Good Pay Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Production Title: Popular Show Casting Call

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background extras to work on scenes filming in Potomac tomorrow Wednesday, May 18th. 

Roles: Secret Sevice Background Extras

Covid Test: No 

Rate: $200 (2-4 hours)

Production Title: Popularity Papers

Project: POPULARITY PAPERS (Series)
Episodic: 26 x 30-minute episodes (Scripted comedy)
Rate: Principal ACTRA scale (union or non-union may apply)
Production Companies: Aircraft Pictures and WexWorks Media
Producers: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen, Matthew Wexler
Series Created for Television by: Vivian Lin and Amanda Brooke Perrin. Based on the book series by Amy Ignatow.
Networks: YTV
Distributor: BBC Studios

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting actors work on scenes filming in Toronto, Canada and Hamilton from July 4 – October 21, 2022.

Role: HENRY

Character Description: 

Male. 12- 14. Seeking talent who identify as LGBTQIA+. Henry is a quiet, sensitive, smart and accomplished boy who dreams of one day having the confidence of a mediocre popular kid. He’s got a big imagination and an affinity for drag queens: the ultimate confidence-havers. The only attention he gets is usually unwanted and due to his small size and very unfortunate headgear situation (his nickname is “Headgear Henry”). He swears as soon as his jaw and teeth are fixed, it’s over for you foes! Until then he’ll over-apologize, take up as little space as possible and avoid candy apples like the plague.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: $$

SYNOPSIS:

Middle school is the new high school. The life of a preteen girl is tough. You’re 12 going on 13, while everyone else in the class seems like they’re turning 20. Everyone else is trendy, sophisticated, and well…popular. This is a story of two girls hilarious struggles to make it through these formative years, where every day is awkward and the most important day of their lives (!!). While the title, Popularity Papers, may suggest a show about how to become popular, at the heart of it this series is about discovering your authentic self and not trying to be someone else just to fit in. It captures the real challenges of being a tween girl and disarms them with humor, love, and friendship. It’s a show that proves failure is an option, humiliation is good for a laugh and middle school is survivable.

Lydia and Julie are best friends on the hunt for answers to history’s question: How does someone become popular? Through pragmatic (and not-so-pragmatic) testing and social experimentation, they’ll figure out what it really means to be popular and finally get answers to questions like, do you really need to ditch your real friends to become popular? Should you quit the things you’ll love just because they’re considered “uncool”

Production Title: Popularity Papers

Project: POPULARITY PAPERS (Series)
Episodic: 26 x 30-minute episodes (Scripted comedy)
Rate: Principal ACTRA scale (union or non-union may apply)
Production Companies: Aircraft Pictures and WexWorks Media
Producers: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen, Matthew Wexler
Series Created for Television by: Vivian Lin and Amanda Brooke Perrin. Based on the book series by Amy Ignatow.
Networks: YTV
Distributor: BBC Studios

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting actors work on scenes filming in Toronto, Canada and Hamilton from July 4 – October 21, 2022.

Role: MORGAN 

Character Description: 

Non-Binary. 12-14. Morgan is Mapleview Middle School’s resident muckraking journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the Manatee Minute, and also host of its accompanying podcast. Morgan takes their duty to uphold the fourth estate very seriously, and won’t bend on their journalistic integrity. But that also won’t stop them from spreading some hot goss… as long as its verified by multiple sources. Morgan’s TENS of loyal readers rely on them to get the story right and to get it fast! Morgan has their finger on the pulse of the school more than any other kid, which can be a heavy burden on a kid who’s also trying to find their place in the world. Morgan is non-binary, so they often feel different, outside of the norm. It’s part of what makes them an astute observer of the goings on at Mapleview. But it’s also what helps Morgan find their centre at school. They are never othered at Mapleview Middle because of their identity. But they can get a little side-eye for their OBSESSION with winning a Pulitzer before entering high school.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: $$

SYNOPSIS:

Middle school is the new high school. The life of a preteen girl is tough. You’re 12 going on 13, while everyone else in the class seems like they’re turning 20. Everyone else is trendy, sophisticated, and well…popular. This is a story of two girls hilarious struggles to make it through these formative years, where every day is awkward and the most important day of their lives (!!). While the title, Popularity Papers, may suggest a show about how to become popular, at the heart of it this series is about discovering your authentic self and not trying to be someone else just to fit in. It captures the real challenges of being a tween girl and disarms them with humor, love, and friendship. It’s a show that proves failure is an option, humiliation is good for a laugh and middle school is survivable.

