Willem Dafoe

as Role1 / Frankie Machine / Role2 / Blackie Cavanaugh

Russell Banks

as Narrator

Don DeLillo

as Max

Barry Gifford

as Nelson Algren

Kathy Scambiatterra

as Rose

Randall Newsome

as Doc

Martha Lavey

as Simone de Beauvoir

Rick Kogan

as Studs Terkel

Dan Simon

as Shag Donohue