Casting Call: It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken (Appointments)

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Musical

It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken (Appointments)

Details

Union:

Union

Area of media:

Musical

Network:

Paid?:

Rates:

CTA Workshop

Deadline:

Feb 26, 2025

Cities for response:

Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montréal, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Charlottetown, St. John's, Sudbury, Kelowna

Roles

Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	MOSAB
Description 40ish - Middle-Eastern or SWANA Born in Baghdad. Came to Kensington in 2003 with his wife Maryam. Former journalist. Real estate broker. Proud. Stubborn. Aggressively refuses to talk about his life before Kensington.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	MARYAM
Description 40ish - Middle-Eastern or SWANA Born in Baghdad. Came to Kensington in 2003 with her husband Mosab. Former psychologist. Social worker. Maintains a magnetic pull to her life before Kensington and a desire for her daughter Tara to know the secrets Mosab won't reveal.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	TARA
Description 19 - Middle-Eastern or SWANA Born in Toronto. Lived in Kensington her whole life with her parents Maryam and Mosab. Student. Rabidly interested in history and Kensington immigrant origins, especially her own.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	ROBERT
Description 40ish - Black Born in Saskatoon. Came to Kensington in 2008. No-nonsense, high-end government worker – possibly CSIS but no one really knows. Mosab's best friend who pulled government strings to bring them to Canada from Baghdad.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	AVIVA
Description 20ish Born in Toronto. Lived in Kensington her whole life. Runs the Jewish bakery that has been in her family since her Grandmother's mother's mother fled Poland in 1943.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	JANIS
Description 40 - 50ish Character is female presenting. Born in Norman, Oklahoma. Dispensary owner. Came to Kensington in 2002. Tornado-belt American. Once sold pot in the alleys of Kensington but now owns a legal dispensary. Guitar skills are welcome. Please note if the artist plays guitar on submission.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	MAXIME
Description 40 - 50ish Character is male presenting. Born in Trois-Rivières. Came to Kensington in 2010 after walking away from the Montreal corporate world. French-Canadian, grungy street musician. Excellent guitar skills are welcome. Please note if the artist plays guitar on submission.
Role type	Role	Gender & Age range
Lead	EDDIE
Description 30 - 40- Asian Born in Toronto. Returned to Kensington after university in Kingston in 2012. The struggling restaurant that he inherited after his parents died is the frequent watering hole for these eight main characters.

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