Auditions for the 2025 season will consist of readings from the script(s) and will be held at the Hausmann Nature Center in the Lapham Peak Unit of the Kettle Moraine State Forest.
Please carefully read through the following information. Contact Dustin J. Martin, Artistic Director, at dmartin@summerstageofdelafield.org if you have any questions.
Audition Dates
Auditions will be held by appointment only on Saturday, April 12, 10 am – 1 pm and Sunday, April 13, 1 – 4 pm. Callbacks will be held on Tuesday, April 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm.
Season Audition Process
- Sign up for SEPARATE, consecutive time slots for each show for which you are auditioning. For example, you might sign up for 7:30 pm for THE LIAR and 8:00 pm for AN INSPECTOR CALLS.
- Be prepared to share all conflicts with the rehearsal schedule(s).
- Callbacks and casting for the three shows will be held simultaneously.
- IMPORTANT: If you sign up and later find out that you will not be able to attend, please remove your sign up so your slot can be filled by someone else.
Materials to Bring
Please bring the following for EACH show you are auditioning for:
- A copy of your resume and headshot, if you have one.
- A completed audition form, available here: https://bit.ly/ss2025auditionform
Directions
Take I-94 to the Hwy C exit in Delafield (exit 285). Go south on Hwy C about one mile and the park entrance will be on your left. On your entry to the park, stop at the ranger station. Let the ranger know you are there for SummerStage auditions and you’ll be permitted entry. Follow the signs to the Hausmann Nature Center, which will be on your left. Park there and then follow the short path to the Nature Center.
Physical address: W329 N846, County Rd C, Delafield, WI 53018
Rehearsals and Performances
Most rehearsals and all performances will be held within Lapham Peak, either at our stage or an alternate location. Rehearsals will typically be between four and five times a week prior to the production. You must be available for all technical rehearsals and performances. Excessive conflicts may result in not being cast in the production.
Sign Up NowTHE LIAR
by David Ives
adapted from Le Menteur by Pierre Corneille
directed by Brandon C. Haut
Rehearsals: April 28 – June 11, 2025
Performances: June 12 – 14, 18 – 21, 25 – 28 at 7:30 pm (11 performances)
Paris, 1643. Dorante is a charming young man newly arrived in the capital, and he has but a single flaw: He cannot tell the truth. In quick succession he meets Cliton, a manservant who cannot tell a lie, and falls in love with Clarice, a charming young woman whom he unfortunately mistakes for her friend Lucrece. What our hero regrettably does not know is that Clarice is secretly engaged to his best friend, Alcippe. Nor is he aware that his father is trying to get him married to Clarice, whom he thinks is Lucrece, who actually is in love with him. From all these misunderstandings and a series of breathtakingly intricate lies springs one of the Western world’s greatest comedies, a sparkling urban romance as fresh as the day Pierre Corneille wrote it.
AVAILABLE ROLES
- Cliton, male, stage age 20 – 30. Comedic servant of Dorante. Unable to tell a lie. Introduces the play to the audience and plays a major role in the complications that ensue.
- Dorante, male, stage age 20 – 30.: A young man who has just arrived in Paris and longs to make a name for himself and find love. The titular character, who will take any opportunity to embellish and fabricate.
- Clarice, female, stage age 20 – 30. A beautiful young Parisian woman who catches Dorante’s eye. Clever and mischievous.
- Lucrece, female, stage age 20 – 40. Clarice’s more reserved and careful female friend, who nevertheless longs for more than playing second fiddle to Clarice.
- Isabella/Sabine, female, stage age 20 – 40. Two twin sisters (played by the same actress) who are maidservants. Isabelle is confident and earthy, and very cynical and pragmatic. Sabine appears very stern and prudish, but has a secret romantic streak (and is secretly in love with Philiste). They are often mistaken for each other.
- Alcippe, male, stage age 20 – 40. Clarice’s fiance, who she refers to affectionately as her ‘pug.’ Fiercely jealous and prone to misunderstandings.
- Geronte, male, stage age, 50 – 70. Dorante’s father, determined to find his son an appropriate marriage match in Paris.
