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Seeking
Equity actors, male and female, for roles in TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. See breakdown.
Preparation
Please come prepared with a memorized monologue, up to two minutes in length, from a realistic American play, comic or serious. Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
Other Dates
First rehearsal: October 19th
First Preview: November 13th
Opening: November 14th
Closing: November 22nd
Other
Based on the novel by Harper Lee
Dramatized by Christopher Sergel
Personnel
Casting Director- Tom Rowan
Director- Rob Urbinati
Music Director- Julianne Merrill
Production Stage Manager- Mark Hoffner
Produced by Queens Theatre
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Jean Louise Finch. Female, Caucasian, mid-30s. Scout as an adult. Looks a lot like Harper Lee in the late 1950s – a grown-up tomboy. She’s sly, smart, and compassionate. She has a rich ''narrative'' speaking voice with a southern lilt.
Atticus Finch. Male, Caucasian, late forties/early fifties. An attorney and state representative. A widower, he’s reserved and civilized, with strongly held convictions. He exudes wisdom and empathy. Quietly courageous; dry sense of humor.
Scout. Female, Caucasian, 9 years old. A tomboy. She’s smart, combative, and rambunctious. Through the events of the play, she comes to a new understanding of human nature, and her own place in the world, i.e.: she grows up.
Jem. Male, Caucasian, 13 years old. Typical American Southern kid from a small town. An inquisitive dare-devil. Scout's companion and protector, although she annoys him. Jem desperately wants his father’s respect. Like Scout, he grapples with the injustices of Maycomb, and matures over the course of the play.
Dill. Male, Caucasian, 10 years old. Jem and Scout's neighborhood friend. Confident and lively, with an active imagination; small for his age. Like Scout and Jem, his innocence is tested by the events of the play.
Calpurnia. Female, African-American, forties/fifties. The Finchs' housekeeper. She is the closest thing to a mother that Scout and Jem have. On the surface, a stern disciplinarian, but beneath, she’s warm and compassionate.
Tom Robinson. Male, African-American, thirties. He’s accused of raping and beating Mayella Ewell. A field hand, he’s strong and virile, humble and dignified.
Reverend Skyes. Male, African-American, fifties/sixties. The pastor at First Purchase African Church. Imposing, with a presence and a resonant voice. His reserve hides an anger he’s careful not to reveal.
Bob Ewell/Nathan Radley. Male, Caucasian, forties. The Ewell patriarch spends his welfare checks on alcohol. Drunken and unemployed; ''white trash.'' A predilection for revenge and violence. Uses the trial to be ''important,'' and fails. Doubles smaller role of Nathan, Boo Radley’s older brother, a laconic man who moves through the town without participating in its activities.
Mr. Horace Gilmer/Boo Radley. Male, Caucasian, thirties/forties. Gilmer is the prosecutor. He treats Tom Robinson with a rudeness and contempt he doesn't show to the white witnesses, but it's hard to tell if he's putting a show on to win his case. Doubles with Boo, the mysterious neighbor who piques the children's interest. Mistreated by his father, he’s lived life as a recluse.
Heck Tate. Male, Caucasian, forties. Maycomb's sheriff. A decent man. Susceptible to the racism of the period and locale, he’s also caring and practical-minded. No-nonsense.
Judge Taylor/Walter Cunningham. Male, Caucasian, forties- fifties. The judge at Tom's trial who appointed Atticus to represent Tom, his personal views are subtly revealed. Relaxed and fair, even humorous at times. His informality in the courtroom doesn’t completely disguise his masterful control of it. Scout calls him a ''sleepy old shark.'' Doubles with Cunningham, one of the men who comes to lynch Tom Robinson. A poor farmer, he holds his pride dearly. A simple Southern man, capable of both kindness and cruelty.
Stephanie Crawford. Female, Caucasian, thirties/forties. Uppity, the neighborhood gossip. She can be fun and a bit outrageous, but she’s also cantankerous and ill-tempered
Mayella Ewell. Female, Caucasian, late teens/twenties. Tom’s accuser. Poor, uneducated, bruised, lonely, deserving of pity. Always suspicious that she’s being mocked or looked down on because of her class. She’s desperate for attention and hungry with desire.
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