Current Projects

Marimacha is a short film. The film will shoot in St. Louis, MO.

Marimacha
When an illicit pic outs the daughter of two conservative Afro-Panamanians on their way to a family wedding, the family must finally confront the elephant in the room and decide who gets to define love in and outside the family.

• Job: Video

A non-profit arts and culture organization with a mission to amplify the visibility of performance making, and to champion equity through advocacy, art making, convening, and scholarship. We will highlight some of the best comedic talents in the country in a myriad of formats, including three full-length play readings, a late-night of stand-up, and solo performances, and three sketch comedy performances. The event has two goals: to introduce national theatre decision-makers to new comedy plays and talent and to connect the local and national theatre-making communities. 

We are casting for selected roles in the play readings. Readings will be staged with minimal production values. Readers need not be off-book but should be strong physical and vocal performers able to convey the essence of the storytelling without all the bells and whistles. 

We are seeking actors for two play readings:

Exhaustion | Arroyo.

Synopsis: Three friends escape into the Santa Cruz mountains in search of a place to swim and BBQ. They packed for the beach without realizing they had a treacherous hike down a ravine. Once at a waterhole, the consumption of some shrooms sets the stage for a heartfelt adventure between friends too tired to know how to rest.

Escobar's Hippo

Synopsis: A Colombian town along the Magdalena River plunges into chaos after a flatulent, destructive, easily offended, and sexually adventurous hippo comes to town and wreaks havoc. The crisis worsens when people begin transforming into hippos themselves, causing not only chaos but the beginnings of a revolution where humans are put to death by these new Hipposapiens. As this shifting of civilization unfolds, three friends try to figure out how to deal with the transforming population and solve the connection between the hippos and a notorious drug lord.

• Job: Other

About the Musical:

"The Trail to Oregon! is an original musical was performed in Chicago in the summer of 2014. It is also the most historically accurate musical portraying the Oregon Trail to date; featuring 12 educational songs, a set precisely replicating the trail’s landscape, and appearances from famous historical figures, such as: Henry McDoon, Cletus Jones, and Cornwallis."

A comedy musical is looking for actors willing to bring humor, dedication, and experience to the stage! 

The show is for an audience of 15 or older, and is set to be performed in a High School Stage. The rehearsal location is not yet set but will be in the Greeley/Evans area.

Any actors selected for callbacks following initial auditions will receive an email on June 8th regarding callbacks.  If you did not receive a callback that does not mean you are not being considered.

For those selected for callbacks, the email will include a song to sing for The Trail to Oregon! along with an acting side to prepare. It is recommended that both are memorized, but not required. Auditionees should also be prepared for cold reads on the day of callbacks, June 10th.

• Job: Other

We do true crime and true encounters with the strange. These are SCRIPTED video presentations.

We're looking to add narrators and writers to our core group.

The main host needs regular fill-in hosts. If you enjoy doing this, we plan to have a couple of scripts a month for you. If you have a good personality for video presentations, the job is easy! You'll record the video in your own home on your own time. We'll show you a free teleprompter link. So all you need is a decent mic and a laptop. Green screen is a plus, but not essential.

You'll get "hosted by" credit and IMDB. You can also take the opportunity to pitch yourself or your work.

The scripts are usually around 4000 to 5000 words. This should be a half to an hour's work. We edit out mistakes, so you just have to have fun and read. 

If you are familiar with Mr. Ballen's channel, this is a perfect example of the type of storytelling we want and the style of video presentation. 

Three things are needed for a great story: an engaging storyteller, an audience, and of course the story.

The storyteller: A good storyteller is animated, brings energy, looks the audience in the eye and says "come with me on this journey". 

The audience is a critical part of the equation. In a live setting, the storyteller can sense the audience's attention drifting away, and adjusts her story to recapture it. This adjusting shows how the vital interaction between the storyteller and the audience shapes the story itself. With a youtube channel, that feedback is limted to comments below. But a good storyteller can still imagine that audience and create the sense of interaction. A wry small or perfectly placed inflection. The storyteller instinctively understands the audience interaction and gets better at this over time. It's a crucial skill for stand-up comics, educators, actors and boardroom executives. 

The story itself is where the all-important but seldom appreciated writing comes in. We want a small team to work together, growing in their skill at crafting stories that hook an audience and hold it. 

