Auditions: “Written and Directed By”
Arena Theatre, Wright Hall
Audition Sign Up Sheet
The Department of Theatre and Dance is holding auditions on Friday, Sept. 19 for the 2025 fall quarter production of Written and Directed By. Directed by student directors, the production features four one-act plays written by undergraduate students.
Open to all UC Davis students, auditions will be 3-8 p.m. in the Arena Theatre.
To audition, please prepare two contrasting monologues, one of which could be a poem. Neither piece should be more than 90 seconds in length. In addition prepare a brief song to be sung a cappella (it could be “Happy Birthday”).
Call backs will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20, and Sunday, Sept. 21. Times and locations TBA.
Written and Directed By features The Wind by Yini “Lily” Qiu, Blind Eyes Could Blaze by Ryan McKinney, No Que No? by Simon Garcia Jr. and To Kill a Certain Painter by Melanie Garcia. Doctoral student Diego Mitotli Martínez-Campos directs Simon Garcia’s play, and undergraduate students Sabrina Chen, John Mosa’ati and Brianna Thomsett direct Lily Qiu, Ryan McKinney and Melanie Garcia’s plays respectively.
The scripts for the plays are available from this webpage.
The Department of Theatre and Dance is part of the UC Davis College of Letters and Science. For information about other department productions, visit theatredance.ucdavis.edu.
