Sunset Players is pleased to announce auditions for our winter 2024 production!
The Outsider
A comedy in two acts by Paul Slade Smith
Directed by David Roth
Show dates: February 16, 17, 18, 22, 23, 24
Auditions will take place Sunday, August 13th, 7:00 PM-9:00 PM and Monday, August 14th, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Callbacks, if needed, will be Tuesday, August 15th, 7:00 PM- 9:00 PM.
Sign up for your audition slot here: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A44A8A829A4FB6-auditions
Auditions will be held at The Arts Center at Dunham Theatre, 1945 Dunham Way, Cincinnati, OH 45238
Auditionees will be asked to read from the script.
We’re looking for comedic actors with great energy and great memorization skills!
Rehearsals will begin in late November or early December, depending on the actors’ schedules and conflicts.
Scripts will be available for the cast in late August so the cast can begin working on memorization before rehearsals begin.
CASTING REQUIREMENTS:
4 MEN, 3 WOMEN
CAST OF CHARACTERS
PAIGE CALDWELL, female, 20s to 30s. A professional pollster. A smart, confident women with a professional’s view of politics: she sees it as a series of contests to be won.
DAVE RILEY, male, 30s to 40s. The Chief of Staff of the new Governor. Very smart, but – despite years of experience in government – endearingly earnest and naïve on the subject of politics.
LOUISE PEAKES, female, 30’s to 50s. A temporary employess hired as the Governor’s executive assistant. Personable, likable, impressively confident, and entirely inept. Without knowing it, she has the air of a politician about her.
NED NEWLY, male, 50s to 60. The new Governor. A person of impressive ability, but a complete lack of confidence. A man waiting permission to enter a room in which he is already standing.
ARTHUR VANCE, male, 50s to 60. One of the most experienced and successful political consultants in the country. His overbearing personality, and confidence in his own opinions over the opinions of others, should make him dislikable, but his ego is more than tempered by the joy –even glee—he brings into the room.
RACHEL PARSONS, female, 30s. A TV reporter. She has the looks to be an on-air correspondent – though, if television had never been invented, she still would be a journalist. Straight forward, honest, and somewhat cynical.
A.C. PETERSON, male, 30s to 50s. A TV camera man. A quiet, working man with a low tolerance for idiocy.
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