• Job: Video

Family orientated action / science fiction to be shot in locations in California and beautiful Costa Rica locations. 

Non-union 

• Job: Feature

We are shooting a documentary style profile of a Boston chef.  We are looking for two female actors as customers at the restaurant.  One or two hours of shooting.

• Job: Commercial

An experimental activist short film that puts women, diversity, and queerness at the forefront of the story. This is an unpaid student film produced under the Colorado Film School.

Three women faced with sexist discrimination and harassment find strength in their femininity, through each other, and through a curious dance.

• Job: Student

Deft Pictures is pleased to announce they are casting for their upcoming feature film, Not Bad for a Punk Band. With production in two phases, shooting the short film (proof of concept) on August 13th and 14th, 2022 with the feature film shooting in Spring/Summer 2023. Both shooting in the Twin Cities metro area.

Eight years after their band’s breakup, Charlie and Etta find themselves meeting again at a wedding, and must finally reconcile with the past that is holding them back or risk losing each other forever.

• Job: Feature

Casting Lead Role in Independet Feature Film

An anxious teenager struggles with her insecure stepfather on a rainy Rocky Mountain camping trip where heart-to-heart revelations are interrupted by curious grizzly bears.

• Job: Feature

We are looking for adoptees and others who are looking to meet their biological families for the award winning reality TV show, Relative Race. We are now casting for season 11. We are looking for people of all ethnicities, aged 18 to 50, who live in the USA. Please share with anyone who may be interested. 

We are interviewing select candidates ASAP to discover if we can help them to locate and meet their biological relatives. To find our contestants’ families, we use Ancestry DNA in combination with some of the industry's top genealogists and research methods. If chosen to appear on the show, contestants will travel with a teammate on a ten-day journey across the U.S. to discover new relatives and compete for $50,000. Please apply ASAP with notes about your story and who you are looking for to begin the process. Thanks for submitting!

• Job: TV Series

Seeking talent for an upcoming workshop and UNTITLED immersive show in Dallas, TX.

We are looking for specialty acts, aerialists, circus artists, musicians, and character actors. Prior experience performing in live theater is a must. This is a non-union contract. Please submit a video reel along with your headshot and resume. (Please note we are not looking for dancers at this time. Dancer audition will be held TBD)

A new entertainment company providing electrifying, thrilling, and emotion- provoking live theater. We create worlds from story-driven cabaret-styled shows to extravagant and immersive parties bringing in the world’s most talented artists. Founders and creative directors aim to build a bridge between experiences mostly seen in New York, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, straight to the heart of Dallas, TX. Their combined resumes from Cirque Du Soleil to Broadway stages and beyond have built the foundation for what you can expect when stepping into the alluring world of Productions

Join our team and help create an alternate reality, an intricately detailed evening, and an immersive experience like no other. From hand-crafted cocktails to twirling acrobats and gravity-defying acts, let the world we build together guide our patrons through the wonders of their curiosity.

• Job: Other

"Amma's Ashes" was just selected by the Access Sacramento film studio as one of 10 screenplays to be produced this summer for the Place Called Sacramento Film Festival. 

We're looking for South Asian women, men and teens, including one genderqueer teen/young adult actor. 
 

There is no pay at this tome, but if you're traveling to Sacramento from out of town for the shoot, we can compensate for gas expenses. We can offer the chance to work with some of Sacramento's top professionals in a down-to-earth and supportive creative environment, as well as a movie credit. The film will be submitted to the festival circuit, and developed as a television series. 

Here's a synopsis of "Amma's Ashes, or Mystery at the Sacramento River":

As eldest daughter and executor of her mother’s estate, Kaveri has three days to disperse her mother’s ashes in the Sacramento River, but first she must marshal her ragtag family and solve her mother's mystery. 

• Job: Feature

This is feature length low budget independent film. The project will be shot in Pittsburgh featuring unknown, up and coming, and new actors. 

The story follows a dancer as she navigates her way to the top of the criminal underworld in Steel City. 

• Job: Feature

A Musical Documentary following the making of a musical for off-Broadway. We'll be following the cast and crew through the whole process. Actors cast in the lead roles will be participating in the behind the scenes of the making of the musical as well as the staged musical itself should it come to fruition. Think project greenlight from HBO but focused on a staged musical production.

Our musical itself follows the story of a family that fights back against a super villain intent on world domination.

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