TimeLine Theatre Company is accepting Non-AEA actor filmed general audition submissions for the 2022 - 2023 season which includes the following productions:

1. Campaigns, Inc. by Will Allan, directed by Nick Bowling
First Rehearsal: 7/5/22
First Preview: 8/3/22
Closing: 9/18/22
Possible Extension: 10/9/22

2. Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress, directed by Ron OJ Parson
First Rehearsal: 9/26/22
First Preview: 10/26//22
Closing: 12/11/22
Possible Extension: 1/8/23

3. Boulevard of Bold Dreams by LaDarrion Williams, directed by Malkia Stampley
First Rehearsal: 1/2/23
First Preview: 2/1/23
Closing: 3/19/23
Possible Extension: 4/09/23

All rehearsals and performances will take place at TimeLine Theatre, 615 West Wellington, Chicago.

Characters:

Campaigns, Inc. by Will Allan
(Understudies Only)

Leone Baxter
28, Female. The co-owner of Campaigns, Inc., the first Political Consultants firm. Leone is currently the president of the company and the brains of the operation. She is willing to do whatever is necessary to succeed in her business, including working for a client she despises.

Clem Whitaker
31, Male. The other co-owner of Campaigns, Inc. A charming man who doesn't have the killer instinct of Leone nor the ideas. He will occasionally take credit for her work, but he comes to admire and eventually love her.

Upton Sinclair
55, Male. Sinclair was a world famous writer at the time. He decided to run for Governor of California and presented an incredible progressive platform. He was not much of a public speaker but his message was powerful nonetheless. People might think of him as a Bernie Sanders type.

Charlie Chaplin
45, Male. British. The famous actor who was also a radical progressive who supported and serves at the right hand man to Sinclair. Chaplin is also struggling with his own movie career - trying to find a way to join the world of "talkies."

Frank Merriam
69, Male. A right wing conservative incumbent governor of California. Merriem made some terrible mistake in his first term and cost several people their lives. He is talked into doing some very shady things by the team at Campaigns, Inc. He is behind some of the original "fake news."

George Hatfield
46, Male. Merriam's Lieutenant Governor. Seems like a fairly mild mannered harmless guy, but is actually a bit of a snake. He is more concerned with his own political career than the current campaign.

Franklin D. Roosevelt/Others
50s, Male. President of the U.S. The most powerful person in the country at the time. He must decide to back Sinclair, who is potentially more popular than he, or Merriam who is running for the opposing party. In the end he will take care of himself before anything else.

Eleanor Roosevelt/Others
50s, Female. The first lady. She adores Upton Sinclair and she sees him as the future of the country. She is willing to fight anyone on his behalf including her own husband.

Trouble In Mind by Alice Childress
(All Roles)

Wiletta Mayer
40s-50s. Black. An actress who plays the lead in the play within the play, Chaos in Belleville. Wiletta is a singer and does sing a small amount in the play.

Millie Davis
Mid 30s. Black. A stage actress. She is married and says she does not need to work.

Sheldon Forrester
Late 60s-80s. Black. A character actor and aspiring songwriter. Henry Late 60s-80s. White. The doorman at the theater where the rehearsals are taking place.

Al Manners
Early 40s. White. The director of Chaos in Belleville.

John Nevins
20s. Black. An idealistic actor making his Broadway debut in Chaos in Belleville.

Bill O'Wray
40s to 60s. A white male actor who is also in the play.

Judy Sears
20s. White. A naïve actress making her debut in Chaos in Bellville.

Eddie
30s. White. The stage manager.

Boulevard of Bold Dreams by LaDarrion Williams
(All Roles)

Arthur Brooks
30s- 40s. A Bartender. He is an ambitious black man from rural Alabama who dreams of becoming a movie director.

Dottie
30s- 40s. She is his best friend and a singer/maid at the Ambassador Hotel who finds herself to be a cynic of all dreams.

Hattie McDaniel
Mid 40s. She is the actress who was the first black person to win the Academy Award. She stops in the bar and refuses to show up for the biggest event in show business.