Production: Los Lakeview ’92 live-taping podcast (streamed audio drama)
Signatory: Make-Believe Association
Contract: SAG-AFTRA New Media Agreement (pending signatory approval)
Casting Director: Laura Alcalá Baker
Producer: Jeremy McCarter
Director: Laura Alcalá Baker
Rehearsals: March 12 or March 13; March 15-17
Shoot Location(s): Chicago, IL
Recording Date(s): March 16-17
Rate: $225 flat fee day rate (four days total)
Story: It's 1992. Lakeview is tense with the anticipation of the Chavez-Camacho WBC boxing championship. Zoom into an old Chicago greystone while a young "pocha" chases a piano dream in a world of dominos y boxing.
Seeking principal actors able to portray:
Yo Poético/Mami: 30s, female Mexicana. Launched into a memory, an almost narrator. Was a girl then she learned something. She’s in her Scottie Pippen year; humorous, very pregnant. Girl’s mother and Papi’s wife.
Paquito: 40s-60s, male Cubano. Works at a guitar shop; not a musician, a man with a trade. A friend who has resided in Chicago longer than anyone else
All roles speak to the Latino experience in Chicago. They navigate in both English and Spanish.
Submission/Audition Instructions:
To audition, email your headshot, resume and self-tape of the provided sides below to mail@makebelieve.fm. Please confirm your SAG-AFTRA status.
Click here to access the sides. (Sides should be familiar, but do not need to be memorized.)
The deadline for submissions is noon, Friday, Feb. 28.
Callbacks will be held in-person on the morning of Monday, March, 2 at the Kaufherr Resource Center.
For any questions or inquiries, email casting director Laura Alcalá Baker at lauraalcalabaker@gmail.com.
For SAG-AFTRA contract questions please contact SAG-AFTRA business representative Kamau Talbott at kamau.talbott@sagaftra.org or (323) 549-6446.
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