Forest Theatre Company is accepting video submissions for its November 2026 production of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf. Applicants should prepare a 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present) and provide an audition-video link; selected actors will be invited to an in-person callback.
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Schedule · Sep 23, 2026
Description: Callbacks: In person by invitation - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: Rehearsals begin: October 19th; Rehearsal schedule: 6pm - 10pm Mon - Fri evenings, and Saturday 10-6.
Kind: rehearsal
Start: 2026-10-19
Description: Tech/Dress: November 13-19 (Monday November 16 - dark)
End: 2026-11-19
Kind: tech
Start: 2026-11-13
Description: Performances: Fri/Sat/Sun November 20 - December 6, 2026
End: 2026-12-06
Kind: performance
Start: 2026-11-20 → Description: Callbacks: In person by invitation - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: Rehearsals begin: October 19th. Rehearsal schedule: 6pm - 10pm Mon - Fri evenings, and Saturday 10-6.
Kind: rehearsal
Start: 2026-10-19
Description: Tech/Dress: November 13-19 (Monday November 16 - dark)
End: 2026-11-19
Kind: tech
Start: 2026-11-13
Description: Performances: Fri/Sat/Sun November 20 - December 6, 2026
End: 2026-12-06
Kind: performance
Start: 2026-11-20
How to apply · Sep 23, 2026
Deadline: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Deadline text: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Email: auditions@forest-theatre.org
Instructions: Submit via the Google submission form; please prepare a 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present) and provide a link to your audition video. Selected actors will be invited to an in-person callback.
Materials: 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present)
link to your audition video
Method: form
Timezone: America/Chicago
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTK0v8WSZ8lRhZcIhrebk9XFhs4-q25rJBc113Dn7AbTvNog/viewform?usp=header → Deadline: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Deadline text: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Email: auditions@forest-theatre.org
Instructions: Please prepare a 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present) and provide a link to your audition video below. Selected actors will be invited to an in-person callback.
Materials: 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present)
Link to audition video
Method: form
Timezone: America/Chicago
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTK0v8WSZ8lRhZcIhrebk9XFhs4-q25rJBc113Dn7AbTvNog/viewform?usp=header
Schedule · Sep 17, 2026
Description: Callbacks: In person by invitation - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: Rehearsals begin: October 19th
Kind: rehearsal
Start: 2026-10-19
Description: Rehearsal schedule: 6pm - 10pm Mon - Fri evenings, and Saturday 10-6.
Kind: rehearsal
Description: Tech/Dress: November 13-19 (Monday November 16 - dark)
End: 2026-11-19
Kind: tech
Start: 2026-11-13
Description: Performances: Fri/Sat/Sun November 20 - December 6, 2026
End: 2026-12-06
Kind: performance
Start: 2026-11-20 → Description: Callbacks: In person by invitation - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: Rehearsals begin: October 19th; Rehearsal schedule: 6pm - 10pm Mon - Fri evenings, and Saturday 10-6.
Kind: rehearsal
Start: 2026-10-19
Description: Tech/Dress: November 13-19 (Monday November 16 - dark)
End: 2026-11-19
Kind: tech
Start: 2026-11-13
Description: Performances: Fri/Sat/Sun November 20 - December 6, 2026
End: 2026-12-06
Kind: performance
Start: 2026-11-20
Roles · Sep 17, 2026
Description: A wealthy, passionate, and fiercely jealous wife. She possesses an intense, consuming sensuality and demands her husband Alfred's absolute, undivided attention. She views her son and sister-in-law Asta as rivals for Alfred's affection, driving a deep wedge of resentment and shared guilt into the household.
Name: Rita Allmers
Playing age: Late 20’s – early 30’s
Status: unknown
Description: Alfred’s younger companion, officially treated as his half-sister. She is gentle, serious, and deeply devoted to Alfred, sharing a secretive childhood bond with him. She serves as an emotional anchor in the household and a foil to Rita’s fiery temperament before choosing to build her own future.
