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Cookies & Carols
Name of Show: Cookies & Carols
A Live Arts original
Recommended audience: 10+ due to the potential for some spooky stories.
Director: Becca Parker (she/her)
Production dates: December 4-5, 2026
Rehearsals begin on: This is a variety style show (stories around the campfire feel). There will be no official rehearsals.
No conflict dates: December 4-5, 2026
Location: We will be performing at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church in the fellowship hall.
Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church
3700 Pleasant Hill Rd.
Duluth GA 30096
Audition dates: Interest emails are due by November 15, 2026.
Pay: No pay. This is a fundraising show.
Please prepare: Please email Becca Parker at beccaparker@liveartstheatre.org letting her know your interest and what you would like to perform. Please also include if you are available Friday, December 4, Saturday, December 5, or both.
We are seeking short stories, songs, and other material that is winter holiday themed and appropriate for an audience ages 10+.
Audition disclosures: None
Show description: The show is based in the tradition of holiday storytelling and songs around the campfire. Each actor will perform a story or song of their choosing. We will serve cookies, cocoa, and hopefully be making smores.
Roles being cast: Solos, small groups, and ensemble.
Pipeline
Name of Show: Pipeline
Playwright: Dominique Morrisseau
Recommended audience: 16+ for adult language and content
Director: Dharma Moreau
Stage Manager: D.Norris
Board Liaison: Celeste Campbell
Production Dates: March 12-20, 2027
Rehearsals begins on: January 11, 2027
Strike Date: March 21, 2027
No conflict dates: January 11, March 5-6, March 12-13, March 19-21, 2027
No rehearsals on: January 18, February 14, 2027
Submissions open: July 1, 2026
Audition Workshop: December 14, 2026
Audition Date: December 15, 2026
Callbacks: December 17, 2026
Pay: $50 stipend
Please Prepare: a contemporary dramatic monologue
Please bring: a headshot and resume if you have one and a list of all conflicts between January the 11th through March the 21st 2027
Audition disclosures: callbacks if needed, will be sides from the script sent at least 24 hours prior to the audition. Call backs may include the use of adult language. Please note, all roles except Xavier have been cast from our 2026-27 Season Auditions, which were held in August 2026. Actors are welcome to submit for other roles as replacements if needed, but know the roles have been cast.
Show description: Nya, an inner-city public high school teacher, is committed to her students but desperate to give her only son Omari opportunities they’ll never have. When a controversial incident at his upstate private school threatens to get him expelled, Nya must confront his rage and her own choices as a parent. But will she be able to reach him before a world beyond her control pulls him away?
Roles being cast: (Please note: Character descriptions are taken directly from the play and were provided by the licensing agent as part of our production agreement. LAT policy is that any actor who can play the role as described by the playwright is invited to audition and may be cast.) Please note, all roles except Xavier have been cast from our 2026-27 Season Auditions, which were held in August 2026. Actors are welcome to submit for other roles as replacements if needed, but know the roles have been cast.
Nya – (mid to late 30s Black woman). Single mother. Public high school teacher. Trying to raise her teenage son on her own with much difficulty. A good teacher, inspiring her students in a stressed environment. A struggling parent doing her damnedest. Strong but burnt out. Smoker. Sometimes drinker. Holding together by a thread.
Omar – (late teens black man). Smart and ASTUTE. Rage without relief is tender and honest at his core. Something profoundly sensitive amidst the anger. Wrestling with his identity between private school education and being from a so-called urban community. Nya’s son.
Jasmine – (late teens black or Latino woman) Sensitive and tough, has a sharp bite and a soft smile. Profoundly aware of herself and her environment. Attends upstate private school but from a so-called urban environment. In touch with the poetry of her own language.
Xavier – (mid to late 30s black man ) Single father – struggling to connect to his own son. Marketing executive. Wounded relationship with his ex-wife, NIA. Financially stable period emotionally impoverished. Omari’s father.
Lori – (50’s white woman) Pistol level 1. Teaches in public high school and can hold her own against the tough students and the stressed environment. Doesn’t bite her tongue. And don’t mess with me chick.
