Casting Performers for Playwrights Festival & Spring Show
The company is seeking actors for 39th Young Playwrights Festival & Spring Show, please see the details below, ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: "A Question" "Offices, Etc." "Toil And Trouble" "Blizzard Bound" "Spring Show" "In The Continuum" Rate: Rehearsal Stipend of $350, plus $40/performance Additional info: Callbacks: Callbacks will be held at Chicago Dramatists on October 12 or 13 First Rehearsal: 11/23/25 No rehearsals Thanksgiving 11/ 27-28 or Xmas 12/23-26, rehearsals resume 12/27. *Rehearsals are generally Mon - Thurs evening; Saturdays 10:30am-1:30pm and/or 2PM - 5PM Tech: 12/27/25 - 12/30/25 Previews: 1/1/26 - 1/3/25 Opening - Closing: 1/4/26, the run continues January 1/6/26-1/25/26 Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 7pm, Saturdays/Sundays at 2:30pm *There are Weekday School Matinees: Tuesdays-Thursdays (Friday alternate) at 10am as booked Please apply if interested.
34 roles
Quiet. Awkward, with a sarcastic sense of humor. "A QUESTION"
Lights up any room she walks into despite her awkwardness and insecurity. "A QUESTION"
Plain and monotone. "OFFICES, ETC."
Michael's coworker *Also Mr. Grossman, Officer 2, mailperson) "OFFICES, ETC."
Michael and Mark's boss. Enthusiastic and eccentric. (also plays Mr. Andrews, Mr. Brothers, Mr. Smith and Excelsior) "OFFICES, ETC."
Cheerful but also sinister. Can switch on a dime. (Also plays Mr. Fredricks, Officer 1) "OFFICES, ETC."
Very corporate. *Also Ms. Joseph, Secretary, Cong Davis "OFFICES, ETC."
Proud. The type to wear a suit with shorts. "OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
Tall "OFFICES, ETC."
Short. (Also, Celestial Being, Scientist) "OFFICES, ETC."
Shorter. "OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
The CEO. "OFFICES, ETC."
A Secretary. "OFFICES, ETC."
Ominous. "OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
"OFFICES, ETC."
The oldest of three witch sisters. Prizes "traditional" witchcraft with drama and pageantry. "TOIL AND TROUBLE"
The middle sister. A therapist who loves her job and helping people. "TOIL AND TROUBLE"
The youngest sister. A college student who tends to prioritize her friends over doing witchcraft with her sisters. "TOIL AND TROUBLE"
Like things done her way. "BLIZZARD BOUND"
Bubbly and witty. Doesn't understand social cues sometimes. "BLIZZARD BOUND"
Laid back but very competitive. "BLIZZARD BOUND"
Energetic and carefree. Immature. "BLIZZARD BOUND"
Dramatic. Exaggerates everything. "BLIZZARD BOUND"
Woman on the hunt for the piece of her that is missing. She is a beautician that works with alopecia survivors who have lost their hair due to emotional trauma. She is quick-witted, always covering her pain with a quick retort or sassy comeback. "SPRING SHOW"
Lives in 1968. Seaton is a curmudgeon. A young cynic, he is a person who believes in the status quo, and isn't privy to change or to make waves. His name translates to sea-town, as he is a person who is water, but is always on the outskirts of Things. "SPRING SHOW"
An educated and ambitious Zimbabwean professional woman, hopes that her pregnancy will both placate her old-fashioned in-laws, who disapprove of her "modern" ways, and discourage her husband from cheating by showing him that she's "a good and fertile wife." But Abigail learns that she is HIV-positive and that her husband will have to be informed, even though he may, as many Zimbabwean husbands do, beat her when he learns the bad news. "IN THE CONTINUUM"
Living in South Central Los Angeles; she's breaking the curfew at her youth home, goes to a nightclub hoping to see Darnell, an NBA-bound high school basketball star who Nia considers her boyfriend. A shooting at the club sends Nia to the emergency room, where she learns that she is pregnant. Her fantasies of a happy and affluent life as Darnell's wife are shattered when she is told that she is HIV-positive. "IN THE CONTINUUM"
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