[Capdist-auditions] Casting Call for 13 week acting project

Scott Kattrein scott at geniusplaza.com
Fri May 12 16:14:58 EDT 2017


Hiring multiple actors/actresses for educational video production!

Production title: The Grind

Non-Union

Independent

Project length: 13 weeks

Project format: 16:9 HD

Posted on: May 12th, 2017

Production location: Capital Region

Production Company: Genius Plaza

Company website: geniusplaza.com

Casting Director: Barry Williams

Audition Location: 511 Moe Rd. Clifton Park NY.

Shooting Location: Capital Region

Email: barry at geniusplaza.com

Compensation: Stipend

KEY DATES

Auditions:

May 17, 2017 10:00 PM  – 12:00 PM, 1:00PM - 4:00PM

May 23, 2013 12:00 PM, 1:00PM - 4:00PM

(Please note all auditions will be given a specific time within this
window. Please prepare a 1-2 min comedic or dramatic monologue)

Follow this link to schedule your audition!

https://docs.google.com/a/geniusplaza.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd60Rt2x1MU6feilgGqwRhRWr5FgHJ0Sutoc89Etwy9NVMNMw/viewform?c=0&w=1

Call Backs: May 24th

Shooting Starts: June 2017

Shooting Ends: September 2017


Synopsis:

Set in a typical small University, very mixed campus, the bustling involved
student body. We meet our crew of characters at the Campus Bookstore/
Coffeehouse referred to by the students as The Grind where they all work.
This campus hotspot plays host to these 6 very different college students,
from different majors, neighborhoods, and socio-economic backgrounds
converge and use their varying skill sets to help create and set up new
programs at their university. Whether digitalizing books and selling them
cheaper or starting a mentoring program through The Grind they all play
their individual roles in helping to create these programs and to help
themselves figure out what they are capable of, all within the walls of the
hustling bustling campus hotspot.

Character BIOS

Note: All characters can be cast as any ethnicity



[Cara] [GENDER: FEMALE] [AGE: 18-25]

Cara: A sophomore computer sciences major, she has been working at The
Bookstore since her Freshman year.  She is painfully shy and would much
rather be hiding in a corner cataloging or restocking the books than
interacting with other people.  She’s a hard worker and is always kind of
the silent hero, fixing things before being asked, locating things from
memory.  She becomes a huge asset to the team and learns how to come out of
her shell through her compadres.


[Marcus] [GENDER: MALE] [AGE: 18-25]

Marcus:Marcus is a Junior, and the most likable guy around.  He has a big,
bubbly personality and is always the life of every situation he is in.  He
is an Resident Assistant, organizer of the Intramural sports teams, an
excellent problem solver and leader.  He has such great leadership skills,
but is still undecided in what he should major in and he is starting to
feel the pressure to make a decision.  He is a big flirt, but his true
feelings lie in Cara, she has always been her secret crush.

[Jessie] [GENDER: FEMALE] [ AGE: 18-25]

Jessie:  She is the firecracker, the activist, she is on a personal mission
to save the world.  She is an English major on a path to being the next big
journalist.   Always working to fight injustice on campus and rally up
spirit in the student body.  She comes a nice upper middle class family and
a lot of what she is doing in her fighting is to defy her parents.

[Ariella] [GENDER: FEMALE] [ AGE: 18-25]

Ariella:  She is the most ambitious person you will meet, a senior and the
manager of The Bookstore.  She has big dreams for herself and has always
worked unbelievably hard to get where she's going.  On a full scholarship,
she is a political Science Major with big dreams of becoming a big time
lawyer.  Her family has always struggled with money and she has always had
a job, this makes her a tough, takes no nonsense from anyone Manager.  She
is a senior and is in the process of figuring out her path to law school.

[Sam] [GENDER: MALE] [ AGE: 18-25]

Sam:  Our spoiled rotten, rich kid.  He has found his way to his job at The
Grind  by way of punishment.  He is on the baseball team and is the star
player, but his grades are slipping from too much partying and not enough
focus and he has gotten into trouble for the last time, now he must go and
work in The Bookstore that his parents, who are on the board, most
generously purchased for the school.  He is lazy and annoyed, but has a
good heart and s. secret Math genius, but hard work was never something
that was “cool”.  The motley crue of workers will help soften Sam a bit.



[Tyler] [GENDER: MALE] [ AGE: 18-25]

Tyler: The best salesman and most over the top, vivacious personality.  It
is his freshman year, he a musical theatre major and has big dreams of
broadway and beyond.  He breathes light into The Bookstore and could sell
honey to a bee.  He is sassy and bold and will always stand up for himself,
he helps to teach the others confidence and fearlessness.

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