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Seeking Performers for "I Am Frankenstein" Show

Vancouver, WA, United States
ID: 288353Exp: 7/18/2025
Description:

The company is holding auditions for "I Am Frankenstein" Show and looking for performers, please see the details below ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: "I Am Frankenstein unearths two creatures who were tortured and abandoned by their makers: Victor’s famous monster, and the teenage writer Mary Shelley herself. A highly theatrical retelling of Shelley's classic, the play adds two principal characters: a haunting chorus known as The Blackbirds, and the troubled Mary Shelley, the story’s creative force. Victor, a promising student obsessed with alchemy, reanimates human life in the basement laboratory of a vacationing professor, only to abandon his creature and allow it to slowly exact revenge... " (Stage Partners) Additional info: Rehearsals: Tuesday-Thursday 6:30-9:30pm, Saturdays 10am-4pm August 12 - October 2nd (August 12 - 14, 16, 19 - 21, 26 - 28, Sep 2 - 4, 6, 9 - 11, 16 - 18, 23 - 25, 28 - Oct 2. Option for Pick-up Rehearsals on Oct 7 or 8; Oct 14 or 15) Performances: Thursday-Saturday 7:30pm curtain; Sunday 2pm curtain: Oct 3-5, 9-12, 16-19 If interested, please apply

13 roles

THE CREATUREBoth genders18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Powerfully build. Strong enough to carry the actor playing Victor. Emotionally raw and underdeveloped, highly intelligent, with a supernatural gift for imitation and language acquisition., The “man in storm” in the first scene is played by the same actor.

VICTORMale20-25 y.o.All ethnicities

Student of alchemy, chemistry. A young man in a hurry, willing to break rules to achieve greatness.

ELIZABETHFemale20-24 y.o.All ethnicities

Victor’s cousin, raised as his sister within the same household. Kind and loving, discerning, and moral.

MARY/MOTHERFemale18-24 y.o.All ethnicities

MOTHER. She is Mary Goodwin and the eventual Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein. She is an empath who is dark-natured, deeply affected by her mother’s death, and eager to prove her greatness as a writer and exorcise her own demons in the process

HENRYMale20-24 y.o.All ethnicities

Best friend of Victor, admirer of ELIZABETH. Noble, conscientious, good-natured and funny.

WALTONMale33-37 y.o.All ethnicities

English sea explorer in the arctic. Admires Victor’s adventurousness and desires fame and fortune.

PROF. KREMPEMale38-42 y.o.All ethnicities

French chemistry professor. Eccentric, acerbic, judgemental, intellectually superior, witty.

BYRONMale28-32 y.o.All ethnicities

Writer Lord Byron. Egotistical, confident genius who is something of a misogynist and an antagonist of Mary.

FATHERMale40-50 y.o.All ethnicities

Victor’s father and Elizabeth’s adoptive father

PERCYMale20-24 y.o.All ethnicities

The writer Percy Shelley. In a relationship with with Mary, though he is married to another woman. A weak defender of his lover, and a man who takes a back seat to Byron.

LUCIAMale30-55 y.o.All ethnicities

Corsican maid. Nurturing earth mother. Could also be member of the Blackbirds but should not be doubled with Mary.

SAILOR 1Male18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Either, British,

SAILOR 2Male18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Either, British,