Here is a list of the characters:

• Stage Manager – a narrator, commentator, and guide through Grover's Corners. He joins in the action of the play periodically, as the minister at the wedding, the soda shop owner, a local townsman, etc., and speaks directly to Emily after her death. [This is a leading character in the play. There will be an actual stage manager in the crew.]
• Emily Webb – one of the main characters; a precocious young girl [must be believable as a high school student]
• George Gibbs – the other main character; the boy next door [must be believable as a high school student]
• Frank Gibbs – George's father, the town doctor.
• Julia (Hersey) Gibbs – George's mother. Charles Webb – Emily's father, Editor of the Grover's Corners Sentinel
• Myrtle Webb – Emily and Wally’s mother.
Secondary characters
• Joe and Si Crowell – local paperboys.
• Simon Stimson – the choir director and church organist.
• Howie Newsome – the milkman, a fixture of Grover's Corners.
• Rebecca Gibbs – George's younger sister.
• Wally Webb – Emily's younger brother.
• Professor Willard – a rather long-winded lecturer
• Woman in Auditorium – concerned with temperance
• Man in Auditorium – concerned with social justice
• Another Woman in Auditorium – concerned with culture and beauty
• Mrs. Louella Soames – a gossipy townswoman and member of the choir
• Constable Bill Warren – the policeman
• Three Baseball Players – [must be believable as high school students]
• Joe Stoddard – the undertaker
• Sam Craig – a nephew of Mrs Gibbs who left town to seek his fortune. He came back after 12 years in Buffalo for Emily's funeral.
• Dead Man
• Dead Woman
• Mr. Carter
• Farmer McCarty