The Network (mini-series) - Auditions

Company: Failure Island Studios
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Pay structure; Pay rate ranges from $150-$250 a day, depending on role/hours called on set.
Key Dates: Callbacks on July 27th, Filming Dates on August 4th-6th, & August 18th-20th.
Medium: Mini-Series; Social Media Narrative Show
Union: Set is non-union, but abides by SAG hours and policies.

This is a short form, comedic, narrative show (15 episodes total), designed for social media. It's part of a marketing campaign for one of our clients. We are looking for actors very comfortable on camera, with improv experience / skill, and strong comedic timing.

Two new recruits, Joe and Clementine, join “The Network” (dubbed “the next big thing in fintech” by, pretty much, everyone on the payroll). But Orientation is quickly derailed by a company-wide competition. The challenge? Come up with the best idea for company growth. The prize? Something so huge the employees will stop at nothing to get it. This show is a bit of a kooky world, where Severance meets Brooklyn 99.

To submit, please email us the following in one email:

(1) Headshot
(2) Resume
(3) A 60 second tape of you improving as the character you are submitting for (see breakdown below). Prompt: You're in an office setting and have been asked to plan a staff party. You've also been told to incorporate your favorite hobby. This monologue is your pitch to the staff to convince them to attend! Please send this tape in via a google drive, or youtube link, and make sure permissions are set to "public" so we can view it.
(4) Outline your availability on July 27th, August 4th, 5th, 6th, 18th, 19th, and 20th.

Deadline to submit is Tuesday, July 21st at 12pm (EST). Must be available to attend an in person callback in Brooklyn on Monday, July 27th.

CHARACTER BREAKDOWNS:

JOE, male, late 40's - 50s, (“Pleasure, real pleasure, nothing like the in-person shake is there?”) Former sales exec at a tire company. Loves a handshake. Loves talking about cars, or, more specifically, tires. Always has a business card on him. Still figuring out the definition of what business causal means. Feels a little lost by the “stuff kids are saying these days” but man he really loves people and he loves work. A good hearted guy, with goofy dad humor. Keeps trying to find a nickname for his new work pal, CLEMENTINE.

CLEMENTINE, female, early 20s, (“Well, actually, no, it’s not Clem for short.”) Recent college grad with two experiences and forty-seven up-voted skills on LinkedIn. Hit 500+ connections before 5th grade. Constantly saying she’ll “circle back” with that. Loves (modern) corporate jargon and a blazer-plus-t-shirt combo (never a full suit, she’s not a robot). Loves starting sentences with “well.” Most of all she loves Slack. She created her own start-up in school and it went bust in three months; now lives in her parents’ basement. The problem she keeps running into is that she loves connecting with people online but can’t stand humans in person (hand sanitizer appears after shaking anyone’s hand). (“Well, no, I don’t hate people. I just query whether we need so many of them.”)

THE CLOWN Any age, any gender. Actual clown experience would be a plus!

(head of sales, yes, he’s quite literally a clown)

never speaks, holds up signs instead with the messages for his team; no employee mentions that he is a clown and instead act like he’s totally normal (the two new recruits see who he is, CLEMENTINE calls it out immediately, confused, but JOE pretends it’s normal, trying to explain to her “this is just how things are, every place has one”). CLOWN is very pro our CEO’s competition for new ideas (constantly giving inspiring pep talks…via signs), and very anti the messages that are coming in from THE MAIL MAN (constantly hiding them/negating them). Involvement in the storylines: comes out for the competition and keeps “rallying the troops” around it.

ALLIE ISAACS (head of HR) - female identifying, any age

Allie Isaacs (“your initials are AI?”) is actually AI, and she “is here to represent our most valuable asset” (the asset being “you the employee” is implied but never actually…said; could it instead be “the company”? surely not!). She’s constantly trying to get the employees indoctrinated with the right policies and Orientation back on track (a MAIL MAN comes to the window? She doesn’t blink). She starts every answer with an emphatic compliment (“that is such a dynamic question, Joe!”), then speaks entirely in corporate jargon.

THE MAIL MAN (visual representation of our hero’s greatest need) - Any age, any gender.

Rep from our client's company, appears randomly, always in a distinctive costume, and delivers the same message. One message per episode, in a series of escalating ways. At first our main characters find him strange (wondering if they are seeing things), then they ignore him (lost in their own brainstorming sessions), and then they finally consider his message (when they are desperate for help). He represents the one thing our heroes are looking for, if they could just be brave enough to see him. Some Charlie Chaplan energy can be teased out here - physical comedy is a plus.

Listing sourced from Playbill. Submit directly with the company — Playwright Co isn't involved in casting decisions.