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Calvin lives with his mother, who is creepily hanging out outside his bedroom door. Kelly gets pulled into a confrontation with Calvin and his mother when it’s revealed that Jacqueline may have stolen her son’s condoms. In the end, Kelly has to take the situation into her own hands and stick up for herself.
• Seeking submissions from NY. • Apply on Backstage.com. • For consideration, include a video with
your submission.
• The producers have a SAG micro-bud-
get agreement that allows for deferred pay for SAG actors. Non-SAG actors can also apply for this project.
• Casting “The African King.” Synopsis: A
struggling actor named Lenden has been out of work for a while and is ready to get back in the game. He likes the script of this new movie, “The African King” and studies tirelessly for it. But what will happen when he goes to the most bizarre audition he’s ever been to?
• Company: Reel Works Teen
Filmmaking. Staff: Sekou Cherif, writer-dir.
• Shoots TBD in Brooklyn, NYC. • Seeking—Fatin: 22-30, Black / African
Descent, Middle Eastern, while naive, is fast on her feet and not afraid to criticise and speak her mind; she’s an independent, hardworking, Muslim woman; her optimism and belief in Lenden’s talents are what drive him to audition again; she views the world differently then Lenden, who’s experienced defeat and loss; she’s been a winner throughout her life because of her work ethic; in a way, she plays a maternal figure in his life; she is in essence, his pillar of hope and strength. Man 1: 22-35, White / European Descent, cruel and bitter, goes through life with an ego so huge you can smell it; he’s a hot shot casting director; everything he says feels calculated and thought out; he is stern, direct, and concise. Man 2: 22-35, Asian, White / European Descent, longing for Man 1’s approval, tries to emulate Man 1’s persona to no avail. It’s not effortless; he’s clumsy, nervous, and quiet; his attempt to present as something he’s not is obvious to everyone in the room. Clarise: 25-40, all ethnicities, an assistant who’s calling the actors in one by one; she’s in a horrible mood as she seemingly always is; she would rather be anywhere else right now; she’s also stern and unapologetic. Actress: 22-30, all ethnicities, the actress, while in character, immerses herself fully into the character and is talented at what she does; however, when not in character, it’s clear that she’s uninterested and would rather not be there right now; she comes off as pretentious and condescending and doesn’t maintain eye contact or respond when spoken to; she’s just waiting to go home after such a long day.
• Seeking submissions from NY. • Apply on Backstage.com. • This is an unpaid role. Meals and travel
will be covered. You will receive a copy of the final film.
Scripted TV & Video
• Casting “Empires” a miniseries for a
major cable network.
• Company: Barbara McNamara Casting.
Staff: Barbara McNamara, casting dir. CSA.
• Shoots in August 2021 in New Jersey.
Schedule tbd.
• Seeking—Actors With Disability and
Uses Crutches: male, 28-42, White / European Descent, a real actor with a disability who uses crutches. This role is based on a real person: Julius Schmid. Principal role. Nathen Green: male, 45-60, Black / African Descent, 50s, once an enslaved person on the Call farm, Nathan “Nearest” Green is now free, still serving in the same role running the small still on the property. He takes a young Jack Daniel under his wing and teaches him everything he knows, and Green is an integral part of developing the techniques that will one day make Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey the best selling liquor on the planet. He leaves the Call farm to help establish and build the brand with Jack Daniel, looking for a better life for himself and his family. But because of the inequality rampant at the time, he is largely written out of the brand history until his monumental role in the brand’s creation is rediscovered in modern times.
• Seeking submissions from NY. • Apply on Backstage.com • Pays $400 +10% agency if applicable.
Note: Must be a New York local hire.
National Commercials
Pizza Delivery App Commercials
• Casting actors for a series of short
commercials for a pizza delivery app.
• Staff: Cindel, prod. • Shoots in July - location to be deter-
mined at later date - may be in Greater NYC area or as far as Beacon, NY.
• Seeking—Suburban Mom: female,
35-50. Suburban Dad: male, 35-50. Pizza Loving Guy: male, 20-30. Pizza Loving Woman: female, 20-30. Pizza Loving Child: all genders, 5-15.
• Seeking submissions from NY. • Apply on Backstage.com. • Pays $200-$400, depending on role.
Theme Parks & Attractions
Theme Park, Legoland Performers
• Seeking performers for Legoland’s New
York resort. Production asks: “Are you an aspiring performer? Do you love to put on a show? Show off your skills at Legoland New York Resort! Legoland is hosting an entertainment audition for the following positions! Stunt and non stunt performer. Meet and greet character and guide performers. Full and part time year round in our hotel. Full and part time seasonal in our park. Must be over 16 to qualify.”
