Town Players of Newtown: In Person Auditions for All My Sons - Newtown, CT

Seeking Talent From: Connecticut

Union Status: Non-Union

Pay: No pay

Posted: 10/7/2026 Updated: 10/8/2026 Deadline for Submissions: 10/14/2026

All My Sons, by Arthur Miller Directed by Gus Bottazzi It's an ordinary August morning in an ordinary American backyard. A tree is down. A brother is still missing. And a family is about to find out what their comfort was built on. Miller's 1947 drama is one of the great American plays about fathers, sons, and the price of looking away. We're bringing it to the Little Theatre this December, and we want to see you. August, 1947. A comfortable backyard on the edge of an American town. Joe Keller is a self-made manufacturer who came home from prison exonerated, rebuilt his business, and became a respected man again. His neighbor took the fall. Three years earlier, Joe's older son Larry went missing in the war, and Joe's wife Kate has refused to let anyone say he is dead. When Larry's former girl comes back to the block to marry the surviving son, a family's carefully maintained peace begins to come apart over a single day. Miller's first success and one of the great American plays. It is funny for a long time before it is devastating — neighbors, gossip, kids playing detective, a broken tree in the yard — and every ordinary thing in the first act turns out to be a fuse. The following roles are available: Roles are available for a wide range of ages — no appointment needed, and no experience required. Come as you are.

Casting / Shoot Info

Town Players Announces Auditions In 2 Weeks for All My Sons on Monday October 12th & Tuesday October 13th. Sides can be found here: https://www.newtownplayers.org/auditions

NOTE: All roles are open. Town Players of Newtown casts without regard to race, ethnicity, or background; ages listed are playing ages, not actual ages.

WHEN:
- Monday, October 12th: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
- Tuesday, October 13th: 7:00 - 9:00 PM

WHERE: Town Players of Newtown, 18 Orchard Hill Rd, Newtown, CT 06470

Town Players of Newtown - https://www.newtownplayers.org/auditions

REHEARSALS: Auditions will consist of cold readings from sides provided at the audition. No prepared monologue is required. Read through date will be shared at Auditions. Rehearsal schedule will be determined; please bring a list of calendar conflicts through opening night

PERFORMANCE DATES:
- Fri. December 4, 8:00 PM
- Sat. December 5, 8:00 PM
- Sun. December 6, 2:00 PM
- Fri. December 11, 8:00 PM
- Sat. December 12, 8:00 PM
- Sun. December 13, 2:00 PM
- Thu. December 17, 8:00 PM
- Fri. December 18, 8:00 PM
- Sat. December 19, 8:00 PM

Location: Town Players of Newtown, 18 Orchard Hill Rd, Newtown, CT 06470

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CHRIS KELLER |Male |Any Ethnicity |Age: 30–38 |Role Type: Principal

The surviving son. Solidly built, a good listener, capable of great affection and loyalty. He came back from commanding a company overseas — where he lost nearly all of them — with an idea about responsibility that nobody at home shares, and a private shame about the comfortable life he returned to. Decent to the point of being difficult. He wants to marry his dead brother's girl and cannot get out from under his family. Needs warmth and buoyancy in Act One so the fury in Act Two costs something.

KATE KELLER (MOTHER) |Female |Any Ethnicity |Age: 48–58 |Role Type: Principal

Miller's most demanding role in this play. A woman of overwhelming love and uncontrolled instinct who has decided, as a matter of survival, that her missing son is alive — and who enforces that belief on everyone in the house. Superstitious, sharp-tongued, funny, and relentless. She is not a fragile mourner; she knows more than she says and uses her grief as a weapon and a wall. She barely sleeps. The actor needs to hold enormous pressure under domestic small talk about potatoes and string beans, and then release it.

JOE KELLER |Male |Any Ethnicity |Age: 55–65 |Role Type: Principal

A heavy, plainspoken man who worked his way up from the machine shop floor to owning it. No formal education, and a hard practical intelligence that never runs past the property line. Warm, joking, beloved on the block — he plays cop-and-robbers with the neighborhood kids and holds poker games in his arbor. Everything he built, he built for his sons. That devotion is not a soft quality in him; it is the engine of the catastrophe. Actors should be prepared for enormous late-play range: charm, evasion, panic, and finally a plea. The role requires stamina and a genuine, unforced likability early on.

BERT |Male |Any Ethnicity |Age: 7–10 |Role Type: Supporting

A neighborhood kid deputized into Joe Keller's imaginary police force. Bright, earnest, and completely invested in the jail he believes is in the Keller basement. Appears twice in Act One. A wonderful part for a young actor with good comic instincts and the confidence to hold a stage with adults. *(Note: Bert appears only in Act One; rehearsal commitment will be limited.)*

LYDIA LUBEY |Female |Any Ethnicity |Age: 25–33 |Role Type: Supporting

Frank's wife, twenty-seven, robust and laughing. Three babies in three years, makes her own clothes, can rebuild a hat in ten minutes. The picture of the ordinary happy life every other character in the play failed to get. Charming, warm, and — in one short scene with George — quietly devastating without meaning to be.

ANN DEEVER |Female |Any Ethnicity |Age: 25–32 |Role Type: Supporting

Twenty-six, gentle, and — despite herself — capable of holding fast to what she knows. She grew up next door, lost her fiancé in the war and her father to prison, and has come back to the block after three and a half years in New York to marry Chris. She has cut her father off completely and does not apologize for it. She carries something in her pocket for the entire play. The role needs sweetness that does not read as weakness; her final scenes require real steel.

GEORGE DEEVER |Male |Any Ethnicity |Age: 30–38 |Role Type: Supporting

Ann's older brother, Chris's contemporary, now a lawyer. Arrives late in Act Two on the edge of his self-restraint — pale, gray, and speaking quietly because he is afraid of what happens if he starts shouting. He came from seeing his father in prison for the first time since the war. A man who has just had his entire understanding of his life overturned that morning. Tremendous role: rage, grief, and a heartbreaking stretch where the Kellers' warmth nearly seduces him back into the fold.

FRANK LUBEY |Male |Any Ethnicity |Age: 30–40 |Role Type: Supporting

The other neighbor, early thirties and losing his hair. Pleasant, opinionated, unsure of himself, and inclined toward peevishness when contradicted — but he wants everything friendly. Missed the draft every single year by the width of a birthday, and has taken up astrology. He is casting a horoscope for a dead man. Comic on the surface, quietly sad underneath.

DR. JIM BAYLISS |Male |Any Ethnicity |Age: 35–45 |Role Type: Supporting

The neighbor. Wry, self-controlled, an easy talker with a wisp of sadness under the self-deprecation. A successful physician who wanted to be a research scientist and gave it up; he is quietly serving a life sentence in his own practice. Cynical about people and, alone among the neighbors, entirely unsurprised by what the Kellers are hiding. Small role with two or three of the best speeches in the play.

SUE BAYLISS |Female |Any Ethnicity |Age: 35–45 |Role Type: Supporting

Jim's wife. A former nurse — practical to the point of cruelty and very funny with it. She married an interne on her own salary and has views about what that does to a marriage. Underneath the neighborly banter she resents living next door to a family everyone treats as saints, and she says so, once, at length. A short but memorable role; the Act Two scene with Ann is a scalpel.