Summer 2025
Emerging Professionals Ensemble Announces Auditions for Summer 2025 Season - THE 25th ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE.
Emerging Professionals Ensemble (EPE) is accepting submissions for Summer 2025! Actors aged 16-24 are invited to submit for consideration for THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE.
Video audition submissions will be accepted until 11:59 pm on Friday, April 25th. Callbacks will be held both in-person and virtually on Monday, May 12th, at 6:00 pm. All auditioners will be contacted about their status by Tuesday, May 13th.
ABOUT THE PRODUCTION
In SPELLING BEE, an eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life-un-affirming "ding" of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
MORE INFORMATION:
Rehearsals & performances take place at the Performing Institute of Minnesota at 7255 Flying Cloud Drive, Eden Prairie.
Performances: July 10 - 19, 7:30 pm
Rehearsals: Begin June 16 & run evenings Tuesday - Saturday; tech week Sunday/Monday rehearsal likely.
The Performing Institute of Minnesota’s Emerging Professional Ensemble (EPE) was founded in the summer of 2017 with the opening of the PiM’s Eden Prairie campus, and is envisioned as a rigorous, theatrical playground for professionally-minded performers.
EPE is committed to ensemble-driven, compelling, and contemporary storytelling and strives to empower a creative space where all voices are heard and honored; a space where young emerging artists can collaborate and create with peers and those starting their professional journeys. Artists ages 16 to 24 are encouraged to engage in the collaborative process in the production of high-quality, impactful theatre and musical theatre.
Our Mission
The Emerging Professionals Ensemble provides aspiring artists with professional-level theatre opportunities amidst an inclusive and socially conscious community committed to impactful storytelling.
