Todd is an adult male and is Riley's dad. He's, to put it simply, an awful person. Todd used to be a well respected person, but he developed a gambling addiction a few years back and things started to go downhill from there. Ever since Todd's gambling addiction took hold, the Hannah and Todd have been struggling to pay bills and hold everything together and the problems keep getting worse. With everything going on, the two parents have little patience or energy to deal with what's going on with Riley. Todd, especially, does not want to deal with Riley's situation. He thinks she's faking everything and lying for attention. Todd is an abusive husband. He doesn't go so far as to use violence, but Hannah is constantly worried that he will and tends to let Todd do whatever he wants in fear of that. Todd doesn't really listen to Hannah and also doesn't care too much about Riley. Even before the "possession situation", he thought that Riley was lazy and a bad student. Now, his views toward Riley are even worse and he refuses to get help for Riley and doesn't let Hannah do anything to help either.

I'd highly recommend reading Hannah's description as well to understand your role a little better as Hannah and Todd's roles and dynamic can't be understood well by only reading one description.

To effectively play this role, you should be able to demonstrate Todd's extreme character traits. 

Audition lines :

• Todd: "I've had enough of this crap. Every night now I hear something going on in her room. She's talking in her sleep, and this is getting ridiculous." (half-yelling)


• Hannah: "Look at what's going on with her! We can't just send her away!" 


• Todd: "Right now, our problems start and stop at paying the electricity bill, Hannah. I have no time or energy to deal with Riley going psycho." (half-yelling)


• Hannah: "She's your daughter. What do you mean her well-being isn't your issue? You can't just send her off when she's at her worst!" (half-yelling)


• Todd: "She just wants attention. Nothing's actually going on. I already have my daughter having a temper-tantrum. I don't need you to have one too." (yelling). (pause) "The decision is final. I'm going to go make some calls now." (calm, but extremely firm).