HARLOW GRANT (SUPPORTING - female, 16, play-age 18-28)

SUPPORTING, and the biggest non-lead part: about 100 lines across 16 chapters. Harlow is Maya's best friend since fourth grade, the yearbook photographer, always carrying her camera. She is the only person in the book who is quietly uneasy about Nathan, and she is never listened to. SOUND: deadpan, dry, blunt. She says less than she is thinking and leaves long pauses where other people would fill space. A photographer's voice: she talks about framing and light like they are facts. DIRECTION: never play worry on purpose. She sounds bored while saying something alarming. IMPORTANT: Harlow becomes a lead in Book Two and Book Three, which are already written, so I am casting this role with the whole series in mind. ACCENT: light Northeast Philadelphia, or neutral American.