Audition Notices

All auditions take place at Spotlight Theatre, 129 Park Ave, Swarthmore, PA 19081 (PAC Center). 
All roles are non-union and non-paid. Any future audition dates follow the current audition.

To save time, please print a copy of the audition form from the link below, complete it (please add name of show) and bring it with you to the audition. Copies will be available at auditions for those who are unable to print it from the website.

Click here to view and print a copy of the audition form.

For more information call 484-326-5172 or email info@spotlighttheatrepa.org

Presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

Saturday, January 13 from 3:00 – 5:00 pm

Sunday, January 14 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm

Callbacks, if needed, will be Saturday, January 20 at 2:00 pm

Please sign up here

Auditions are held at 129 Park Ave. Swarthmore, PA Basement level.

The Outsider will run April 19, 20, 21, 26, 27, and 28th.

Rehearsals will be Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings beginning February 1.

Please bring a headshot and resume (if possible), along with completed audition form. Click here for the audition form Forms will also be available at the audition.

Please bring a list of rehearsal conflicts.

Auditions will consist of readings from the script, which will be emailed to you once you sign up.

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.

Please contact Lorraine Barrett with questions or more info

ROLES: (ages approximate)

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. Smart, honest, and endearingly earnest.

LOUISE PEAKES, female, 30s to 50s. A temporary employee hired as the Governor’s executive assistant. Personable, likable, friendly, impressively confident, and entirely inept. Without knowing it she has the air of a politician about her.

NED NEWLEY, male, 50s/60s. The new Governor. A person of impressive ability, but a complete lack of confidence. Prone to panic attacks at the worst times.

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.

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. Straight-forward 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.

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.

Thank you for your interest!