Current Projects

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

Production Title: Feed My Sheep

Union / Non-Union Status: Non-Union

Production Type: Short Film

Project Length: 10-13 minute runtime

Project Format: Digital (Shooting with ARRI Alexa Plus)

Production Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Directors: Brenton Oechsle, Glenn Johnson

Brenton is a freelance cinematographer and editor. His experience in documentary and narrative filmmaking extends over a decade. His work has been promoted through The Atlantic and Nowness, and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Glenn is an editor at 12 Stars Media. He’s edited multiple documentary features that have been screened at Heartland Film Festival and nominated for Emmys. 

Producers: Victoria Britton, Andrew Coons

Audition Location: Self Tape *audition script sides attached

Shooting Location: Indianapolis, Indiana

Shooting Schedule: June 15 - June 18, 2022

Compensation: 

Pays $150/day for lead cast, plus one meal per day and a one-time $50 travel stipend. IMDB credit, film festival exposure, footage for your reel. Lodging not included.

Pays $125/day for day players, puls one meal per day and IMDB credit, film festival exposure, and footage for your reel. Travel & lodging not included.

Pays $100 flat fee for background/minor speaking roles (police & John Owens)

The producers plan to apply for a SAG-AFTRA New Media Micro-Budget Agreement.

Dates and Times of Film Auditions: Now through May 31st

Casting ‘Feed My Sheep’ a short, contemporary drama. A pastor in a small town struggles to do what's right in the midst of a tragedy. Note: quick casting turnaround!

• Job: TV Short

Auditions for fall 2022 production on a Saturday, June 18th, from 3:00 to 7:00 pm, Sunday, June 19th, from 5:00 to 9:00 pm, and Monday, June 20th, from 7:00 to 8:00 pm.

Auditions will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Welcomes and strongly encourages people of all races, identities, and backgrounds to audition.  We believe that our shows are brought to life when the stories unfold onstage within a fully realized community, with both lead and chorus characters having distinct identities and relationships.

Roles in The Pirates of Penzance

Principals

Major-General Stanley  (comic baritone)
The Pirate King  (bass - baritone)
Frederic,  a Pirate apprentice  (tenor)
Samuel,  the Pirate King’s lieutenant   (baritone)
Sergeant of Police,  (bass)

Mabel, Major-General Stanley’s daughter  (soprano)
Ruth,  a piratical maid of all work  (mezzo - contralto)
Edith,  Major-General Stanley’s daughter  (mezzo)
Kate,  Major-General Stanley’s daughter  (mezzo)
Isabel,  Major-General Stanley’s daughter  (speaking role / chorus)

Ensemble

Major-General Stanley’s daughters, the daughter’s chaperones, pirates, police

Casting

All principal roles for the production will be cast through these auditions.  No principal roles are pre-cast.

While approximately a third of the ensemble is already filled by performers who are company members, the remaining ensemble vacancies, all voices, will be filled through these auditions.

All performers will be offered a stipend of $200.00.

To Audition

When you submit for an audition appointment, you will be prompted to submit your performance resume as well as your head shot or another good photo of yourself.

We prefer that you audition with a song or aria in English, but other languages are acceptable.  Your selection may be an opera or operetta piece, a show tune, etc.  No pop or rock music please.

An accompanist will be provided.  We strongly recommend that all those auditioning prepare an accompanied piece rather than something unaccompanied.

You do not need to prepare a monologue.  The Directors may provide you with sides during your audition.  If they do so, you will rehearse the sides privately with others who are auditioning and then present to the Directors.

Call Backs

Most of those being considered for a named role in the production will be asked to return to Call Backs, which will be held on the Monday, June 20th starting at 8:00 pm.  You will be notified via email on Sunday, June 19th, after auditions have been completed, if you are being called back. 

You will be notified for which role or roles you’ll be asked to read and sing.  Sides will be provided at Call Backs.  The music and sides that will be used for specific roles will be available on this page in the near future. 

Rehearsals

Rehearsals begin promptly at 7:00 pm and will run no later than 10:00 pm on Monday and Thursday nights.  While most ensemble rehearsals will be scheduled on Monday and Thursday nights, the ensemble may occasionally be called on Tuesday nights and/or on Saturday mornings between 10:00 am and 1:00 pm.

Most principal rehearsals will be scheduled on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 10:00 pm and Saturday mornings from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.  Principals will be called on Mondays and Thursdays, as necessary.

Rehearsals are held in Minneapolis, from Tuesday, September 8, 2022, to Saturday, October 29, 2022.

