Actors are invited to submit a headshot and resume to request to audition for next season's shows. Auditions will be held June 15th and June 22nd, 2026.
Play titles will be announced at our Fireside Season Announcement Party on June 10, 2026. The characters below are those for which we’re auditioning. Some characters are already cast.
To request an audition please email Stephen Waldschmidt, BTT's artistic director, at stephen@burntthicket.com and include:
- a headshot and acting resume,
- indicate the role (or roles, see below) for which you want to be seen, and
- any times you are UNavailable to audition on June 15 and/or June 22, 2026.
Out of town actors or those unavailable in person are welcome to submit a self-tape by June 13, 2026 to the email address above. Actors who are selected for auditions will be sent playscript(s) and sides. It is possible we won't have enough time to see everyone who requests to audition.
Sides do NOT have to be memorized; we’ll ask for script-in-hand readings of sides.
Audition location is College Park Church, 909 Acadia Dr in Saskatoon just north of Centre Mall.
Show #1 Role - Auditions on the morning of June 15, 2026 (and June 22 if needed)
Time period: 1950s
Rehearsal/Performance dates option A: Rehearse Oct 26, 2026-Nov 19, Perform Nov 19-29, 2026
Dates option B: Rehearse Nov 16-Dec 10, Perform Dec 10-20, 2026 (to be confirmed by June 30)
- Young woman: 18-22 years old, British dialect, compassionate and courageous at heart. This character will also play-act other roles such as: an evil magical queen, sentient animals and fantasy characters that speak English (comedic & dramatic).
Show #2 Roles - Auditions to be held on June 22, 2026
Time period: the present / various years from 1500-1900 as Turtle Island was being colonized
Rehearsal/Performance dates option A: Rehearse Jan 18-Feb 4, Perform Feb 3-23, 2027
Dates option B: Rehearse Jan 26-Feb 19, Perform Feb 19-Mar 7, 2027
Please note: actors in this production will be required to share some simple stage management duties throughout the performance. Previous stage management experience is a benefit but not required.
- Riley, a young woman: 18-20 years old, the only daughter in a Saskatchewan farming family with Mennonite roots. The actor who is cast will also play:
- Riley's elderly great-grandmother Oma
- An older adult devoted to a ‘57 Chevy which was their dad’s special car. (Tentative, this role may be cast separately.)
- Stage manager for a few scenes
- Bel, an Indigenous person, any gender: extrovert, passion for a just reconciliation, age not specified but at least late twenties. Also plays:
- A clownish conquistador from Spain in 1513
- The same conquistador playing a present-day oil company land acquisitions manager
- A government bureaucrat overseeing sales of homesteads to new settlers, late 1800s
- A white bus passenger with colonial opinions on land rights (present-day)
- Stage manager for many of the scenes
Show #3 Roles - Auditions to be held on the afternoon of June 15, 2026
Time period: the present
Rehearsal/Performance dates: Rehearse Mar 18-Apr 7, Perform Apr 7-18, 2027
- Nurse, nonbinary: 20s to 30s. Factual and professional.
- Inmate, woman: 30s to 40s. A no-bullshit mystic and soulful singer. PLEASE NOTE: For this role, prepare to sing for a couple minutes. Could be any song you love to sing. We'd prefer to hear your rendition of soul music or an African-American traditional spiritual.