The 2025-26 Season Shows Looking for Actors
Male and female performers wanted for upcoming theatre plays. Please find the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: 1. "MISERY" Contract Dates: Oct 6 – Nov 9, 2025 SYNOPSIS: Truth is stranger than fiction when a famous romance novelist veers off the road in a winter storm and wakes up incapacitated in the home of his “number-one fan”. Unexpected events turn his number-one fan into his number-one enemy and a heart-pounding life or death game of cat and mouse ensues. 2. "STILL" Contract Dates: Jan 12 – Feb 8, 2026 SYNOPSIS: Lost love is rekindled in this funny, heartbreaking, sexy and smart story when a couple who broke up in their 30s reunite in their 60s. But what happens if you love someone but hate the things they believe? Second chances are given, secrets exposed, and an avocado goes flying in the Maine premiere of this recent Off-Broadway hit. 3. "WHIT’S END" Contract Dates: March 1 – March 29, 2026 SYNOPSIS: The US premiere of a hilarious new comedy about love, family and significant others. When a widowed father summons his grown children home to share some “big news”, they arrive in tears convinced he must be dying (why else would he pay for their plane tickets?) But dad’s news is good - he’s fallen in love and wants them to meet her! Whether you’re a parent or a child, this laugh-out-loud comedy about the quirkiness of families and the brave souls who marry into them is for you. 4. "GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A WALK" CONTRACT DATES: April 13 – May 17, 2026 SYNOPSIS: In 1955 at the age of 67, Emma “Grandma” Gatewood told her children she was “going for a walk.” and set out with her duffel bag and a pair of Keds sneakers to walk the Appalachian Trail. Two thousand miles later, she became the first woman to solo hike 14 states from Georgia to the top of Mt Katahdin in Maine. This is a true and inspiring adventure celebrating the resiliency of the human spirit and the courage required to walk into the unknown. Rate: SPT/ $859 weekly minimum (SPT 9) + housing and transportation. Additional info: Please prepare a 2-minute contemporary monologue with consideration towards the shows listed in the season. Please bring a picture/resume stapled together. When applying, please schedule an audition appointment.
11 roles
"MISERY" A famous novelist, Paul is charismatic, intelligent, charming, a touch arrogant, and 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 and uses great cunning and determination to survive being held as a prisoner in the home of his number one fan.
"MISERY" Annie is Paul Sheldon’s self-proclaimed number-one 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.
"STILL" A successful novelist. Intelligent, articulate and 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 and 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 and seeing him stirs everything up from their past and reveals how much they have both changed.She is politically liberal
"STILL" 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 and reveals how much they have both changed.
"WHIT’S END" 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" 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" 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.
"GRANDMA GATEWOOD TOOK A WALK" 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.
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