Actors Required for "To Kill a Mockingbird" Play Audition

Handsome and vital, but with a left hand crippled by a childhood accident and held against his chest. He’s married to Helen and they have young children. He faces up to a false charge with quiet dignity. There’s an undercurrent of kindness, sensitivity, and consideration.

The town sheriff and a complex man. He does his duty as he sees it, and enforced the law without favor. The key to this man’s actual feelings is revealed in his final speeches to Atticus, and this attitude should be an undercurrent to his earlier actions.

Father of Mayella, a little bantam-cock of a man who lives with his large family by the town dump. Bob thinks this trial will make him an important man, and when Atticus destroys his credibility, Bob’s rage and frustration border on paranoia.

A wintry man of the South, who does what he can within the context of the time to see justice done in his court. While he tries to run his court impartially, his sympathy is with Tom.

A pale recluse who hasn’t been outside his house in fifteen years.

The minister of the First Purchase Church. He’s an imposing man with a strong stage presence.

A hard-up farmer who shares the prejudices of this time and place but who is nevertheless a man who can be reached as a human being.

A public prosecutor who is doing his job in trying to convict Tom. In many ways his manner is cruel and hurtful, and yet under all this, he too has unexpressed doubts as to Tom’s guilt, and his heart isn’t really in this conviction. Still, he goes after it, and it’s a hard thing.

He is a thin, leathery, laconic man. To double as Court Clerk.

She’s Scout, grown older, looking back on the time she was the young Scout, looking for answers to questions that still exist in her memory of that time. Our narrator.

Proud and capable, she has raised the motherless Scout and Jem. She’s a self-educated woman and she’s made quite a good job of it. Her standards are high and her discipline as applied to Scout and Jem is uncompromising.

She’s a neighborhood gossip, and she enjoys it to the hilt. There’s an enthusiasm in her talking over the people of her town that makes it almost humorous. Sometimes she says things that are petty, but partly it’s because she simply can’t keep herself from stirring things up.

(60+). An old woman – ill, walking with difficulty, her pain making her biting, bitter, and angry. However, she’s fighting a secret battle within herself, a battle about which few people are aware.

(to play 19). A desperately lonely and overworked young woman whose need for companionship – any companionship – has overwhelmed every other emotion. However, when her effort to reach out explodes in her face, she fights just as desperately for what she thinks is survival.

She is half numb with the shock of the false charge against her husband Tom. She’s someone caught in a nightmare.