2026 - 2027 Season Audition Information
Audition Dates and Times:
Sunday 11/15 at 5pm
Monday 11/16 at 7pm
Audition Location: CTC Rehearsal Space
654 Arnold Mill Road, Woodstock, Ga. 30188
Directed by Lauren Smith
Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy follows struggling artist Brinsley Miller, who borrows his neighbor’s expensive furniture to impress a wealthy art collector and his fiancée’s father. When a power outage plunges the apartment into darkness, unexpected guests arrive and a tangled web of secrets, mistaken identities, and stolen furniture quickly spirals out of control. Fast-paced, ridiculous, and full of surprises, Black Comedy is a hilarious farce where the audience can see everything the characters cannot.
Audition Dates and Times:
Sunday 11/15 at 5pm
Monday 11/16 at 7pm
Audition Location: CTC Rehearsal Space
654 Arnold Mill Road, Woodstock, Ga. 30188
Casting Needs: 4 Males / 3 Females / 1 Male or Female
Audition requirements: Cold readings from the script
Non-Equity/Volunteer
Resume encouraged but not required
No appointment necessary
Rehearsal Days:
Sundays from 2 - 5pm, Tuesdays, and Thursdays from 7-9pm
Performance Dates:
March 5, 6 , 7 | 12, 13, 14 2027
at the Canton Theatre
Character Descriptions
Brindsley Miller
Gender: Male
Age Range: 20s–30s
Type: Comic lead
Description: A young sculptor. Intelligent, attractive, but nervous and uncertain of himself.
Carol Melkett
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20s–30s
Type: Comic lead
Description: Brindsley’s refined and image-conscious fiancée. A young debutatnt, very pretty, very spoiled, very silly.
Miss Furnival
Gender: Female
Age Range: 40+
Type: Featured comic role
Description: Brinsdley's neighbor. Prissy and refined, she reveals only the repressed gestures of the middle class spinster until alcohol undoes her.
Harold (or Harriet) Gorringe
Gender: Male or Female
Age Range: 40s–60s
Type: Supporting
Description: Brindsley's neighbor. A specialist in emotional blackmail, can become hysterical when slighted.
Clea
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20s–30s
Type: Supporting
Description: Brindsley’s ex-girlfriend. Free-spirited, emotionally direct, and disruptive to his carefully constructed life.
Colonel Melkett
Gender: Male
Age Range: 50s–70s
Type: Supporting
Description: Carol’s intimidating, conservative father. Status-driven and judgmental, he represents the approval Brindsley desperately wants.
Schuppanzigh
Gender: Male
Age Range: 40+
Type: Supporting
Description: A German refugee. Entirely happy man, delighted to be in England even if this means being employed by the London Electricity Board. German accent encouraged.
George Bambearger
Gender: Male
Age Range: 40+
Type: Supporting
Description: Wealthy art collector expected to buy Brindsley’s work. Status-conscious but easily confused. German accent encouraged.
Directed by Emily Mimbs
Audition Dates and Times:
Sunday 2/21/2027 at 3pm and Monday 2/22/2027 at 7pm
Audition Location: CTC Rehearsal Space
654 Arnold Mill Road, Woodstock, Ga. 30188
Casting Needs: 4 Males / 4 Females / 2 Girl(s) / 2 Boy(s)
Audition requirements: Cold readings from the script
Non-Equity/Volunteer
Resume encouraged but not required
No appointment necessary
Rehearsal Days:
Tuesdays & Thursdays from 7pm-9pm | Sundays from 2pm-5pm
Performance Dates:
May 7, 8, 9 | 14, 15, 16 2027
at the Canton Theatre
**Please note the characters of Maggie the Cat, Brick Pollitt, and Big Daddy Pollitt have been cast.
Character Descriptions
Big Mama Pollitt
Gender: Female
Age Range: 50s–70s
Type: Supporting dramatic role
Description: Married to Big Daddy. She is silly, crude, and lives a life of pretense that her husband loves her despite his ill treatment of her. She, too, favors Brick over his brother. She has let herself go physically and has surrendered her dignity to maintain peace in the lie that is her marriage.
Gooper Pollitt
Gender: Male
Age Range: 30s–40s
Type: Supporting
Description: Brick’s older, lawyer brother. He deeply resents Brick’s status as the “favored son.” He has taken satisfaction in Big Daddy’s declining health and deliberately schemes to take over Big Daddy’s estate.
Mae Pollitt
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20s–40s
Type: Supporting
Description: Gooper’s wife. Mother of 5 children with one on the way. From a once rich family that helped make Gooper successful, she holds that over his head. Very jealous of Maggie’s beauty and Big Daddy’s doting on her. She goes to great, embarrassing lengths to appear the loving daughter-in-law while all the while viciously conspiring with Gooper to ensure they inherit the estate.
Reverend Tooker
Gender: Male
Age Range: 20s - 60s
Description: A tactless, opportunistic, hypocritical guest at Big Daddy’s birthday party. A small town preacher who enjoys the high life as long as someone else pays for it.
Doctor Baugh
Gender: Male
Age Range: 40s - 60s
Description: Big Daddy's physician who is tired from too long in his profession and averse to giving bad news.
Lacey
Gender: Male
Age Range: 30s - 50s
Description: A male servant.
Sookey
Gender: Female
Age Range: 30s - 50s
Description: A housekeeper.
Daisy
Gender: Female
Age Range: 20s - 40s
Description: A maid. They are watchful and aware of the tensions in the family.
THE VENUES
All auditions and rehearsals will be held at the
CTC Rehearsal Space:
654 Arnold Mill Road
Woodstock, GA 30188
All performances will be held at the
Downtown Canton Theatre
171 East Main Street
Canton, GA 30114