Location: Savannah
Employer: PUC
Duration: September, starts August
Non-Union artist contracts
Payment is on a lo/no/deferred basis.
Director: Amy Lerner-Maddox. Casting Call for a new web television series in Savannah. Please email
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com for details.
General description of project: Pineapple Upside Down Cake
A comedy based on a true story occurring in 1969 in Brooklyn , New York . The story revolves around three high school girls who accidentally blow up the home economics class while baking a pineapple upside down cake. Mistaken by their principal as feminist radicals, the girls take some time off to explore their newly found independence, and discover the Women's' Movement bubbling in Brooklyn .
Apply to: Mindy
7 breakdowns:
1. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Female / 15-17 yrs. / African American.
Shirlene Freeman – 16 years old. protagonist, the best friend. African American. Hi IQ, member of Mensa. Quiet, soft spoken and timid. She has dreams of becoming a doctor and getting a full scholarship to an Ivy League school. Is fully aware of all the prejudices but won't face up to it and lives life with blinders on.
2. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Female / 15-17 yrs. / Italian.
Carmela Tortoni, 19 years old, protagonist, everyone's best friend. Italian. Has been left back several times because she is more interested in boys than school. Lower middle class, blue-collar working class background. Her purpose in life is to get married, raise children, do her hair and nails every week at the beauty parlor. Wants the man to rule in her household. Naïve and good-natured. Everyone loves Carmela. She is a giver and often generous to a fault. Chews gum religiously and snaps it on a constant basis.
3. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Male / 18-24 yrs. / Italian.
Angelo Carboni – 19 years old. High school drop out. Engaged to Carmela for 4 years. . Works at Carvels. Hopes to own Carvels one day.
4. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Female / 15-17 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
Fluffy Schlossberger, 17, protagonist, comic relief. Jewish, and a flower child, hippie. Born into a wealthy family, she is driven to school every day by her chauffeur to the other side of town where she can be among 'the people.' She believes in equality for all (except for her, she would never want to be poor.) She means well and has a big heart, but is unaware of the real struggle people have from day to day. She believes she's a leader but is truly a follower. She is large and loud. A member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and sometimes mixes that up with LSD. She is sharp, edgy, angry, sarcastic, very brilliant New York Jewish.
5. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Male / Any yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
The Unknown Soldier – Love Interest to Fluffy. Part of the anti-war movement. Vietnam Vets Against the War. Nam made him crazy. Will live on disability forever. Lives in a beaten down studio apartment downtown.
6. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Female / 51-60 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
Miss O'Hollorin – 50 – 60 years old. the Antagonist. High School Home Economics teacher and Senior Career Counselor. Fresh off the boat from Ireland.
7. Email:
brooklynpineapple@gmail.com Female / 31-40 yrs. / Any Ethnicity.
Cathy – 30 years old. Love interest to Carmela. Meets her at the Femme Fatale
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