The Squirrels by Robert Askins
Audition Notice
The Squirrels
By Robert Askins
Directed by Julie Zatko
Time: Saturday November 14th, 2026, from 12:00p-2:00p
Tuesday November 17th, 2026, from 6:00p-8:00p
Please sign up for an audition slot at: Audition Time Slots Available
Please complete the following form: ACT Audition Form (on-line) - Google Forms
Place: Trinity Episcopal Church, 316 Adams Street, Toledo, Ohio 43604
Auditions will consist of cold readings from sides provided by the director.
Rehearsals: 3 to 4 rehearsals during the week. Heavier closer to performance.
Performances: February 19-21, 2027
Venue: Toledo School for the Arts (presented by Actors Collaborative Toledo)
Characters:
SCIURUS. Great old gray squirrel. Big. Fat-ish. The greatest gatherer of nuts the forest ever saw. Now gone to seed. Father to Chordata. Partner to Mammalia. Adopted father to Rodentia.
CHORDATA. Young gray squirrel. Squirrel sexy. Squirrel smart. She knows the forest is changing. She is in love with Carolinensis. She is perhaps a little too sentimental.
MAMMALIA. Older gray squirrel. The long-suffering partner to Sciurus. She loves him. Knows his faults. Has aided his schemes. She is dedicated to her daughter and wants only the best for her.
RODENTIA. Adopted daughter of Sciurus. Young fox squirrel. She swims with the tide that raises her boat.
CAROLINENSIS. Young fox squirrel. Fierce. Strong. Idealistic but hungry. It is after all the dead of winter and mating season is coming.
SCIURIDAE/THE SCIENTIST. Gray squirrel. He is smooth. Too smooth. He stares too long. He’s creepy like an evil Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. The scientist is not a real scientist. He’s a cartoon scientist. Make of that what you will.
SQUIRREL ENSEMBLE. Looking for 3-4 squirrels to help tell the story
Casting blindly. Casting the rainbow. You should audition.
Genre: Dark comedy
Scurius, the patriarch of a family of gray squirrels, has collected enough nuts to last ten winters. When a group of starving fox squirrels begs him to share his hoard of food, animosity erupts into a ferocious war. THE SQUIRRELS is a boundary-pushing, darkly satirical look at wealth inequality in which no creature comes out unscathed.