"BYOM: My Life and Love During a Quarantine" [working title]

Hello, everyone! This casting call is for a Comedy Pilot Demo Production "BYOM: My Life and Love During a Quarantine" [working title]. The story centers around a group of young friends managing online classes, friendships, and all the novel challenges of living the quarantine life in the U.S. during the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020.

For this casting call, we are casting for lead and featured roles, including musical roles. Selected applicants will be auditioned both individually and in collaborative sessions via remote (see below). All roles are in the English language. 

For lead roles (+ additional lines for minor roles and retakes), pay is $50 for the pilot production. All payments are made through PayPal or Zelle.

All actors who participate will be automatically be granted priority consideration for casting of future pilot productions.

DEADLINES AND AUDITIONS

The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) on Friday, October 9th, 2020. Auditions will be scheduled on a rolling basis starting Friday, September 25th, 2020. We'll notify voice actors who have been cast in roles by Friday, October 16th at the latest. All lines must be turned in by voice actors by Friday, October 30th. This is a hard deadline. If you are unable to submit recordings on or before October 30th, please do not audition. We will look forward to seeing your talents in other project auditions.

WHAT TO EXPECT

Expect to be warmly greeted by our Director, Steve, who has experience in audio and video production as well as casting. Whether you'll be working with other voices actors from around the globe or one-on-one with the director, all talent will receive feedback and collaboration with our Director and writing staff to ensure the highest quality of performance.

For audition and rehearsal, we communicate primarily through Discord, Google Hangouts, and Skype. If you are unfamiliar with any of these applications, you can still audition. However, we strongly, strongly recommend participation through Discord as it allows actors to collaborate with each other in real-time via remote. We've used these programs with other projects and it has been of immense value in helping actors give their strongest performances. 

WHAT WE ASK OF YOU

• First and foremost, have fun -- we take pride in bringing together talents from different backgrounds to create something truly phenomenal, but none of it means anything if the people involved aren't passionate about their craft. 


• Please submit clean recordings on prosumer mics (no air conditioners in the background, no fans -- we don't mind performing noise reduction on your files, however too much clean-up reduces the quality of your voice). And speaking of clean-up -- please let us handle the post-production. Don't add effects to your lines -- leave that to our audio staff.


• Feel free to cut your lines to your best/favorite takes. Three is the gold standard. We have a few voice actors that would rather give us more takes, and that's okay, too. However please remove the takes you do NOT want to be featured on the production. Also, please specifically indicate your favorite one or two takes. 


• Please submit your recordings as one .wav file to our company email address, which will be provided to you after casting. If a file is too large to submit via email, we prefer Google Drive. 


• We do occasionally ask for line re-dos, but we do this sparingly and only after great consideration. 


• Our production team members value an inclusive and a positive atmosphere. Although we are all human and prone to making mistakes, we believe that being inclusive helps everyone to bring their best to the production. If conflicts occur or you feel unreasonably uncomfortable with some aspect of production, please inform a member of the production team one-on-one so that we can ensure that issues are sorted out in a fair, effective fashion.


• As policy, any person whose behavior is deemed to be of unreasonable and substantial detriment to the production, including performers, staff members, and leadership team members, will be asked to pursue performance opportunities elsewhere.


• Lastly, we always appreciate the opportunity to work with actors long-term. We frequently return to voice actors we've worked with successfully in the past.