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Feeding Beatrice
Name of Show: Feeding Beatrice
Playwright: Kirsten Greenidge
Recommended audience: 13+ for adult language, mild violence, and content
Director: Andre Eaton Jr
Production dates: Saturday June 20, 2026 1-4pm
Rehearsals begin on: There will be 1-2 Zoom rehearsals set by director and actors.
No conflict dates: June 20
Location: Norcross Cultural and Community Center
Audition Dates: Video due by: May 24, 2026
Pay: No Pay
Please prepare: A contemporary dramatic monologue. Please submit a video to auditions@liveartstheatre.org by May 24, 2026.
Audition disclosures:
This play contains adult language and situations.
Beatrice uses a racial slur.
Show description: It starts with the sound of a spoon scraping against glass and the wet noise of lips smacking together. June and Lurie have a haunting new houseguest – and she’s ravenously hungry. They do their best to keep her fed and happy, but Beatrice always demands more. As she burrows deeper and deeper into their lives, the couple faces a horrific question: What will it cost to exorcise Beatrice forever?
Kirsten Greenidge’s spine-chilling gothic tale, about a contemporary Black couple haunted by the ghost of a young white girl, deftly explores questions of race, class and the American Dream.
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.)
June Walker– A home owner in her mid-thirties, Lurie’s wife. Black. A dance teacher turned bank manager. Warm, determined, smart, cares deeply about appearances and social status but she is not shallow. June lives with an inescapable sense of urgency
Lurie Walker – A home owner in his mid-thirties, June’s husband. Black. A caption writer for the news. Smart, cautious, pensive, goes with the flow for the sake of June’s joy. Lurie likes to take things slow.
Leroy Walker – Lurie’s younger brother, in his early to mid-thirties. Black. A contractor. Playful, opinionated, sincere, funny, and suspicious. Leroy is very pro-Black and speaks his mind often. He cares deeply about his family and community and shows this through directness, honesty, banter, and compassion
Beatrice – A young guest. White. a ghostly guest from the 1950s. Naive, youthful, sheltered and violently entitled, but also deviously flirtatious. Beatrice would identify as a victim before an aggressor, even in the middle of terrorizing you. Longs to be like Shirley Temple.
Disclosures:
This is a staged reading and is part of our annual Juneteenth Celebration.
This play contains adult language and situations.
This play contains racially charged language including slurs.
Deals with themes of: violence, child loss and child abuse and sexual assault, religious trauma