Video Auditions for The Lysistrata Project by Sarah Ault

Due by January 15th, 2026 at 9:30pm

Rehearsals: starting February 2, running Monday-Friday 6:30-10:00pm

Performances: March 27-29, 2026

ABOUT THE LYSISTRATA PROJECT:

In response to men being just the WORST, four college roommates are swearing off sex until the local frat boys can get their act together. But as tensions rise and morals are questioned, the girls must band together and decide what’s really worth fighting for. Local playwright Sarah Ault puts a modern spin on classic story with The Lysistrata Project, a sharply funny exploration of activism, sexuality, and what it means to be a good friend.

CHARACTERS IN THE LYSISTRATA PROJECT:

• “MANIC PIXIE” / ALYSSA (she/they) 

22-year-old senior college student. Bisexual, genderqueer, neurodivergent woman. Vibrant, passionate, naive, self-important. After reading Aristophanes’ Lysistrata for a school assignment, Alyssa gathers her three roommates and begins a sex strike in an attempt to be the hero her campus needs. While this pact intends to solve sexism in general, Alyssa especially hopes to address men fetishizing her as a manic pixie dream girl instead of treating her like a whole person. However, when her class assignment brings her closer with the hot teaching assistant, Trevor, her desperation for a perfect solution leaves her wanting to be seen, heard, loved, and most importantly, right. Alyssa’s character deals with themes of emotional abuse.

• “GOLD STAR” / HAZEL (she/her) 

21-year-old senior college student. Cisgender lesbian woman. Decisive, loyal, blunt, stubborn. Since coming to college, Hazel is breathing much easier getting to be out, proud, and among good company. Of course, things have been tense– especially regarding that one old roommate nobody talks about– but isn’t that the case for everyone? Besides, there are other things to focus on now, like her unexpected romantic relationship with the new roommate Lexi. Between old wounds and the new no-sex pact, Hazel wants to keep her romantic escapades a secret. However, sticking by this conviction only draws her closer to a ticking time bomb, and she has to decide what’s worth blowing up. Hazel’s character deals with themes of lesbophobia, biphobia, and transphobia.

• “PICK-A-SIDE” / LEXI (she/her) 

21-year-old senior college student. Bisexual transgender woman. Thoughtful, eager, anxious, conciliatory. Lexi feels incredibly lucky. Her new roommates genuinely include her in womanhood and community. She’s deep in the “honeymoon” stage with her first girlfriend, Hazel, even if that relationship is being kept on the down-low. Now, as the right-hand-woman of the newly formed sex strike, Lexi sees an avenue to continue advocating for the change she wants to see in the world. However, this avenue reaches a fork in the road, where Lexi must choose between the causes she cares about or the people she cares about, unless she can chart an entirely different path forward. Lexi’s character deals with themes of biphobia, lesbophobia, and transphobia. Lexi is only to be played by an actor who identifies under the transfem+ umbrella.

• “EASY A” / CASSIDY (she/her) 

22-year-old senior college student. A cisgender woman questioning if she’s really straight. Self-assured, reliable, reticent, detached. Cassidy has wagered her sexuality against her relationships in a major way. Everybody knows she finally lost her virginity the night of her 21st birthday, but nobody knows that her subsequent life of casual sex

and hookups is all pretense. Sure, the sex was okay, but she’d rather be dancing. Now, with an active sex strike among her roommates, Cassidy fears her private life is about to be exposed, but a chance meeting with former classmate Cameron offers some protection. It even offers a way to navigate her complicated feelings towards sexual attraction. But, how do you finally start living your own truth when your own lies are working against you? Cassidy’s character deals with themes of internalized acephobia.

• “THE GOOD GUY” / TREVOR (he/him) 

24-year-old master’s student and teaching assistant. A straight cis man. Charming, dauntless, cerebral, contrarian. After a gap year spent backpacking through Europe, Trevor longs to feel the same sense of unpredictability and whimsy he found out there. Having almost given up hope of finding it under the fluorescents of a lecture hall, a chance meeting with a student, Alyssa, gives him a newfound spark. Hopefully, he can kindle that spark into a fire that burns exactly the way he wants it to. Trevor’s character deals with themes of emotional abuse.

