Actors Needed for "Rules for Living" Play Audition

CARRIE’s boyfriend, ADAM’s brother, DEBORAH & FRANCIS’s son. The younger brother in the family and a lawyer who’s just made full partner, he’s doing all the right things to move up in the world, but what/who he really wants is always just out of reach. Once dreamed of becoming an actor, but his father had other plans for him.

MATTHEW’s girlfriend. A newcomer to the family’s Christmas celebrations, her anxiety to make the visit a success is palpable. An aspiring actor, she’s loud, bawdy, and routinely tells jokes at the wrong time to ease tensions… it does not work.

NICOLE’s husband, EMMA’s father, MATTHEW’s brother, DEBORAH & FRANCIS’s son. A former baseball player who still longs for the life that might have been. The older brother, also a lawyer but trailing behind his younger brother in professional achievements. Has undiagnosed ADHD which creates problems in his relationship. He is doing his best to stay afloat.

ADAM’s wife and EMMA’s mother. The practical member of the family, she copes with the frustrations and anxieties of family life with a little too much to drinking. Frustrated with her husband and fiercely protective of her daughter, she has read ALL the parenting articles.

FRANCIS’s wife and mother of ADAM and MATTHEW. Rigid and intense, she has planned family Christmas with military precision. An obsessive cleaner, she does her very best to hold her tongue – it does not always work. In her eyes her husband can do no wrong, and she will defend him to the ends of the earth.

DEBORAH’s husband, father of ADAM and MATTHEW. He is, and always has been, the head of this house. Recently suffered a stroke (under mysterious and somewhat seedy circumstances) and now struggles to speak and be understood. Ornery, demanding, and somewhat of a dirty old man.