Audition Information for
Barefoot in the Park
by Neil Simon
Directed by Thomas Thedvt

Audition Information
Audition Dates: 
Monday, January 5, 2026 & Tuesday, January 6, 2026  
​6:30pm - 7:30pm

Audition Location:
Gracepoint Wesleyan Church - Room 220
            1420 Orchard Drive
             Brookings, SD 57007
            Please use Office Doors on the north side and Follow Signs

Performance Dates:  March 19 - 22, 2026

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 this fillable pdf form and bring with you to auditions:
audition_form_barefoot_in_the_park__fillable_..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

Neil Simon's Barefoot in the Park is a classic romantic comedy about newlyweds Corie (free-spirited) and Paul (uptight lawyer) navigating their first week of marriage in a tiny, eccentric Greenwich Village apartment with five flights of stairs, leaky skylights, and unconventional neighbors, highlighting their clashing personalities and the messy reality of love versus idealistic dreams, especially when Corie tries to set up her mother with their quirky neighbor, leading to comical chaos and a near breakup before they learn to compromise and appreciate their differences. 

Cast

  • Corie Bratter (Female 20-30's) — a free-thinking, adventurous young woman who has just married Paul Bratter. She decorates their 5th floor walkup apartment in an eclectic, free style and wants to have new, fun adventures, and she is much more emotional than logical.  Young, energetic, impulsive, romantic, and adventurous, eager to create fun in her new marriage and home, sometimes leading to chaos.

  • Paul Bratter (Male  20-30's)  a young lawyer who marries Corie and is far more concerned with practical matters than she is. He does not like their uncomfortable, small apartment in a bohemian section of New York City, and he prefers a more stable, conventional lifestyle than his wife. 

  • Mrs. Ethel Banks (female  50-60's) —   Corie’s widowed mother who lives a lonely, dull life in New Jersey and does not enjoy Corie’s lifestyle. She can barely even get up the stairs to Corie’s apartment. She tends to complain a great deal about anything new and about her physical ailments until she finds Corie’s adventurous neighbor, Victor Velasco.

  • Victor Velasco  (male  50-60's) –  Corie and Paul’s eccentric, flamboyant, womanizing neighbor who is a gourmet cook and who shares Corie’s sense of fun and adventure. A middle-aged man, he lives in the attic above Corie and Paul’s small apartment. He eventually winds up in a couple with Ethel after Corie sets them up on a blind date. 

  • Telephone Repairman/person  (male but can be played by either sex  any age) — goes up, huffing and puffing, to Corie and Paul’s new apartment in an attempt to fix the phone, and he is there to witness one of the Bratters’ fights. A brief role, often grumpy, dealing with the challenges of installing service in the unusual apartment. 

  • Delivery Man/Person  (male but can be played by either sex  any age) — delivers packages to the Bratters’ 5th floor apartment.   Silent, exhausted by the numerous flights of stairs, delivering wedding gifts.