Characters — Convention Play

CHARACTERS

PRINCIPal NOMINEES FOR VP (and their WIVES)

Henry LeBlanc* as Henry Wallace

Kristen Montgomery as Ilo Wallace

Jonah Weiland as Harry S. Truman

Melanie Reese as Bess Truman

CONVENTION ORGANIZERS

Darryl Alan Reed* as Grouzard (Concessions)

Annalise Englert as Dorothy Vrendenburgh (DNC Secretary)

Jack Posey as Samuel Jackson (Convention Chairman)

Nathan Norrington-Herr as Robert Hannegan (DNC Chairman)

Peter Schiavelli as Frank Walker (Postmaster General)

Michael Pantozzi* as Edwin Pauley (DNC Treasurer)

Davide Costa as Neale Roach (Pauley's Assistant)

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)

Berenice Odriozola as Barbara Scully (Opera Singer)

Anthony Hernandez as Al Melgard (Organist)

PRESS

Monica Candio as Photographer

James Fahselt* as Jack Bell

DELEGATES

Elizabeth Ivy Southard* as Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor)

David Nathan Schwartz* as Sidney Hillman (CIO)

Michael Malanga as Phillip Murray (CIO)

Tom Miller* as Reverend Ray Anderson

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

Charlie Weil as Alabama Delegate

David Gueriera* as John Bankhead (Alabama)

Elizabeth Schmidt* 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)

Herb Merriweather as Frank Henry McHale (Indiana)

Sam Stapp as Keen Johnson (Kentucky)

Don Baldaramos* as Alben Barkley (Kentucky)

Guy Turner as Jimmie Davis (Louisiana)

Jimmy Thornton as David Walsh (Massachusetts)

Eric Maragoto as Bill Grant (Massachusetts)

Rush as Richard Frankensteen (Michigan)

Elijah Barnes as Lister Hill (Mississippi)

Daniel James Tipton as Walter Sillers (Mississippi)

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

Amaïa Andrea as Delegate at Large

Austyn Elliott as Clyde R. Hoey (North Carolina)

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

Raul Vega Martinez as J.C.B. Ehringhaus (North Carolina)

Jack Little as Halvor Halvorson (North Dakota)

Qua'deer Jones as Ohio Delegate

Tim Fannon* as Robert Kerr (Oklahoma)

Jeremy Ong as William Stigler (Oklahoma)

Sarah Sutliff* as Emma Guffey Miller (Pennsylvania)

Brady Grustas as Joseph Guffey (Pennsylvania)

Jay Flaquer as Estes Kefauver (Tennessee)

Lila Page as Vermont Delegate and Delegate at Large

J. Paul Boehmer* as Harry Byrd (Virginia)

Justin Brock Schantz as Lester C. Hunt (Wyoming)

Ashley Grubstein as Delegate at Large

Bob Rumnock* as Delegate at Large

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.