in their worst stress dream, but 95% of the time, they can see the way out. These women solve problems (well, most of them) for a living. Make them believable and real by honing in on their objectives.
Run Dates: January 9, 2027 – February 6, 2027
Rehearsals: Evenings, Monday – Thursdays starting November 2, 2026. First read-thru November 1, 2026. No rehearsals the week of Thanksgiving, and minimal rehearsals between Christmas and New Years.
Compensation: Actors receive a $400 stipend for their commitment to the production. Travel stipends available for those outside of Larimer/Weld counties.
To be considered: Please submit headshot, resume, and self-tape audition of any contemporary comedic monologue to auditions@openstage.com.
CASTING CALL for YOUNG ACTORS – CSU
CSU Theatre is looking for two young actors to play the following characters in our upcoming production of Alice By Heart. (Description below)
Young Alice – Female identifying [must read between 6-10-years-old, their age will need to be in synch with our casting of Alfred].
Young Alfred – Male identifying [must read between 6-10-years-old, their age will need to be in synch with our casting of Alice].
Our rehearsals run M-F 6pm-10pm and 9am-1pm Saturdays. Please note, we will (as best we can) work with your schedule. The scenes in which these two young actors appear are scattered throughout the play so we can work on them in order or separately.
For the music rehearsals on Sept 15-26, YAs (YAlice and YAlfred) will only be called for one half-hour out of those two weeks. Staging rehearsals are Sept 28th-October 22nd.
For these two young actors, the following dates are required attendance:
- 2 Costume fittings, scheduled during shop hours (M-F, 8am-5pm) to be coordinated between Parents and the costume shop during the month of September. 2. One half-hour of music rehearsal in the weeks of September 14-25 3. A table read/sing through of the script September 28th– Parents/families welcome! 4. A total of six (6) evenings rehearsal time between October 5th and October 21st (to be coordinated with Parents and creative team) prior to our Designer Run on October 22nd.
- Designer Run – October 22nd
- 2 Tech/Dress Weeks
- October 26-Nov 5 (We will only need YAs the first 4 of the 8 hours in our 8 out of 10 rehearsal on Oct 31st)
- All performances
- 7:30pm (Nov 6, 7, 12, 13, 14)
- 2:00pm (Nov 8, 15)
Above all, please note: We are eager to work with your family to make the scheduling work. If you have any specific conflicts with the above dates, please write them in your reply to me.
CSU Theatre is a very exciting space for young actors to learn and explore this work. All considerations will be made to ensure the younger actors playing these roles will be given
a safe and supportive space to explore and grow in their love for theatre. Whenever they are involved, we will have a member of our stage management team assigned to them to insure this.
Please let any one interested they can reach out to me directly by email noah.racey@colostate.edu, or my cell (917) 312-4944.
Thank you for your time,
Noah Racey
Head of Musical Theatre
Associate Professor
School of Music, Theatre, & Dance
Colorado State University
(Show Description)
With ALICE BY HEART, we step through the looking glass and into a deserted World War II London Tube station, where a spirited teenager named Alice escapes the hardships of the Blitz by disappearing into her favorite book, transforming her frightened friends into the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit, and a whole tumbling cast of Wonderland characters. The Younger Alice and Alfred are seen in flashback vignettes where we get to see their friendship begin. Underneath the color and chaos, Alice by Heart is really about friendship, imagination, and the stories we tell each other to survive the hardest nights — giving performers a rare chance to be both wildly playful and genuinely moving in the same show.
