Company & Audition Venue: 

The Wimberley Players, 450 Old Kyle Road, Wimberley TX 78676

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Directed by:

Whitney Marlett

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Audition Dates:

** February 23rd & 24th, 7 - 10pm (by appointment)
* VIDEO auditions accepted through midnight, February 23rd
If you are unavailable for the in-person date, please contact the Producer at theoutsider@wimberleyplayers.org

to make alternate arrangements.

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Appointment Form (click link):  

https://forms.gle/R8L9qZgpcpugDv7u8

(all actors must submit form - including headshots, resumes, and video file or link if needed).

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How to Prepare: 

1 minute comedic monologue. Please also be prepared to do cold reads (sides will be provided).

Callbacks (if needed):  

Saturday February 28th, 1 pm. Sides will be provided.

 

Rehearsals:

First table read will be Sunday March 1st, 7-10 pm. Full rehearsals will begin the following week, depending on availability.

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Technical Rehearsals:

Will be April 18 & 19,  12pm to 9pm.

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Dress Rehearsals:

Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday,  April 21 - 23, 6 -11 pm.

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Performances (12):

April 24th through May 17th. Friday and Saturday night curtains are at 7:30pm. Sunday matinee curtains are at 2:30 pm.

Compensation:  

All actors are offered a stipend.

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About the Play:

Ned Newley doesn’t even want to be governor. He’s terrified of public speaking; his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for the worst candidate to ever run for office.... A timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.

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Time and Place:

The office of a Governor of a small state. The present.

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Characters:

PAIGE CALDWELL – Female, 20s to 40s: A professional pollster. A smart confident woman with a professional’s view of politics: she sees it as a series of contests to be won.

 

DAVE RILEY – Male 30s/40s: The Chief of Staff to the new Governor. Very smart, but – despite years of experience in government – endearingly earnest and naive on the subject of politics.

 

LOUISE PEAKES – Female, 30s to 50s: A temporary employee hired as the Governor’s executive assistant. Personable, likable, impressively confident and entirely inept. Without knowing it, she has the air of a politician about her. The friendliness of her smile, and the confident way she looks you in the eye, would make you think, “I’d vote for her.”
 

NED NEWLEY – Male, 50s/60s:  The new Governor. A person of impressive ability, but a complete lack of confidence. A man awaiting permission to enter a room in which he is already standing.

 

ARTHUR VANCE – Male, 50s/60s: One of the most experienced and successful political consultants in the country. His overbearing personality, and confidence in his own opinions over the opinions of others, should make him dislikable, but his ego is more than tempered by the joy – even glee – he brings into the room. He’s a showman, but his excitement is 100% genuine, and it’s contagious.

 

RACHEL PARSONS – Female, 30s: A TV reporter. She has the looks to be an on-air correspondent – though, if television had never been invented, she still would have been a journalist. Straightforward and honest, and inquisitive by nature. She’s seen enough of life – and politics – to be cynical, but she’s more apt to make a wry joke.

 

A.C. PETERSEN – Male, 30s to 50s:  A TV camera man. A working man, and – for most people – the guy you didn’t notice was there. Which is fine with A.C.; he has a low tolerance for idiocy and would rather not interact with anyone. His near-silence doesn’t make him seem unfriendly, just a bit of a mystery.