PlayLab Casting

Florida Rep’s 2025 PlayLab

Florida Rep is accepting digital submissions for its 2025 PlayLab Festival. Florida and Southwest Florida actors and stage managers are encouraged to submit for roles and positions in Florida Rep’s popular PlayLab Festival of New Works, held May 1 – 5, 2024. Rehearsals will begin between April 30 and May 1.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO SUBMIT (Actors and Stage Managers)

CASTING BREAKDOWNS
See the listings below for character breakdowns and likely rehearsal days.

WHY WE GO TO FLORIDA by Kenneth Jones
Directed by DJ Salisbury
Reh: Apr. 30 & May 1
Reading: Thursday, May 1 | 7 PM

Note: The women are white; Henry is not necessarily.

Open Roles:

  • HENRY: Male. 48, a visitor from New York City.

Cast Roles

  • CONSTANCE: [Cast] Female. Late 70s or early 80s, an upper-middle-class Catholic widow, mother, and grandmother.
  • AMY: [Cast] Female. 50, Constance’s daughter, an upper-middle-class Midwestern mom.

DALLOWAY: Summer at Bourton
by Lindsay Joelle
Directed by Celine Rosenthal
Reh: May 1 & 2
Reading: Friday, May 2 | 7 PM

Note: British RP dialects will be used. A prequel/companion to the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Open Roles:

  • PETER WALSH: Male. 20. Anglo-Indian. Clarissa’s old friend. Emotional and intellectual.

Cast Roles:

  • CLARISSA PARRY: [Cast]Female. 18. Secretly clever. Occasionally macabre. A good hostess.
  • SALLY SETON: [Cast] Female. 18. Clarissa’s new friend. Charismatic and plucky. Captures hearts.
  • THE SLEW: [Cast] Male. 20-40. Plays all of the following roles:
    • Mr. Parry: Clarissa’s reserved father.
    • Hugh Whitbred: An Oxford dandy.
    • Joseph Breitkopf: A German opera conductor.
    • Richard Dalloway: Earnest and unassuming. A good man.

SWIPED by Samara Siskind
Directed by Stuart Brown
Reh: May 1, 2, & 3
Reading: Saturday, May 3 | 2 PM

Open Roles:

  • SARAH: Young white female, twenty. Guarded, trying to fill a void. A little lost.
  • JEREMIAH: Young black male, early twenties. Charming, moral. Insatiably curious.

Cast Roles:

  • TOM: [Cast] White male, fifties. Sarah’s father. Authoritative and steady, except when he’s not.

1999  by Stacey Isom Campbell
Directed by Summer Dawn Wallace
Reh: May 1, 2, & 3
Reading: Saturday, May 3 | 7 PM

Note: The play contains descriptions of sexual assault.

  • EMMA MIDDLETON: Female. 40s in the play’s present, and 20s in flashbacks. A professor of film criticism and a film producer. She’s perhaps unaware of her own beauty – or is measured in downplaying it. She’s tough, demanding, driven, and successful.
  • NAOMI PISTORIUS: [Cast] Female. Early 20s. Emma’s student. She could be a model on the front of a box of muesli. She’s passionate and intellectually curious, which comes across as playful until it isn’t.
  • TERESA STONE: [Cast] Female 20s. Teresa is an aspiring actress. She’s a friend and colleague of Emma’s. She’s talented, expressive, bawdy, and has a big personality.

LEMONADE
A Fresh Pressed Musical by Jesse Corbin
Directed by Jason Parrish
Reh: May 1, 2, 3, & 4
Reading: Sunday, May 4 | 4 PM 

Note: The teenage characters are 14 – 15 but should be played by actors in their 20s. We are seeking strong singers/actors.

Open Roles:

  • TIMMY: Male. Tenor. A good kid struggling with the tension of growing up while holding onto parts of his childhood. He is a hard worker who gets things done but can sometimes be set in his ways. While usually a model friend and citizen, he wrestles with his dark side when his fears and insecurities are tested.
  • SQUEEZE: Female/Femme nonbinary. Alto/mezzo. Timmy’s precocious and enthusiastic bestie whose imagination is as big as their heart. Squeeze loves Drag Race and baking and is quick to react in any situation, good or bad. Squeeze has recently been exploring their gender identity, and while they usually appear invincible, they are still learning to accept themselves and feel accepted by others. 14-15.
  • ABBEY: A self-proclaimed tech wiz and one-half of a set of twins. Abbey has a lot of personality and gumption hiding below the surface but allows herself to be limited by other people’s opinions of her. Her greatest fear is being invisible at her new school, and she desperately wants to be well-liked by the “cool” kids.
  • MOM: Female, 30s-40s.A driven and energetic woman who loves investing in her family while maintaining her independent spirit. Stubborn but always caring, she is maneuvering her second marriage after losing her first husband to cancer. Doubles in the reading as various roles.
  • ENSEMBLE: 20s. Seeing one male and one female to play ensemble roles: schoolmates, customers, and teen lead understudies.

Cast Roles:

  • KATIE: [Cast] A VSCO girlie from a wealthy family who lives in the same neighborhood as Timmy and Squeeze. She loves associating with a cause and is a performative activist. Her primary motivation is advancing herself. She is sneaky with her manipulation tactics, wooing people with her popularity, money, and “niceness” before using them for her needs. Deeply concerned with keeping up appearances, she turns her insecurities and hurt into weapons to bring others down and maintain her facade. Alexis Rose meets Regina George.
  • ZEKE: [Cast] Zeke is an artist with a wide range of design skills and considers himself the slightly more fabulous twin. He is likeable and charismatic, but he is new to town and wants to establish himself at school. He thinks of himself as bold but sometimes cracks under pressure.
  • MIKE: [Cast]  Male. 30s-40s. Although his work requires him to travel, Mike wants to be involved in his new family’s life as much as possible. He has strong opinions but is also a compulsive people pleaser. This combination can be tricky as he navigates work, marriage, and his relatively new relationship with Timmy.