Named characters are all recent college graduates. All except for Melanie have known each other for almost longer than they can remember. These four all grew up in the DC Metropolitan area, in the suburbs in which the 2002 sniper attacks occurred.

Numbered actors are blank canvases, picking up and dropping personas as the text demands. Named characters are vibrant and alive, constantly in motion, while numbered actors are more surreal and not entirely human. Some sort of costume change can be used to designate the difference between the two roles, if transitions can still be kept smooth and fluid. In either case, the two sets of roles represent two distinct worlds, and should appear as such.