We’re Hiring: Actors for Bill’s Attic inspired play The Collector
We are looking for two actors to perform in our piece at The Ladder by Carl Grose called The Collector. Part post-apocalyptic folk tale, part interactive adventure, The Collector combines live performance, puppetry, installation and music.
Auditions are at the end of August with rehearsals taking place in September and the performance running throughout October.
Performances & Rehearsals will be at The Ladder in Redruth.
Express your interest with a copy of your CV and a short cover letter sent to felixmortimer@gmail.com by the 1st July 2026.
Payment is equity £601 per week for three weeks of rehearsal and four weeks of performances in September and October 2026.
THE COLLECTOR / GENNI
Playing age: 30+
Any gender
Strong comic performer with physical theatre skills.
A wildly inventive double role. GENNI is a chaotic, over-eager underground caretaker and audience guide with clownish energy, warmth, and quick improvisational instincts. THE COLLECTOR is their grander alter-ego: part prophet, part museum curator, part post-apocalyptic gameshow host. The actor must shift fluidly between absurd comedy, eerie myth-making, and genuine emotional depth.
Excellent storytelling skills essential. Confidence with heightened language, dialect, audience interaction, and playful physicality required. Puppetry, devising, music, or movement experience welcomed.
FERN
Playing age: 18–30
Any gender
Bold, funny, instinctive performer.
FERN is an outsider from the mysterious Tonkin’s Ope — scrappy, hopeful, endlessly enthusiastic, and far more emotionally intelligent than they first appear. They become the unlikely hero of the story, venturing into the dangerous wastelands above in search of the last piece of Kernow Kwartz.
The performer should have strong comic timing, emotional openness, and a natural rapport with audiences. Physical confidence and a sense of adventure are important, as the role involves stylised performance, movement, and interaction with puppetry/micro-world storytelling. A performer who can balance anarchic humour with tenderness and wonder.
