Faculty- Directed mainstage shows
Faculty- Directed Shows 2023-2024 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.
Please do not enroll before you audition.
FALL 2023
ILLIUM- Shakespeare's drama Troilus and Cressida reimagined and reinterpreted by Pete Uribe.
Directed by Pete Uribe
AUDITION INFORMATION
Auditions will be held in the OCC Drama Lab Theatre
OPEN AUDITIONS Wednesday August 30 6:00pm - 10:30pm.
Sign up for auditions and for an audition time slot at 
(some auditions Thursday August 31 6:00pm - 7:30pm by special appointment with the director or stage manager)
-Everyone should prepare a 60 second monologue in verse. Be off book.
-If auditioning for Thersites prepare 32 bars of "In the Port of Amsterdam" by Jacques Brel.
CALLBACKS Thursday August 31 7:30-10:30pm
FINAL CALLBACKS Friday September 1 6-11pm. Be prepared to move!
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Rehearsals will begin Sept. 6 and will be Mon/Wed/Th/Fri 7-11pm, Tuesdays are TBA.
Performances will be Nov. 3-5 and Nov. 10-12
If you are given a role in the play you will be required to enroll in a 3-unit OCC class.
Spring 2024
BORN YESTERDAY
A political romantic comedy set in Washington DC in the late 1940s, written by Garson Kanin and directed by Bethany Kraemer.
Auditions will be January 31 and Feb 1, 2024. More details will be provided closer to the audition date here, in social media and on the OCC Spring class schedule online.
If you pass the audition you will be required to enroll in a 3-unit OCC class. Do not enroll before passing the auditions.
Rehearsals will be M/W/Th/Fri 7-11pm starting Feb 5.
Performances are March 15-17 and 22-24.
More specific information will be posted here, on social media and in the OCC class schedule closer to auditions.
CHICAGO
The musical by Bob Fosse, Kander and Ebb. Directed by Tom Bruno, Musical Direction by Jared Scott III, Choreography by Bitty Hammond.
Auditions will be Mid-March 2024
If you pass the auditions you will be required to enroll in a 3-unit OCC class. Do not enroll before passing the auditions.
Rehearsals will be M/W/Th/F 7-11pm
Performances are May 3-5. May 10-12
More specific information will be posted here, on social media and in the OCC class schedule 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).