Equity Actors Required for 2025-26 Season Plays

Famous novelist, charismatic, intelligent, charming, a touch arrogant & extremely crafty. He writes successful romance novels yet is growing tired of the books that have brought him fame. He starts the play with severe physical injuries from a near fatal car crash & uses great cunning & determination to survive being held as a prisoner in the home of his number one fan. This is a physically demanding role requiring strength & stamina including a “fight to the death” stage combat scene. "MISERY"

Annie is Paul Sheldon’s self-proclaimed numberone fan. A former nurse who saves Paul’s life after his car crash, at first she seems awkwardly starstruck and eager to help him. Eventually Annie reveals herself to be emotionally unstable and sometimes extremely cruel, hiding a deep and terrifying malice behind her cheery simple façade. This is a physically demanding role requiring strength and stamina including a “fight to the death” stage combat scene. "MISERY"

Buster is a small-town local sheriff investigating a report that the famous novelist Paul Sheldon may be missing somewhere is the community. Having been raised in a small town, the sheriff is very friendly, helpful and somewhat trusting. There are some physical demands (choreographed falling and being dragged) in this role. "MISERY"

Cold, stern, miserly and lacking empathy, he undergoes a positive emotional transformation. "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

A warm and loving father, timid employee, and a formidable ghost with an important message for Scrooge. "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

A warm and loving mother with a lot of opinions. Also, a tenderhearted ghost who reminds Scrooge of a kinder way of life. "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

Scrooge’s youthful, kind, loving and idealistic first love, and his exuberant younger sister. "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

Scrooge’s indomitably cheery nephew brimming with goodwill. Doubles as the ghost of Christmas Present filled to the brim with this same joyful spirit. "A CHRISTMAS CAROL"

(Mid 60s) A successful novelist. Intelligent, articulate & attractive she is navigating her life as an independent single older woman living alone in NYC. Surviving a recent resurgence of breast cancer, she is uncertain about her prognosis & reluctant to get too attached or hopeful about creating a future that involves anyone else. Mark was the love of her life 30 years ago & seeing him stirs everything up from their past and reveals how much they have both changed. Politically liberal. "STILL"

(Mid 60s) Charming, successful, attractive and intelligent, Mark finds himself divorced after 27 years of marriage and parenthood and is in the process of reinventing his life. He is currently contemplating running for office and becoming a national politician. Helen was the love of his life 30 years ago and he is hoping to rekindle their spark and pick up where they left off. Seeing her stirs everything up from their past. Politically he is a moderate conservative. "STILL"

Early 60s. Recently widowed, he is a retiring postal worker on the verge of selling his home and starting a new life with a woman he has fallen in love with. He has an intelligent and dry sense of humor similar to Bob Newhart. He is somewhat emotionally reserved and undemonstrative towards his children, and he tries his best to avoid awkward touchy-feely situations. "WHIT’S END"

Early 60s. Smart, attractive, loving and maybe a touch neurotic. Previously divorced, she now finds herself happily involved in a committed relationship in her 60s. Feeling the pressure of meeting Whit’s family, she may try a little too hard, but she just wants everyone to like her because she really wants this relationship to work out. "WHIT’S END"

She tends to be a bit comically “high strung” as she often emotionally overreacts to things – especially if she feels overlooked or unseen. She never seems to shine as brightly as her brother in her father’s eyes. Historically she has had terrible taste in boyfriends. "WHIT’S END"

Mid 30s. Whit’s successful first-born son, he has inherited his father’s laid-back response to life. He has a sarcastic, dry sense of humor but nevertheless, always means well. In fact, having no response to something is interpreted that he approves. Historically he has had dated spectacularly successful, beautiful woman, but his new girlfriend who teaches people how to make balloon animals is a bit of an outlier. "WHIT’S END"

Mid-60s. An Appalachian farm woman who has seen and endured much. There is no pretense about this woman – she is who she tells you she is. Practical, determined, feisty and forthright, she is a force to be reckoned with as she narrates her journey, which includes flashback scenes from her past. Born into a large family and married at a young age to a husband who beat and abused her, she had 11 children and raised each of them with love and without complaint. "GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A WALK"

A wide range of 13 different people, including her abusive husband and her drunken father as well as people she meets on the trail. "GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A WALK"