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Union:
Union or Non union
Area of media:
Play
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
The King Black Box has historically produced under the Canadian Actors' Equity Association Artists' Collective Policy (ACP), a revenue-share model in which all participants are equal partners and net proceeds after production costs are shared. Pending confirmation of production funding, the production may instead engage all performers, Equity and non-Equity, on weekly contracts under Equity's INDIE 3.0 Policy. The applicable policy will be confirmed with Equity prior to engagement, and final terms confirmed in writing.
Deadline:
Oct 5, 2026
Callbacks:
Nov 22, 2026 By invitation, sides provided in advance.
Cities for response:
Toronto
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About The King Black Box
The King Black Box (TKBB) is an independent Toronto theatre company led by Sophie Ann Rooney (Founding Artistic Director) and Grisha Pasternak (Executive Director), with a lineage tracing back through Sterling Studio Theatre and Theatre Machine. Established under its current name in 2024, the company is driving a new wave of Toronto theatre, with productions including The Glory of Living, Girls Unwanted, Romeo Pimp, and Bug. Its work has earned seven Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, one Dora Award, and two Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards. Electra is its flagship production for the 2026-27 season, in association with Koffler Arts. TKBB is a member of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.
About Koffler Arts
Koffler Arts (KA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts platform rooted in Jewish artistic voices and open to a pan-cultural range of visual, performing and literary artists from Canada and abroad. Founded in 1977 and based at Youngplace since 2013, it acquired its first permanent home there in 2025, including Koffler301, a third-floor gallery, performance venue and residency space, led by General Director Matthew Jocelyn.
Auditions: Preliminary auditions Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 15, 2026. Please prepare one contemporary monologue of your own choosing, no more than two minutes. A contrasting classical piece is welcome but not required. Bring a printed headshot and resume. Callbacks Sunday November 22, 2026, using sides from the adaptation, provided in advance to those invited. All sessions held at KOFFLER ARTS (Koffler 301), Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto.
Rehearsals begin the week of March 1, 2027, moving into the Koffler301 on March 13. Rehearsals in the space run March 13 and March 16 to 19, with tech March 20 to 21 and dress March 23. Previews March 24 to 27 at 8pm. The run opens Tuesday March 30 and closes Sunday April 11, Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm with Wednesday and Sunday matinees at 2pm, Mondays dark. Performers must be available for the full period, March 1 to April 11, 2027.
Roles are listed in order of appearance, following Sophocles.
The King Black Box (TKBB) is an independent Toronto theatre company led by Sophie Ann Rooney (Founding Artistic Director) and Grisha Pasternak (Executive Director), with a lineage tracing back through Sterling Studio Theatre and Theatre Machine. Established under its current name in 2024, the company is driving a new wave of Toronto theatre, with productions including The Glory of Living, Girls Unwanted, Romeo Pimp, and Bug. Its work has earned seven Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations, one Dora Award, and two Toronto Theatre Critics' Awards. Electra is its flagship production for the 2026-27 season, in association with Koffler Arts. TKBB is a member of the Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts.
About Koffler Arts
Koffler Arts (KA) is a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts platform rooted in Jewish artistic voices and open to a pan-cultural range of visual, performing and literary artists from Canada and abroad. Founded in 1977 and based at Youngplace since 2013, it acquired its first permanent home there in 2025, including Koffler301, a third-floor gallery, performance venue and residency space, led by General Director Matthew Jocelyn.
Auditions: Preliminary auditions Saturday November 14 and Sunday November 15, 2026. Please prepare one contemporary monologue of your own choosing, no more than two minutes. A contrasting classical piece is welcome but not required. Bring a printed headshot and resume. Callbacks Sunday November 22, 2026, using sides from the adaptation, provided in advance to those invited. All sessions held at KOFFLER ARTS (Koffler 301), Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw Street, 3rd Floor, Toronto.
Rehearsals begin the week of March 1, 2027, moving into the Koffler301 on March 13. Rehearsals in the space run March 13 and March 16 to 19, with tech March 20 to 21 and dress March 23. Previews March 24 to 27 at 8pm. The run opens Tuesday March 30 and closes Sunday April 11, Tuesday to Saturday at 8pm with Wednesday and Sunday matinees at 2pm, Mondays dark. Performers must be available for the full period, March 1 to April 11, 2027.
Roles are listed in order of appearance, following Sophocles.
Storyline
A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist.
A daughter can't stop grieving in a house that has already moved on.
Electra has spent years refusing to forgive her father's murder, or the mother she believes was behind it. Trapped between a sister who chose survival and a brother who may never come home, she is the one person in the family still keeping score, and the pressure of that vigil is about to break the house open.
Sophie Ann Rooney's Electra pulls Sophocles into the present and asks what happens when grief outlasts everyone's patience, and whether justice and revenge were ever different things.
Designed and directed by Sophie Ann Rooney, with a new adaptation by Michael Goldlist.
A daughter can't stop grieving in a house that has already moved on.
Electra has spent years refusing to forgive her father's murder, or the mother she believes was behind it. Trapped between a sister who chose survival and a brother who may never come home, she is the one person in the family still keeping score, and the pressure of that vigil is about to break the house open.
Sophie Ann Rooney's Electra pulls Sophocles into the present and asks what happens when grief outlasts everyone's patience, and whether justice and revenge were ever different things.
Designed and directed by Sophie Ann Rooney, with a new adaptation by Michael Goldlist.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Orestes | Male 20 - 35 Years old |
Description Electra's younger brother, sent away as a child. Returns home the golden boy who never met a party he didn't close: charismatic, aloof and wild. A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Electra | Female 25 - 40 Years old |
Description The daughter. Years of open, unrelenting grief for her murdered father and sister have made her the one the house talks about in lowered voices. Ferocious, exposed, and impossible to look away from. A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Chorus | All 19 - 80 Years old |
Description Two performers. Electra's confidantes and the audience's way in. A double act that carries the play's comedy and its commentary, but also its grief: we need actors with real emotional range who can turn on a dime. Existing duos are welcome to audition together, whether comedy or clown partners, theatre collaborators or real-life partners. If submitting as a duo, please note your partner's name in your submission so we can book you a shared slot. A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Chrysothemis | Female 30 - 40 Years old |
Description Electra's older sister. Chose accommodation over resistance. Not a coward, a pragmatist: composed, powerful, and the one still holding the family's honour together. A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Clytemnestra | Female 50 - 75 Years old |
Description Electra's mother. Rules the house with her lover. Unrepentant, articulate, capable of a tenderness that Electra rarely allows her to spend. A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | Aegisthus | Male 50 - 75 Years old |
Description Clytemnestra's lover, now head of the house. The threat of him drives the play. A true ensemble piece: all seven roles are equally weighted, with equal billing and no lead or supporting designations. The family is the protagonist. | ||