AUDITION
I'll Be Home For Christmas
By Catherine Bush
Directed by Deb Aisenbrey
Show Dates:
November 27 - December 14, 2026
Audition Dates:
- Saturday, September 12th at 2pm
- Sunday, September 13th at 7PM
Air travel during the Christmas holidays is usually anything but jolly – delayed flights, lost baggage, bad weather, and the pressure of celebrating with the family can all add to the stress of the season. So when six zany characters, each with a desperate need to get home, collide at Skyways Airline Gate 37, anything can happen – and does.
Audition Requirements
- No monologue is necessary. The audition will consist of cold readings from the script.
- A headshot and resume are recommended but not required.
- Please bring a detailed list of conflicts for the next 3 months.
Roles
Available roles: 4 female, 2 male
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Cheryl Dean – Female
30’s-40’s; a gate agent for Skyways airline. This is Cheryl’s first Christmas as a divorced mother of two, and she is determined to make it merry and bright for her kids– if she can just get out of the airport. The line between professionalism and despair keeps getting thinner and thinner…
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Joel Hartman – Male
30’s; a plumber. As a Jew, Joel isn’t too interested in celebrating Christmas, but his father is dying and he’s trying to get home to see him before it’s too late. What he isn’t counting on is a delayed flight and an insane group of fellow travelers who seem determined to make a crazy day even crazier…
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Mary Margaret Gilmore- Female
late 20’s; a friendly, Irish-Catholic girl with no filter who finds herself pregnant and boyfriend-less at the same time. Out of a job, broke, and armed with only her swollen ankles and morning-sickness, Mary Margaret has no choice but to go home and confess all to her very conservative mother… unless someone can come up with a better idea…
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Rosie Armellino – Female
mid-60’s; an Italian mother whose umbilical cord is still firmly attached to her 40-year-old son Freddie. Freddie told his mother he was going to Albany on “business” – but when his business turns out to be proposing to his secret girlfriend, Rosie loads up her suitcase with eggplant parmigiana, determined to stop him from making the biggest mistake of his life…
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Sgt. Cynthia “Sid” Zadnicheck – Female
30’s; a no-nonsense, straight-talking lesbian who is used to giving orders. Sid loves two things above all else: the United States of America and her wife Buffy, who desperately wants Sid home for Christmas. Sid has wrangled a 48-hour leave and is determined not to disappoint her wife. Little does she know that the Army’s motto of “Hurry up and wait” is going to follow her to the airport…
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Randall King – Male
35-40; a financially successful pharmaceutical rep, Randall was always a disappointment to his father, an outdoorsman whose specialty is hunting wild turkeys. Now Randall has found a way to make his father proud: he won the National Turkey Calling Competition, and is headed home to be Grand Marshal in his hometown’s Christmas Day Parade… if he can get there in time…