• Company: LEGOLAND New York Resort.
Staff: Todd Hulet, Legoland Entertainers.
• Works in Goshen, NY (60 miles north of
NYC).
• Seeking—Legoland Entertainer: 16+, an
amusement park and hotel operational role. Each performer will serve in many capacities and perform as many characters.
• Auditions will be held by appt. July 17
from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and July 18 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. at Thrive Dance Studio, 60 Erie Street, Goshen, NY 10924.
• To sign up for an audition date and
time, visit https://lnkd.in/dXugMe6.
• Pay TBD. Job states: “Seasonal, part-
time, and full-time year round employment available. Current rates begin at $13.25 per hour based on experience and role.”
Southern California
Plays
• Seeking video submissions from Equity
actors for roles in “Ben Butler.”
• Company: North Coast Repertory
Theatre. Staff: David Ellenstein, artistic dir.-dir.; Christopher Williams, casting dir.
• Rehearsals begin Sept. 21, 202; runs
Oct. 20-Nov. 14 with a possible extension through Nov. 28 (must be available) in Solana Beach, CA.
• Seeking—Shepard Mallory: male,
18-39, Black / African Descent, runaway slave, witty, brash, very smart and great with wordplay. Lieutenant Kelly of the Union Army: male, 18-39, White / European Descent, West Point grad, career Army man, by the book.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • For consideration, prepare and record
two contrasting monologues not to exceed three minutes total. Send link to your YouTube, Vimeo, or other platform for viewing. Do not send large files to download. Send headshot, resume and video links to casting@northcoastrep. org. Submissions deadline is July 16. Callbacks will be by appointment only. If selected for a callback, we will contact you with sides to prepare and record.
• Note: The roles of Major General
Benjamin Butler and Major Cary of the Confederate Army have been cast.
• Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimina-
tion. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
• Pays $508/wk. plus P&H. Equity SPT 6
Contract.
Short Films
• Casting a five-minute promo/pitch for
the feature-length script “Ethan & Arlo.” This promo will only be used as a pitch and will not be exhibited in any form. Synopsis: It’s 1974 and Ethan, a gay father, and his Woodstock son, Arlo, are driving the failing Midwestern highways trying to forge a semblance of family in the face of prejudices that want to tear them apart.
• Company: SHANE. a casting company.
Staff: Shane Liem, casting dir.; Garth Twa, writer-dir.
• Scheduled to shoot in late July or early
August in the San Francisco/Marin County, CA area. Talent must be willing to work as a local or live in the San Francisco/Marin County area.
• Seeking—Ethan: male, 26-30, White /
European Descent, strong actors, good with lots of dialogue. Interesting faces . Ethan is gay, a product of 1960s, and a young father finding his way. Ethan is sparky, fiercely independent, iconoclastic, vibrant, and ready for an adventure or a fight, treats his son like a friend instead of a child. Must have valid driver’s license. Arlo: male, 8-12, White / European Descent, strong actors, good with lots of dialogue. Interesting faces. Arlo is more quietly mature than his years would indicate as he’s been raised on the road by his gay father who treated him more like a partner in crime than a son. He’s intelligent, patient, forced to be the peacemaker.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Apply on Backstage.com. • Make sure that you are willing/able to
work as a local in the San Francisco/ Marin County area. Selecting talent and request talent to do a self-tape of a scene from the feature film script “Ethan and Arlo.” This is, however, a promo for the feature film.
• Pays $200/day + 20% agency fee (if
applicable). Talent will receive a copy of the promo/film.
Student Films
• Casting “Broken Canes,” a student
short film. Synopsis: “Broken Canes” follows a young man struggling to accept his abusive father’s restrictions on his inheritance.
• Company: Columbia College Hollywood
| J & E Productions. Staff: Enrico Cecchi, dir.; Jessica Hernandez, prod.
• Table read Aug. 9-13; rehearsal dates
TBD via Zoom; shoots Sept. 3-4 in L.A.
• Seeking—Gus: male, 30-35, all ethnici-
ties, Gus is a caring father and husband who is constantly busy with his work as
he tries to make ends meet at home financially. His wife Lily works part time as they try to support their five year old daughter. Gus’ father, Jack, abused him mentally growing up and is essentially out of his life. However, Jack is recently diagnosed with Alzheimers and tries to reenter his son’s life. Gus values the truth, courage, and compassion within his household. Jack: male, 50+, all ethnicities, Jack is in his 60s and hasn’t seen his son, Gus, in five years. Jack has also been recently diagnosed with Alzheimers and doesn’t have a lot of time on his hands. He wishes to make things right and be part of his son’s family by selling all his assets and giving the money to his son and granddaughter before he dies. Jack also wants to make sure the money is put to good use so he creates a contract for his son to sign. Jack values hard work, determination, and toughing things out when they need to be.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Send submissions to jefmproduction@
gmail.com.
