The Singularity Play
The Singularity Play
Written by Jay Stull
Directed by Kyle Los
*Michigan Premiere*
Audition Dates/Times: Open auditions are Saturday and Sunday, August 1-2, from noon to 3pm. If you are unavailable at one of the listed days/times, please email us at info@atgr.org and we'll make accommodations for a video audition submission or other in-person day/time.
Location: Spectrum Theater at 160 Fountain NE.
Callbacks: TBD at auditions based on auditionee availability.
Rehearsals: Take place at Spectrum Theater and are generally weekday evenings for 3 hours. There will be no rehearsals over Labor Day Weekend.
Performance Dates (2026): October 8-10 and 15-17 at 7:30pm; October 11 at 3pm
Audition Requirements: No material needs to be memorized for the audition, but you should familiarize yourself with the script/characters/etc. Headshots and resumés are encouraged. Please be prepared to list any potential schedule conflicts throughout the rehearsal process.
Perusal Script and Sides: An online perusal copy of the script can be viewed here and sides will be posted online by July 1.
Characters:
All roles are open to individuals of all gender identities, races, ethnicities, abilities, body sizes, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic statuses. Trans, nonbinary, and genderqueer actors highly encouraged to audition.
Please note that most actors play more than one character.
- Lauren: an overworked, underpaid director of new plays. AND Hollis: actor, a cyborg enjoying the surprises that come with embodiment.
- Heidi: actor, psychotically polite. AND Jules: actor, a cyborg whose wetware cannot regulate their grief.
- Alice: actor, should just be a director already. AND Royal: actor, a cyborg who loathes embodiment and has embraced an in-world life.
- Jason: actor, expecting his first child. AND Quinn: actor, a cyborg; teacher’s pet.
- Henry: actor, sees simulacra as forms of control. AND Finley: actor, a cyborg experimenting with embodied attraction.
- Denise: playwright, an algorithm (a machine). AND Dennis: playwright, a tenant intelligence.
- Greg: computer scientist, has never really liked the theater. AND Salem: actor, a cyborg wary of in-world trends and anxious about disembodiment.
- Ocean: director, a cyborg practicing in the old arts.
- Dawn: actor, retired: one of the last living human beings.
- Skyler: stage manager, AI (a disembodied voice; unseen).
Synopsis: What happens when machines and corporations take control of our stories before we have a chance to tell them ourselves?
In an unused room inside the Google offices in Manhattan, a theatre troupe gathers to rehearse a new play written by an advanced artificial intelligence named Denise. What begins as an experiment in performance quickly slips into something stranger, darker, and far less controllable. The actors try to make sense of a script written by a machine, but the deeper they go, the more the lines blur between rehearsal and simulation, creator and creation, art and algorithm.
Jay Stull’s The Singularity Play is an existential comedy, a sci-fi horror story, and a slippery theatrical puzzle about creativity, control, desire, and the unsettling future we may already be living inside.
About the director:
Kyle Los is the Executive and Artistic Director of Actors’ Theatre and is a multidisciplinary theatre artist working in West Michigan as a Director, Sound Designer, Composer, Scenic Designer, and Actor. His directing credits include: HYENAS (Director), PARADISE LOST (Assistant Director), PETTY CRIMES (Co-Director), HUNDRED DAYS (Director), SWEAT (Co-Director), and AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (Assistant Director) with Actors’ Theatre, EURYDICE (Assistant Director) with Grand Rapids Community College, THE FOREIGNER (Assistant Director) with Aquinas College, and THE MOTHERFUCKER WITH THE HAT (Assistant Director) with Mixed Roots Collective. As an actor, he was most recently seen on stage as Frank in WITCH with Actors’ Theatre, and has received Grand Awards for his performances in HAIR (Circle Theatre Grand Rapids), and VENUS IN FUR and OTHER DESERT CITIES (Actors’ Theatre). He was recognized as a part of the Grand Rapids “40 Under Forty” in 2014.