AUDITIONS for
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD
BY: HARPER LEE (Christopher Sergel Revised Edition)
The Saybrook Stage Company is seeking self-tape auditions for their January production of TO KILL AMOCKINGBIRD. If selected from your self-tape, you will be given an in-person callback at The
Kate on Monday, November 2 nd . Details below.
Self-tapes are due NO LATER THAN SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 TH at 5:00 P.M. to be considered. For
your self-tape, please use the full audition side(s) for the character you are interested in – making
sure to have your full body in the frame and show movement. Please use an off-camera reader.
Along with your self-tape, auditioning actors should send a current headshot or picture and recent
live theater experience to terricorigliano@gmail.com. If cast, there is a $300. acting stipend.
Please Note: If you do not see a role listed below, it has already been cast.
The OPEN ROLES are as follows:
CALPURNIA (Black - Female —40 to 60): Proud and capable, she has raised the motherless Scout and Jem. She’s a self-educated woman. Her standards are high and her discipline as applied to Scout and Jem is tough but loving.
DILL (White - 18 to 25 – must be able to play a believable teen onstage.) (NO MINORS WILL BE
CAST IN THE PRODUCTION - ACTOR MUST BE OVER 18 TO AUDITION.) : Small stature, and wise beyond his years. He is about the same as Jem. There’s an undercurrent of sophistication to him, but his laugh is sudden and happy. There is a lack in his own home life, and he senses something in Atticus that’s missing from his own family relationship with his family.
REVEREND SYKES (Black - Male —45 to 60) Rev. Sykes is the minister of the First Purchase Church. He’s an imposing man with a strong stage presence. He should have a strong “minister’s” voice.
HECK TATE (White — 40 to 50): Heck is the town sheriff and a complex man, powerful man. He’s physically strong and enforces the law without favor. His true feelings are revealed in his final speech to Atticus.
TOM ROBINSON (Black —20 to 30): Robinson is handsome and vital, but with a left hand crippled by a childhood accident. He faces up to a false charge with quiet dignity and is defended by Atticus. There’s an undercurrent in him of kindness, sensitivity and consideration.
MR. GILMER (White — 40 to 50): He is a public prosecutor who is younger than Atticus and lacks his experience and wisdom. Gilmer wants to make a name for himself in the community by convicting Tom. His manner is cruel and hurtful at the trial.
WALTER CUNNINGHAM (White – 40 – 50): Walter is a strong, local farmer who’s 12-year-old son goes to school with Scout. Early in the play, he is grateful to Atticus for his free legal advice but then turns on him later as he leads the racist men to attempt to hang Tom on their own.
IF SELECTED FROM YOUR SELF-TAPE, You will be offered an IN-PERSON CALL BACK time slot on Monday evening, November 2 nd from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main Street in Old Saybrook, CT.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD will run from January 28th through January 31st at The
Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook.
Audition Sides and Full Rehearsal Schedule can be found by clicking the button below.