Rehearsals will be held in Minneapolis, from Monday October 31, 2022, to the Thursday, November 3, 2022, Preview Performance.

Two Potential Performance Schedules

The dates that the company performs, will be available are still to be determined. 

As a result, there are currently two different scheduling options for the production.  Those cast in the production must be prepared to commit to either option.

In both potential options, rehearsals start on the same day, Tuesday September 8, 2022, and the final performance is on the same day, Sunday, November 20, 2022.

Currently Planned Performance Schedule

Performances will take place with a 11-show production schedule, including the Preview Performance.  This schedule includes the option of adding a 12th performance on Thursday, November 17th, if there is sufficient audience demand. 

The performance schedule is as follows:

Thursday, November 3, 7:30 pm, Preview Performance
Fridays, November 4, 11, 18, 7:30 pm, Evening Performances
Saturdays, November 5, 12, 19, 7:30 pm, Evening Performances
Saturdays, November 12, 2:00 pm, Matinee Performance
Sundays, November 6, 13, 20, 2:00 pm, Matinee Performances

Potential Additional Performance (depending on audience demand): 

Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm, Evening Performance

Potential Performance Schedule

Performances will take place with a 15-show production schedule, including the Preview Performance, which is as follows:

Thursday, October 27, 7:30 pm, Preview Performance<
Fridays, October 28, November 4, 11, 18, 7:30 pm, Evening Performances
Saturdays, October 29, November 5, 12, 19, 7:30 pm, Evening Performances
Saturdays, November 5, 12, 2:00 pm, Matinee Performances
Sundays, October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2:00 pm, Matinee Performances

Notification

We intend for casting to be completed by June 26, 2022. 

We will call those being offered principal roles first.  They are given a limited amount of time to accept or decline the offer before the offer will go to the next candidate. After the principal roles have been filled, those being offered Ensemble roles will be called.  Finally, we will notify via email those whom we are unable to cast.  This process may take up to two weeks, but everyone who auditions will be called or notified via email.

The Pirates of Penzance is one of the most popular operettas and tells the story of Frederic, who was apprenticed as a child, to a band of pirates by his nurse who, being hard of hearing, had mistaken her master's instructions, apprenticing the boy to a “pirate” instead of a “pilot.”  Upon completing his 21st year, Frederic rejoices that he has fulfilled his indentures and is free to return to respectable society.  It turns out, however, that he was born on February 29th in leap year, and he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday … several decades in the future.  By the end of the opera, the pirates, a Major General who knows nothing of military strategy, his large family of beautiful daughters, and the timid constabulary all contribute to a delightful cacophony that can be silenced only by Queen Victoria's name.

• Job:

We are pleased to announce that we are casting for an 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

We are in development on a 1.5 – 2 minute branding video for a farming cooperative located in southern Minnesota, approximately 45 minutes west of New Ulm. We are accepting video auditions for a male spokesperson (age 9 – 12) working from a script that focuses on communicating the company’s mission and culture. The video will be used primarily for employee onboarding but occasionally will be used as a social media advertisement.

Responsibilities would include memorizing an approximately 1.5 – 2 minute script, one virtual rehearsal session, and an approximately 3 hour shoot at a location about 45 minutes west of New Ulm. A mileage stipend will be included in addition to the base rate.

Shoot date/time is TBD and can accommodate the schedule of the spokesperson. We are currently looking to shoot in June.

Please find sides attached. We are looking for a spokesperson to deliver the lines with optimism and inspiration. The spokesperson is inspired by the company’s culture and values and wants to share its good work with people watching the video. 

• Job: Commercial

Searching for actors for a short film set in the Twin Cities about homelessness, cycling and being better to each other. Shooting October 2022 (prospective).

When Claire (they/them), an actor, crosses paths with Richie (he/him), an expert bike mechanic who is homeless, the two butt heads, but eventually come to a point of mutual understanding while fixing a flat tire.

• Job: Other

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 a host for "Baywatch Watch," a humorous look at the popular television series that describes the program's characters and themes.

Production states: "To prepare us for what soon became Planet Baywatch in the 90s, the major motifs of David Hasselhof's universe, most importantly that all fat people and those without all-over tans are Evil. Also featured are the bizarre preponderance of midgets, the sad fate that awaits those who answer C. J.'s siren call, and the many subtle variations on the Slow Motion Montage. But don't think that all this heavy analysis precludes discussion of Baywatch's greatest asset: breasts."

• Job: Web Series

"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

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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