3M, 1W for A THIRD WAY CASTING NOTICE
A THIRD WAY by Lee Osorio
Produced by Open Space Arts
NON-EQUITY
3M, 1W

Production Dates:
April 3-19, 2026

Rehearsals begin last week of February.

10 performances
Thursday-Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m.
Sunday matinees at 3:00 p.m.

Venue:
Open Space Arts - 25-seat storefront theatre (Uptown, Chicago)

About the Play:
A Third Way is a contemporary, sharply observed play about friendship, identity, desire, and the complicated ways we try to love and be seen. The piece centers on a tight-knit group of friends navigating adulthood, queerness, ambition, and emotional reckoning with humor, intimacy, and bite.

ROLES AVAILABLE
NICO
Mid-30s, Latine, male-identifying. Queer and reads as such in a subtle but undeniable way. Nico lives perpetually in a hurricane-sometimes in the eye, sometimes beautifully in the wind and waves, sometimes he's just messy. A natural disaster and an awesome force of nature.

MATT
Mid-30s, white, male-identifying. Gay (as opposed to queer). There's something magnetically All-American about him, in the truest sense of American-at once so fucking attractively cocky and deeply insecure. There's something at once conservative (not politically, but literally) and yet always yearning for some approval he isn't getting.

ERICA
Mid-30s, Latina, female-identifying. Highly successful, highly driven, and highly discontent with how her life, identity, and time has become almost completely built around her work. Best friends with Nico since college. Once a year they take epic vacations that Judd Apatow could make a movie out of.

HAAMID
Early to late 30s, male-identifying, but a femme queer Middle Eastern person. Born in the States, son of immigrants. Has had a lot of therapy to become comfortable with who he is. Still very much a work in progress, but the trauma he's been through has given him a maturity beyond his years.

COMPENSATION
Non-Equity.
Actors will receive a $300 stipend for the initial run, with an additional fee should the production extend.

Notes:
Open Space Arts strongly encourages actors whose identities align with the roles to submit. This is an intimate storefront production focused on nuanced, actor-driven storytelling.