DUN– (early to mid 30s black man) Public high school security guard. Bit and optimistic. Charismatic with women. Genuine and thoughtful in trying to be a gentleman in a stressed environment. It’s not easy.
Disclosures: The show has school violence and teen relationships.
The show takes place in the present-day urban public school system metro city area.
Omar and Jasmine have a kissing scene.
Omar and Xavier gets violent
Food and tea may be consumed on stage.
Nya has a small stunt of falling.
The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2
Name of Show: The Inheritance Parts 1 & 2
Playwright: Matthew Lopez
Recommended audience: 18+ due to severe adult language and adult situations.
Director/Fight Choreographer: Becca Parker
Stage Manager: Bill Byrne
Board Liaison: Rodney L. Johnson and D.Norris
An intimacy coordinator will be a part of this production. Their name will be announced once the contract is signed.
Production dates: July 15-24, 2027
Rehearsals begin on: 2/27/2027 (weekday evenings begin no earlier than 6, no rehearsals on Sundays)
Strike date: 7/25/2027
No conflict dates: 2/27/2027, 3/30/2027, 4/1/2027, 4/5/2027, 4/12/2027, 4/19/2027, 5/10/2027, 5/17/2027, 5/24/2027, 7/8-7/10/2027, 7/13-7/17 2027, 7/22-7/25/2027
No rehearsals on: Sundays (except strike), 3/26-3/28, 4/14-4/16, 4/21-5/3, 5/28-5/31, 6/18-20, 7/1-7/5.
Submissions open: July 1, 2026
Audition Workshop: July 27, 2026
Audition dates: August 1, 2026, February 2, 2027
Callbacks: To be scheduled
This director intends to cast most, if not all roles from our 2026-27 season auditions to be held August 1 to allow actors time to learn the heavy line loads. Any remaining roles will be cast in February 2027.
Pay: $50 per Part (please note, all characters except Margaret are in both Part 1 and Part 2)
Please prepare: a contemporary dramatic monologue
Please bring: A headshot and resume if you have one, and a list of all conflicts between 2/27/2027 and 7/25/2027.
Audition disclosures: Callbacks may include use of adult language and descriptions of adult situations. Current roles that have been cast are: Eric, Toby, Adam/Leo, Walter/Morgan, Young Man 3, Margaret.
Show description: Decades after the AIDS epidemic, three generations of gay men in New York City attempt to forge themselves a future. Inspired by E.M. Forster’s
masterpiece Howards End, The Inheritance examines survival, healing and what it means to call a place home.
Roles being cast: (Please note: Character descriptions are taken directly from the play and were provided by the licensing agent as part of our production agreement. LAT
policy is that any actor who can play the role as described by the playwright is invited to audition and may be cast.) Some roles may have been cast from our 26-27 Season Auditions. Current roles that have been cast are: Eric, Toby, Adam/Leo, Walter/Morgan, Young Man 3, Margaret. Actors are encouraged to submit for the remaining roles, and may also submit for roles that have been cast as a replacement if needed.
All young men play multiple roles and jump in and out of writing the story vs being part of the story.
Young Man One/Adam/Leo (male, 20’s any ethnicity) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Adam is a young, wealthy, gay man, who aspires to be a Broadway actor. Leo, who looks incredibly similar to Adam, is a young, gay male prostitute who has only known poverty.
Young Man Two/Jason #1/Doorman #1/Other Agent (male, Late 20’s-early 30’s, black) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Jason #1 is a young gay man who is married to Jason #2.
Young Man Three/Young Henry/Henry’s Assistant/Tucker (male, young 20’s any ethnicity) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Young Henry is Henry Wilcox when he first meets Walter in a flashback scene, Tucker is an artist who is dating Jasper.
Young Man Four/Man/Assistant/Young Walter (male, early 20’s any ethnicity) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Young Walter is Walter Poole when he first meets Henry Wilcox in a flashback scene.
