Casting Actors for Tenth Anniversary Season Shows

The daughter of an Italian immigrant liquor bootlegger. She married after her father’s murder and has tried to assimilate to small-town monotony since. While she has managed to suffer in silence under her cruel husband’s roof, there is a fire burning in her that threatens to consume her. She dreams of creating a place of beauty and celebration where there is currently only a fading general store. She is sexually vital and smolders with a quiet fury. "Orpheus Descending"

The daughter of the most prominent family in town, but an unquenchable rebel. She is outspoken, progressive, and knows (or respects) few boundaries. She is bravely defiant of the small town’s narrow-minded views and virtues. "Orpheus Descending"

A mystic representative of the wildness in the land on which the small town has developed. He is Black and is said to have Choctaw heritage. He is tolerated by the white women because of his esoteric charm, but would probably be driven out of the general store if the bigoted men of the town caught him there. There is an otherworldly strangeness to him. "Orpheus Descending"

A member of a three-person women’s chorus that fully captures the spirit of small town southern women with their penchant for gossip and capacity for deep feeling. These women are fast-talking, occasionally two-faced, and always aware of their surroundings (or at least they think so). Forever in someone else’s business. "Orpheus Descending"

A member of a three-person women’s chorus that fully captures the spirit of small town southern women with their penchant for gossip and capacity for deep feeling. These women are fast-talking, occasionally two-faced, and always aware of their surroundings (or at least they think so). Forever in someone else’s business. "Orpheus Descending"

If the women in this town have a capacity for deep feeling and compassion, the men are their foils. They are quick to judgment and just as quick to action, not considering the pain it may inflict on those around them. Pee Wee and Dog are cronies of Sheriff Talbott, and longtime friends of Jabe Torrance. They are also members of a white supremacist organization responsible for the destruction of Lady’s father’s home and ultimately his death. "Orpheus Descending"

If the women in this town have a capacity for deep feeling and compassion, the men are their foils. They are quick to judgment and just as quick to action, not considering the pain it may inflict on those around them. Pee Wee and Dog are cronies of Sheriff Talbott, and longtime friends of Jabe Torrance. They are also members of a white supremacist organization responsible for the destruction of Lady’s father’s home and ultimately his death. "Orpheus Descending"

The second in command to the town’s chief monster. Sheriff Talbott is everything society should fear when they imagine a crooked lawman. He has long since traded his soul for a small, crummy piece of land in a place that will be dust in a century. "Orpheus Descending"

Lady’s husband and the arch boss of the small southern hamlet. He relishes in his victory over Lady’s father, having burned down his home, stolen his daughter, and seen him burn alive. The rot in Jabe’s soul seems to be at the center of the town’s decay, in some Greek tragic sense. He is one of those few and far between people in which there is not a single ounce of human blood. His veins run with bile. "Orpheus Descending"

A man who drops into the Hades-scape of the small delta town at the critical time just before change is impossible. He has a history with Carol Cutrere but falls for Lady. Their dangerous romance threatens to bring Lady further into the depths. His arrival in the town ignites the sexuality of every woman in his sphere, which infuriates the men they are married to. He is a musician. Ability to play guitar preferred. "Orpheus Descending"

Family patriarch full of power and punch. A self-proclaimed roughneck who made his fortune by working hard alongside people who treated him generously. Because of his life experience, he is tolerant in spite of his roughness, but does not suffer dishonesty, deception, or dissembling. He sees more promise in his wayward son Brick’s nature than his scheming older son Gooper’s. Has a lecherous streak. "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

Chronically pregnant. Her child-bearing is almost her only character trait. The only other prominent feature she appears to display is a greed for a fortune that will serve her spawn. Married to Gooper. "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

Brick’s older brother who has failed to prove any heroic value to Big Daddy. He is adequate in seemingly every way, but is the type of person who will never be described as exceptional in any way, except perhaps in his desire to obtain Big Daddy’s fortune—to which he feels exclusively entitled. Father of three children, with one (and probably an innumerable parade of others) on the way. "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

The family doctor, with poor news about Big Daddy’s health. He is chronically dour, but believes he sports a good face and bright bedside manner. "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

The young preacher come to call at a time when Big Daddy seems to be on the way to the Kingdom of Heaven, and just in time to leave the church a fortune. Charming if not insipid, and considerably more transparent than a stained glass window. He’s not fooling anyone. "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof"

Mid-20s. Promising scion of the wealthiest and most prominent family in a small Delta town. He has a poetic bearing but years of social scrutiny and sexual repression have fostered in him a violence that exists just below the surface. This character commits acts of violence and aggression onstage. Non-Union only. "Spring Storm"