THE MAN FROM EARTH
BY: JEROME BIXBY AND RICHARD SCHENKMAN
Recommended audience: 13+ for adult content
Director: R.Chandler Bragg
Production dates: March 13-21, 2026
Rehearsals begin on: January 5, 2026
No conflict dates: January 5, March 6-7 (THIS IS TECH!!), March 9-12 (THIS IS DRESS!)
Submissions open: November 15, 2025
Audition dates: December 16, 2025 6-9pm
Pay: $50 stipend
Please prepare: 1 one-minute contemporary monologue.
Please send: A headshot and resume if you have one and a list of all conflicts between January 5, 2026-March 22, 2026
Audition disclosures: Callbacks if needed will be sides from the script sent at least 24 hours prior to the audition. Callbacks may include the use of adult content. Please note, the roles of John and Harry have been cast from our 25-26 Season Auditions held back in August. All other roles are open.
COVID 19 information: Live Arts follows the advice of the Gwinnett Health Department. As of right now, masks are optional. However, if the Health Department updates guidance to require masks, they will be required and provided.
Show description: After history professor John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University, his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation. But they’re shocked to hear his reason for premature retirement; John claims he must move on because he is immortal, and cannot stay in one place for more than 10 years without his secret being discovered. Tempers rise and emotions flow as John’s fellow professors attempt to poke holes in his story, but it soon becomes clear that his tale is as impossible to disprove as it is to verify. What starts out as a friendly gathering soon builds to an unexpected and shattering climax.
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.)
Sandy (female presenting, can play late 20s) – Fiercely intelligent, but reticent.
Dan (male presenting 60-ish) Professor of Anthropology, insightfully contemplative.
Edith (female presenting 40’s-60’s) Art history professor, non-evangelical christian literalist
Art (male presenting 40’s-50’s) Archeology professor, thinks himself an academic rockstar.
Linda (female presenting, college age) Young student, wide eyed, smart, dating Art.
Will Gruber (male presenting, 60’s+) Psychology professor, nearing retirement.
Paramedic/Furniture Mover (any gender, any age)
Cop/Furniture Mover (any gender, any age)
Disclosures: This is an ensemble show that is 90 minutes with no intermission. Most characters will be called for most rehearsals, as many of them never leave the stage. The show is a Sci-Fi story told by a man who may or may not be 14,000 years old. It deals with concepts of love, family, religion, faith, life, and death. There is a moment of hand-to-hand combat. Two characters fall in love, but there is no intimacy.
There is a tense scene involving the the threat of violence from a fire arm.
It is recommended that folks wanting to audition read the play prior to doing so.
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