Young Man Five/Charles Wilcox/Toby’s Agent (male, late 20’s early 30’s any ethnicity) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Charles Wilcox is a straight man who is the son of Henry Wilcox.
Young Man Six/Tristan- (male, 30’s Black) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Tristan is a gay activist who works for an AIDS clinic.
Young Man Seven/Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Dealer/Doorman #2 (male, 30’s white) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Jasper is a political activist who is also a gay man. In Part 2, he is dating Tucker. Paul Wilcox is a straight man, the son of Henry Wilcox.
Young Man Eight/Jason #2/Clinic Worker (male, Late 20’s early 30’s Hispanic) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. a writer. Jason #2 is a young gay man who is married to Jason#1. Ability to speak Spanish is a plus.
Young Man Nine/Eric Glass (male, 30’s White) Appears in both Parts 1 and 2. A writer. Eric is a gay man trying to find himself and a purpose for his life. Dating Toby at the top of the show.
Young Man Ten/Toby Darling (male, Late 20’s early 30’s any ethnicity) Appears in both Parts 1 & 2. A writer. Toby is a playwright who is trying to both run from and reconcile his present to his past. Dating Eric at the top of the show.
EM Forster (Morgan)/Walter Poole (male, 50’s any ethnicity) Appears in both Part 1 and Part 2. The storyteller, he mentors the lads as they write the story.Walter Poole is an older gay man who is married to Henry Wilcox at the top of the show.
Henry Wilcox (male, 50’s white) Appears in both Parts 1 & 2. A wealthy businessman who is married to Walter Poole at the top of the show. A gay man, who is desperately
trying to find his life while running from the past and the present.
Margaret (female, 55+, any ethnicity) Appears only in Part 2. The caretaker of Walter’s house.
Disclosures: This is an ensemble show, with most of the characters onstage at most times. Each part is 3.5 hours with two intermissions that will be performed in repertory. It is highly
recommended that those wishing to audition read this play prior to doing so.
Because it is 2 parts, the rehearsal period for this play will stretch from March-July 2027.
Young Man One/Adam/Leo- Very heavy line load. Says the f-word, onstage in underwear only, sexually explicit language, touching same sex, long explicit monologues, kisses Toby, portrays drug and alcohol use, gets surrounded by men, has a scene with himself, eats peanut butter with fingers, fight choreography.
Young Man Two/Jason #1/Doorman 1/Other Agent- curses, says the f-word, uses explicit language, fight choreography. Brief kiss with Jason #2.
Young Man Three/Young Henry/Henry’s assistant/Tucker- makes out with Jasper, says the f-word, curses, uses explicit language.
Young Man Four/Man/Young Walter/Assistant- uses explicit language, says the f-word.
Young Man Five/Charles Wilcox/Toby’s agent- uses explicit language, says the f-word.
Young Man Six/Tristan- curses, says the f-word, uses explicit language
Young Man Seven/Jasper/Paul Wilcox/Dealer/Doorman 2- Heavy line load. Sexually explicit language, says the f-word, makes out with Tucker, portrays drug use and the sale of drugs.
Young Man Eight/Jason #2/clinic worker- uses Spanish words, says the f word, uses homophobic slurs, brief kiss with Jason #1, fight choreography, uses explicit language.
Young Man Nine/Eric Glass- Very heavy line load, hums Bolero, sex choreography, says the f-word, sexually explicit language, drinks alcohol, uses french words, long monologues
Young Man Ten/Toby Darling- Very heavy line load. Says the f-word, portrays drug and alcohol abuse,, sex choreography, uses sexually explicit language, touching same sex, kisses Adam/Leo, fight choreography, long monologues, has a breakaway glass of water smashed on his head, needs to jump off a piece of furniture 2ft off the floor.
EM Forster/Morgan/Walter Poole- Heavy line load. Says the f-word, sexually explicit language, adjacent to the sex choreography scene, drinks alcohol, really long monologue, kisses Henry
Henry Wilcox- Heavy line load. Kisses Walter
Margaret- Very long monologue.