Portia's Call From Home is an audio drama series following PJ Jenkins, a college student studying for her master's in history. Her life is static. She wakes up, goes to work, goes to school, goes to sleep, and the cycle repeats. She doesn't know her identity or her purpose in life. In other words, she's like every other college student except for one thing. During her regular routine of events, she gets a call from out of this world begging for her to return home. Turns out she is actually an alien. Follow the events of PJ as she battles whether to stay on Earth or find a new life on another planet. With the support of her friends and her eccentric parents, she has a very difficult decisison to make.
PCFH is a comedy with angst and drama. It will be three episodes long ranging from 30 minutes to an hour. Each episode's script has a length of 6000-10,000 words this includes dialogue and stage directions. The final script, all episodes, is 22,000 words in total. It will be posted on YouTube.
Deadlines will be strict. Recording Due Dates:
EP 1: May 1 to 31
EP 2: June 1 to 30
EP 3: July 1 to 31
If you don't think you'll be able to record lines within a month, during these due dates, auditioning for this project will not work. My planned release is at the beginning of September and with these dates, I can accomplish that goal.
There is 1 main character, 6 side characters, and 5 roles for extras. If you're auditioning for the main character or any of the side characters, you must be 20+ due to some relationships between the characters. If you're an extra, you must be 18+. I'm looking for authentic voices that come off as real unless specified otherwise. There will be no need to change your accent to fit a role. Limit it to 2 takes per lines. Have a decent mic setup with minimal background noise. You can audition for as many roles as you want.
Leave contact info in case you are casted. You must be willing to make a discord account after you get casted.
If you have an issue with gender and LGBTQ+ themes, I suggest not to audition for this project.
Project Warnings: Swearing, sexual references, poking fun at real world problems, dark humor (never overtly offensive), depression, anxiety, insecurity.
Callbacks: I will try to post the cast list by Monday morning, after the deadline. If I'm really stuck on voices, I will do callbacks. I will contact my top voices to do a scene. I will send you the scene. I would like to do a 15 minute call (google meet, discord, etc) directing you in the scene during the second to last week of April from the 21st to the 26th. You do not have to be in your booth to do the callback, assuming you already did in the audition, I just want to hear your voice and delivery. Once callbacks are done, I will have it posted by Sunday night on April 27th. For now, do not worry about callbacks unless I put an update out that callbacks will be happening.
