"try out for a role" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when talking about someone auditioning for a job or an opportunity, especially in the entertainment industry. For example, "Gina decided to try out for a role in a new film being produced by a local studio."
Calm down.' " She had her hair done in cornrows to try out for a role in the original "The Fast and the Furious".
Are you going to try out for a role this year?".
Casting-calls are where you can try out for a role in a movie or television series.
If you try out for a role that you do not get, and you are still in the play, do not sulk.
During the investigation, some audition reels turn up, with her trying out for a role.
They spoke as if they were trying out for a role in a sporting universe in which there were no second auditions.
Inspired by her mother, an amateur actress, Gomez tried out for a role on the PBS children's television series Barney & Friends and, as a result, appeared regularly on the program in 2002 04.
The forgotten impressionist Will Jordan wanders in and out, so embittered that he seems to be trying out for a role in one of Philip Roth's Zuckerman books, at one moment explaining how Mel Brooks stole the Hitler musical-comedy idea from him, and at another how Ed Sullivan stole his Ed Sullivan impression.
Fifty years ago, 10-year-old Mary Badham tried out for a role in a little movie filming near her hometown of Birmingham, Ala.: "To Kill a Mockingbird".
Bryan Cranston tried out for a role in Alexander Payne's next project, the road-trip movie "Nebraska," but probably won't get the role, the director told The Huffington Post today.
Melanie Chartoff, voice of Minka and Jewish herself, had already been cast to play Didi when she was called by her agent to try out for a second voice role on the series as Minka.
