<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><b><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Creative Action Unlimited will hold auditions for:</font></b><br></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>P.O.V.</b></font><div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>"Escape Poverty"</b></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>A Multimedia Thriller</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>Co-directed by Michael A. Lake and David Quinones Jr</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>Tuesday September 5th, 2023 </b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>at the Creative Action Unlimited studio located at 6 Greenwood Dr, East Greenbush, NY, 12061</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>Auditions: Sign-up will start at 6:30 PM, Readings from the provided sides will start at 7:00 PM, and the auditions will end at 8:30 PM.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><i>What would you do to escape the rat race? How far would you go? Who are you willing to hurt?</i></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b>Characters</b> (Details subject to change, based on development)</font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">"Jane" - age 21-35 - Female Identifying - Any Race/Ethnicity - Daily vlog style Social Media Influencer. Originally, creating content was a fun kind of escapism, and Jane's channel is growing, rapidly. She struggles with being motivated to make content and is contemplating quitting. She can be a bit of a flake but is fiercely loyal.</font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"></font><font color="#000000">"Max" - age 21-35 - Male Identifying </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">- Any Race/Ethnicity </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">- Jane's fiance and producer. Max is hyper-fixated on monetizing Jane's channel so that they can "quit their shit jobs." He sees Jane's boost in activity as an indication that they might be able to make good money, so he enrolled in the social media platform's AI content consulting services. Although Max loves Jane, he pushes her to perform, in normally supportive, yet calculated, ways.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">"Sam" - age 18-30 - Any/all/no Gender -</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> Any Race/Ethnicity - </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">"High in the sky apple pie" best describes Sam. They are light-hearted and always have "grand plans" that are often more grand than they are planned. Sam and Alex had a moderately successful lifestyle channel that has dipped in viewers and affected their income. This prompts Sam to come up with the idea to sell all their things, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">quit their day jobs, </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">buy and restore a van, and chronicle their travels as they crisscross the country.</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">"Alex" - age 18-30 - Any/all/no Gender - </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Any Race/Ethnicity - </span><font color="#000000">The other half of the "Alex" and "Sam" lifestyle "van life"-centered vlog channel. Alex is headstrong, can come off cold, and is most focused on the numbers. They are </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">hyper-fixated on the analytics, convinced that the AI content consulting services will get their channel back on track, Alex follows the advice to a "T."</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The A.I. - age 18-99 - Any/all/no Gender - The antagonist of the play, the A.I. is helpful, direct, and can exhibit many forms of human emotional behavior, and manipulates the human characters of the play. It is convincingly "human," although Sam is particularly unsettled by the A.I.</font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font color="#000000" size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">**Extras** - We will be posting at a later date for Extras. These roles will vary, based on development. News anchors, Ad performers, Social Media Influencers, etc. These roles will have limited involvement. Perfect parts for interested parties that cannot commit to the long-term nature of the project.</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please note:</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">This work will be a collaboratively devised multimedia project. This is a long-term investment of 8 months. The script development</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> will begin in October and be done mostly remotely via Zoom and shared Google Drive access. The video content will be rehearsed and shot over several days in January 2024. In-person stage rehearsal will begin in mid-March. Our actors will be asked to maintain their appearance or be otherwise capable of reverting back to their appearance, from the time of filming to the end of the live performance.</span></font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The performance dates are May 2024. Participants will receive a stipend.</span></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Questions? 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