Looking for a diverse cast of strong singers/performers of any and all ethnicities and backgrounds. No experience is necessary to be part of the production.

Female/Female Presenting

• Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax (20s – 30s): Sophisticated, intelligent, and somewhat self-centered cousin of Algernon Moncrieff. She is the object of Jack’s affection, and dreams of marrying a man named Ernest. Gwendolen is determined and strong-willed, particularly in matters of love. She is an aristocratic arbiter of high fashion and society, utterly pretentious, and charmingly superficial.
• Cecily Cardew (18 – 30s): Ward of Jack Worthing, a young and imaginative girl who lives in the countryside. Cecily is innocent and romantic, but smart and strong-willed. She is intrigued by the idea of wickedness and has created an elaborate fantasy romance and courtship with Jack’s fictitious brother, Ernest.
• Lady Bracknell (40s – 70s): Algernon’s aunt and Gwendolen’s mother, a domineering and snobbish aristocratic woman with strict views on social class and marriage. She married well, and her primary goal in life is to see her daughter do the same. She embodies the absurdity of social pretensions.
• Miss Prism (40s – 70s): Cecily’s governess with an endless source of dull platitudes and clichés. Puritan though she is, Miss Prism represents the Victorian ideal of respectability and propriety and her severe pronouncements have a way of going so far over the top that they inspire laughter.

Male/Male Presenting

• John (Jack) Worthing, J.P. (20s – 30s): a wealthy young man who leads a double life. He is responsible and serious “Jack” in the country, where he owns an estate and is the sensible guardian to his ward, Cecily Cardew. In London, he assumes the identity of his own fictitious brother named “Ernest,” and leads a more carefree life.
• Algernon Moncrieff (20s – 30s): Charming, idle, dandy bachelor friend who lives in London. Best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as “Ernest.” Algernon is brilliant, witty, and given to making delightful paradoxical and epigrammatic pronouncements.
• Rev. Cannon Chasuble, D.D. (40s – 70s): The rector of the Manor House, he is a pleasant, earnest and somewhat absent-minded clergyman who has a shy and awkward romance with Miss Prism. He is asked by both Jack and Algernon to re-christen them as Ernest.
• Lane / Merriman (30s+): Lane is Algernon’s manservant in London, while Merriman is Jack’s butler in the country. Both characters serve to highlight the social dynamics and the humorous aspects of their masters’ lives.

British accents are encouraged!