- Philiste, male, stage age, 20 – 30. A young friend of both Alcippe and Dorante. Good natured and mostly staying out of the fray. Secretly in love with Sabine
About the director: Brandon is returning to SummerStage after performing as Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He has worked around Milwaukee with Voices Found Repertory, Sunset Playhouse, First Stage, Windfall Theatre, Theater Red, Kith & Kin Theater Collective, Waukesha Civic, and most recently with Hartford Players. Brandon also serves as the Artistic Director for Voices Found Repertory, where he has performed Shakespeare, designed props and weapons, and directed The Elephant Man.
AN INSPECTOR CALLS
by J. B. Priestley
directed by Sam D. White
Rehearsals: June 2 – July 16, 2025
Performances: July 17 – 19, 23 – 26, 30 – 31, Aug. 1 – 2 at 7:30 pm (11 performances)
In the play, the unsuspecting Birling family are visited by the mysterious Inspector Goole. He arrives just as they are celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft. The Inspector reveals that a girl called Eva Smith, has taken her own life by drinking disinfectant. The family are horrified but initially confused as to why the Inspector has called to see them. What follows is a tense and uncomfortable investigation by an all-knowing Inspector through which the family discover that they are all in fact caught up in this poor girl’s death.
AVAILABLE ROLES
- Inspector Goole, male, stage age 25 – 45. A mysterious inspector who says they are investigating the suicide of a young woman named Eva Smith and questions the Birlings’ involvement in it.
- Arthur Birling, male, stage age 50 – 60. A wealthy factory owner and politician. He represents the capitalist ruling class and describes himself with pride as a hard-headed businessperson.
- Syble Birling, female, stage age 50 – 60. Arthur’s wife. A rather cold woman who as the leader of a charitable organization assumes a social and moral superiority over those she considers lesser.
- Sheila Birling, female, stage age 20 – 30. Sheila begins as a naive and self-centered young woman, but by the play’s end her social conscience has been awakened and she has a new awareness of her responsibilities to others.
- Eric Birling, male, stage age 20 – 30. A young man with a drinking habit, he is distanced from the rest of his family and feels he cannot talk to them about his problems.
- Gerald Croft, male, stage age 20 – 30. The son of Arthur’s biggest business rival, he is at the Birling home to celebrate his recent engagement to Sheila.
- Edna, female, stage age 20+. The Birling family maid. A working-class member of the household staff.
About the director: Sam D. White has been an actor, director and playwright in Southern Wisconsin’s theater community for almost half a century. He recently directed Henry the Fifth for Madison Shakespeare Company and Moon Over Buffalo for Madison Theatre Guild. Next up, he’s scheduled to direct Shakespeare in Love for the Stoughton Village Players. As an actor, he’s appeared with American Players Theater, Forward Theater, Renaissance Theaterworks, Children’s Theatre of Madison, and Optimists Theatre. Sam is a founding member of both Forward Theater Company and Madison’s Playwrights Ink.
THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE
dramatized by Joseph Robinette from the story by C. S. Lewis
directed by Dustin J. Martin
Rehearsals: July 1 – August 20, 2025
Performances: August 21 – 23, 27 – 30, September 4 – 6 at 7:30 pm (11 performances) with the potential to add performances September 10 – 13.
This dramatization of C.S. Lewis’ classic work faithfully recreates the magic and mystery of Aslan, the great lion, his struggle with the White Witch, and the adventures of four children who inadvertently wander from an old wardrobe into the exciting, never-to-be-forgotten Narnia. The intense action features chases, duels, and escapes as the witch is determined to keep Narnia for her possession and to end the reign of Aslan. This story of love, faith, courage, and giving, with its triumph of good over evil, is a true celebration of life.
AVAILABLE ROLES
We are seeking a wide variety of actors for the following roles, in which some may be doubled or tripled:
- Aslan, a great lion
- White Witch, an evil queen
- Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy, children
- Tumnus, a faun
- Mr. & Mrs. Beaver, forest animals
- Unicorn, forest animal
- Centaur, forest animal
- Fenris Ulf, a wolf – head of the Witch’s secret police
- Dwarf, a servant to the Witch
- Father Christmas, a bringer of gifts
- Elf, Father Christmas’ helper
- White Stag, an elusive omen of good fortune
- Aslan’s Followers, Witch’s Army, Wood Nymphs
About the director: Dustin J. Martin is now in his 14th season at SummerStage, the last 13 as Artistic Director. He has acted and directed throughout the Milwaukee and Waukesha area. Recent directing credits include Hamlet, Blithe Spirit, Clue, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Silent Sky, and Murder on the Orient Express.