Seeking Male British VA’s only
Laramie for Tobias Birmingham
Tobias Birmingham:
Born: 1991
Age in 2010: 19
Personality type: Tobias is a little bit rough around the edges, think Chloe Price (flip the gender) meets Dallas Winston from S.E. Hinton's the outsiders.
He has an older brother, Felix Birmingham, who is mentioned but not in this short. they do not get along.
Story:
Following his parents messy divorce, Tobias's family relocates to the states for a new beginning (he is twelve when this occurs) and he spends the remainder of his teens in America (which he hates). Finding Solace in British singers like David Bowie and other retro 80's bands/media, i.e. Labyrinth is his favorite film and his only favorite books are S.E. Hinton, Tobias seems like a troubled punk on the outside. Referring to himself as a "greaser" and other negative names, he has a low opinion of himself and of those around him. People are predictable and he is "good' at predicting how they'll react to him, i.e. he is often ignored or berated by teachers.
Tobias has an easily distracted mind and gets bored with his lessons leading to strife and a lackluster grade point average.
Enter Mariah, a girl who disarms him twice and starts to breakthrough his tough exterior, revealing a gentle softie underneath the hardshell.
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Note: Tobias is implied to be an undiagnosed neurodivergent character.
Neurodiverse actors are encouraged to audition for him even if it is not explicitly stated he's neurodiverse.
Please note Tobias swears, you must be comfortable swearing as he is the narrator of this audiobook
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Audition notes:
please slate your name, i.e. Hello my name is James and I am reading for Tobias.
please have an email or a social media handle (discord is acceptable but email is preferred) where you can be contacted if cast.
Please read the lines ABC style three times at least.
Improv is not allowed. You will be disqualified if you stray from the lines and do not follow the instructions as written for this audition.
- english
- acts like a tough greaser punk
- Aged 20/21
- male young adult
- British General
- yorkshire british
- yorkshire
- british (london)
- dallas winston
- north yorkshire
- secretly a softie
- comedic
- Soft Spoken
- Blunt
- secretly gentle
- neurodivergent
- tough outer shell
- british (liverpool)
- Autistic
- Will Sharpe
Cain’s fucking academy, if you blur your vision and blink a bit, the long and grey american architecture looks a bit like a rectangular storage unit reject rather than an educational building fit for teachers and students where I’m learning, with such enthusiasm, all the things I already learned in primary school! It’s bonkers, you know!! I already know maths, reading, sciences, history, socialogy, we all know how it goes and yet here, Cain’s academy prides itself on doing the rinse and repeat! Ethics me this, Emmanuel Kant, have you ever felt as if all we do is go round and round the sun in a loop and do fuck all? Nay, you say, mr high and mighty with a bloody damned wig to boot? RIGHT THEN! Fuck academia.
