Visiting Mr. Green

Directed by Mario D’Alimonte

 

  
Auditions: Mon. April 13th & Wed. Apr. 15th

Call backs:  Tues. April 21st

 

 

Performance Dates: October 22-29, 2026

Meridian Arts Centre, 5040 Yonge Street

SYNOPSIS

 

Mr. Green, an elderly, retired dry cleaner, wanders into New York traffic and is almost hit by a car driven by Ross Gardiner, a 29-year-old corporate executive. The young man is sentenced to community service in which he must visit and help the recent widower once a week for six months. What starts as a story about two men who do not want to be in the same room together becomes a gripping and moving drama as they get to know and care about each other, and open old wounds they’ve both been hiding and nursing for years.

 

The following are the two lead roles:

Mr. Green: To play an 86-year-old, recently widowed, retired dry cleaner and Orthodox Jewish man living a life of self-imposed isolation in his Upper West Side apartment. He is initially a difficult, bitter, and curmudgeonly man who is reluctant to accept help or companionship. He keeps a strictly kosher home and has a strong attachment to his religious Traditions. During these visits, hardened and disillusioned with his life, Mr. Green learns to open up his heart and deal with a family secret he has long kept buried – a decades long estrangement from his daughter Rachel because she married a non Jew.

 

Ross Gardiner: To play a 29 year old secular Jewish corporate executive from New Jersey who almost hits Mr. Green with his car.  As punishment for reckless driving, a judge orders him to perform six months of community service by visiting and assisting the elderly man once a week.  Initially exasperated by Mr. Green’s rigid eccentricities, Ross is also a closeted gay man who has faced rejection from his own father and struggles with his identity and loneliness.  Over time, he develops a bond with Mr. Green and helps him reconnect with his estranged daughter.

 

To book an audition, please send your resume and headshot and indicate the role you are auditioning for to Mario D’Alimonte at: mdalimonte@bell.net. Actors selected for an audition will be contacted and given a time and the location.

 

Actors – Please prepare a three minute monologue of your choice.

 

This is a non-union, non paying production.

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Thank you for your interest in Teatron Toronto Jewish Theatre’s production of Visiting Mr. Green.

 

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Written by Jeff Baron