The Weavers Audio Drama
Kristina Martin-Longoria for Kitty O'Brien
Lead Role. If you'd prefer, you may submit your audition to DreamGoatProductionATgmailDOTcom
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Please follow the directions in the Project Overview section. Each main character has 2 lines, and one monologue. The monologue is there mainly to give context to the character. The purpose of the 2 lines is to hear your accent. You may choose any part of the monologue that you think best shows off your interpretation of the character. Do as little or as much as you'd like. Please record both lines, and your choice of a section of the monologue.
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Kitty is the Vice-president of The Weavers. Daughter of Irish immigrants. Extremely psychic. Natural medium, but feels really guilty about it. Her parents converted to Assemblies of God, but she rejected it. They thought maybe converting to American Evangelicalism that she would have less “spirit” stuff happen to her. It didn’t work. Her abilities have always scared her. Joining The Weavers has helped her become more confident, but it’s a work in progress. Over-compensates because of it, and can be bossy at times. Married, two kids, one a junior in high school, the other a sophomore in college at Augsburg. Husband is a corporate, K-street lawyer.
Skills: Knitting. Her skills have nothing to do with her power, as she’s the banisher. But, she has made lovely scarves for everyone that they all wear when they’re out on assignment.
- female adult
- minnesotan
Oooh, whatcha got there, Krissy? Looks real good [beat] but what are those green things?
The dead are around us, watching. They’re afraid. Not of us. But, so afraid. Afraid, afraid, afraid, afraid… (keep repeating)
Nobody knows how much I struggle every day. And, it’s not just the spirits and other entities that crowd out my mind. Every day is a question of: am I good enough? Am I pretty enough? Am I a good enough mother? Am I a good enough wife? My family were extremely religious and I was taught my powers were from the Devil. They came over from Ireland, and I was born shortly after. When I was about four, I started talking to ghosts. It freaked my parents out, and because they couldn’t get any answers from Catholic priests, other than take her to a child psychiatrist, they became evangelicals. By the time I was ten, I learned to repress my powers, or just downright lied about them. I lived that life until I met Krissy and everyone in high school. We all became Weavers together. I was a fat kid growing up. Well, looking back I wasn’t actually fat, but that’s what everyone called me because I wasn’t super skinny like all the other girls. I barely skirted eating disorders in college, but got healthy in grad school. Got a Masters in international relations, and got to travel all over the world. Not bad for a fat kid from Minnesota that had voices in her head. Now? Now I’m married to a wonderful man, a K-street lawyer. We live in a beautiful old Edwardian home close to Lake Bde Maka Ska, and have three beautiful children. I have…I still have voices in my head all of the time. Not the ghosts and spirits and beasties, those I know what they sound like and can block them. No, these voices all sound like my voice telling me that I’m not good enough. Why did I waste all of that money for grad school when I’m a housewife? Are my children really monsters? Did I fail my family by not ignoring my powers? This is where The Weavers come in. My friends for decades. My sisters for life. Even when they drive me crazy *cough* Emily *cough*, I know they always have my back. They never saw me as the fat girl, or the crazy girl. They always knew me. They’ve always been far louder than the other voices in my head.
