Dianne: Female / 25-30 Years. / Any Ethnicity. Donald’s lawyer, she is a very professional woman in her late 20’s/Early 30’s. She seems refined as though her every thought and action is well planned out. She is slowly becoming unnerved by Donald’s increasingly bizarre behavior.

Lucia: Female / 18-24 Years. / Any Ethnicity. Donald’s Maid/Cook, she is streetwise but somewhat naive.

STORY LINE: The Suffering is a Gothic Horror Film. It deals with revenge, family guilt, and mental breakdown. The film concerns a young man named Robert who visits a friend of his (Donald) in the country. Upon his arrival, Robert learns of Donald’s family curse, which might be powerful enough to destroy them both.

Holly: late 20’s early 30’s, pretty upper-east side wife / lady who lunches, doesn’t work, drinks too much, is having an affair with her therapist.

Story: An upper-east side housewife must tell her husband that she is cheating on him with her shrink.

STORY: A heartless children’s book writer struggles to bring heart to his story of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz when he loses himself in his story and consumes the heart of his successful writer/brother so that he can feel and bring heart to himself and his story, but when he feels all he feels is guilt and so he no longer wants to feel.

Susan - 30 to 35, attractive, warm, sensual, comic, heartfelt

Pauline - 28-40, physically beautiful, very expressive, graceful, great voice, sexy, Femme Fatale, comfortable with her body, no inhibitions, the devil’s wife, disturbing, tried to kill herself and failed, face partly injured (wears a bandage), straightforward, silent, mysterious, LEAD.

Janet - Caucasian Female 20s to 30s. Important role of playing Millie’s friend. This role requires playing owner of an escort service in NYC.

Millie - Caucasian female mid 20s to mid 30s. Lead role of playing a loving wife who is oblivious of her husband’s sex addiction. Average looks with a fit body. This is a performance oriented role.