• Must be available for all shoot dates.
Meetings will be held via Zoom. Only accepting self-taped auditions; no inperson auditions available. For more info on the creators visit www.jefilmproductions.com.
• Individual meals will be provided along
with personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, and sanitizer. Reels will be provided after post-production completion.
• Casting “Sonant.” Synopsis: Steve lives
in a vacuum cycle, invisible to the world. He wakes up, he goes to work, he comes home, and then spends his nights alone. However, over a series of nights, Steve takes interest in the young woman living above him – who hums tunes in the shower and stomps around. A pleasant fascination becomes an unsettling obsession when terrible screams lead Steve to believe that something is incredibly wrong. Ignored by everyone he reaches out to, Steve takes it upon himself to find out what’s happening – only to suffer the consequences of his curiosity.
• Staff: Vijay Singh, dir.; Tina Bui, prod.;
Mia Miller, CD.
• Shoots Aug. 20-22 in Orange County,
CA.
• Seeking—Steve: male, 20-30, Asian,
Black / African Descent, Ethnically Ambiguous / Multiracial, Indigenous Peoples, Latino / Hispanic, Middle Eastern, South Asian / Indian, Southeast Asian / Pacific Islander, a homebody who lives an isolated and ignored life in his apartment. His nights are spent in gloomy detachment until the unnerving noises in the apartment above give him something to care about. Cassie: female, 20-30, all ethnicities, a carefree girl who lives above Steve’s apartment. She sings in the shower and stomps around her apartment without knowing that Steve can hear what she’s doing.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Apply on Backstage.com. • Transportation, meals, credit, and foot-
age for reel provided.
• Casting “Swept Under,” a short horror
film. Logline: A Cambodian American man who is moving into a new house discovers that a rug may hide sinister forces that lie beneath its surface.
• Synopsis: Born in Cambodia, Ricky was
adopted into a white family at a young age. When his older sister, Beth, gives him a rug as a housewarming gift, she explains it was made by one of the survivors of the Cambodian genocide. He’s hesitant to accept the rug at first because of its gruesome history, but sets it aside amidst the hectic move-in. That evening, when he pulls out a clump of dead hair, he begins to notice that something is off about the rug. What, or who, is under the rug?
• Company: USC School of Cinematic
Arts. Staff: Ethan Soo, dir.; Ruhi Mansey, prod.; Graham Byers, DP.
• Rehearses the end of July in Los
Angeles; shoots July 31, Aug. 1, and Aug. 7 or 8 (to be determined) in Orange County. Must be available for 2-3 additional Zoom rehearsals in July based on your schedule.
• Seeking—Ricky Miller: male, 25-40,
Asian, Southeast Asian / Pacific Islander, a Cambodian American who was adopted at a young age into a white family. While moving into his first owned house, his older sister, Elizabeth, gifts him a housewarming rug that was made by a survivor of the Cambodian genocide. His sanity unravels as he discovers there’s more to the rug than he initially imagined, evolving his quiet optimism into an unnerving paranoia. Elizabeth Miller: female, 30-40, White / European Descent, would be the first person to call herself “woke”. After all, she’s a popular, tenured professor of Southeast Asian history at the local university, which shows in her self-assured and maternal nature. She unknowingly puts her adopted brother in danger while moving him into his new home and is quick to blame ignorance for what happened to him.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Apply on Backstage.com. • For more info on the project visit
https://seedandspark.com/fund/ swept-under#story.
• Travel reimbursement, IMDb credit,
copy, and meals provided. Project will be submitted to film festivals nationwide in Fall 2021 and published online afterwards.
• Casting “The Mantis Club,” a USC
Thesis film and current finalist at the Sundance Institute. Logline: In a world where females devour males during sex, a seventeen-year-old virgin Zack is asked on his first date.
• Production states: “This production will
be following SAG COVID safety protocols, the health and safety of our talent and crew is important. SAG has very strict guidelines and rules in place for all SAG production during this time. All booked cast will be required to take and provide proof of a negative COVID test before shooting, production will provide details on how to get tested for free.”
• Company: USC. Staff: Yalian Li, dir.;
Daniel Sheahan, prod.
