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Are you interested in performing? Please reach out and submit your information to our database! Submitting to our actor database does not guarantee an audition or casting consideration. However, all submissions are kept on file as a resource for our artistic and directing staff. We review this database periodically and reach out to actors whose profiles match the needs of upcoming projects.

Shotgun Players in Berkeley, CA is seeking non-union actors for our 2026 season. While we don’t currently have an agreement with Actors’ Equity Association, we remain hopeful for future collaboration. See below for our full casting call.

Iphigenia in Splott

Iphigenia in Splott
By Gary Owen
Directed by Michelle Talgarow
Auditions  TBD  |   Callbacks  TBD


Iphigenia in Splott:
She’s brash, reckless, and unapologetically self-possessed. Stumbling through life in the nowhere town of Splott, Effie – short for Iphigenia – numbs her days with hookups and hangovers. Life on the edge turns into a face-off with reality and its wrenching consequences. Inspired by the Euripidean Iphigenia in Aulis, this epic story is brutally honest, piercing, terrible, and tender, sometimes all at the same time.




First Rehearsal
Monday, June 15, 2026
First Tech Rehearsal
Thursday, July 16, 2026
First Preview
Saturday, July 25, 2026
Opening (Performances Wed-Sun)
Saturday, Aug 1, 2026
Announced Closing
Sunday, August 23, 2026
Extended Closing & Strike
Sunday, August 30, 2026


CHARACTERS AVAILABLE
Effie (she/her) –  Reckless, aggressive and fiercely resilient, she’s a young woman from the Cardiff district of Splott in Wales, who lives a life of heavy drinking, drugs, and daily hangovers but she has an emotional complexity beneath her hardened exterior. She can be funny and swaggering one moment and utterly heartbreaking the next.

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Shotgun Players is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and appreciated. We honor our inclusive community of artists, audience, staff, board, and company members and celebrate our many differences as we unite in our shared love for theater. Shotgun Players does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Applicants from underrepresented identities and backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

Are you interested in performing? Please reach out and submit your information to our database! 

Shotgun Players is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating a welcoming environment where everyone feels valued and appreciated. We honor our inclusive community of artists, audience, staff, board, and company members and celebrate our many differences as we unite in our shared love for theater. Shotgun Players does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Applicants from underrepresented identities and backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.

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