3Ps is thrilled to announce the amount of auditions we are holding this semester. We are hoping for some
new faces in our audition rooms! Be sure to check the callboard for more information and to sign up to
audition for any of the following opportunities. Please keep in mind, you can also contact any of the shows
listed below if you’re interested in any behind-the-scenes opportunities.
Interested in behind-the-scenes work in tech or production? No experience is necessary!
Contact: Mitchell Katz, 3Ps Director of Production: ​[email protected]
Desire Under the
​ Elms by Eugene O’Neill (Department of Drama and Dance Spring Production)
Auditions: January 20th-21st
Contact: Micaela Slotin, Stage Manager: ​[email protected]
Desire Under the Elms was written in 1924 and was immediately banned in Boston for its controversial content. It tells the
story of a twisted family triangle: Ephraim, the father, Eben, his son, and Abbie, Ephraim’s beautiful young wife who falls
in love with Eben. Ephraim, Eben, and Ephraim’s two other sons, Simeon and Peter, have been scraping out a living on
their farm – each waiting for the other to leave or die off. Abbie drops into this tangled web of old family bitterness and her
passionate affair with Eben brings everyone’s world crashing down in a story that ultimately ends in murder.
TUTV’s RomCom Short Films
Auditions: January 22nd
Contact: Phoebe Cavise, ​[email protected]
Audition for TUTV’s first student written romcom festival! There will be several opportunities to get involved with film and
the films will be premiered live, as well as on YouTube. Be sure to check the call board for more specifics on roles once
films have been chosen!
​ Melancholy Play by Sarah Ruhl (3Ps Spring Major)
Auditions: January 27th-28th
Contact: Jon O’Brien, Stage Manager: ​[email protected]
This magical realist comedy tells the story of an Illinois bank teller named Tilly. She is so immersed in profound,
overwhelming, remarkable melancholy that every other character falls in love with her. A tailor, a hairdresser, a nurse, and
a psychiatrist simultaneously attempt to woo her by gathering to play duck-duck-goose for Tilly’s birthday. Suddenly, her
melancholy disappears and she becomes unremittingly jubilant and shatters her suitors’ love. Frances, one of her
admirers, is so crushed by this transformation that she drinks a vial of Tilly’s tears: the last vestige of Tilly’s melancholy.
Soon after, Frances is transformed into an almond. Shocked, Frances’ friends discover a public safety notice explaining
that people are disappearing left and right and almonds now litter the streets. It’s an epidemic. They decide they must act
quickly to save their friend from this terrible fate.
Chicago Book by Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse, Music by John Kander, and Lyrics by Fred Ebb (Torn Ticket II Spring Major)
Auditions: January 27th-28th
Contact: Claire Mieher, Stage Manager: ​[email protected]
In roaring twenties Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband Amos to
take the rap...until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another
"Merry Murderess" Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American
Dream": fame, fortune and acquittal. This sharp edged satire features a dazzling score that sparked immortal staging by
Bob Fosse.
HYPE! Mimez
Auditions: January 27th-28th
Contact: ​[email protected]
America's only all-undergraduate mime troupe! HYPE! gives traditional mime performance a modern twist. They write,
direct, and perform original skits set to music. Skits range from the comedic, to the tragic, to the absurd, to everything in
between. Obviously, no mime experience is required to audition!
The Institute
Auditions: January 27th-28th
Contact: ​[email protected]
The Institute Sketch Comedy operates under the auspicious umbrellas of both 3Ps and TUTV. We were founded in 2006
and modeled after Saturday Night Live. With an incredible team of writers, a brilliant cast, and the best filmmakers at
Tufts, The Institute produces three shows every semester. Auditions (writing/acting/filmmaking) will be held at the
beginning of the year. For audition info and updates on our shows, like our Facebook page, or check us out on YouTube.
Contact Sarah Gruen at [email protected] for further information! Come laugh with us!
Clymenstreia Adapted by Peter V. Secrest based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus (Bare Bodkin Spring Major)
Auditions: February 3rd-4th
Contact: Rachel Canowitz, Stage Manager: ​[email protected]
Aeschylus’ infamous trilogy, the Oresteia, dramatizes the homecoming of Agamemnon and the string of tragedies that
follow. The saga begins at the fall of Troy when Agamemnon returns to Argos ten years after sacrificing his daughter. His
wife readily meets him, but she has mourned her daughter and plotted revenge in her husband’s absence. Following the
murder of her husband, Clytemnestra and her new lover, Aegisthus rule over Argos until Agamemnon’s son, Orestes
returns home to avenge his father. After killing his mother, Furies chase Orestes to the court of Athens where Athena and
her jury acquit Orestes and becalm the she-demons. Clytmenstreia is an original adaptation and reinterpretation of
Aeschylus’ largely misogynistic tragedy hoping to reclaim female agency through a collage of texts and queer
performance. The script is an abridged text with a cocktail of translations and supplemented with other Greek works from
Aeschylus, Sophocles, to Euripides. When staging this production, a major aspect is how gender is represented on stage.
Lord Barnum’s Players
Auditions: February 3rd-4th
Contact: Kevin Lombard, ​[email protected]
Lord Barnum's Players was founded by a group of Tufts students in 2015 as the performing arts arm of the Boston
Shakespeare Project. We take the Great Bard's works and condense them into 45 minute shows, using a mix of verse
and modern English. Then we take these shows on the road, performing them at elementary schools all across the
greater Boston area! We currently have adaptions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth
Major: Undecided
Auditions: February 18th-19th & April 1st-2nd
Contact: James Juviler, ​[email protected]
Major: Undecided performs two on campus shows per semester and even more around Boston and New England,
delivering entirely student-written, student-performed, fiber-enriched sketch comedy. Our sketch comedy is not
fiber-enriched, the jokes have already begun.
Tufts’ Traveling Treasure TRUNK
Auditions: TBD
Contact: Isabel Schneider, ​[email protected]
Tufts’ only children’s theatre troupe, Traveling Treasure Trunk, is having spring auditions! Consisting of original skits,
plays and songs, our shows have been entertaining kids across the Boston area for almost 30 years. If you think you are
kid friendly, goofy and fun, come join us in our auditions! We’ve been told they are a blast!
Have a general question about 3Ps or Tufts theatre? Please don’t hesitate to contact the 3Ps Board:
[email protected]