AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF Outlandish by Eric Anderson directed by Reyn Afaga

AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF

Outlandish

by Eric Anderson

directed by Reyn Afaga

Sunday September 7 at 6pm
Monday September 8 at 6pm
at Kumu Kahua Theatre 
46 Merchant Street Honolulu, HI 96813

WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street

WHEN: Sunday September 7 at 6pm and Monday September 8th at 6pm

Performances will be from November 6- December 7, 2025. Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm. There is the possibility of added performances.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Sides will be provided. Actors can prepare a monologue from the script if they desire to but it is not required.

Please note any conflicts on audition form.

Script Synopsis:

In 1873 the Victorian travel-writer Isabella Bird visits Hilo, Hawai‘i. She throws herself into the local community with enthusiasm and occasional blunders. At the same time, the new King of Hawai‘i, Lunalilo, coincidentally stops in Hilo on his inaugural tour through the Islands. Miss Isabella Bird and Lunalilo meet at a party given in his honor by the local sheriff and his wife. These two unusual people get to know each other in ways that challenge and surprise them both. This is a play about changes — give and take — occurring on a Hilo lāna‘i but with reverberations that may echo throughout all of Hawai‘i and the whole 19th century world — as well as within the warm confines of the human heart.

CAST:

LUNALILO: Male, Hawaiian, late 30s, historically noted for his attractiveness and charisma, he is bright, energetic—and doomed.

ISABELLA: Female, White, late 30s to early 40s, Scottish, smart, adventuresome, inquiring, with a low pitched voice in either a Yorkshire or Scottish accent.

LUCINDA:  Female, White, 30s-40s, comfortable, complacent, uninquiring, pretty lovable.

ANNA: Female, White, 20s, Yankee stock, disillusioned, somewhat mysterious, educated, seeks the truth of every situation, and is never emotionally attended to.

HATTIE: Female, White, 30s-40s, conservative religious, dogmatic, gossip, energetic, “old-maidish, tiresome.

DEBORAH: Female, 20s native Hawaiian, young (late teen), pretty, clever, positive, pleasant manners, emotionally just a little over the top.

NOTE* Director Reyn Afaga is looking for actors who can play musical instruments.

 You can read the script by Clicking Here

Call the Kumu Kahua Theatre office 536-4222 or email officemanager@kumukahua.org if you need more information.

REYN AFAGA (he/they), originally from Waipahu, is an actor and theatrical artist based in Honolulu. He was last seen on Kumu Kahua’s stage playing Dad in Lee Cataluna's Kimo the Waiter. Previous Kumu credits include various roles in Lee Cataluna’s Folks You Meet in Longs and assistant director duties for The Kāmau Trilogy (KKT). Reyn made his community theatre directing debut in 2024 with Hawaii Shakespeare Festival’s Cymbeline. Reyn currently serves on the Board of Stakeholders at Kumu Kahua Theatre, and also serves as the Associate Artistic Director for the Hawaii Shakespeare Festival. 

Eric Anderson (Playwright) graduated from the University of Kansas with an M.A. in theater, then moved to Minneapolis, where his plays were produced at the Illusion Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Lagniappe Theatre, Theatre in the Round and Children’s Theatre. He has written plays for National Public Radio, and was a founding member of the Playwrights Center. He and his husband now live in Hawaii, where his plays have been produced at Kumu Kahua Theatre and The Actors Group in Honolulu, as well as at the University of Hawaii in Hilo. Currently he is collaborating with composer Kim Sherman on Bluestem an opera based on the Willa Cather stories Song of the Lark and The Sculptor’s Funeral.

Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Timothy and Eddie, the NME Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, The AAPI Community Fund, The Richard Aadland Fund, The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, H. Hawaii Media, Simply Storage, HUB Coworking, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Highway Inn, Generations Magazine, CVS/Longs Drugs, HMSA, Hawaiian Electric, MonkeyPod, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.