Talent Casting Calls and Auditions

Production Title: Undisclosed TV Show

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Irvine, California on Tuesday, May 24th. 

Role: Background Extras

• seeking background appearing 18tly willing to work in Irvine.

Covid Test: May 22, 2022

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: Undisclosed Film

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Los Angeles California from Friday, May 21st to Monday, May 23rd.

Role: Ripped Personal Trainer

• age 20’s to 30’s
• height 5’10 to 6’3
• in phenomenal shape rate will be higher

Covid Test: May 21, 2022

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: Undisclosed film

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting dancers to work on scenes filming in Los Angeles, California on Tuesday, May 24th. 

Role: EXOTIC DANCERS

• WOMEN in their mid 20s-early 30s
• Specifically looking for those with real-world experience as a stripper, burlesque dancer, or other exotic dance form.

Covid Test: May 22, 2022

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: 20th Television & Disney+ ‘The Crossover’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in New Orleans Area. 

Roles: Will be performing in a small scene set in the mid-19th century at Congo Square. 

• Women
  • African American
  • Ages 25-40
  • and are familiar with different kinds of African style dance
• Men
  • African American
  • have the ability to play a djembe drum. 

Covid Test: TBA

Filming Rate (Higher Rate): TBD
COVID Test Stipend: TBD

This production has a mandatory vaccination policy for all Zone A workers, including Background Actors, Stand-Ins, and other talent ages 5 and above working on its set. To be eligible to work on this production, you must be (1) either (a) fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine AND received a “Booster” if you are eligible for a Booster according to CDC guidelines (click here to check if you are eligible for Booster) (Also: if you received the AstraZeneca and Novava x vaccines, then three doses of any combination of Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, or Novavax vaccines would deem you Boosted) or (b) fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine but not yet Booster-eligible; or (2) have a medical disability or sincerely-held religious belief that prevents vaccination.

Any offer of work is “conditioned” on you providing adequate proof to Production that you meet either of the criteria mentioned above. If you are unable to show adequate proof to Production, then you are ineligible to be hired for this particular Production.

Production Title: Undisclosed Film 

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Los Angeles, California from Wednesday, May 18th to Friday, May 19th. Must be able to work on the said date. 

Casting: Background Actors who have a Beetlejuice Custome 

Covid Test: May 18, 2022

Rate: Pay is $$

This show has a mandatory vaccination policy for all Zone A workers, including Background Actors, Stand-Ins, and other talent ages 12 and above, working on its set.  To be eligible to work on this production, you must be either (1) fully vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccine AND received a “Booster” if you are eligible for a Booster according to CDC guidelines (click here to check if you are eligible for Booster) (Also: the requisite doses of the appropriate combination of Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, or Novavax vaccines would deem you Boosted, depending on when you obtained each of the requisite doses) or (2) have a disability or sincerely held religious belief that prevents vaccination.  Any offer of work is “conditioned” on you providing adequate proof to Production that you meet either of the two criteria mentioned above.  If you are unable to show adequate proof to Production, then you are ineligible to be hired for this particular Production.  Please answer “yes” to this message if you can supply adequate proof to Production.  

If you answer “yes,” you are hereby attesting to the fact that you will provide such adequate proof to Production.  Do not send your proof to Central Casting.  Production will collect and verify your proof.

Production Title: FX ‘Kindred’ 

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia from Friday, May 20th. 

Casting: African American Extras

• Male
• Aged 30-50

Covid Test: May 20, 2022.

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)

Rate: $100/8 hours
Testing Bump: $45

Production Description:

FX Kindred, Dana is a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has abandoned her family’s duty in order to pursue a writing career in Los Angeles. She is demeaned and terrorized by a group of slave catchers who, before she can settle into her new house, violently seize her back and forth in time to a 19th-century plantation with which she and her family are intimately linked. Interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew that ran through her blood.

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.

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: $$