Name: Auditions for Mockingbird
Start: 2026-02-08T18:00:00-06:00
End: 2026-02-08T21:00:00-06:00
Location: Family Pet Health

Consider This Theatre Company invites you to audition for it's second production of the 2026 season, Mockingbird, adapted by Julie Jensen, from the National Book Award-winning novel by Kathryn Erskine! Auditions will be held at Family Pet Health, 3907 Richard Reeves Dr, Murfreesboro, TN 37127, Sunday, February 8th and Monday, February 9th, from 6 pm - 9 pm. For virtual auditions, please submit a dramatic monologue to [email protected] by February 11th at 8 pm.
Synopsis:
Caitlin is an 11-year-old girl on the autism spectrum. Not all things make sense to her. Emotions are mysterious and voices are almost always too loud. Suddenly, she must grapple with the unthinkable: a mass shooting has taken her brother away. He was the one person who helped her cope. Now she is alone with her grieving father and a cacophony of children at school. She struggles to understand empathy, what facial expressions mean and why a drawing might have more than one color. We see the world from Caitlin’s point of view. We struggle as she does. We also take comfort in the times when she finds a friend, draws a multicolored mockingbird and can finally cry for her brother.
Crew:
Director - Catherine Burford
Stage Manager - Leslie Joslin
Producer -
Cast:
Actors should be 16+. All genders and ethnicities welcome.
CAITLIN: An 11-year-old girl on the autism spectrum. She may have a curious speech pattern, and she may speak too loudly and precisely. Longer passages of her dialogue might be delivered quickly and mechanically. She hardly ever looks at people and avoids physical touch. She may also have physical ties and various routinized behaviors, like sucking her sleeve, moaning, rocking, shaking her hands and jumping in patterns.
DAD: Caitlin's father.
MRS. BROOKS: Caitlin's school counselor.
MRS. JOHNSON: Caitlin's fifth grade teacher.
ENSEMBLE (3m., 2w.) who play:
MICHAEL: Caitlin's friend, first-grader. May be missing his r's.
JOSH: School bully, fifth-grader/
BRIANNA: Pretty, trendsetter, fifth-grader.
SHANE: Energetic, fifth-grader.
JOSE: A follower, first-grader.
WILLIAM H: A boy more extreme on the autism spectrum.
MR. SCHNEIDER: Michael's father.
FUNERAL GUESTS
FIRST-GRADERS