• Stella Kowalski (about 25): Sweet, simple, quiet, pregnant with her first child – she cares for her sister but, for good or ill, is deeply and passionately bonded to her husband
• Eunice Hubbell (30-40): The Kowalski’s upstairs neighbor, Stella’s friend, married to Steve – their earthy, combative, overtly sexual relationship vaguely echoes Stella and Stanley’s
• Blanche DuBois (about 30): Stella’s sister; Educated, attractive, vivacious, but the loquacious Southern belle persona she clings to hides a desperate fragility, and is at odds with the sad, sordid life she’s led
• Nurse (40-60): severe, matronly, businesslike but not unkind [one scene*]
• Stanley Kowalski (25-35): Attractive, strongly-built and proud of his raw sexuality; also blunt, brutish, easily provoked to anger; natively intelligent but lacking in ideals or imagination; truly in love with Stella, deeply disdainful of Blanche and what she represents
• Harold “Mitch” Mitchell (about 30): Army buddy, co-worker, and poker crony of Stanley’s, Mitch lives with his sickly mother. Honest, simple, straightforward, hopeful
• Steve Hubbell (30-40): Stanley ’s poker buddy and upstairs neighbor, married to Eunice
• Pablo Gonzales (30-40): Stanley ’s poker buddy, affable, a follower
• Young Collector (about 17): a newspaper delivery boy, come to collect, who triggers something dark and emotional in Blanche [one scene*]
• Doctor (40-60): At first threatening, ultimately kind – as strangers often are [one scene*]

NOTES
On Ages: I’ve noted the ages or age ranges of characters as suggested by the author, but as always in our world, the director is more concerned with talent, how people look together, etc. than the actual ages of actors.

* Nurse, Young Collector, and Doctor will be used as background voices, and may be used onstage in various small character bits