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Thursday’s Callbacks

By August 26, 2021News

ILLUSIONS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR CALLBACKS

Thursday August 26 

8:00-10:00pm  

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Necessary materials will be supplied at the callback.

Susan

Claire Severance 

Ana Vasquez  

Morgan Boyer

Hannah Butler

Heather Bigwood

Memaw

Ana Vasquez

Kevina Brothers

Morgan Boyer

Heather Bigwood

Kimberly

Kevina Brothers

Nikela Reed

Heather Bigwood

Ana Vasquez

Emily

Claire Severance

Sydney Elmore

Audrey Burgoon

Ann Stegman

Jess Coy

Rita Claire Turner

Hannah Butler

William 

Ryan Teer

Cooper Mills

Matt Rosebrook

Joel Wood

Jonah Nichols

Harry Muhammad

Tyler

Francis Sheehan

Nathan Pickands

Joel Wood

Drew Scrivner

Donovan Watts

Jackson Wilks

Samuel Nunez

Brandon

Jackson Berland

Armando Perez

Michael Pierce

Joel Wood

Drew Scrivner

Donovan Watts

Samuel Nunez

Character Breakdown:

4 Women, 3 Men 

Susan

Age: Late 40’s

Gender: Female

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: Tyler’s aunt, is a nurse with practical experience and a down to earth nature, stressed and sleep deprived from work, caring but to the point.

Kimberly

Age: Early 50’s

Gender: Female

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: Tyler’s Mom, easily flustered, but her love always shines through, maternal, warm.

Sandra (primarily referenced as “Memaw”)

Age: 70’s

Gender: Female

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: Tyler’s grandmother, visibly rough and distraught, heart is in the right place, caring, Tyler is all she has left, struggling to process his condition, frail.

Emily

Age: Early 20’s

Gender: Female

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: Tyler’s sister, distant from the rest of the rest of the family except William, and the youngest of Tyler’s siblings, loving, but at arm’s length, borderline holier than thou.

William

Age: 60’s

Gender: Male

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: Tyler’s father, patronizing, a very logical man who has a deep well of love, but can only show it through intellect.

Tyler

Age: Late 20’s

Gender: Male

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: A man living with schizophrenia, he is to be acted seriously, and the relationships with his hallucinations should be treated as real as any other, he speaks with commitment and excitement, physically animated, periodic hand, and facial tics, distracted, requires immense effort for him to hold attention, in a totally different world.

Brandon

Age: Late 20’s

Gender: Male

Race: (Cast should be ethnically diverse)

Physical Characteristics: Tyler’s brother, charismatic, high energy while also sensitive and caring, he inherited his father’s intellect and his mother’s emotions – it feels like he is searching for something.