Nothing Personal (new comedy): Casting EZRA + LINT

Theatre Puget Sound; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 1,000 - 3,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Revenue share

Job summary

Theatre Puget Sound is casting for Nothing Personal, a surreal new comedy by Kyla Klein. Auditions require readings from the script with sides emailed after submission. We are casting Ezra and Lint for performances in Langley, WA, with a crew and design component also sought.

Revenue share will be provided to cast and crew, with additional compensation to be determined based on sponsorship. Performances are Jan 8, 9, 15, and 16, 2027 at 7:00 PM at BlackBox Theater.

Qualifications

• Readings from the script are required during auditions.
• Sides will be emailed to you after you schedule.

Skills

Read from script

Open to all experience levels

Job description

Nothing Personal (new comedy): Casting EZRA + LINT

Expires: October 28, 2026

About the Project

Nothing Personal is a new surreal comedy by Kyla Klein. Claire is a hyper-observant employee at an independent movie rental store who can read almost anyone, until a stranger removes a piece of lint from her shoulder and she can’t tell what it meant. Moving between grounded relationship comedy and Claire’s increasingly surreal inner world, the play explores attraction, intimacy, control, and what happens when analyzing an experience is easier than having one. Performances are Jan 8, 9, 15 and 16, 2027 at 7:00 PM at BlackBox Theater, 819 Camano Ave, Langley, WA. We are casting two roles: Ezra and Lint.

Audition Requirements

Readings from the script. No prepared monologue. Actors of all experience levels are welcome. Sides will be emailed to you when you schedule. We especially encourage performers from Whidbey Island and surrounding communities.

Audition Dates

October 14-October 26

Sides or Script Location

Sides emailed on request after you submit.

Other Details

Rehearsals begin Oct 14: about one 2-hour rehearsal per week, mostly evenings and weekends, scheduled around the cast’s availability. Some rehearsals can be held off-island on select days.

Content: adult language and themes, including sexuality and a consensual dominant/submissive relationship. The only staged intimacy is hand-holding.

We are also looking for crew and design help: set, props, costumes (including a six-foot lint costume), lighting, sound, and stage management.

Pay Rate: Revenue share: cast and crew receive a portion of ticket sales. Additional compensation to be determined based on sponsorship and fundraising.

Pay Type: Other

Audition Type: Theatre

Geography

Locality: Local to Puget Sound

Location: Zoom or in-person in Langley, WA (exact location sent when you schedule).

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Character Breakdown

EZRA

Man, 28–40. Lead/Supporting. Curious, candid, slightly strange, and disarmingly sincere. Ezra walks into Claire’s movie store, watches her psychoanalyze other customers, and asks her to do him next. Recently single and prone to revealing far too much about himself, he is also unusually perceptive: instead of letting Claire study him, he looks back. Needs warmth, vulnerability, understated comic timing, and strong chemistry with Claire.

LINT

Any gender, 30+. Featured Supporting. Six feet of anthropomorphic lint. Magnificent. Lint appears as Claire’s tarot reader after she becomes obsessed with the lint Ezra removed from her shoulder. Blunt, theatrical, exasperated, occasionally profound, and increasingly frustrated by Claire’s need to make everything mean something. Needs bold comic instincts, physicality, and total conviction in heightened absurdity. Clown, improv, drag, cabaret, dance, or physical-theater experience welcome, not required.