Details
Episode:
five episodes shot as one block
Union:
Union
Area of media:
TV Series
Network:
CBS Studios/Roku
Paid?:
Yes
Rates:
ACTRA scale + 110% Advance
Deadline:
May 17, 2023
Shooting starts:
June 26, 2023
Shooting finishes:
July 28, 2023
Shooting locations:
Winnipeg & environs
Cities for response:
Winnipeg
Comments
We are committed to diverse, inclusive casting. For every role, please submit qualified performers, without regard to disability, race and ethnicity, age, color, national origin, or any other basis prohibited by law unless otherwise specifically indicated. The persons and events depicted in this casting breakdown are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons or events is unintentional.
Self-tapes preferred. ...Please approach all dialogue with Standard American English.
Looking for actors with comedy chops, stand-up, improv. Also interested in Influencers on any platform.
COVID-19 NOTICE: Production will comply with applicable health and safety laws and regulations relating to COVID-19.
Self-tapes preferred. ...Please approach all dialogue with Standard American English.
Looking for actors with comedy chops, stand-up, improv. Also interested in Influencers on any platform.
COVID-19 NOTICE: Production will comply with applicable health and safety laws and regulations relating to COVID-19.
Storyline
It's Christmastime at the festive Love Town Center Mall in Ohio, where best friends LUKE, DEONTE, RONNIE, SUMMER and newcomer MARISSA are handling the holiday crowds while dealing with various crises in their young lives. However, their holiday chores and gossip sessions are disrupted when they learn that TESS, Luke's old love from high school, has returned from L.A. and taken a job at the mall. Heartbroken to realize that Tess has a boyfriend now, Luke ditches his plans to finally tell Tess that he is still in love with her after all these years. He would be surprised to learn that Tess still has a monster crush on him as well, but has been hiding her own feelings the whole time. Will they ever summon the courage to tell each other how they feel? Time will tell…
Roles
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Series Lead | Luke | Male |
Description EARLY 20s...He's a funny, charming young man who works at the Love Town Center Mall in Ohio with his besties Deonte (also his roommate), Summer and Ronnie. Luke is a serious-minded guy who tends to overthink everything, so when Tess, his old high school love who left for L.A. four years ago, returns home and takes a job at the mall, he's in crisis mode, big time. He's about to tell Tess he's still in love with her when he realizes she has a boyfriend who came back home with her -- a huge disappointment that sends him spiraling. What he doesn't realize is that Tess is secretly in love with him as well. Will these two ever summon the courage to tell one another how they feel? Or will they let their best opportunity for true love pass them by? ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Series Lead | Tess | Female |
Description EARLY 20s...She's a beautiful, optimistic, sunny young woman, Luke's old high classmate and bestie, who left town four years ago to attend school in L.A -- Back in town for Xmas, she has taken a job at the mall to earn a bit of money before going back to school. Her new boyfriend, Trevor, funny story - they met in LA but he is from her home town - has come back with her. Tess is thrilled to reconnect with Luke and they fall back into step as best friends so easily. Tess has been holding a secret for a long time, unbeknownst to everyone, she has been in love with Luke all along, but can't summon the courage to tell him how she feels. And if these two don't grow a couple of backbones, fast, they may never learn that their true love is working right beside them at the Love Town Center Mall. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Series Lead | Deonte | Male |
Description EARLY 20s...Stylish and cool. He "could be dropped in the middle of New York City and fit right in.” One of Luke’s close friends and roommate, Deonte works at a luggage store in the mall, which does absolutely zero business, despite his best attempts to hard-sell customers. Deonte is a perpetually glum, Eeyore-esque guy who doesn't believe in the possibility of true love -- which may explain why he's always getting stuck in unfortunate relationships with narcissistic men who are blind to what a great guy he actually is. ...LGBTQ+ performers are encouraged to submit. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Series Lead | Ronnie | Male |
Description EARLY 20s...A bit of a charmer and smooth talker who’s still figuring out life and isn’t in much of a hurry. He works with Luke at a hip clothing store. A Peter Pan whose life is all about girls and flirting, he's taken aback when new hire Marissa starts work at the store and immediately calls him on his b.s. Marissa quickly becomes accepted into their friend group, but Ronnie can't understand why she's not dazzled by his typical line of bull, like all other girls. He can't decide if she's just being mean, or if that's her way of flirting back. Perhaps they have more in common than he would like to admit. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Series Lead | Marissa | Female |
Description EARLY 20s...An unapologetic "nerd" who loves comic books and gaming, and who is completely confident about who she is. She is a new hire at the hip clothing store in the Love Town Center Mall. A real straight-shooter who always says exactly what she thinks. She's immediately accepted into Luke's group of friends and doesn’t hesitate to muck into all the friend gossip and dish out advice without all the back story. Meanwhile, it is hard to figure out if her abrasive manner with Ronnie is just her way of flirting back. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Series Lead | Summer | Female |
Description EARLY 20s...The belle of the Love Town Center Mall. Fun-loving and attractive, with a "take no s**t attitude," she's a close member of Luke's friend group. Currently working as an elf in the mall's Santa's Workshop, she's been sleeping on Luke's and Deonte's couch because she had a really bad fight with her sister Charlie. She refuses to speak to Charlie -- which means she may be on the guys' couch for the duration....Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Dave | Male 39 - 52 Years old |
