Audition Dates: Mon & Tue, Aug 26 & 27, 2024*, starting at 7:00 pm both nights.

The Dayton Theatre Guild at the Caryl D. Philips TheatreScape
430 Wayne Ave, Dayton OH, 45410
937-278-5993
www.daytontheatreguild.org

Directed by K.L.Storer
Produced by Debra Kent

Production Dates: Oct 11-20, 2024

(6 males; 2 females ‐‐ plus ‐‐ some roles are precast)

Casting Requirements:

• Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
• A résumé and headshot are not required but are encouraged.
• Please provide a list of all known conflicts between Aug 28 & Oct 20, 2024.

All cast and crew are required to be vaccinated for COVID-19

• Leone Baxter: 28, Female ‐ Co-founder of Campaigns, Inc. and the brains of the operation. Ambitious and driven, she views things from a practical standpoint and, though not wholly amoral, isn't opposed to ignoring ethical questions that obstruct her from her goals. She is acutely aware that she is an unwanted woman in a man's world.
• Clem Whitaker: 31, Male ‐ The other co-founder of the firm, intelligent in his own right but readily recognizes that his partner is the leader. A little less willing to compromise his ethics but acquiesces to his partner's lead. Still, he probably has a much stabler moral compass than Leone.
• Frank Merriam: 69, Male ‐ The current Californian Governor. A pompous blowhard, engulfed in his own ego, and thus quick to anger. He has no charm in his body; most, if not all of those who work with him don't actually like him; his running mate, Hatfield, at one point calls him a "jackass" and "a fly-covered wheelbarrow of horse dung?" We, however, are not going to paint him two-dimensionally.
• George Hatfield: 46, Male ‐ The current U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California, running to be Merriam's Lieutenant Governor. A smart, ambitious politician, tolerating Merriam only to bide his own time to becoming Governor, himself. He placates Merriam, but shows himself to be calculated and ruthless.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 51, Male ‐ well, it's FDR....
• Eleanor Roosevelt: 50, Female ‐ again, it's Eleanor Roosevelt....

*DIRECTOR'S NOTES: The ages listed are those the actors can play successfully, not necessarily the actors' actual ages.

The following roles will be played by actors in multiples of them. The script suggests the roles be played by the actors playing FDR and Eleanor, but the casting of these roles may be altered somewhat, adding to the cast.

• Louis B. Mayer (male)
• Kyle Palmer (male)
• Ty Cobb (male)
• Reporter (female)
• Photographer (male)
• Douglas Fairbanks (male)
• Mary Pickford (female)
• Waitress (female)

  THE SIDES:

  • 01 Merriam, Hatfield, Whitaker, Baxter
  • 02 Merriam, Hatfield, Whitaker, Baxter
  • 03 Reporter (Sinclair, Chaplin)
  • 04 Whitaker, Baxter
  • 05 Baxter, Whitaker
  • 06 Pickford, Fairbanks (Chaplin)
  • 07 Whitaker, Merriam, Baxter, Palmer
  • 08 Whitaker, Baxter
  • 09 FDR, Eleanor, (Sinclair)
  • 10 Hatfield, Whitaker
  • 11 Baxter, Whitaker, Waitress
  • 12 Eleanor, FDR

  *Due to preproduction needs, the following roles are precast:

• Upton Sinclair
• Charlie Chaplin

  For more information please contact Director K.L.Storer at kl.storer@daytontheatreguild.org

  The show runs weekends Oct 11-20, 2024