Website URL Looking Glass Playhouse
🎭✨ Auditions Coming Soon for Radium Girls! ✨🎭
Step into history and help bring this powerful true story to life on stage at Looking Glass Playhouse.
📅 Auditions: Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 1:00 PM
📍 Location: Looking Glass Playhouse
📞 Callbacks (if needed):
Sunday, January 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
🎭 Director: Glenn Saltamachia
🎭 Assistant Director: Patrick Donnigan
📝 Roles Available
A play in two acts by D. W. Gregory
(At least 4 men and 5 women, plus ensemble/extras)
The Women in the Factory (Female, ages 16–70)
Grace Fryer – Lead role; a skilled dial painter whose fight for justice drives the story.
Kathryn Schaub – Grace’s friend and fellow dial painter.
Irene Rudolph – Factory worker.
Mrs. Alma MacNeil – Factory supervisor.
The Company Men (Male, ages 18–70)
Arthur Roeder – President of U.S. Radium Corporation.
Edward Markley – Counsel for the company.
C. B. “Charlie” Lee – Vice President, later President of the company.
Dr. von Sochocky – Founder of U.S. Radium Corp. and inventor of the luminous paint.
Family & Friends
Tom Kreider – Grace’s boyfriend.
Harriet Roeder – Arthur Roeder’s wife.
Diane Roeder – Their daughter, seen from childhood to adulthood.
Anna Fryer – Grace’s mother.
The Advocates
Katherine Wiley – Executive Director, New Jersey Consumers’ League.
Raymond Berry – Attorney for the dial painters.
The Scientists
Dr. Cecil Drinker – Harvard industrial hygienist.
Dr. Harrison Martland – County medical examiner.
Dr. Joseph Knef – Dentist.
Dr. Marie Curie – Discoverer of radium.
Frederick Flinn, PhD – Columbia University industrial hygienist.
The Press
Reporter (Jack Youngwood) – Newark Ledger.
Sob Sister (Nancy Jane Harlan) – New York Graphic.
Witnesses, Public & Ensemble
William J. A. Bailey, Mrs. Michaels, Society Woman, Clerk, and other members of the public invested in the case.
🌟 Radium Girls tells the true story of 1920s factory workers exposed to radium while painting watch dials—highlighting courage, activism, and the fight for justice. Cold readings from the script will be part of the audition process.
🎟️ Performance Dates:
March 12–15 & March 19–22, 2026
📞 Questions? Contact Director Glenn Saltamachia:
📱 (618) 558-2333
📧 77texaggie@att.net
Break a leg—we can’t wait to see you on stage at Looking Glass Playhouse!
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Looking Glass Playhouse is a Not For Profit Community Theater located in Lebanon Illinois. For more information about the theater please visit our website at http://www.lookingglassplayhouse.com