2025/2026 Season
AUDITION WORKSHOP
Any experience level (ages 9-18)
This optional workshop gives performers the chance to shake off those audition jitters with a pre-audition and tips to help you stand out in the right way!
March 08 (1-5pm) | $75
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Like anything we practice, the more you audition - or even just practice auditioning - the more natural and comfortable it becomes. Insight into what the directors are looking for from your audition through hands-on practice in delivery, character interpretations and making bold confident choices.
2026 SPRING SHOW
Auditions: March 9
Callbacks: March 10
(registration is required in order to audition)
CREW - Ages 11+
CAST - Adults & Youth (ages 9+)
Performers under the age requirement:
are welcome on a case-by-case basis with pre-registration approval.
About CAST │ Ages 9+
OCCT's audition process is very informal to encourage novice and/ or aspiring performers to experience theatre by removing the two scariest elements: auditioning alone and rejection. The audition process becomes a tool to determine which roles are best suited to each performer registered rather than an elimination process. This is not an open audition; Registration is required in order to audition. AUDITION PREP - About 1-2 weeks prior to the audition all registered participants will be sent the link to the online production drive to review the audition materials. Audition prep is completely optional, but always encouraged. Materials typically include: a breakdown of the roles, character descriptions, some of the sides (lines) that performer's will be asked to deliver during the audition, and in the case of musicals some vocal track options and a choreography tutorial. Participants can opt out of singing and dancing, but they will not be considered for a featured role. THE AUDITION - All cast members audition in one large room. Everyone is given the opportunity to introduce themselves and sing, in the case of a musical, before transitioning into the reading portion of auditions. During readings everyone is given the opportunity to read for any character, within their height and/ or age group, for the casting team. CASTING - casting becomes an accumulation of each performers: readings, vocals, dance skill, physicality etc. presented during the audition. Oftentimes "Uncontrollables" can also play a factor in the final casting decisions ie. age, height, size, race and the other auditioners. The elements a performer doesn't have control over. When a performer has the heart set on one role in particular, but gets cast as another this can be disheartening. We encourage all of our participants to see each role as an opportunity to continue learning and growing. Any role, lead or otherwise can steal a show with hard work and dedication. It's about making every moment count, quality over quantity!
About CREW │ Ages 11+
Crew members are the unsung heroes of any stage production! Without them performers would be singing acappella, without a microphone in the dark... The crew's participation is much shorter lived as they come in only 1-3 weeks prior to opening night. Once the cast has learned the show and put it back together again the crew will join to see the show, and start learning their piece of the puzzle: STAGE/ RUNNING CREW - Work backstage behind the scenes moving the set, checking and managing props and sometimes even assisting with some theatre magic. TECH CREW - The operators of the light board, sound board, microphone board, spotlights and projection screen. These roles vary from show-to-show based on need. STAGE MANAGER - Is the member of the crew who is at nearly, if not, all of the rehearsals from the beginning of production whereas the rest of the crew come in about a month before the show opens. Once the rest of the crew joins production it is the s SM's job to call the show aka. cue the tech crew when to take their cues! It's a very important job.