Take some time with this. The local acts often make the difference between a poor turnout and a crowd, and make connections between the crewmembers and the local community. Ideally, with a local act you want to balance appropriateness, quality, and draw. A puppet show is far better than a boring reading. And the more you're into the local act, the easier it'll be to promote the show.

The Driver will need to know the name and a short descriptor ("tap-dancing cartoonist Matt Blackett") six weeks ahead of the tour so they can put it on the handbill. Which in turn will give your local act a good incentive to hand out the handbills you give them.

Like the travelling crewmembers, they'll have 15 minutes (which is important to stress especially with musical acts, since that's a short set). The only time you should make exceptions for this 15 minute rule is if a band has a big draw (ie bring out 20-30 people), in which case they should go last.

Occasionally local acts have left before the end of the show and take their audience with them, which is really morale killing for the people on tour. Please mention this before the show starts.