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One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest-Kansas City, MO - Casting ID # 1577917
Project Type Live Event Submission Type Open Call
Location Kansas City, MO Union Non-union
Rate/Pay n/a Release Date 08-09-18
Audition Date 01-08-19 Submission deadline 01-07-19
Casting Category Theatre - Non-Equity
The mental patients, all male, are divided into Acutes, who can be cured, and Chronics, who cannot be cured. They are ruled by Nurse Ratched, a former army nurse who runs the ward with harsh, mechanical precision. During daily Group Meetings, she encourages the Acutes to attack each other in their most vulnerable places, shaming them into submission. If a patient rebels, he is sent to receive electroshock treatments and sometimes a lobotomy, even though both practices have fallen out of favor with the medical community.
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Role # 1 Randle P. McMurphy
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A gambler, a con man, and a backroom boxer. Has a devilish grin and has a wide open extroverted air which is in harsh contrast to the environment of the ward. He serves as the dominant force challenging the establishment and the ultimate savior of the victimized patients.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 2 Chief Bromden
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The huge, bull-muscled, son of an Indian Chief. He has been in the hospital for ten years, longer than any other patient in the ward. Bromden sees modern society as a huge, oppressive conglomeration that he calls the Combine, and the hospital as a place meant to fix people who do not conform.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 3 Billy Bibbit
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

Shy and has a bad stutter. He seems younger than his age. Dominated by his mother, one of Nurse Ratched’s close friends. Billy is voluntarily in the hospital, as he is afraid of the outside world.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 4 Cheswick
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

Eager and quick to argue or fight. Aggressively defiant yet cringing. All talk, no action.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 5 Scanlon
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

Involuntarily committed to the hospital. He has fantasies of blowing things up.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 6 Martini
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A little Italian man who lives in a world of delusional hallucinations.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 7 Dale Harding
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

College-educated with a sharp tongue. He is President of the Patients’ Council. Although he is married to a woman, he is a homosexual. He has difficulty dealing with the overwhelming social prejudice against homosexuals, so he hides in the hospital voluntarily.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 8 Ruckley
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A Chronic patient. Was once curable, but was transformed into a Chronic due to a botched lobotomy.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 9 Aide Warren
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The Day Time Aides. Nurse Ratched hired them because they are filled with hatred and will submit to her wishes completely.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 10 Aide Williams
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The Day Time Aides. Nurse Ratched hired them because they are filled with hatred and will submit to her wishes completely.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 11 Dr. Spivey
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The administrator of the mental institution. He is a calm, mature, gray-haired doctor. He doubts that anything is wrong with McMurphy’s mind, but he defers to the opinion of Nurse Ratched.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 12 Aide Turkle
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The nighttime orderly for Nurse Ratched’s ward. He is easygoing and kind.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 13 Nurse Ratched
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The head of the hospital ward. She masks her humanity and femininity behind a stiff, patronizing façade. She weakens her patients through a psychologically manipulative program designed to destroy their self-esteem. Ratched’s emasculating, mechanical ways slowly drain all traces of humanity from her patients.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 14 Nurse Flinn
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A vapid girl with apprehensive eyes. She wears a gold cross at her throat, a sign of her strict Catholic upbringing. She is fearful of the patients’ sexuality.


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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 15 Candy Starr
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A beautiful, carefree prostitute. She comes to the ward for a late-night party that McMurphy arranges.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -
Role # 16 Sandra
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A prostitute who comes with Candy to the late-night party.


Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Ethnicity: Any -