Description He's the highly dedicated mall manager, an eccentric guy focused on catching shoplifters, to the extent that he stages phony shoplifting busts, with the help of his team of security personnel Henry, Tess and young Herbert. Dave constantly scans the mall with binoculars, hoping to catch shoplifters in the act. So when an unknown benefactor bypasses the mall's security system and unloads a truckload of gifts for the Toys for Tots program, it's driving him crazy. He's determined to track down this "criminal", or else! ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Henry | Male 60 - 78 Years old |
Description Henry is a quick-witted, spry mall security guard who walks his beat with new hire Tess. A guy who can nap anywhere, he has just had a hip replacement, but that doesn't slow him down much. He immediately spots Tess's attraction for Luke, and vice versa. Although Tess insists that she and Luke are "just friends," Henry knows better. ...Later, we discover Henry has a mysterious, private side that one wouldn’t expect, along with a generous heart. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Brian | Male 30 - 39 Years old |
Description He's the manager of ‘Top Spot’, a hip, youth-oriented clothing store in the mall. Brian took a summer job 15 years ago and has never left. He prides himself on being a "chill" boss, and indeed is so intent on being cool that he lets his young employees get away with murder... But then Brian gets some heavy news from the corporate head-office - if sales don’t dramatically improve, his location will be closed, the worst news possible for this first-time father to be. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Trevor | Male 21 - 26 Years old |
Description Trevor is Tess’ tall, handsome boyfriend. They met in college, and he’s joined her for the Holidays. ...Friendly enough but not the brightest bulb on the tree, Trevor has nonetheless endeared himself to Tess, and he actually plans to pop the big question. He comes from a rich family, which Trevor leans upon to compensate for his personality deficits. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Susan | Female 28 - 35 Years old |
Description Brian's wife Susan is pregnant with their first child. She adores Brian for many reasons not the least of which, he makes her laugh. She knows he’ll make great dad. Susan visits his store often, and is on friendly terms with all his employees...When Brian tells that if sales don’t go up, the store will close, Susan takes on extreme measures to get shoppers to spend! ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Austin | Male |
Description EARLY 20s...Austin is Deonte’s dream boyfriend, who then becomes his real boyfriend. He’s not already married, so that’s a big plus compared to Deonte’s ex. Austin quickly becomes part of Deonte’s chosen family of besties... He works at a another store - the living proof that some of the best gifts can be found at the mall! ... We encourage LGBTQ+ performers to submit. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Katiana | Female 29 - 41 Years old |
Description Katiana is a keen investigator with an enquiring mind...She’s the local news anchor reporting live from the mall about the mysterious benefactor who left a truckload of toys for the Toys for Tots program. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Herbert | Female 15 - 17 Years old |
Description 18+ TO PLAY YOUNGER (character written as 15.) This scrawny teenager is a mall security warrior! ...As mall manager Dave's assistant, Herbert adeptly supports Dave’s extreme measures toward thwarting shoplifters! ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE BY JUNE 26, 2023. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Haley | Female 0 Years old |
Description EARLY 20s...A former class-mate of Luke’s from high-school, Haley works at the mall now too. Ironically, it’s Tess who sets-up Luke with Haley, and they really hit it off...But Luke’s heart still leans hard toward Tess, and he feels the right thing to do is end his budding relationship with Haley before things get too serious. She likes Luke too, and others as well. Haley makes it explicitly clear that she’s polyamorous, so Luke’s ‘break-up’ with her is really no biggie. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Recurring | Charlie | Female 28 - 35 Years old |
Description Charlie is Summer’s older sister...They had a big fight that led to Summer moving out of Charlie’s home. She has a young daughter, a niece to Summer. Although Summer is constantly avoiding Charlie, a Christmastime reconciliation is in the works...NO DIALOGUE IN ANY EPISODES. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Alexander | Male 39 - 46 Years old |
Description Alexander is Deonte's current quasi-boyfriend - ‘quasi’ because Alexander is already married to another man making Deonte more of a side-piece than a partner in an actual relationship. Yeah, he’s a jerk, cancelling dates at the last minute, Alexander’s modus operandi is to patch things up with cash and expensive gifts. MAY RECUR. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Principal | Timmy | Male 13 - 15 Years old |
Description This idiosyncratic kid, sophisticated well beyond his years, is actually a big-time influencer...He sits on Santa's lap and films himself giving odds on various pro games for his thousands of followers. MAY RECUR. ONLY SUBMIT ARTISTS WHO ARE AT LEAST TWELVE YEARS OF AGE BY JUNE 26, 2023. PLEASE INCLUDE DATE OF BIRTH WITH SUBMISSION. ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||
| Role type | Role | Gender & Age range |
| Actor | Mrs. Claus | Female 50 - 64 Years old |
Description This woman working at Santa's workshop is dismayed that Summer has lost part of her elf uniform, and that her chest is prominently on display. She tells Summer to get down to wardrobe and get it fixed! MAY RECUR ...Please submit all ethnicities. | ||