LTA Audition Guidelines

LTA is a membership organization. Although membership is not required to audition or to be cast, actors who are cast are required to become either a “performing member” or regular member within two weeks of accepting a role. Membership benefits include a free ticket to one or more shows of the current season, depending on the level of membership chosen.

OUR CURRENT COVID VACCINATION POLICY as of September 2024
LTA highly encourages all participants in productions and educational activities to stay up to date with COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations according to CDC and Virginia Department of Health recommendations. Vaccines are one tool to help protect volunteers, cast, and crew in the LTA community from illness, and to prevent outbreaks of COVID-19 or flu from disrupting productions. Questions? Contact us at AskLTA@thelittletheatre.com.

If you have a headshot and acting résumé, you may bring them with you.
(you may still be asked to have their picture taken by the LTA photographer)

Please bring an accurate list of rehearsal conflicts with you to the audition.

Directing At LTA

For information regarding future directorial opportunities at LTA please contact: LTAseasonalplanning@gmail.com

Call For Directors – One Act Plays

Directors needed for LTA One Act Shows

Each year, the LTA One Act Competition works diligently to read and score amazing new works submitted from authors around the world. This year, we are thrilled to be putting up phenomenal plays from the 2026 competition and are seeking early career directors to direct staged readings of the winning plays.

How to Apply:

To be considered for a show, please email the following information to ltaseasonalplanning@gmail.com by October 15, 2026
Subject line: Director Application for One Acts

• The body should include your name, your phone number, email address, and brief introduction of why you should be considered for one of the director slots. Tell us how you envision the one-act as a staged reading.

• A resume highlighting your most recent artistic or theater experiences (max 1 page)
• Two references (name, email, phone number, and your relationship) who can talk to your previous artistic or theater experiences

Early career directors are strongly preferred. LTA is committed to developing directorial talent of all ages, so this opportunity is geared towards directors early in their directing careers.

The plays being presented include:

Sveiki by Peter Sonenstein
Maya enters a dysfunctional government office with a battered notice generated by a bizarre system glitch involving arctic beavers. Bureaucratic absurdism carries a quiet emotional gut-punch: a woman’s worst fear confirmed through the most broken, mundane system imaginable.

Supply and Decay by John McEnerney
Kay wrote a book under her brother’s name warning about a future global depression. As her employer moves to suppress the book, Kay struggles with workplace absurdities and her family during one stressful day.

The Great Anderton Snowfall Debacle of 2025 by Lisa Feriend
Tiffany and Jessica need to get an autograph and photo of former professional English soccer player, Darren Anderton, in order to save Tiffany’s marriage – but it snowed, and he might be dead?

If you wish to read a copy of the script prior to applying please email ltaseasonalplanning@gmail.com. If interested in being considered for more than one of the plays please submit a separate statement for each and order of preference.

A brief production timeline has been provided below. Directors must be available for the dates listed unless other arrangements are made with the LTA Governor of Seasonal Planning:

• Director application due: October 15, 2026
• Auditions: November 21 & 22, 2026 Callbacks if required November 24, 2026
• Rehearsals: November 26, 2026 – January 16, 2027 (appx. 3-6 hours a week, two in-person rehearsals (first read and dress rehearsal), all other rehearsals are online, flexible timing)
• Tech Day: January 17, 2027
• Performance: January 18, 2027

Other notes for your consideration:

• Because the One Act Competition was created to highlight new works, we also do our best to highlight newer directors. Therefore, experience is required to apply. The majority of application weight will be put on your submission, and special consideration will be given to those with less experience.

• Not all candidates who submit an application will be interviewed, but you will be notified either way of a decision.

• No compensation will be provided to anyone working on this show. LTA is a community theater composed entirely of volunteers.

• Since this is not a “mainstage” production, these plays are being presented as staged readings in the LTA’s Greenroom. Lighting, sound or technical effects cannot be accommodated. For more clarification, please email

• If race is not integral to the script, LTA is actively committed to conscious, diverse casting. Directors must be open to diverse casting unless specified otherwise.

If you have any other questions not answered here, please email the LTA Governor of Seasonal Planning ltaseasonalplanning@gmail.com .

We hope to read your application soon!