The Crucible

Auditions / AUG 26 & 27 @ 7:00 PM

Callbacks (Invitation Only) / Aug 28 @ 7:00 PM

Performances / OCT 16-18 & 23-25, 2026

Seeking Actors 15 and up

*Please note: The directing teams for BCP’s The Crucible and MCFTA’s Come From Away are collaborating on casting. If you audition and receive offers for both productions, you will have the opportunity to decide which role to accept.

Director / Kaeleigh Casavant

Producer / Greg Burke

Intimacy Coordinator / Melanie Frasca

Director’s Note

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is an American classic that deftly uses the Salem Witch Trials as an allegory for McCarthyism. On the surface, the play depicts the real names and events of the 1692 Witch Trials. In truth, Miller took the historical event and likened it to the time he was living through: The Red Scare of the 1950s. During this time, the House of Un-American Activities Committee was targeting individuals they believed to have leftist beliefs and ideologies, often going after artists. In Miller’s own words, “The Crucible” was an act of desperation. […] I was motivated in some great part by the paralysis that had set in among many liberals who, despite their discomfort with the inquisitors’ violations of civil rights, were fearful, and with good reason, of being identified as covert Communists if they should protest too strongly.”

It was impossible to stand up against authority without being cast as a monster, both in the Witch Trials and the Red Scare. There grew to be a sense of compliance to follow leadership or point the finger to someone ‘lesser’ than oneself, because it felt safer, not because it was necessarily the right thing to do. Even though the play is set in the 1690s, written to reflect the 1950s, these themes of the witchhunt remain relevant now. We still see the powerful using the downtrodden and marginalized in society as scapegoats to escape persecution for their own sins, just as Miller wrote in The Crucible.

I hope to explore this timeless nature of the story, blending the past with the present in an intimate and confrontational setting. We cannot fall victim to the crimes of the past. We cannot allow people in power to abuse systems of justice in favor of their own reputation and standing. This was true in 1692. This was true in 1953. This is true now. That is the feeling I want to capture in this production, and I hope to see you at auditions to join me in telling that story.

Kaeleigh Casavant

Director

What to Prepare

1. Read the script to familiarize yourself with the material. 
2. Review the action breakdown to see anticipated action in the material. 
3. Review the tentative rehearsal calendar. 
4. Fill out the audition form. 

For Auditions:

1. You will perform a 1-min dramatic contemporary monologue. You may also use one of the provided monologues if you so need. Monologues do not have to be memorized but it is highly encouraged. You may be asked to do monologues multiple times, or read additional monologues. 

For Callbacks:

1. Callbacks will be by invitation only. You will be reached out to via email the evening of the 29th for callbacks on the 30th. 
2. Callbacks will consist of scene readings from the script. 

You may also arrange a virtual audition with the director. Virtual auditions will consist of you reading for 1 monologue and 2 scenes provided, submitted via an unlisted Youtube video. You may submit your virtual audition on the audition form or via the confirmation email received after submitting your audition form. 

Character Breakdown

Looking for a cast of 16 actors aged 15+. This production will utilize doubling for certain roles. Below is each character track and who they will be playing:

• Male. Any race. Age 40+ to play:
  • Reverend Parris. The paranoid Minister of Salem’s church. A fearful and selfish man, who cares more about his public perception than his daughter’s well-being.
• Male. Any race. Age 25+ to play:
  • John Proctor. A local farmer. An intelligent man governed by morals and ethics, even though he has a hidden moral failing in his affair with Abigail. He hesitates to do the right thing, at risk of exposing his own wrong-doings.
• Female. Any race. Age 25+ to play:
  • Elizabeth Proctor. Wife to John Proctor. Equally as ruled by justice, and is honest and righteous. She is cold to John, in response to discovering his affair with Abigail and her struggle to forgive him. 
• Female. Any race. Age 18+ to play:
  • Abigail Williams. Niece to Reverend Parris, who used to work for the Proctor’s before Elizabeth discovered the relationship between John and Abigail. She is traumatized from her past, and it manifests in her being a sharp liar with a callous nature. She leads the witchhunt charge against anyone she sees as being against her.
• Female. Any race. Age 15+ to play:
  • Mary Warren. The Proctor’s new servant. She is timid and easily influenced by others. She tries to expose the hoax, but ultimately chooses to save herself when Abigail and the girls turn on her. 
• Female. Any race. Age 25+ to play:
  • Ann Putnam. A local mother who has experienced 7 stillborn deaths of her children, with her only surviving child now in a catatonic state. She is convinced something supernatural must have happened to her children.
  • Governor Danforth. The deputy governor of Massachusetts who presides over the witch trials. Stern, practical, and more concerned with decorum and reputation than justice.
• Female. Black. Age 25+ to play:
  • Tituba. A deeply compassionate woman from Barbados, and Reverend Parris’ slave, who was the first to be accused by Abigail and the other girls of witchcraft as a scapegoat for their own wrongdoings.
  • Judge Hathorne. Judge presiding, alongside Danforth, over the trials. Cold, stern, authoritarian, and rigid in beliefs.
• Female. Any race. Age 17+ to play:
  • Susanna Walcott. One of Abigail’s girls who participated in dancing in the woods.
  • Sara Good. A poor woman on the outskirts of society, who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft.
• Male. Any race. Age 25+ to play:
  • Thomas Putnam. A wealthy landowner in Salem. Vindictive and known to hold a grudge, Putnam uses the witchtrials to try and obtain more land and wealth through manipulation. 
  • Cheever. Clerk of the court.
• Female. Any race. Age 15+ to play:
  • Mercy Lewis. Abigail’s best friend. Sly and merciless.
  • U/S Abigail Williams. 
• Female. Any race. Age 15+ to play:
  • Betty Parris. Young daughter of Reverend Parris who has fallen mysteriously ill. This role requires high levels of physicality. 
• Female. Any race. Age 50+ to play:
  • Rebecca Nurse. One of the most well-respected individuals in Salem. A midwife, Noble, wise, and targeted by Ann Putnam during the witchhunt. 
  • Martha Corey. One of the accused in the witchhunt. 
• Male. Any race. Age 50+ to play:
  • Giles Corey. Martha Corey’s husband. A combative older resident of Salem, who frequently brings issues to court. He refuses to fall victim to the witchhunt and name people, but this ultimately leads to his demise. 
  • U/S Reverend Parris
• Any Gender. Any race. Age 20+ to play:
  • Reverend Hale. A young reverend brought in to investigate the supernatural happenings in Salem and inspect the ill Betty Parris. Feels immense guilt for being part of the start of the witchhunt and all the lives that it cost. 
• Male. Any race. Age 50+ to play:
  • Francis Nurse. A well respected, wealthy man in Salem, who sides with John Proctor when his wife is accused of witchcraft. 
  • Hopkins. The jailor.
• Male. Any race. Age 20+ to play:
  • Willard. Deputy constable, responsible for serving warrants and arresting the accused. 
  • U/S John Proctor.