Downstate Premiering on Broadway this Fall?

This audition notice on Playbill with the title and character names redacted seems to correspond with the play Downstate.

SEEKING:

Role A: He/him. 40s. White. Professional.

Role B: She/her. 40s. White. Professional.

Role C: He/him. 60-75. White. Lovable.

Role D: He/him. 60. Black. Languid.

Role E: He/him. 30s. Black. Voluble.

Role F: He/him. 40s. Lonesome.

Role G: She/her. 40s-50s. Black or Latina. Weary.

Role H: She/her. Late teens/ early 20s. Any ethnicity. Common.

Role I: He/him. White. 40s. Able to have authority. Onstage role who may cover any of the above.

Role J: He/him. Black. 40s-50s. Able to have authority. Onstage role who may cover any of the above.

Role K: She/her. Any ethnicity. 40s. Able to have authority. Onstage role who may cover any of the above.

The following are the character descriptions provided by TRW:

ANDY — 40s, white, professional.

EM — 40s, same as ANDY.

FRED — 70s, white, glasses, motorized wheelchair, childlike, not unlike Fred Rogers.

DEE — Pushing 60, Black, thin, languid.

GIO — 30s, Black, muscular, clean-cut, ambitious, voluble.

FELIX — 40s, Latino, heavyset, solitary, silent.

IVY — 40s-50s, Black or Latina. Probation officer, overworked, weary.

EFFIE — Late teens/early 20s. Any ethnicity. Hyperactive. Too much eye makeup.

COPS — (non-speaking) Two male, one female, to be played by understudies.

809 Development LLC is also Scott Rudins producing entity.

Updated On: 7/13/26 at 10:54 PM

I was floored by this play and Pam Mackinnon’s production of it at Playwrights Horizons. Would love to see it with the exact same cast again…but I could also see it working with bigger names.