Within a Wayward World
Location: Houston, TX
Type: Theater
This story is based off the premise that life is filled with many unpredictable events and happiness can always be found throughout every different hardship. It depicts the different lives of others in Western California in the mid-80s to 1990 and how they try to find happiness within those struggles living in the same world filled with many struggles and unknowns.
Johnny Norris
Role Type: Lead
Gender: Male
Age Range: 15-22
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: Very passionate, emotional character.
Jill Young
Role Type: Lead
Gender: Female
Age Range: 15-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: Has gone through a lot and goes through even more as the story progresses; What should be a naïve, young girl is a girl that is used to being used.
Barb Young
Role Type: Supporting
Gender: Female
Age Range: 15-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: Harsh; cold blooded; an almost-terrible person and a terrible mother as well.
Clay Harrison
Role Type: Lead
Gender: Male
Age Range: 16-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: Very passionate, has that spark, yet is self-conscious at the same time; wants the best for his lover, Dom Wilkes, and doesn’t like to settle.
Dom Wilkes
Role Type: Lead
Gender: Male
Age Range: 16-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: The dominant one in his relationship with Clay Harrison; not so much a control freak, but he knows what’s best for the both of them being the older of the two and having gone through more.
Rose
Role Type: Supporting
Gender: Female
Age Range: 16-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: Falls in love with Dimitri, the main antagonist, and loves him for him; is a strong woman and is not as dumb as she may seem.
Dimitri Norris
Role Type: Lead
Gender: Male
Age Range: 16-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: The main antagonist in the show; has a soft side for Rose, his love interest, but when he is drunk, his true colors show. He feeds off playing the victim role and tries to capitalize off of other people falling for it.
Betty Tinsel
Role Type: Day Player
Gender: Female
Age Range: 15-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: Rose’s best friend; supports her through everything and is obsessed with bands and music around that time. She is the epitome of a fangirl and also a best friend.
Dimitri’s Bandmates
Role Type: Day Player
Gender: Males & Females
Age Range: 15-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: They are three bandmates that although want to see Dimitri succeed, and love it when he does, tend to be fed up when he messes up. They are three airheads that know little to nothing about the world except rock and roll and breathing.
Bully, Teacher, Principal Harv
Role Type: Day Player
Gender: Males & Females
Age Range: 15-23
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Media required from applicants: Headshot/Photo
Role Description: People Johnny has an animosity towards and eventually end up getting him suspended from school; all three are very annoying and not nice at all.
Auditions are on June 4th, 2018 from 5-7 PM and on June 9th, 2018 from 1-3 PM at Camara De Empresarios Latinos Houston.
Payment: Non Paid
City or Location of call: Houston, TX
Please submit to: thematthewleal@gmail.com by 2018-06-09
This casting notice was posted by: Young Aspiring Artists Group
