Blanche DuBois (female-presenting, 30-40 years): A sensitive, delicate, moth-like member of the fading Southern aristocracy. She has just lost her teaching position in Laurel, Mississippi, because of her promiscuity and therefore, left Mississippi to live with her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. She eventually reveals that she is completely destitute. Though she has strong sexual urges and has had many lovers, she puts on the airs of a woman who has never known indignity. She avoids reality, preferring to live in her own imagination. As the play progresses, Blanche’s instability grows along with her misfortune until Stanley has her committed to an asylum. Blanche is an outcast from society.

Stella Kowalski (female-presenting, 25-30 years): Blanche’s younger sister of a mild disposition that visibly sets her apart from her more vulgar neighbors. She is married to Stanley whom she shares a robust sexual relationship with and is pregnant with their first child. Stella’s union with Stanley is both animal and spiritual, violent but renewing. Living in the French Quarter of New Orleans, she is happy in her marriage and her home; however, much to the consternation of Blanche, she has forgotten her genteel upbringing to enjoy a more common existence. Stella possesses the same timeworn aristocratic heritage as Blanche, but she jumped the sinking ship in her late teens and left Mississippi for New Orleans. After Blanche’s arrival, Stella is torn between her sister and her husband but eventually, she stands by Stanley. While she loves and pities Blanche, she cannot bring herself to believe Blanche’s accusations of Stanley. Stella’s denial of reality at the play’s end shows that she has more in common with her sister than she thinks.

Stanley Kowalski (male-presenting, 30-40 years): The husband of Stella, Stanley is a rather common working man whose main drive in life is sexual. He is a former master sergeant in the engineer corps and faces everything and everybody in his life with a brutal realism. He is loyal to his friends, passionate to his wife, and heartlessly cruel to Blanche. With his Polish ancestry, he represents the new, heterogeneous America. He sees himself as a social leveler and wishes to destroy Blanche’s social pretensions. Practicality is his forte, and he has no patience for Blanche’s distortions of the truth. He lacks ideals and imagination. By the play’s end, he is a disturbing degenerate who shows no remorse. Stanley is the proud family man.

Harold “Mitch” Mitchell (male-presenting, 30-40 years): Stanley’s friend, coworker, and poker buddy who went through the war with him. Unmarried, he courts Blanche until he finds out that she lied to him about her sordid past. Though he is clumsy, sweaty, and has unrefined interests like muscle building, Mitch is more sensitive and gentlemanly than Stanley and his other friends, perhaps because he lives with his mother, who is slowly dying. Blanche and Mitch are an unlikely match as he doesn’t fit the bill of the chivalric hero, the man Blanche dreams will come to rescue her. Nevertheless, they bond over their lost loves, and when the doctor takes Blanche away against her will, Mitch is the only person, besides Stella, who despairs over the tragedy.

Eunice (female-presenting, age is open to casting): Stella’s friend, upstairs neighbor and landlady. Eunice and her husband, Steve, represent the low-class, carnal life that Stella has chosen for herself. Like Stella, Eunice accepts her husband’s affections despite his physical abuse of her. At the end of the play, when Stella hesitates to stay with Stanley at Blanche’s expense, Eunice forbids Stella to question her decision and tells her she has no choice but to disbelieve Blanche. Eunice and Steve add some light relief to the play.

Steve (male-presenting, age is open to casting): Stanley’s poker buddy who lives upstairs with his wife, Eunice. Like Stanley, Steve is a brutish, hot-blooded male and an abusive husband. Steve and Eunice add some light relief to the play.

Pablo (male-presenting, age is open to casting): Stanley’s poker buddy. May also be cast as the Young Collector.

Young Collector (male-presenting, 14-16 years – but actor must be at least 18 years old due to the content of the scene): A teenager who comes to the Kowalskis’ door to collect for the newspaper when Blanche is home alone. The boy leaves bewildered after Blanche hits on him and gives him a passionate farewell kiss. May also be cast as Pablo.

Unnamed Woman (female-presenting, age is open to casting): A friend of Eunice who finds Stanley’s openly sexual gestures toward Stella funny. Will be seen throughout the play during street scenes. May also be cast as the Mexican Flower Seller and Nurse.

Mexican Flower Seller (female-presenting, age is open to casting): A vendor of “Flores para los muertos,” which means “Flowers for the dead.” May also be cast as the Unnamed Woman and Nurse.

Nurse (female-presenting, age is open to casting) Also called the “Matron,” she accompanies the doctor to collect Blanche and bring her to an institution. She is uncaring but professional. May also be cast as the Unnamed Woman and Mexican Flower Seller.

Doctor (male-presenting, 50 years+): At the play’s finale, the doctor who arrives to take Blanche off to an asylum. He is kind and caring towards Blanche. The doctor conforms to Blanche’s notions of the chivalric Southern gentleman who will offer her salvation. May also be cast as an ensemble character.