Something Fishy has 14 characters who are designed to be played by five actors. The breakdown is as follows:
ACTOR 1
RAYMOND BREAM – Mid-40s to mid-50s; a successful career politician running for office; handsome and charismatic.
ROLAND BREAM – Raymond’s identical twin brother; an actor in the Port Pilchard Players (PPP); a shaggy, unkempt but likeable loser.
DR. ZINGEL – 60ish; a stereotypical German scientist in a lab coat and Einstein hair.
ACTOR 2
LORENA – Late 30s; Raymond’s campaign manager; attractive, Puerto Rican, speaks English fluently but with a pronounced accent.
MOLLY – 30s; stage manager for the PPP; quintessential stage manager type: overworked and undervalued, but good at her job.
JUDY – 40ish; one of the PPP actors; opinionated, very full of herself, has an air of superiority about her.
ACTOR 3
PENELOPE – 50s; a Southern belle and artistic director of the PPP; warm, outgoing, a mother hen.
MANDY – Older than Penelope but trying desperately to look 25 years younger; an actor in the company; vain, voluptuous, oversexed.
WEEVER – 50 to 60; an unscrupulous, power-hungry, buttoned-up politician and Bream’s opponent in the election.
ACTOR 4
GILL – Late 40s to 50s; Weever’s hatchet man, a hard-boiled, old-school backroom political operative.
COLIN – 50s; an affable, enthusiastic actor in the PPP.
ACTOR 5
SHARKEY – 30s; Gill’s partner in crime, new to the political game but an avid pupil.
WHITING – Late 20s; cub reporter for a right-wing news website, tenacious, ambitious, cynical.
CLARK – 30s; another PPP stalwart; a mild-mannered, good-natured, loyal friend of Colin’s.