SEASON 38 | November 2025
Another Kind of Silence - Audition Workshop and Auditions
Workshop: Sat, Nov. 15, 2025 10am - 3pm TSD Classroom TBA
Open Call Auditions: Sun, Nov. 16 2025 12pm - 5pm VORTEX by appt
Callbacks: Mon, Nov. 17, 2025 7pm - 10pm VORTEX
Deaf and Hard-of-hearing actors are required for the play.
Queer actors are also encouraged to audition for these amazing roles.
Beginning actors are also welcome.
Artists who want to be in the show are encouraged but not required to attend the workshop, to help learn how to prepare material for this (or other future) auditions.
Equity Actors (AEA) are encouraged to audition (and are welcome to join the workshop, if they’d like to attend). We’re seeking at least 2 AEA actors for the production.
WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS:
This one-day workshop (5 hours with breaks) will guide participants through the audition process, including:
Learn how to read the sides and analyze sides
Set audition goals and preparing effectively
Practice audition techniques and strategies
Work with provided monologues and dialogues
Bring a laptop (tablet / paper & pen) to develop an audition system
Sides used in the workshop and audition will be posted at this link in early November: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BOwg8UPSW-kkxqV614I5i5eH52FCYpZxJuCkS600beM/edit?usp=sharing
Sign up for a Sunday audition slot here:
https://www.theaterforms.com/thevortex_atx/AKOS_Auditions/auditionform/
Deaf artists who are not actors, but are interested in these paid positions, please apply at vortex@vortexrep.org
Assistant Director
Assistant Stage Manager (ASM)
Director of Artistic Sign Language (DASL)
Assistant DASL
FOR INFO ABOUT THE PLAY (Another Kind of Silence),
THE CHARACTERS, AND THE CASTING BREAKDOWN: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xueQ787dMtptw5tZ0cOTZ2Q9X3dRpKsysk8sLff6Mos/edit?usp=sharing
Performed in American Sign Language and English, this new bilingual play is the third production of a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere, following the City Theatre in Pittsburgh and Curious Theatre Company in Denver. Deaf and hearing characters explore love, life, happiness, and silence in this dynamic, new, queer play by LM Feldman. A bilingual collaboration between deaf and hearing artists and audiences. Rehearsals April-May 2026. Performances May 21-June 7, 2026.
“There are rare productions you know will resonate with you across time, and it’s a privilege to share that collective theatrical experience. City Theatre’s world premiere of LM Feldman’s Another Kind of Silence is nothing short of a masterpiece.”
– Dr. Tiffany Knight Raymond, PhD, VivantAdmin, October 2, 2025
About the Instructor & Director:
Monique “MoMo” Holt is an actor, director, playwright, Director of Artistic Sign Language (DASL), and Certified Deaf Interpreter. She teaches in the Performing Arts Program at Gallaudet University and holds a BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch and an MFA in Theatre from Towson University. MoMo is a member of Actors’ Equity, SAG-AFTRA, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, and the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf.