Casting Equity Principal Actors for 2025-26 Season

A young man who is brave, noble, and intelligent, and is eager to become a musketeer. He is driven by love and chivalry but can sometimes be amoral. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

Lead musketeer in the King's Guard. He is noble, honest and just with a broken-hearted melancholy that no one questions. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

A musketeer in the King's Guard. A Falstaffian character who is strong, tough, loyal with a sense of humor. He enjoys wine, fine clothes, women, dueling and song. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

A musketeer in the King's Guard who is torn between his love of women and his desire to join the priesthood. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

The second most powerful man in France. Appears chaste and noble but is short tempered, conniving, and crafty. He wants to take over France by any means necessary. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

Rochefort is a skilled swordsman, a master strategist, and a henchman of Cardinal Richelieu. He is also arrogant, sadistic, and ruthless with excellent comic timing. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

The King of France, powerful in name only. He would like to be a strong and effective leader but just can't find his way. Equally lost when it comes to loving his beautiful Queen. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

A gruff military man who is the respected and loyal commander of the King's Musketeers and a close advisor to King Louis XIII. He loves his men above all else. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

D'Artagnan's younger sister. A young woman of spirit with a ferocious appetite for adventure that matches her brother's. Brave, curious and sweet. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

A beautiful, cunning, and manipulative femme fatale, often using her beauty and charm to achieve her goals. She is a cunning spy for the Cardinal and is Athos's ex-wife. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

A young and idealistic lady-in-waiting to the Queen. She is loyal to the Queen and will do anything to protect her. She is the love interest of D'Artagnan. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

The Queen of France, married to a lovable imbecile who can't find the way to love his wife. She knows her duty to her crown but is conflicted in her own feelings of love. "THE THREE MUSKETEERS"

21 years old. "MALCOLM X AND REDD FOXX WASHING DISHES AT JIMMY'S CHICKEN SHACK IN HARLEM"

19 years old. "MALCOLM X AND REDD FOXX WASHING DISHES AT JIMMY'S CHICKEN SHACK IN HARLEM"

A dreamer who gives his life to helping others; a can-do banker, often the smartest in the room; sometimes short-tempered; at one point down enough to contemplate suicide. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

A range of characters, including: Potter: 50s, the heavy; shrewd, self-interested banker. Capable of cruelty. Clarence: 40s-60s, the angel, huge heart, his bumbling exterior hides his essential wisdom. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

A range of characters, including: Peter Bailey: quintessential, benevolent patriarch. Uncle Billy: sweet, well-meaning but completely unreliable; fond of the bottle. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

Hugely capable, tolerant of George’s temperament, but with limits; directs her bottomless capacity for love toward holding her family together. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

A range of characters, including: Violet: 20s/30s, leans into sultry; desperate to leave her bad reputation behind for a fresh start. Mrs. Bailey: 50s/60s, a wise mom who can read her son George like a book. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

A range of characters, including: Young George: early-mid teens, already thinking big; loves sharing what he knows. Charlie/Marty/Cousin Eustace: 20s-40s, Bailey extended family, friends, characters around town. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

A range of characters, including: Zuzu: 6, everything 1940s girl, daddy’s girl, curious, joyous. Young Mary: 10, but a shy, young-adult 10; smart; knows who she wants. Mrs. Hatch/Mrs. Davis/Reporter: a variety of young-to-mature townsfolk. "IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE"

Pronounced “Ah-nuh” Beautiful. Charming. Smart. Accomplished. Organized. A columnist for a Daily paper. The Mother Bee. Her grace masks a need to control. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

Her golden-boy handsome charismatic under-achiever husband who is starting to search for meaning. Met in College. Upper Crust background. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

ROB’s conservative, well read, well dressed, disciplined college roommate. Ana’s former boyfriend. History buff. Unmarried. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

Ana’s friend. Pretty. Shy. Smart. Tends to burst out with awkward truthful comments. Despite some lack of self-confidence, she is the grounding center of the group. Unorganized and oblivious to her own attractiveness. Unmarried. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

A go-getter, former debate captain who is on the cusp of all current trends and yet can still put her foot in her mouth in social occasions. Laughs at appropriate and inappropriate times. A great lover of books and Ana’s protégé at the paper. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

The New Guy. A very smart, well-read academic who has lost his moorings and is searching for real connection. Professor of Comparative Literature. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

All five PUNDITS: SAM WAL-MART GUY, FRANK SECRET SERVICE AGENT, ELSA - JADED LITERARY AGENT, MRS. SIMPSON - SKY DIVER, CARL - INMATE BOOK DEALER. "BOOK CLUB PLAY"

First week at DSNY. Confident and competent, both physically and mentally. Keen sense of wit and irony. Vivid inner life; even when silent, her face speaks volumes. Practiced in making you think she's got it all together, but she's guarding a secret she doesn't wear on her sleeve. "THE GARBOLOGISTS"

41. Nine years at DSNY. Mansplaining, dad jokes, and run-of-the-mill machismo thinly mask a profound desire to love and be loved. With less wear-and-tear, he might be attractive — ruggedly handsome, even — but you'd swallow hot coals before saying that to his face. "THE GARBOLOGISTS"

20, intelligent, sensible, well-read and quick-witted; a brilliant conversationalist, sometimes rushes to judgement. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

27, a wealthy gentleman of the English upper class, decent, intelligent, honest (often too), arrogant. His marked class snobbery is more and more tempered by his love for Elizabeth. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

22, gentle, pleasant, reserved; often referred to as the most beautiful of the Bennet sisters. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

22, a gentleman in the best sense of the word; genial, well-intentioned, easygoing; couldn’t care less about social class. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

A gentleman of modest income who genuinely loves his family but often uses his sarcastic, cynical wit to purposefully irritate his wife. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

Mr. Bennet’s wife, a foolish, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behavior, Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

As pragmatic as her best friend Elizabeth is romantic; less interested in love than in having a comfortable home, which she in no way considers a compromise. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

A handsome, fortune-hunting militia officer. His genuine charm hides a disreputable past. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

25, a clergyman who strains so hard to exhibit his social status and connections, that he often comes off as pompous, snobbish, and, in the presence of the “higher-born,” obsequious. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

20, Bingley’s snobbish sister. Miss Bingley bears inordinate disdain for Elizabeth’s middle-class background. Her vain attempts to garner Darcy’s attention cause Darcy to admire Elizabeth’s self-possessed character even more. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

A wealthy, noblewoman, who makes it clear to everyone in her path that she is superior in every respect. The following character will double. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

Caring, nurturing, and full of common sense. The following character will double. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

Caring, nurturing, and full of common sense. The following character will double. "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE"

19, then late 20s. An artist, fiercely talented, head in the clouds, dreamy, sensitive, driven, in love with the world, a little useless around the house. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Tanya's sister, 19. Fun loving, mercurial, whip smart, sharp-tongued, determined to enjoy herself before she takes on the big job of becoming a wife and mother. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

A musician and songwriter, 28 and later late 30s. Charming, dissolute, talented, a bit tortured, cynical, unable to resist the pleasures of the flesh. You know, a musician. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Olga's betrothed, 22. Songwriter, bit of a prodigy, idealist, puppy dog, deeply in love with Olga and even more in love with the idea of Olga. Constantly inspired. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Female/femme. Tough, smart, better, talented, wronged, angry, right about everything, funny because she has to be. Doubles as Tanya and Olga's blunt AUNT. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Bar owner, queen bee, and eminent figure in her scene, wise. Doubles as Tanya and Olga's proper somewhat pretentious MOM. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Female/femme. Young, romantic, idealistic, rose-colored glasses. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

The jam leader, voice of experience, gravitas in barrels, grim humor. Doubles as Tanya’s Oil husband GEORGE. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Eugene’s old friend and running partner. Ambitious, talented, trying to figure out how to stand out from the crowd, active, starting to despair. Doubles as various characters. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Male or male presenting. Lensky Superfan. A plugger and striver, an idealist, solid as a rock. Applies himself in craftsman-like way to tasks. Doubles as various characters. "EUGENE ONEGIN"

Male, male presenting, or non-binary. Clown prince, comic relief, wit. Doubles as a number of characters. "EUGENE ONEGIN"