Audition Information for
CharlieCox Runs With Scissors
by Michael McKeever
Directed by Jason Soren

Audition Information
Audition Dates: 
Tuesday, August 27 & Thursday, August 29  
​6:30pm - 7:30pm

Audition Location:
Gracepoint Wesleyan Church RM 200
            1420 Orchard Drive
             Brookings, SD 57007
            Please use South Doors and Follow Signs

Performance Dates:  October 17 - 20, 2024

General Information for Auditions:

If you would like to audition but can't make any of the dates, please email us and the director will contact you about alternative way to audition. 

Please fill out online audition Form or print this form.audition_form_charlie_cox.pdf
This form will also be available at the door.

We are auditioning actors: age 18+.  


AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF:

– Reading from the script (provided at auditions)
 
– Director may lead improv exercises or ask for you to do an accent
 

Brief Synopsis

When Charlie Cox, a middle-aged editor, learns that he has the incurable, degenerative condition known as Lou Gehrig's disease, he gets in his car and starts driving. He soon finds himself in the Arizona desert, where he uncharacteristically picks up a hitchhiker, a sarcastic, impatient guy named Wally, who happens to be his own personal death emissary. As Wally urges him to get it over with, lovely, sexy Kiki enters the picture wearing dark glasses since "love is blind." Wally is infuriated when love blossoms between Charlie and the widow Nell, and the ensuing battle between Death and Love teaches Charlie the importance of living life to the fullest.

Cast

  • Charlie Cox (male) — book editor; who believes he has 18 months to live

  • Nell Todd (female) – recent widowed motel owner caring for her dying father-in-law

  • Travis Dunn (male) —  burly wrecker driver, fancies Nell

  • Wally  (male) – Death himself (sort of), really Cox’s specific Death, first name “Wally,” who has been shadowing him since birth

  • Kiki  (female) — the Love counterpart to Wally