Lydia and Julie are best friends on the hunt for answers to history’s question: How does someone become popular? Through pragmatic (and not-so-pragmatic) testing and social experimentation, they’ll figure out what it really means to be popular and finally get answers to questions like, do you really need to ditch your real friends to become popular? Should you quit the things you’ll love just because they’re considered “uncool”

Production Title: Popularity Papers

Project: POPULARITY PAPERS (Series)
Episodic: 26 x 30-minute episodes (Scripted comedy)
Rate: Principal ACTRA scale (union or non-union may apply)
Production Companies: Aircraft Pictures and WexWorks Media
Producers: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen, Matthew Wexler
Series Created for Television by: Vivian Lin and Amanda Brooke Perrin. Based on the book series by Amy Ignatow.
Networks: YTV
Distributor: BBC Studios

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting actors work on scenes filming in Toronto, Canada and Hamilton from July 4 – October 21, 2022.

Roles: Melody ( RECURRING PRINCIPAL ) 

Character Description

Female, 14. Seeking talent who identify as LGBTQIA+. Melody is a quintessential emo/goth girl. A lone wolf with headphones, just coming to understand her queerness. Unlike her younger sister Lydia, Melody doesn’t need validation or popularity. She’d rather be sarcastic from the sidelines. She finds Lydia’s pursuits and attention-seeking annoying and loves taking her down a peg. But underneath her dry humour, ironic graphic tees and chipped black nail polish is a caring soul who looks out for Lydia and Julie, even though she’d never admit it.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: $$

SYNOPSIS:

Middle school is the new high school. The life of a preteen girl is tough. You’re 12 going on 13, while everyone else in the class seems like they’re turning 20. Everyone else is trendy, sophisticated, and well…popular. This is a story of two girls hilarious struggles to make it through these formative years, where every day is awkward and the most important day of their lives (!!). While the title, Popularity Papers, may suggest a show about how to become popular, at the heart of it this series is about discovering your authentic self and not trying to be someone else just to fit in. It captures the real challenges of being a tween girl and disarms them with humor, love, and friendship. It’s a show that proves failure is an option, humiliation is good for a laugh and middle school is survivable.

Lydia and Julie are best friends on the hunt for answers to history’s question: How does someone become popular? Through pragmatic (and not-so-pragmatic) testing and social experimentation, they’ll figure out what it really means to be popular and finally get answers to questions like, do you really need to ditch your real friends to become popular? Should you quit the things you’ll love just because they’re considered “uncool”

Production Title: Popularity Papers

Project: POPULARITY PAPERS (Series)
Episodic: 26 x 30-minute episodes (Scripted comedy)
Rate: Principal ACTRA scale (union or non-union may apply)
Production Companies: Aircraft Pictures and WexWorks Media
Producers: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen, Matthew Wexler
Series Created for Television by: Vivian Lin and Amanda Brooke Perrin. Based on the book series by Amy Ignatow.
Networks: YTV
Distributor: BBC Studios

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting actors work on scenes filming in Toronto, Canada and Hamilton from July 4 – October 21, 2022.

Roles: JAMES GRAHAM AKA DAD (RECURRING PRINCIPAL) 

Character descriptions:

Male. 40s. Seeking talent who identify as LGBTQIA+. Dad is cool, charismatic, handsome and confident. Like Han Solo if he was a gay parent. Dad is well-liked and outgoing, never failing to enchant everyone he meets. Especially as his drag queen act Bejewelie Andrews, who’s sassy, brassy, and bold. He’s head over heels in love with his husband Alex and his daughter Julie, though sometimes, as the only extrovert in the family, he can be the odd man out. He does his best to relate to Julie’s struggles with shyness and social anxiety, even if they are strange concepts to him, and is a wonderful father.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: $$

SYNOPSIS:

Middle school is the new high school. The life of a preteen girl is tough. You’re 12 going on 13, while everyone else in the class seems like they’re turning 20. Everyone else is trendy, sophisticated, and well…popular. This is a story of two girls hilarious struggles to make it through these formative years, where every day is awkward and the most important day of their lives (!!). While the title, Popularity Papers, may suggest a show about how to become popular, at the heart of it this series is about discovering your authentic self and not trying to be someone else just to fit in. It captures the real challenges of being a tween girl and disarms them with humor, love, and friendship. It’s a show that proves failure is an option, humiliation is good for a laugh and middle school is survivable.

