Radium Girls Auditions

To audition, please register at the registration link above. Please submit a video recording performing 2 of the monologues from the options provided by emailing audition@columbiachildrenstheatre.com. Please include your name and grade in the body of the email.

Rehearsals will take place at Columbia Children’s Theatre and will be run safely with guidance from our COVID-19 task force. Policies and protocols will be emailed to you. Several zoom gatherings of all parents/caregivers will be required before rehearsals begin to explain the procedures and policies and to answer any questions.

Performances will be shown through a virtual premiere on February 5th. The show will be pre-recorded on January 24th.

Director: Paul Lindley

Radium Girls is D.W. Gregory’s gripping drama based on the true story of female laborers who were poisoned and killed by their factory’s radium-based paint. Though Radium Girls ranges from 1918 through the 1940’s, the bulk of the narrative is centered on events in New Jersey in the mid 1920’s. The play highlights Grace, Irene, and Kathryn who paint dials in the U.S. Radium Plant and are instructed to finely point their brushes by molding the bristles with their mouths while painting. The factory’s new owner, Arthur Roeder, is excited by radium’s promising future and believes in the company’s potential for growth. Roder’s mindset is supported by Marie Curie, the internationally famous scientist, who believes radium provides many health benefits and could even cure cancer. Radium Girls fiercely examines the commercialization of science, the pursuit of both health and wealth, the power of the underdog, and the fierce injustice laborers in America have faced, and may even continue to face in the present.