Characters — Convention Play

CHARACTERS

PRINCIPLE NOMINEES FOR VP (and their WIVES)

Henry LeBlanc* as Henry Wallace

Kristen Montgomery as Ilo Wallace

David Robinette as Harry S. Truman

Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Bess Truman

CONVENTION ORGANIZERS

Annalise Englert as Dorothy Vrendenburgh (DNC Secretary)

Jack Posey as Samuel Jackson (Convention Chairman)

Peter Schiavelli as Frank Walker (Postmaster General)

Michael Pantozzi* as Edwin Pauley (DNC Treasurer)

Nathan Norrington-Herr as Robert Hannegan (DNC Chairman)

Ari Litman-Weinberg as Edward Kelly (Chicago Mayor)

DeShawn Ball as Kermit, Usher One (Kelly’s man)

Jamonte Williams as Teddy, Usher Two (Kelly’s man)

Darryl Alan Reed* as Grouzard (Concessions)

Berenice Odriozola as Barbara Scully (Opera Singer)

Anthony Hernandez as Al Melgard (Organist)

Danny Rocco as Neale Roach (Pauley's Assistant)

DELEGATES

Elizabeth Ivy Southard as Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor)

David Nathan Schwartz* as Sidney Hillman (CIO)

Michael Malanga as Phillip Murray (CIO)

Cameron Bell as Quentin Reynolds (War Correspondent) & New York Delgate

Charlie Weil as John Bankhead (Alabama)

Molly Basler as Hattie Caraway (Arkansas)

Jill Karrenbrock as Helen Douglas (California)

Trey Nichols as Culbert Olson (California)

Donald Rizzo as Robert Kenny (California)

Nathan Frizzell as Claude Pepper (Florida)

Turner Morehead as Ellis Arnall (Georgia)

Sam Stapp as Keen Johnson (Kentucky)

Don Baldaramos* as Alben Barkley (Kentucky)

Jay Flaquer as Scott Lucas (Illinois)

Elan Garfias as Robert Kerr (Oklahoma)

JB Waterman as Richard F. Mitchell (Iowa)

Guy Turner as Jimmie Davis (Louisiana)

Jimmy Thornton as David Walsh (Massachusetts)

Elijah Barnes as Kansas, Utah and Virginia Delegates

Rush as Richard Frankensteen (Michigan)

Michael Aguilo* as Bennett “Champ” Clark (Missouri)

Kathleen Littlefield* as Mrs. Charles Gladys Tillet (North Carolina)

Sarah Sutliff as Emma Guffey Miller (Pennsylvania)

Brady Grustas as Joseph Guffey (Pennsylvania)

Justin Brock Schantz as Lester C. Hunt (Wyoming)

Tom Miller as Reverend Ray Anderson

Dana Schwartz as Reverend Ray Anderson

Griffin Allen as Frank (Ohio)

Amaïa Andrea as South Carolina Delegate

Eric Maragoto as Philippines and Wyoming Delegates

José Cervantes as Puerto Rico and Texas Delegates

Ashley Grubstein as Maine and Vermont Delegates

Lila Page as Maine, Oklahoma, Virgin Islands and West Virginia Delegates

Jack Little as Arizona, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, North Dakota, Vermont Delegates

Harry White as Delegate-at-large

Elliot White as Delegate-at-large

PRESS

Monica Candio as Photographer

Reynold Liang as Jack Bell (Associated Press)

THE PEOPLE

Labor workers and Convention attendees
Portrayed by You

FDR

Portrayed by… God?

*These Actors and Stage Manager are appearing courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.