Name: Asta Allmers
Status: unknown
Description: A confident, energetic road builder. He acts as a foil to Alfred's academic paralysis, representing practical labor, forward momentum, and healthy vitality. He pursues Asta and offers her an honest, outward-looking life away from the stagnant grief of the Allmers estate.
Name: Borghejm
Status: unknown → Description: A wealthy, passionate, and fiercely jealous wife. She possesses an intense, consuming sensuality and demands her husband Alfred's absolute, undivided attention. She views her son and sister-in-law Asta as rivals for Alfred's affection, driving a deep wedge of resentment and shared guilt into the household.
Name: Rita Allmers
Playing age: Late 20’s – early 30’s
Status: open
Description: Alfred’s younger companion, officially treated as his half-sister. She is gentle, serious, and deeply devoted to Alfred, sharing a secretive childhood bond with him. She serves as an emotional anchor in the household and a foil to Rita’s fiery temperament before choosing to build her own future.
Name: Asta Allmers
Status: open
Description: A confident, energetic road builder. He acts as a foil to Alfred's academic paralysis, representing practical labor, forward momentum, and healthy vitality. He pursues Asta and offers her an honest, outward-looking life away from the stagnant grief of the Allmers estate.
Name: Borghejm
Status: open
Locations · Sep 17, 2026
City: Oak Park
Kind: rehearsal
Name: TBA in either Oak Park or Forest Park
City: Oak Park
Kind: performance
Name: Oak Park - venue TBA → Kind: rehearsal
Name: TBA
City: Oak Park
Kind: performance
Name: venue TBA
How to apply · Sep 17, 2026
Deadline: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Deadline text: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Email: auditions@forest-theatre.org
Instructions: Please prepare a 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present) and provide a link to your audition video below. Selected actors will be invited to an in-person callback.
Materials: 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present)
link to your audition video
Method: form
Timezone: America/Chicago
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTK0v8WSZ8lRhZcIhrebk9XFhs4-q25rJBc113Dn7AbTvNog/viewform?usp=header → Deadline: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Deadline text: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Email: auditions@forest-theatre.org
Instructions: Submit via the Google submission form; please prepare a 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present) and provide a link to your audition video. Selected actors will be invited to an in-person callback.
Materials: 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present)
link to your audition video
Method: form
Timezone: America/Chicago
Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTK0v8WSZ8lRhZcIhrebk9XFhs4-q25rJBc113Dn7AbTvNog/viewform?usp=header
Merged source · Sep 17, 2026
7cfef0e8-afa8-4cd3-8322-c3054cf91872 → Same publisher audition ID or dated index-to-detail link; company, title, compatible session and all known dates agree.
Locations · Sep 17, 2026
Kind: rehearsal
Name: TBA in either Oak Park or Forest Park
City: Oak Park
Kind: performance
Name: Oak Park - venue TBA → City: Oak Park
Kind: rehearsal
Name: TBA in either Oak Park or Forest Park
City: Oak Park
Kind: performance
Name: Oak Park - venue TBA
Merged source · Sep 17, 2026
0300163c-5a3a-45d3-bd58-c56dc13755cd → Same publisher audition ID or dated index-to-detail link; company, title, compatible session and all known dates agree.
Merged source · Sep 17, 2026
4e583846-5053-4897-98f7-128ec8f8f687 → Same publisher audition ID or dated index-to-detail link; company, title, compatible session and all known dates agree.
