SEEKING: Equity actors for roles in North Carolina Stage Company production of MISERY by William Goldman based on the novel by Stephen King.
(see breakdown).
These are Actors’ Equity Association required show auditions and Equity members are given priority. North Carolina Stage Company operates on a SPT-4 Contract. Non-union actors are welcome to audition.
Performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, ages, and body types, as well as performers with disabilities, are encouraged to submit audition materials.
Dates for rehearsals and productions are listed in Character Breakdowns below.
IN-PERSON AUDITIONS – PREPARATION & APPOINTMENTS:
Please bring your headshot and resume and prepare sides from the script. Sides will be provided when appointment is confirmed.
For appointments, please email [email protected] or call 828-239-0263 between 12noon – 5pm, Wednesday – Friday. Email preferred.
In-Person Audition Day/Times:
Thursday, August 13th, 2026
11:30 AM – 7:30 PM (EST)
BREAK: 2:30PM – 3:30PM
In-Person Audition Location:
North Carolina Stage Company
15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801
VIDEO AUDITIONS – PREPARATION & SUBMISSIONS:
If you are unable to attend the in-person auditions, video submissions will be accepted. For video submissions please submit headshot, resume, and private or password protected links of audition videos via the online audition form linked below. Please state your name and the role being auditioned for at the beginning of the submission. Please email [email protected] for specific sides. Video submission deadline is Thursday, 8/13/26, 7:30PM EST.
Click here to submit a video audition.
IN-PERSON REHEARSALS & PERFORMANCE LOCATION: North Carolina Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane, Asheville, NC 28801
For questions, please email [email protected] or call 828-239-0263.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS
MISERY
by William Goldman based on the novel by Stephen King.
Director: Charlie Flynn-McIver
Production Dates: 6 Week Contract – Rehearses 9/22/26, Previews 10/14/26, Opens 10/17/26, Closes 11/1/26
PAUL SHELDON
he/him, 40s–50s.
A best-selling novelist, wry and privately resentful of the pulp romance series that made him famous, eager to be taken seriously as a serious writer at last. After a car crash on an icy Colorado road leaves both his legs shattered, he wakes to find himself the captive of a woman who calls herself his “number one fan,” and must find a way to survive her hospitality, his own fear and pain, and the story she insists he write for her.
ANNIE WILKES
she/her, 40s-50s.
A former nurse living alone on an isolated Colorado farm, warm and folksy, quick to laughter and to a childlike delight in the romance novels she treasures above all else, but just as quick to sudden, unsettling swings into a darker temper when things don’t go her way. She has nursed her favorite author back to health after a terrible accident and is thrilled to have him all to herself, but her moods turn without warning, and when the world, or the story, fails to go the way she wants it to, that darker temper is capable of real violence.
BUSTER
he/him, 40s–60s.
The local county sheriff, easygoing and well liked around town, in no particular hurry about anything. A missing novelist and a string of small oddities catch his attention, and beneath his unhurried charm is a curiosity that won’t let a loose thread go, even as it leads him closer to danger than he expects.
