The Facts: Characters and Casting (5%)Provide a complete character list including essential information provided or inferred by the script: character’s name, sex, age, race/ethnicity, important relationship info.Example: Hamlet, male, university student (age), Danish, son of now dead King Hamlet
Character List
Louis Ironson: male, 20's to early 30's, Jewish, Prior's lover.
Prior Walter: male, early 30's, white, Louis' lover that is left when he reveals that he has AIDS.
Joe Pitt: male, mid 30's, white, A closeted homosexual that leaves his wife for Louis.
Harper Pitt: Female, mid 30's, white, Joe's wife, addicted to valium, is scared of unreasonable things.
Roy Cohn: male, mid 50's, white, A heartless lawyer dying from AIDS. Sadistic and malicious, Cohn is the anti-Prior.
Belize: male, no specific age (under 40 I would think), An ex-drag queen and registered nurse, Belize is Prior's best friend and Roy's caretaker.
Hannah Pitt: female, mid 50's, Joe's mother, moves from Salt Lake City to New York when Joe tells her he is gay.
The Angel of America: sex not stated, ageless, An imposing, terrifying, divine presence who descends from Heaven to bestow prophecy on Prior.
Ethel Rosenberg: female, white, dead, A real-life Jewish woman who was executed for treason during the McCarthy era.
Rabbi Isador Chemelwitz: male, Jewish, elderly, An rabbi who delivers the eulogy at the funeral of Sarah Ironson.
Mr. Lies: male, no race (perhaps African American), imaginary, An imaginary travel agent who resembles a jazz musician, Mr. Lies is one of Harper's imaginary creations.
Henry: male, late 30's, white, Roy's doctor, who Roy threatens with destruction if he refers to him as a homosexual.
Emily: female, mid 30's, white, A nurse who attends to Prior in the hospital.
Martin Heller: male, early 30's, white, A spineless Justice Department official and political ally of Roy's.
Sister Ella Chapter: female, over 25, white, A real estate agent who handles the sale of Hannah's house in Salt Lake.
Prior I and Prior II: male, dead, white, Prior's ancestors who are summoned from the dead to help prepare the way for the Angel's arrival.
