Auditions

Stay up to date with latest audition information for upcoming productions.

Come and audition for our spring show! No preparation necessary, open to all.

Or interested in working backstage? Let us tell you about it. Credit available as part of our Spring 2025 - TA 215 Theater Practice.

If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka

BY TORI SAMPSON

Combining West African folklore and contemporary American culture, Tori Sampson's hilariously provocative play doesn’t ask the question "How much is beauty worth?" but rather, "Why are so many willing to pay its price?” 

Character Description

Chorus - Male. Ageless
Akim - Beautiful girl. Seventeen years life.
Massassi - Beautiful girl. Seventeen years life.
Adama - Beautiful girl. Seventeen years life.
Kaya - Beautiful girl. Seventeen years life.
Kasim - Confident boy. Seventeen years life.
Ma - Refined woman. Lived enough to know.
Dad - Protective man. Lived enough to know.

Schedule Audition

Contact Dr. Janice Capuana (jcapuana@york.cuny.edu) to make appointment to audition. see audition location and times below.

(If you can't make these times, contact us anyway and we'll call you back.)

Charming... [a] vibrant 90-minute spin on the time-honored “black is beautiful” maxim... Sampson imagines a tale that also draws on elements echoed from Cinderella treatments.

Delicious! A contemporary fable about the black female body and its discontents... an auspicious professional playwriting debut.