Faculty- Directed mainstage shows
Faculty- Directed Shows 2025-2026 with OPEN AUDITIONS:
Anyone is welcome to audition for one of these three faculty-directed OCC plays.
If you pass the audition you will be given an add code by the director/professor and will be required to enroll in the corresponding 3-unit class at OCC.
Do not enroll before you audition.
FALL 2025
Inherit the Wind
by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee.
Directed by Wyn Moreno
Time: Summer. Not too long ago.
Place: A small town
What is truth? Who decides? A young school teacher is placed in jail for teaching scientific ideas in the classroom. A battle of forces takes place in a small country courtroom over immeasurably large ideas. Two giants of the law argue the merits of science, faith, education and intellectual freedom in this compelling classic drama.
A production in the OCC Theatre Theatre for Social Justice series.
AUDITION INFORMATION:
Auditions will be held in the OCC Drama Lab Theatre
ENROLLMENT IS BY AUDITION ONLY. Please do not enroll before auditioning.
OPEN AUDITIONS: Wednesday & Thursday Sept. 3 & 4, 7:00pm - 10:30pm.
SIGN UP ONLINE FOR A SLOT-more info will be on social media in late August. Everyone is encouraged to audition!
INVITED CALLBACKS: Friday Sept. 5th, 7:00pm-10:30pm
Rehearsals will begin Sept. 8 and will be Mon -Fri 7-11pm.
Performances will be Nov. 7-9 and Nov. 14-16
If you are given a role in the play you will be required to enroll in a 3-unit OCC class.
Spring 2026
Twelfth Night, the Musical
William Shakespeare, Shaina Taub and Kwame Kwei-Arma
Shakespeare’s comic masterpiece of mistaken identity and romance comes alive in a brilliant new adaptation featuring a scintillating original jazz-funk score by Shaina Taub and Kwame Kwei-Arma.
AUDITION INFORMATION:
ENROLLMENT IS BY AUDITION ONLY. Do not enroll before auditioning.
For principal roles only: November 18 and 19 7pm- 10:30pm Invited callbacks Monday, November 24
Singing rehearsals TBA for 2-3 nights in early December.
Full rehearsals begin February 6 2026 Monday - Fridays 7pm - 10:30pm
Performances March 20, 21, 22, 27 & 28 at 7:30pm. March 29 at 2:30pm.
Ensemble roles: will be auditioned in Spring Semester on February 3, 4 and 5.
If you are given a role in the play you will be required to enroll in a 3-unit OCC class.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
Directed by Pete Uribe
OCC welcomes you back for more Shakespeare comedy this spring as we travel into the enchanted woods with this beloved tale of the power of love, of mischief and of magic!
Open Auditions will be February 3, 4 and 5, 2026.
If you are given a role in the play you will be required to enroll in a 3-unit OCC class.
Please do not enroll before auditioning
Rehearsals will be Monday - Friday 7-10:30pm, starting Monday April 6.
Performances are May 8, 9, 10, 15 & 16 at 7:30pm and May 17 at 2:30pm.
More specific information will be posted on social media closer to auditions.
OCC REPERTORY (student-directed) productions:
To be part of any REP production you must first be enrolled in the class OCC Theatre Repertory (THEA A131, A132, A133 or A134), or enrolled in Directing (THEA A275 or A285).