• “GAY BEST FRIEND” / CAMERON (he/they) 

21-year-old senior college student. A pansexual transgender man. Curious, comedic, chaotic. Cameron’s coming out backfired completely, but he’s learned to navigate and embrace life’s changes with grace and– let’s be honest– shrugging at the small problems and hoping they disappear before becoming big ones. However, one problem he can’t seem to shake is finding a new community of support. A chance encounter with former classmate Cassidy gives him a place he might belong, and a way to make others feel like they belong, too. And after being so understanding of his new friends, they’ll certainly be understanding in return. Right? Cameron’s character deals with themes of transphobia and sexual assault. Cameron is only to be played by an actor who identifies under the transmasc+ umbrella.

If you have any questions about the audition process, reach out to Connar Klock at connar@queertk.org

1. Nora, A Doll’s House Part 2 by Lucas Hnath

You think I’ve never given you anything, but you don't know what I’ve given you – because what I’m trying to do for you – the kind of world I’m trying to make for you – it hasn’t happened yet. But it won’t happen this way – not if I let you or Torvald fix this problem for me no, I have to do this myself – If that judge wants me to publish a letter, then I’ll do it and I’ll tell everyone “Yes, yes, I’m a criminal, and I am not sorry,” I’ll go and face the people who are telling me what I can and can’t do and show them that there’s nothing they can do – it doesn’t matter – because I’m already in a prison if I’m having to rely on Torvald to give me a divorce, if I’m having to hide behind some pseudonym, if I’m – if we’re beholden to all of these

bad rules is what they are – there are so many bad rules in this world, Emmy – I’m not going to follow these bad rules, this is my chance to change the rules because 20, 30 years from now the world isn’t going to be the kind of place I say it’s going to be unless I’m the one to make it that way.

2. Raelynn, John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Bellflower

honestly Lee maybe

I don’t know

it might be good that this happened?

you know?

like I think maybe it was supposed to?

like maybe it’s actually better this way?

we’ve been together for seven years

Lee that’s not normal

we’re only sixteen

we’ve been going out since fourth grade

it’s so weird

I like

...

...

I think I’m starting to realize like

I don’t really um

I have no idea who I am without you?

I mean

being your girlfriend has been like

the main thing in my life, like it’s been everything?

and I just

I’m not sure that’s the way it should be

I think maybe I just didn’t think about it

I like thinking about things

I wanna think about more things

I wanna try more stuff

I don’t know!

that’s the point!

I don’t even know what I wanna try!

I don’t know anything!

3. #11, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

no what I meant was like

ok I do think it was horrible

obviously

he was horrible

IS horrible

but

I think it’s interesting

imagine if you did something horrible today

but you didn’t think it was horrible

let me finish

it was horrible

it was an an atrocity

right?

but YOU didn’t think it was an atrocity

you thought you were like saving your country

like destroying the enemy to save your own people

but like

what if

after you did that

you just like lived your life

like went to college and got a job and got married and had kids and grandkids and

and then

when you were ninety and like on the verge of death with like uh emphysema

that’s when an INTERPOL guy knocks on your door and is like

we found you

we know what you did

and guess what?

you’re going to prison

For Life

4. Maeve, You Have to Promise by Audrey Lang

i'm not!

i promise i'm not

i just

my heart is beating so fast right now

for no reason really

but i know why

i just

every second that we spend

talking about rachael

or my dad

talking about how i'm going to tell them

and what i'm going to say

every second and minute and hour we spend on that

is one less second and minute and hour

and one less moment

that we are spending together

and there is not enough time

every moment we are getting one second closer to running out of time

and i just

i can't

because we're running out of time for everything

and i just

i need to spend all that time

holding you

before i run out

i love you

so much

5. Tom, En Folkefiende (An Enemy of the People) by Brad Birch 

You make a deal with yourself about the person you want to be. You say ok. Here’s the world, and here’s what I’ll do in it. But what you don’t realise in that moment, is that you’re starting a dialogue. Between you, and the idea of you. And when you start to actually do things, to make choices, you find yourself checking back in with him, this other you, to make sure you’re still on track. And then suddenly you’re not. Suddenly life gets a bit more complicated, and you turn to him and you start making excuses. Little excuses that you think are ok. And all the time he’s saying wait a minute, this isn’t what we agreed. This isn’t what we were supposed to be. And so you find yourself suppressing that voice, drowning him out. You find yourself smothering him so tight that he can’t talk back. And then, one day, when you need him, to tell you what to do, to remind you of what you’re supposed to be, he’s gone. He doesn’t talk back anymore. And you’re the Director of a poisoned Springs in a poisoned city. And he’s gone.