CenterStage Players announces auditions for THE AMISH PROJECT by Jessica Dickey.
Sunday, October 25, 2015 5pm – 7pm and Monday October 26, 2015 7pm-9pm at the North College Hill City Center, 1500 Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati 45231 (Marvin Ave. Intersection)
Looking for men, women and children ages 6-80.
This ensemble version of the one woman show, THE AMISH PROJECT is a fictional exploration of the Nickel Mines schoolhouse shooting in an Amish community on October 2, 2006. All actors remain onstage throughout the entire show.
Performance dates: May 13-15 and 20-21, 2015
Characters: (Please Note! ALL actors stay onstage throughout the whole show and participate in portions of the dialogue much like a Greek chorus)
- Carol Stuckey – Widow of the gunman, age 31, Non-Amish
- Eddie Stuckey-The gunman of the schoolhouse shooting, age 33. Non-Amish. Killed himself at the end of the attack
- Anna-Amish girl age 14. Victim of shooting
- Velda-Amish girl age 6. Victim of shooting
- Bill North-Non-Amish age 50+. Scholar and professor on Amish culture, as well as friend and spokesman to several Amish families affected by the shooting
- Sherry Local – Non-Amish, age 50+. Resident of Nickels Mine, PA.
- America-age 16. Hispanic, pregnant. Works in the local grocery store.
- Ensemble and the Community of Nickels Mines, PA.
- Fireman
- Aaron-Amish, age 35-45, Father of Anna and Velda
- Amish Mother, age 30-40-Wife of Aaron, mother of Anna and Velda
- Jacob, Amish boy, age -8-12, son of Aaron
- Reporters-male or female
- Ray Local age 50+ Sherry’s Husband
- America’s mother
- Marian, Elizabeth, Catherine, Margaret, Mary, Dottie, Esther-Amish-Victims of shooting
- Emma-Amish-Velda’s bff-victim of shooting
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