Audition Dates
November 3 & 4 at 7pm
(Show Dates: Jan 3 – 19)
Learn more about auditions at Surfside Playhouse.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
12 Males & 4 Females. Ethnically diverse cast desired. Flexible age ranges for all characters.
RANDLE P. MCMURPHY – (M, Patient ‐ 20’s to 40’s) A gambler, a con man, and a backroom brawler.
Has a devilish grin and has a wide open extroverted air which is in harsh contrast to the environment
of the ward. Will have kissing scenes and a choreographed fight scene. Wears just a towel in another
scene. Uses foul language.
NURSE RATCHED – (F, Staff ‐ 30’s to 50’s) The head of the hospital ward. She masks her humanity
and femininity behind a stiff, patronizing façade. She weakens her patients through a psychologically
manipulative program designed to destroy their self‐esteem. Ratched’s emasculating, mechanical
ways slowly drain all traces of humanity from her patients. Will have a choreographed fight scene.
CHIEF BROMDEN – (M, Patient ‐ 20’s to 50’s) The huge, bull‐muscled, half‐breed son of an Indian
Chief. He has been in the hospital for more than ten years, longer than any other patient in the
ward. Bromden sees modern society as a huge, oppressive conglomeration that he calls the
Combine, and the hospital as a place meant to fix people who do not conform.
AIDE WARREN and AIDE WILLIAMS – (M, Staff ‐ 20’s to 40’s) The Day Time Aides. Cruel and
demeaning, they are Nurse Rached’s stooges. (Fight scenes, both use foul language)
NURSE FLINN – (F, Staff ‐ 20’s To 60’s) A vapid woman with apprehensive eyes. The wears a gold
cross at her throat, a sign of her strict Catholic upbringing. She is fearful of the patients’ sexuality.
She is fearful in general.
DALE HARDING – (M, Patient ‐ 40 plus) College‐educated with a sharp mind and tongue. He is
President of the Patients’ Council. Although he is married he is effeminate and questions he’s own
masculinity .
BILLY BIBBIT – (M, Patient ‐ 20’s to 30’s) Shy and has a bad stutter. He seems younger than his age.
Dominated by his mother, one of Nurse Ratched’s close friends. Billy is voluntarily in the hospital.
SCANLON – (M, Patient ‐ 20’s to 60) Involuntarily committed to the hospital. He has fantasies of
blowing things up. Uses foul language.
CHESWICK – (M, Patient ‐ 30 ‐ 60) Eager and quick to argue or fight. Aggressively defiant yet
cringing. All talk, no action.
MARTINI – (M, Patient ‐ 25 to 60) A little Italian man who lives in a world of delusional
hallucinations.
RUCKLY – (M, Patient ‐ 25 to 50) A Chronic patient. Was once curable, but was transformed into a
Chronic due to a botched lobotomy. Uses foul language.
DR. SPIVEY – (M, Staff ‐ 40 to 70) The administrator and psychiatrist of the mental institution. He
doubts that anything is wrong with McMurphy’s mind, but he defers to the opinion of Nurse
Ratched.
AIDE TURKLE – (M, Staff ‐ 50s to 70’s) The nighttime orderly for Nurse Ratched’s ward. He is An
elderly Tech / night watchman who smokes marijuana. McMurphy bribes him to help arrange the
ward’s final party.
CANDY STARR – (F, Other ‐ 21 to 40) A prostitute from Portland with a “heart of gold.” She is
physically attractive and passive, and relieves Billy Bibbit of his virginity. May have kissing scenes.
SANDY GILFILLIAM ‐ (F, Other ‐ 30 ‐ 45) Candy’s older friend; comes with her to the party on the ward –
May have kissing scene.
