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Beechmont Players and directors James & Sarah Updike will be holding auditions for American Son, by Christopher Demos-Brown.

Synopsis:
An estranged interracial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their son.

Auditions:

Monday, June 6th & Tuesday, June 7th at 6:30 pm

Anderson Center Theater (downstairs meeting room – look for signs)
7850 Five Mile Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45255

Please bring a resume and conflicts from December 1st – February 10th, 2024. Headshot is encouraged. Cold readings will be done from the script.

Rehearsals start at the beginning of December and will rehearse 3 days a week with a break for the Holidays. The final schedule will be determined after the show is cast and conflicts have been provided.

Show Dates:

February 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, & 10th, 2024 at the Anderson Center Theater

Characters:  

• Kendra Ellis-Connor [Female, 40-55]
  A professor of psychology and the mother of a teenage son; recently separated from her white husband. She is emotionally raw, but trying to keep it together behind a professional façade. She is a strong, confident, and self-possessed woman.
  Ethnicity: Black / African-American
• Scott Connor [Male, 40-55]
  Kendra’s estranged husband. An FBI agent; he takes pride in his family’s long tradition of military service. Though he can be rigid in his views, he has a warm, sensitive side and is a deeply loving and devoted father. He has obvious contained power, but when pushed can explode.
  Ethnicity: White / European
• Officer Paul Larkin [Male, 25-35]
  An intelligent, congenial young police officer with bold career ambitions who lacks actual life experience; while always trying to do the right thing, he often says the wrong thing at the wrong time. His naivety can appear comic and inappropriate at times.
  Ethnicity: White / European
• Officer John Stokes [Male, 45-60]
  A tough, no-nonsense, career police officer who is used to having people listen when he talks. He has paid his dues, knows the rules, and has no hesitation enforcing them.
  Ethnicity: Black / African-American

Questions? 

Contact directors James & Sarah Updike at updiketheater@hotmail.com

Beechmont Players and director Steve Phelan will be holding auditions for their fall production, Gladys Nights, by Becky Kimsey.

Directed by: Steve Phelan
Produced by: Mary Jo Bissmeyer

Synopsis:
Gladys is having a mid-life crisis. Stuck in the daily grind of a telemarketing job with an irritating boss, Gladys is visited by her childhood imaginary friend, Pepper– a sexy badass international assassin who made a pact with Gladys 30 years ago that she would never let Gladys become boring. Pepper talks her into becoming an assassin too, but during the negotiation process, Gladys inadvertently talks all her clients out of it. The detective trying to catch Gladys in the act falls for her romantically instead, and in the end, Gladys must choose between Pepper (and her new career) and romance.

Auditions:

June 12th & June 14th at 7:00p

Cherry Grove United Methodist Church
1428 Eight Mile Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45255

Please bring a resume and conflicts from August 7 – October 14. Headshot is encouraged. Cold readings will be done from the script.

Rehearsals start in the beginning of August and will rehearse 3 days a week. Final schedule will be determined after the show is cast and conflicts have been provided.

Show Dates:
October 6-8 and 12-14, 2023 at the Anderson Center Theatre

Characters:

• Gladys: (female) mild mannered and overweight; 40s
• Pepper: (female) an acrobatic international assassin; 20s-30s
• Bobby: (male) Gladys’ obnoxious patronizing boss; 40s
• Ray: (male) detective with a soft spot; 40s
• Generic Man: plays Man, Donny, Greg, Waiter, and Mr Jacobson; 20s-40s
• Generic Woman: plays Alice, Theresa, Attendant, and Sunny; 20s-40s
• Techie #1: Easily intimidated; 18-20s
• Techie #2: Not easily intimidated; 30s-40s

Questions?
Contact director Steve Phelan at stevephelan7588@gmail.com or producer Mary Jo Bissmeyer at mjbissmeyer@gmail.com

Beechmont Players and director Jim Waldfogle will be holding auditions for their 2023-2024 season opener, Agatha Christie’s MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig.

Synopsis:
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train is surprisingly full for the time of the year, but by the morning it is one passenger fewer. An American tycoon lies dead in his compartment, stabbed eight times, his door locked from the inside. Isolated and with a killer in their midst, the passengers rely on detective Hercule Poirot to identify the murderer – in case he or she decides to strike again.

Auditions:
Mon. May 8th & Wed. May 10th at 7p
Anderson Center Theater
7850 Five Mile Rd
Cincinnati, OH 45255

Please bring a resume and conflicts from June 1 – August 5. Headshot is encouraged. Cold readings will be done from the script.

Rehearsals start in the beginning of June and will rehearse 3 days a week. Final schedule will be determined after the show is cast and conflicts have been provided.

Show Dates:
July 28, 29, 30; Aug 3, 4, 5 at the Anderson Center Theater

Characters: *Ages are approximate and can be adjusted within reason*

• Hercule Poirot – Belgian.  Middle-aged.  Brilliant, suspicious, somewhat vain.
• Monsieur Bouc – Belgian, a young middle-aged man of good humor.
• Mary Debenham – English beauty, late 20s+.  Anxious, with an air of sadness.
• Hector MacQueen – Nervous young American, 30s.  Beleaguered.
• Michel, the Conductor – Any age, doubles with Head Waiter.
• Princess Dragomiroff – Russian, 70s.  Commanding, expensively dressed.
• Greta Ohlsson –  Swedish, 30s+.  Frightened, sheepish, plainly dressed.
• Countess Andrenyi – 20s+, brilliantly beautiful, extravagantly dressed.  “Out of a fairy tale.”
• Helen Hubbard – Outspoken American, 50s.  Well dressed, with a touch of flamboyance.
• Colonel Arbuthnot – Scotsman, mid-30s+.  Handsome, matter-of-fact.
• Samuel Ratchett – Middle-aged American “businessman.”  Brusque, unforgiving, threatening.
• Head Waiter – Any age, doubles with Michel.

NOTE: For the safety of our patrons, cast and crew, all participants in this show will be required to be vaccinated before the start of rehearsals.

Questions? Contact director Jim Waldfogle at jim.waldfogle@gmail.com