Lydia and Julie are best friends on the hunt for answers to history’s question: How does someone become popular? Through pragmatic (and not-so-pragmatic) testing and social experimentation, they’ll figure out what it really means to be popular and finally get answers to questions like, do you really need to ditch your real friends to become popular? Should you quit the things you’ll love just because they’re considered “uncool”

Production Title: Popularity Papers

Project: POPULARITY PAPERS (Series)
Episodic: 26 x 30-minute episodes (Scripted comedy)
Rate: Principal ACTRA scale (union or non-union may apply)
Production Companies: Aircraft Pictures and WexWorks Media
Producers: Anthony Leo, Andrew Rosen, Matthew Wexler
Series Created for Television by: Vivian Lin and Amanda Brooke Perrin. Based on the book series by Amy Ignatow.
Networks: YTV
Distributor: BBC Studios

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting actors work on scenes filming in Toronto, Canada and Hamilton from July 4 – October 21, 2022.

Roles: ALEX CHANG AKA BABA (RECURRING PRINCIPAL)

Character descriptions:

Male. 40s. Seeking talent who identify as LGBTQIA+. Before Julie, Alex was a carefree young dentist on the rise and a diehard Gaga fan. Then he held tiny precious Julie in his arms…and realized EVERYTHING COULD KILL HER. Where he was once over-analytical and meticulous…he’s since crossed over into being neurotic, hypochondriacal and overprotective. You’d think that’d be a pain in the butt for Julie to deal with – but she actually sees a lot of herself in her Baba, being so risk-averse herself. Alex knows he’s the “nerd” of the couple, his passion for DND does not out-glam his partner James’s charismatic drag queen persona. But he’s relieved because that means someone in the family can answer Julie’s questions about popularity. He’s overwhelmingly happy with his life and his little family, so long as they floss twice a day.

Production Description:

Follows 2 friends who are on a mission to crack the popularity code, and do social experiments with their peers.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: $$

Production Title: FX ‘Kindred’ 

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting photo-double to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday, May 20. 

Roles: Photo Double

• Females
• Aged 8-12
• African American
• Approximate height: 4’5
• Approx. weight: 70 lbs.

Covid Test: May 20, 2022

Rate: $216/12 hours
Testing Bump: $45
Fitting (if applicable): 1/4 Paycheck

Production Description: 

FX Kindred is a thought-provoking and harrowing tale of family, love, and loss. When patriarch Francis Xavier Kindred is diagnosed with a rare form of dementia, his wife and children are left to grapple with the reality of his deteriorating condition.

As Francis’ disease progresses, he becomes increasingly paranoid and withdrawn, raising fears within his family that he may be a danger to himself or others. As they try to cope with the situation, long-buried secrets and resentments surface, testing the bonds of their relationships.

Ultimately, FX Kindred is a powerful story about how even the most vital families can be torn apart by illness and grief. It is a moving reminder of the importance of love and understanding in the face of adversity.

**This is a Zone A Production – per studio policy, all talent must be fully vaccinated, with a booster shot if applicable (5 Months past 2nd or Final dose of vaccine)**

Production Title: FX ‘Class of 09’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting stand-ins s to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia. 

Roles: Stand-In

• Male or Female, 18 years or older
• 5’2 or shorter

Covid Test: No
We are a mandatory Zone A feature and all talent must be fully vaccinated (1st and 2nd dose +booster shot if eligible), and able to provide a vaccine card!

Rate: $217.50/12 hours
COVID bump: $50 

Production Description:

After the death of a mutual friend, several FBI agents who graduated from Quantico in 2009 are reunited. The series spans three decades and is told in three overlapping timelines, explores the meaning of justice, humanity, and the decisions we make that ultimately define our lives and legacy.
The series begins in the present day with the death of an FBI agent. The agents who worked with him on his last case are brought back together to investigate. They’re forced to confront their complicated pasts as they try to piece together what happened.

In flashbacks, we see the agents as they were when they first met at Quantico. They were a tight-knit group, but things changed after who killed one of them on duty. The surviving members went their separate ways, each struggling with survivor’s guilt in their way.

Now, they’re being drawn back together again by the death of their friend. As they try to solve his murder, they’ll have to face the demons of their past and present. The series is a character-driven drama that explores the choices we make and how they define us.

Production Title: Casting Call for Sports Fans

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting sports fans to work on scenes filming in the United States.

Roles: COMPETITIVE SPORTS SUPER-FANS

• Teams of two that are obsessed with all things sports
• BEST FRIENDS | COUPLES | SIBLINGS | PARENT/CHILD | CO-WORKERS | ROOMMATES | EXES…ETC.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate:$$

Production Title: Music Videoshoot
(Party Dance Scene)

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting, actors, models, and influencers to work on scenes filming in Staten Island, New York todayTuesday, May 17th.

Roles: Male and Female Models

• Must be comfortable dancing
• Must be based in New York or New Jersey with full availability & reliable transportation

Covid Test: No

Rate: $$