Details
Union:
Union or Non union
Area of media:
Film School
Network:
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
Open to Union and Non-Union Members - $150 honorarium will be provided for table read.
Deadline:
Mar 16, 2023
Shooting starts:
March 27th or 28th - In Person @ CFC
Shooting locations:
1 Day Table Read @ The Canadian Film Center 2489 Bayview Ave, North York, ON M2L 1A8
Cities for response:
Toronto
Comments
We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to disability, race, age, color, national origin, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis prohibited by law.
KANIKA AMBROSE is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter and mom. She is a current resident in Canadian Film Centre’s Bell Media Primetime TV Program (2022-2023). Her critically acclaimed play “our place,” was first produced by Cahoots Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille in November 2022. Her children’s opera “Anansi and the Great Light” with composer Nick diBerardino and the students at Girard College premiered at Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) in 2019. Her opera "Of the Sea" with composer Ian Cusson premieres at the Bluma Appel Theatre in March 2023, commissioned by Tapestry Opera and Obsidian Theatre Company. Other short works have premiered across North America including celebrated digital work “Tak-Tak-Shoo” with composer Rene Orth.
Kanika has been in residences, festivals and programs including at Cahoots Theatre, Obsidian Theatre Company, Tapestry Opera, Musical Stage Company, Toronto Fringe, and Rhubarb Festival. Kanika is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University and is Associate Artistic Director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company. She was featured as one of Cahoots Theatre Company’s 30 for 30 theatre makers for their 30th anniversary season.
A long-time Scarborough native, Kanika currently lives in Orono, Ontario with her husband and two-year-old son.
These table reads are focused on showcasing the CFC TV writers and their original series pilots developed through the industry lauded Bell Media Prime Time TV Program.
Actors must double vaxxed, be symptom free and must have a negative rapid test prior to shoot.
KANIKA AMBROSE is a playwright, librettist, screenwriter and mom. She is a current resident in Canadian Film Centre’s Bell Media Primetime TV Program (2022-2023). Her critically acclaimed play “our place,” was first produced by Cahoots Theatre and Theatre Passe Muraille in November 2022. Her children’s opera “Anansi and the Great Light” with composer Nick diBerardino and the students at Girard College premiered at Curtis Institute of Music (Philadelphia) in 2019. Her opera "Of the Sea" with composer Ian Cusson premieres at the Bluma Appel Theatre in March 2023, commissioned by Tapestry Opera and Obsidian Theatre Company. Other short works have premiered across North America including celebrated digital work “Tak-Tak-Shoo” with composer Rene Orth.
Kanika has been in residences, festivals and programs including at Cahoots Theatre, Obsidian Theatre Company, Tapestry Opera, Musical Stage Company, Toronto Fringe, and Rhubarb Festival. Kanika is a graduate of Toronto Metropolitan University and is Associate Artistic Director of Necessary Angel Theatre Company. She was featured as one of Cahoots Theatre Company’s 30 for 30 theatre makers for their 30th anniversary season.
A long-time Scarborough native, Kanika currently lives in Orono, Ontario with her husband and two-year-old son.
These table reads are focused on showcasing the CFC TV writers and their original series pilots developed through the industry lauded Bell Media Prime Time TV Program.
Actors must double vaxxed, be symptom free and must have a negative rapid test prior to shoot.
Storyline
A half-hour dark comedy about black people getting killed by Toronto police and the women who let the world know about it.
Toronto, 1980.
In the wake of a string of senseless police killing black people, a black Caribbean woman on the domestic work program, does everything she can to keep on the straight and narrow, but when a fellow domestic worker and friend, is publicly violated by police, she realizes she must join other black feminists in the fight for their lives.
Toronto, 1980.
In the wake of a string of senseless police killing black people, a black Caribbean woman on the domestic work program, does everything she can to keep on the straight and narrow, but when a fellow domestic worker and friend, is publicly violated by police, she realizes she must join other black feminists in the fight for their lives.
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | CARDELLA | Female 27 - 33 Years old |
Description Black, Female, Late 20's - Early 30's. Our lead, tries to maintain her appearance as a law-abiding citizen and tight-ass, but below her perfectly pressed uniform is a foul-mouthed, latent rebel rule-breaker. She defected from her domestic work family to work in a factory for more pay. She used fake credentials to even get into the country, and!– she’s scamming her local grocer into giving her free chicken wings– “dem nah even know dem a throw away de bes’ part… foolish white people!” But, like I said, her uniform is perfectly and pristinely pressed. She’s come to Toronto in a time of black civil unrest, but the killings of a few rebel-rousers aren’t going to ruffle her feathers. To her mind, “Da police nah trouble you if you nah trouble da police. Idle hands make the devil’s work.” | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | LUCY | Female 57 - 63 Years old |
Description Black, Female, Late 50's - Early 60's. Much like Cardella, Lucy is hard-working and foul-mouthed.She’s come to Canada late in life, when her kids are all grown up in an effort to start fresh and turn her life around; proving it’s “neva too late tuh string pearls ‘pon your neck.” Unlike Cardella, she’s not passive about the injustices in front of her and has joined a burgeoning group of disgruntled women protesting the killing of black Canadian men and women. In the day time she’s “yes ma’am, how else would you like that ironed.” At night she’s “BUN DEM FYAH ALL DA WAY TO DA GROUND! | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Lead | MARTY | Male 21 - 25 Years old |
Description Black, Male, Early 20's. Marty is your proto activist. He’s at every protest with a bullhorn and a picket sign and– most important to our series– a video camera. He’s persistent, maybe lurky by our standards but, in a way, charming? He’s like Dwayne Wayne meets Steve Urkel meets Marques Houston in Sister, Sister. Problematic but cute… you know? Eventually, he will become useful as an ally and friend to the women of the movement, his journey will be in learning how. | ||