“Urban Ed” Principal Speaking Roles Open Casting Call
Project type: Feature Film
Union status: Non-union
Rate of pay/contract: $700/weekly
Shoot date(s): 7/12/20230-7/30/2023
Audition date(s): 5/3/2023 from 4:00pm-8:00pm via zoom
Callback date: 05/10/2023 from 4:00pm-8:00pm via zoom
Shoot location: Springfield, MA
Storyline: Urban ed is about a group of at-risk inner city students comes face-to-face with
America’s broken education system and a world that’s full of contradicting lessons when
Their small charter school is shut down in the middle of the academic year.
Additional project info: sensitively, those who are submitting who may be 18 and older please
Look like a teenager. These are all high school students.
Roles:
[BEANS]
- 17 to 22 years old (to play 17), black, hispanic, or mixed man / boy.
- If legal 18 or older, must look like a 17 year old. Beans is sharp as a tack, really funny, and never holds his tongue. He has been dealt a tough hand as far as stable home lives go, and lives out of his cousin’s car. As a result of his life circumstances, he can be short-tempered at school with teachers and will not back down from a fight if pushed too far. He values his friends, his weed, his free time, and a good laugh.
[D’AVANTE]
- 17 to 23 years old (to play 18), black, hispanic, or mixed man / boy.
- If 19 or older,must look like an 18 year old high school senior. D’avante is torn between two worlds: the expectations from his peers (of what a guy “should be”) and the strict rules of his mom Nicola who is a conservative immigrant. D’avante’s a supremely cool kid just trying to navigate the hard-to-navigate worlds of school, peers and family expectations.
[OLIVIA]
- 17 to 23 years old (to play 17), white woman / girl.
- If legal 18 or older must look convincingly like a 17 year old. Olivia’s got an emo/goth thing going on. Her boyfriend died, Her dad is gone, her mom is on disability, and her little sister loud and obnoxious in their tiny apartment. She has a bestie, aryana, who is her “Ride or die” and she has her art, which
She pours herself into.
[HAWA]
- 16 to 23 years old (to play 16), african, south asian, black woman / girl.
- If legal 18 or older, must look like a teenager who is 16. Hawa is a quiet young woman – a recent refugee who’s new to the school district. She has strict parents and takes school seriously, but struggles to speak the language.
- Ideally speaks swahili or from burundi, but open to actors who are of nigerian, kenyan, tanzanian, ugandan, pakistani, indian, or somalian background.
- She has an accent. Fluency in a foreign language from one of the aforementioned countries a plus.
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