Ojai Performing Arts Theater Announces Auditions for the World Premiere ofMary Shelley Year With No Summer
Written by Jule Selbo
Directed by Richard Camp
This world-premiere script reframes history through a modern lens: female authorship, climate anxiety, and the power of creation in a collapsing world
Auditions
Thursday, May 29, 6 - 9 PM
Sunday, June 1, 11 AM - 2 PM
No appointment necessary - auditions on a first come, first serve basisCallbacks Sunday, June 1, 2 - 4 PM
Veritas Theater, 226 W Ojai Ave #102
⭐️ COMPENSATIONAEA Actors: Paid per SPT Category 1 Agreement ($293/week minimum)
Non-Union Actors: All roles receive a $250 stipend🎟️ PRODUCTION SCHEDULERehearsals Begin: Week of June 10
Tech Week: August 2–7
Performances: August 8–10 & August 15–17
📍 Matilija Auditorium, Ojai
🎬 CASTING TEAMDirector: Richard Camp
Executive Producer: Bob Kemper
Producer: Rosie Gordon
Stage Manager: Hannah Luyet
🎥 Self-tapes accepted
ABOUT THE PLAY
In the frozen summer of 1816—one of history’s most extreme climate events—Lord Byron invites a scandalous circle of artists to his villa in Switzerland. Among them: Percy Shelley, his lover Mary Godwin, her stepsister Claire Clairmont, and young Dr. Polidori.
Byron issues a challenge: write a horror story. What emerges from this night of lust, ego, and imagination is the birth of Frankenstein—and the rise of Mary Shelley.
This play is gothic, intimate, and bitingly modern. It reclaims a woman’s story from the wreckage of male legend, and it asks: what do we create in times of collapse?