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Please note: We are not associated with Actors’ Equity Association and do not participate in union contracts. We are a volunteer-based organization and actors may receive small stipends to help offset transportation costs associated with participating in our productions.
Director: Tammis Doyle
Audition Dates
Sunday, January 4, 2026 between 4:00pm and 7:30pm
Monday, January 5, 2026 between 6:30pm and 9:30pm
Audition appointments are five minutes each and must be reserved ahead of time.
Callbacks (by invitation only)
Thursday, January 8, 2026: 6:30-9:30pm
Audition & Callback Location
Edmonds Driftwood Players Rehearsal Annex located at 200 Dayton Street, Edmonds
Rehearsal Dates
January 12-February 26, 2026
Typically, Monday through Thursday evenings from 7:00pm-10:00pm, and possibly some Sundays from 3:00pm-6:00pm. Actors may not be called to every rehearsal. Please report any/all conflicts for Sunday through Thursdays during the rehearsal period; your conflicts are one of many factors considered in casting, so it’s important that we know your availability.
All of the following days are REQUIRED for participation, in addition to the performance dates:
Rehearsal Location
Edmonds Driftwood Players Rehearsal Annex located at 200 Dayton Street, Edmonds and/or Wade James Theatre located at 950 Main Street, Edmonds
Performance Dates
February 27 – March 22, 2026 for a total of 16 performances (Curtain times are listed below). Call times will be no more than 90 minutes prior to curtain.
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Performance Location
This production plays at The Wade James Theatre, home of Edmonds Driftwood Players, located at 950 Main Street, Edmonds (Free lot & street parking)
Volunteer Stipend
Edmonds Driftwood Players is not associated with Actors’ Equity Association and does not participate in union contracts. We are a volunteer-based organization, and actors receive $150 stipends to help offset transportation costs associated with participating in our productions. Cast and production team will each receive two comp tickets as well as a Friends & Family discount to share and use on additional ticket purchases.
Show Synopsis
Lieutenant Governor Ned Newley finds himself Governor and almost no one is happy. He’s terrified of public speaking and his poll numbers are impressively bad. To his ever-supportive Chief of Staff Dave Riley and newly hired pollster Paige Caldwell, Ned seems destined to fail. But political consultant Arthur Vance sees things differently: Ned might be the best Governor but worst candidate to ever run for office. Unless the public is looking for… the worst candidate to ever run for office. Rachel Parsons, a journalist with a mission, her cameraman A.C. and Louise Peaks, an inept but somehow brilliant office temp will shake up the entire plan. The Outsider is a timely and hilarious comedy that skewers politics and celebrates democracy.
THE OUTSIDER is presented by special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)
Contact [email protected] for the following:
Audition Requirement
Casting
We are casting 7 actors: 3 female-presenting roles and 4 male-presenting roles. Actors of all ethnicities, gender, identity, and ability are encouraged to audition. Gender presentations listed refer to the characters in the play and the pronouns used in the script.
Note: The characters of Ned and Dave do some physical work onstage that might include moving quickly on and off furniture and writhing on the ground (Dave). Dave and Rachel meet and have sensual chemistry that will lead them to date after the play is over. The audience needs to feel this. No intimate touching between any characters but lots of hand shaking, back slapping and shoulder crushing. Perhaps a hug.
PAIGE CALDWELL (female presenting; 20s to 40s): A professional pollster. A smart, confident woman with a professional’s view of politics: she sees it as a series of contests to be won.
DAVE RILEY (male presenting; 30s/40s): The Chief of Staff to the new Governor. Very smart, but-despite years of experience in government-endearingly earnest and naïve on the subject of politics because he believes so strongly in governing.
LOUISE PEAKES (female presenting; 30s to 50s): A temporary employee hired as the Governor’s executive assistant. Personable, likable, impressively confident, and entirely inept. Without knowing it, she has the air of a politician about her. The friendliness of her smile, and the confident way she looks you in the eye, would make you think, “I’d vote for her.”
NED NEWLEY (male presenting; 50s/60s): The new Governor. A person of impressive ability, but a complete lack of confidence. A man awaiting permission to enter a room in which he is already standing.
ARTHUR VANCE (male presenting; 50s/60s): One of the most experienced and successful political consultants in the country. His overbearing personality, and confidence in his own opinions over the opinions of others, should make him dislikeable, but his ego is more than tempered by the joy-even glee-he brings into the room. He’s a showman, but his excitement is 100% genuine, and it’s contagious.
RACHEL PARSONS (female-presenting; 30s): A TV reporter. She has the looks to be an on-air correspondent-though, if television had never been invented, she still would have been a journalist. Straightforward and honest, and inquisitive by nature. She’s seen enough of life-and politics-to be cynical, but she’s more apt to make a wry joke.
A.C. PETERSEN (male-presenting; 30s to 50s): A TV camera man. A working man, and-for most people-the guy you didn’t notice was there. Which is fine with A.C.; he has a low tolerance for idiocy, and would rather not interact with anyone. His near-silence doesn’t make him seem unfriendly, just a bit of a mystery. He will finally speak, and when he does, truths will be told.
To reserve your audition time: Click on the “Audition Survey” button below and you will be taken to a Google Survey so that we can collect your contact information, conflicts (have your calendar ready), and the roles you are interested in. When you complete the survey, you will be given a link to reserve your audition appointment.
Signups will close Friday, January 2 at 12pm so that staff can prepare materials for the production team.
