Audition & Casting Policies & Procedures

It is the educational objective of Peacock Players that all auditions be conducted in a professional manner consistent with Peacock Players’ mission to create theatre that entertains, educates, and inspires our community, and to offer theatre arts educational programs that encourage, enlighten, and challenge our students.

Professional Selection

Peacock Players is deeply committed to fair and unbiased casting procedures, and takes great pride in creating a positive casting environment. While not everyone can be cast in every production, we seek to create a warm and educational environment for everyone who passes through the Peacock Players program, from casting to curtain.

Equal Opportunity Casting

Peacock Players is genuinely committed to providing equal opportunity and nondiscrimination in all aspects of our academic and production programming. Casting decisions are made based on the unique talents and skills of each individual performer and their match to the production in question. With exception to productions where race or gender is required to serve that specific story, casting is always decided to ensure our productions are of the highest quality and artistic integrity. The casting teams are committed to creating casts that represent the diversity of our world, including race, ethnicity, gender expression, size, shape, height, and physical ability.

Casting Evaluations

Casting of actors is carefully evaluated on the basis of the individual acting, singing, and dancing skills demonstrated during the audition process; as well as on the actor’s appropriateness and suitability for the specific roles required to serve each project. We carefully evaluate the following factors when casting:

  • Vocal instrument and technique
  • Facility to produce quality sound, projection, and diction
  • Ability to match pitch and rhythm
  • Vocal health
  • Emotional accessibility and vulnerability
  • Talent
  • Passion
  • Training
  • Experience
  • Potential
  • Availability
  • Commitment
  • Audition preparedness
  • Intelligence
  • Expression
  • Originality
  • Reliability
  • Collaborative ability
  • Willingness and ability to take direction

Mainstage Debuts

Peacock Players is proud to acknowledge that we are an ever-growing family of young theatre artists – with several opportunities throughout the year for new participants. We are proud to acknowledge that every Mainstage production yields a number of new players to our stage. We strongly encourage new talent to audition at Peacock Players.