Auditions for
everything is wonderful

Description of the Show

When an Amish couple’s two sons are killed in a car accident, the family struggles to maintain their faith and cling to their way of life. In an act of unfathomable forgiveness, they take in Eric, the wayward young driver of the car. But Eric’s mistake cracks open the family’s dark history and brings back their eldest daughter, excommunicated five years earlier. Miri finds her family in shambles, the man who killed her brothers living in the barn, and the man who drove her away intent upon marrying her younger sister. Without a way forward, this insular community must seek to heal the deep wounds of the past, forcing everyone into a new kind of reckoning.

Roles & Character Descriptions

• MIRI – (F, 20s-30s) Recently left the Amish community; smart, plain-spoken, independent. Left the Amish at the age of twenty and coped by building a hard shell around her heart.
• ERIC – (M, 20s-30s) Outsider; he is an addict and there is a dark core at the center of him that he's fighting hard to keep buried. Deeply self-centered and self-loathing.
• ABRAM – (M, 20s) Amish man; strapping, polite, charming and entitled. Miri's childhood sweetheart and the reason she left the Amish.
• RUTH – (F, 20s) Miriam’s younger sister; a "good Amish girl." Sweet, and good, but not simple. Unintentionally funny in spite of herself.
• ESTHER – (F, 50s-60s) Mother; on the outside she seems simple and perhaps submissive, but she has a core of steel.
• JACOB – (Pronounced “YAK-ob”) (M, 50s-60s) Father; an open and earnest man. Believes the best way to make peace with the deaths of his children is to actively work on forgiveness.