Roles · Sep 17, 2026
Description: Adult-role stipend: $500
Name: Adult roles
Status: unknown
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown → Description: Adult-role stipend: $500
Name: Adult roles
Playing age: Late 20’s – early 30’s
Status: unknown
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown
Deadline · Sep 17, 2026
→ 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z
How to apply · Sep 17, 2026
Instructions: accepting video submissions
Method: video
Link: https://www.theatreinchicago.com/auditions/industrydetail.php?AuditionID=11375 → Deadline: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Deadline text: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Email: auditions@forest-theatre.org
Instructions: accepting video submissions
Materials: 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present)
link to audition video
Method: video
Timezone: America/Chicago
Link: https://www.theatreinchicago.com/auditions/industrydetail.php?AuditionID=11375
Merged source · Sep 17, 2026
5afc7a8e-b72b-4bb0-80f4-66c1da4af027 → Same publisher audition ID or dated index-to-detail link; company, title, compatible session and all known dates agree.
Roles · Sep 17, 2026
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown → Description: A wealthy, passionate, and fiercely jealous wife. She possesses an intense, consuming sensuality and demands her husband Alfred's absolute, undivided attention. She views her son and sister-in-law Asta as rivals for Alfred's affection, driving a deep wedge of resentment and shared guilt into the household.
Name: Eyolf
Playing age: Late 20’s – early 30’s
Status: unknown
Deadline · Sep 17, 2026
→ 2026-10-10T00:00:00Z
How to apply · Sep 17, 2026
Instructions: accepting video submissions
Method: video
Link: https://www.theatreinchicago.com/auditions/industrydetail.php?AuditionID=11375 → Deadline: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Deadline text: 2026-10-10T23:59:59-05:00
Email: auditions@forest-theatre.org
Instructions: accepting video submissions
Materials: 3–4 minute modern monologue (19th century to present)
link to audition video
Method: video
Timezone: America/Chicago
Link: https://www.theatreinchicago.com/auditions/industrydetail.php?AuditionID=11375
Eligibility · Sep 16, 2026
Non-Equity → Non-Equity | Oak Park, Illinois
Schedule · Sep 16, 2026
Description: In person - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: November 2026 production
Kind: performance → Description: Callbacks: In person - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Roles · Sep 16, 2026
Name: Eyolf
Status: open → Description: Adult-role stipend: $500
Name: Adult roles
Status: unknown
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown
Eligibility · Sep 16, 2026
Non-Equity actors; adult roles and Eyolf → Non-Equity
How to apply · Sep 16, 2026
Instructions: Accepting video submissions.
Method: video
Link: https://www.theatreinchicago.com/auditions/industrydetail.php?AuditionID=11375 → Instructions: accepting video submissions
Method: video
Link: https://www.theatreinchicago.com/auditions/industrydetail.php?AuditionID=11375
Roles · Sep 16, 2026
Description: Adult-role stipend: $500
Name: Adult roles
Status: unknown
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown → Description: Adult-role stipend: $500
Name: Adult roles
Status: open
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100
Name: Eyolf
Status: open
Locations · Sep 16, 2026
Not specified → City: Oak Park
Kind: audition
Schedule · Sep 16, 2026
Description: Callbacks: In person - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: November 2026 production
Kind: performance → Description: In person - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: November 2026 production
Kind: performance
Roles · Sep 16, 2026
Description: Adult-role stipend: $500.
Name: Adult roles
Status: unknown
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100.
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown → Name: Eyolf
Status: open
Pay · Sep 16, 2026
Adult-role stipend: $500; Eyolf stipend: $100 → Adult-role stipend: $500 | Eyolf stipend: $100
Schedule · Sep 15, 2026
Description: Callbacks: In person - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Description: November 2026 production
Kind: performance → Description: Callbacks: In person - Date and Location TBA
Kind: callback
Roles · Sep 15, 2026
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100
Name: Eyolf
Status: open
Description: Adult-role stipend: $500
Name: Adult roles
Status: open → Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown
Roles · Sep 15, 2026
Description: married couple whose troubled relationship and....
Name: Alfred Allmers
Status: unknown
Description: married couple whose troubled relationship and....
Name: Rita Allmers
Status: unknown
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown → Description: Adult-role stipend: $500.
Name: Adult roles
Status: unknown
Description: Eyolf stipend: $100.
Name: Eyolf
Status: unknown