• Shoots July 31-Aug. 9 in the Los
Angeles, CA area.
• Seeking—Alex: female, 28-40, all eth-
nicities, stunning and drop dead gorgeous. Extremely confident, powerful and intelligent. In some subtle ways, Alex is genuinely attracted to Zack. Her choice is mostly about finding a victim, but it is driven by a genuine attraction. She may intend to eat you, but she has a compassionate side that will spare those who show her true honesty and that they are a good person. Alex seems to be a siren, but deep down she’s a good person with a good heart. Shoots Aug. 1 and Aug. 7-9. Young Moe: male, 18-21, Black / African Descent, young, innocent, and crazily in love with his girlfriend. He will receive the shock of a lifetime when his girlfriend turns into a monster and attacks him. His life, and one of his ears, will never be the same.Note: Stunt capability preferred but not required; shoots Aug. 2.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Send submissions to dsheahan@usc.
edu.
• IMDB credit, copy, and meals, SAG-
Eligible under USC-SAG Agreement
• Casting “The Mascot,” a surrealist
drama. Logline: A young man’s dream of reuniting with his long-estranged father, now finding work as a mascot in a deer costume.
• Company: Chapman University. Staff:
Felicity Childs Smith, CD; Mia Miller, dir.; Charles Schemm, prod.
• Shoots July 30-Aug. 1 in Orange, CA. • Seeking—Waitress: female, 45-55,
Asian, works at the diner attended by Vincent and the Mascot—her son and former husband, respectively. Informed by memory, the Waitress is an imagination of a woman torn between autonomous self-preservation and attachment to the burden of her grief, as a scorned and scarred person.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Apply on Backstage.com. • Auditions on Zoom. For consideration,
record a self tape using the provided sides.
• Transportation/meals/footage for reel
provided.
Online Commercials & Promos
• Casting “Backstage: Profile of a Casting
Director,” a short form ad focusing on a casting director’s day in the life while using the Backstage app to find talent.
• Production states: “Seeking a casting
director with a unique opportunity and history casting on Backstage! Please share any media examples of your skills and talent to be considered.”
• Company: Grow With Bamboo. Staff:
Stavro Victor, content prod.
• Talent works mid Aug. (will happen on a
Monday-Friday) in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Note: Must be local to SF Bay area. Shoots early to mid August (will happen on a Monday-Friday). Specifics and details currently TBD, dependent on final talent selection.
• Seeking—Casting Directors/
Producers: 21-55.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Send submissions to stavro@growwith-
bamboo.com.
• For consideration submit a video audi-
tion with the following information and answers to questions: Introduction: Name, age, location, and how long you have been using backstage for? Tell us more about your casting experience? How did you learn these skills?; What does your day-to-day look like as a casting director?; Talk to us about casting and finding talent via Backstage compared to other services/ platforms? Have you found success on the Backstage platform?; And anything else we should know about you?!
• Pays $600-$800/day for video/photo
use in perpetuity. One to two shoot dates.
Beauty Brand, Hand Models
• Casting enthusiastic talent for hand
modeling for a beauty brand. Tattoos on hands and arms are a plus.
• Company: TubeScience. Staff: J
Rumley, talent prod.
• Shoot is TBD in-studio in DTLA. • Seeking—Hand Models: female, 18-35,
all ethnicities. Hand Models with Tattoos: female, 18-35, all ethnicities.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Apply on Backstage.com • Send footage of you with your hands.
Can be holding makeup products while filming.
• Pays $150/hr.
Men’s Soap Product Commercial
• Casting various types of people to dis-
cuss and demonstrate “manly” soap products. Synopsis: Men to demonstrate and react, women to discuss the need.
• Staff: E. Kennedy, prod. • Talent works remotely and on occasion
within a L.A. studio.
• Seeking—Men 18+: male, 18-60, all eth-
nicities, to discuss and demonstrate manly soap products. Must be willing to get into a shower in a bathing suit and actually use the products. Some specific categories are funny guys, handsome guys, rugged men, and younger guys, but everyone is welcome. Opinionated Women: female, 18-35, all ethnicities, attractive, opinionated women, to react to a manly soap.
• Seeking submissions from CA. • Apply on Backstage.com. • No rehearsal. Auditions are remote. • Pay TBD, depends on shoot require-
ments. Non-union, all media buyout.
SomiSomi Ice Cream, Social Media Videos
• Seeking ice cream/dessert fans who
would like to appear in social media ads for an ice cream brand.
• Company: SomiSomi Ice Cream. Staff:
Nobi N., coord.
• Shoots are held monthly in the L.A. and
O.C. areas.
