Paper Figs Play Reading Auditions
For Playwrights Local
5th Annual Cleveland Play Wrights Festival
Saturday October 12th, 2019
Audition Location and Time
2345 Lee Rd Cleveland Heights Library
Sunday August 18th, 2019 2-4:30 pm. Levey Room
Thursday August 22nd 6-8:00 pm. Levey Room
Please send a MP3, youtube or wetransfer
Audition requirements:
Cold read from the script. Please bring a head shot and resume. If you are submitting a video audition please forward a head shot or selfie and resume to
aj.hodges@yahoo.com.
Casting for the following roles:
Young Iris (possibly double-cast with Iris) – Female, Black, ages 14, 15 & 16. She is full of life and free-spirited.
Young Manuel –(possibly double-cast with Manuel) Male, White, ages 16, 17 & 18. Reserved, yet adventurous.
Iris Smith – Female, Black, Early 30’s, doctor, engaged to college boyfriend, lives alone, raised in a strict religious home, she is an only child. Has a collection of shells.
Manuel Goldberg – Male, Jewish, Early 30’s, married, 2 kids, owns book store passed on from his father and grandfather. Is religious and follows Jewish traditions. Has a collection of shells.
Tavora Goldberg – Female, Jewish Mid 20’s, wife of Manuel for 5 years, young minded, strong-willed and scorned, 1st generation, has accent. Was raised by her grandparents after her parents died.
Grant Williams – Male, Black, Early 30s, fiancé of Iris. Charismatic, persistent and can be quick tempered.
Roles for the reading are unpaid.