ILLUSIONS OF HOPE AND DESPAIR CALLBACKS
Thursday August 26
8:00-10:00pm
Nichols 017
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.