PTD Productions
Announces auditions for
Welcome to Paradise
by Julie Marino
Directed by Laura Bird
Sunday February 16 & Monday February 17 @ 7pm
Callbacks, if necessary, Wednesday February 19 @ 7pm
At the Riverside Arts Center
76 N Huron, Ypsilanti
Performances May 8 – 17
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 7:30
Sunday and Wednesday @ 2pm
At the Riverside Arts Center
Auditions will involve an improv warm up and cold readings from the script
Play synopsis
Evelyn thinks this may be her last solo trip to her Caribbean beach house before encroaching old age and interfering children dictate otherwise. Global vagabond Rory is just looking for a warm, congenial pit stop. Taking up Evelyn’s offer of a place to stay a night, maybe two, Rory finds himself feeling more and more at home at Evelyn’s place. She meanwhile is unexpectedly delighted to have an agreeable, helpful young companion. They both realize that their friendship is offering more than they thought.
Character descriptions
Rory - male presenting, 25ish, a traveler with no particular place to go
Evelyn - female presenting, 75-80, the owner of the beach house
Greg - male presenting, 45-50, Evelyn's son
Trish - female presenting, 45-50 Greg's wife
Sydney - female presenting, 19-20, Greg and Trish's daughter. This character performs one scene wearing only a bathing suit.
Questions to the director - lbirdhouse@comcast.net
In reference to character descriptions: We will list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities, and encourage actors of all types to audition. Additionally, most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns and you will see that in the descriptions. However, our casting seeks to be as inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. Also, we will list disability when specific to a character, but are otherwise seeking actors with disabilities as well as non-disabled actors for all roles.