Alicia Milner
auditioning for
RENEE BENNETT (SMALL - female, 40s) - Maya's mother
in Nathan: The Distance Between Us - Full Cast Audiobook (Book One)
SMALL, around 35 lines. Maya's mother, a dental hygienist, and Nana Dot's daughter. Her own mother is dying through the middle of the book and she keeps functioning anyway. SOUND: practical, tired, loving in a no-nonsense way. Brisk. DIRECTION: play the control, not the grief. She only cracks once, and it lands because she held it together everywhere else. ACCENT: light Northeast Philadelphia, or neutral American.
You did. He's very... put together. For sixteen.
Honey, that can be a reflex. It's very common.
She was lying there. My mother was lying there, dying, and nobody came? Because an alarm didn't go off?