"To Kill a Mockingbird" Stage Play Looking for Actors

Scout as a grown-up woman and narrator of the play. She is reliving these moments as she searches for answers to questions that still exist in the time of the play.

Reserved, thoughtful, well-educated, and quietly impressive with immense integrity. Without heroics and with careful composure, he does what he thinks is just. Father to Scout and Jem.

Proud, capable, and self-educated. She has raised the motherless Scout and Jem with high standards and uncompromising discipline.

The town sheriff and a complex, perceptive man. He does his duty as he sees it and enforces the law without favor, but with a bare hint of deeper feelings beneath the surface.

A petty, hateful man with a massive chip on his shoulder who lives with his large family by the town dump. The embodiment of white trash and bigotry. Father to Mayella.

The oldest daughter of Bob Ewell. Shy, overworked, and desperately lonely for companionship, but will fight for what she thinks is survival when backed into a corner.

Younger than Atticus but of his generation, she is a lovely, sensitive woman with a sense of wisdom and compassion that suggests the best instincts of the South from the play’s time period. Neighbor to the Finches.

The neighborhood gossip who relishes talking about the people of the town with enthusiasm that borders on comical and occasional pettiness that she simply can’t resist. Neighbor to the Finches.

An ill old woman with limited mobility and chronic pain who is secretly fighting an internal battle that has made her bitter and angry, and will lash out for any reason. Neighbor to the Finches.

A hard-up farmer with a quiet hint of leadership. While he shares the prejudices of the time and place of the play, he can nevertheless be reached as a human being.

Handsome and vital with a left hand that was crippled in a childhood accident. He faces up to a false charge with a quiet dignity and an undercurrent of kindness, sensitivity, and consideration. Husband to Helen.

A young wife and mother who is half-numb with the shock of the false charge against her husband, Tom, and is living a tragic nightmare.

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

Minister of the First Purchase Church and an imposing, strong presence with a commanding voice.

The public prosecutor in Tom Robinson’s trial. In many ways, his manner is cruel and hateful. While he may harbor unexpressed doubts about Tom’s guilt, he nevertheless does his job in pursuing conviction with determination.

A leathery, laconic, and no-nonsense business man. Neighbor to the Finches and brother to Arthur “Boo” Radley. (This role may be cast with the same actor as Arthur “Boo” Radley.)

A recluse who has not been outside his house in fifteen years and is uncertain how to interact with others. Neighbor to the Finches and brother to Nathan Radley. (This role may be cast with the same actor as Nathan Radley.)

(various ages, races, and genders) People of the town who attend the trial of Tom Robinson, some of whom also form a lynch mob outside his cell.