Production: Lombardi Street (Web/Interactive)
Location: throughout Northern California
Employer: Lombardi Street
Duration: entire shoot, 4 weeks, starts mid-August
SAG artist contracts

Director: Kevin Jackson. Lombardi Street, a new web-based episodic series centered on the lives of six young people just going off to college for the first time, is holding an Open Call. All roles are currently available.

If you are interested in being considered for any role, you must:

* Visit Lombardi Street - Never follow the straight and narrow & become a member (it's free).
* Submit a 1-2 min monologue, on video (webcams are fine), by Fri, 6/12 at 6:00pm PST via the link provided on the front page of the Lombardi Street website. The monologue should be fully memorized and rehearsed, and should be a piece that you feel best represents who you are. Monologues from extant plays are preferable; monologues from any source are fine.

* Please do not submit anything other than what has just been specified, or provide us with a link to your work on another site. Any submissions that do not adhere to the above guidelines will not be considered.
* Final auditions will be held in LA 6/22-6/26. Actors asked to come to final auditions will be provided with sides. Out-of-town actors will be flown to LA. Round-trip airfare & accommodations will be provided in these cases.
* Pay will be scale. We currently anticipate that no single actor will be needed for more than a week of shooting (plus minimal rehearsal, costume fittings, etc.) at this time.

Web: Lombardi Street - Never follow the straight and narrow

Apply to: Alisa Gus

12 breakdowns:

1. Female / 18-24 yrs. / Caucasian.
Gabriella Lombardi (female, 20): not a glamor girl, but can make heads turn if she wants to; strong-willed, gritty, and smart; very distraught over recent loss of her grandfather; Italian-American.

2. Female / 18-24 yrs. / Caucasian.
Alice Carmichael (female, 18): shy, but very intense; sheltered and yearning to break out; raised in an off-the-grid earthship and loves country life; home schooled and a brilliant student; dreams of becoming an actress - despite a prodigious aptitude for advanced mathematics.

3. Male / 18-24 yrs. / Caucasian.
Christopher Hallstrom (male, 18): quarterback of the football team; going to college on a full athletic scholarship; always knew he'd break out of the small town; bright, amiable and capable; could be a great student, but is content to be a good one; has everything – talent, looks, friends, girls, a solid family... and a secret even he's not completely aware of yet.

4. Female / 25-30 yrs. / Any Ethnicity. Requires Nudity.
Allison Richards (female, early-30s): hot, knows it, works to keep it that way; maybe, only maybe, looks a bit old to b e a college freshman, but does not act that way; a party girl, she loves the boys and they love to love her; enjoys the luxury of money and loves to spend it; no relationship is too shallow, or experience too experimental

5. Male / 18-24 yrs. / Caucasian.
Jake LeMott (male, 17): a pit bull from the wrong side of the tracks in a very tough Boston suburb, but extremely careful to mask the smallest hint of his under-privileged upbringing; can look older than his years depending on how he presents himself; every move is calculated and designed to impress; would never loose in a fight just because he would never stop fighting; does what has to be done to get what he wants.

6. Male / 18-24 yrs. / Black - African.
Aiah Kelvin (male, 20): tall, African, dark-skinned; stoic; very reserved; has had tragedy in his younger years, but has, at least, appeared to entirely acclimate to the US since his adoption by an older American couple; loves his parents; an intuitive student; a good athlete; likes soccer; ability to speak Krio preferable, but not required.

7. Male / 18-24 yrs. / Native American.
Little John (male, 17): a gregarious, pleasant-looking Karuk Indian; Alice’s only real childhood friend; modern, but simultaneously intensely respectful of his tribe’s traditions.

8. Female / 41-50 yrs. / Caucasian.
Kathryn Hallstrom (female, early-40s): once the typical, hot Texas bride, is now the typical hot Texas mom; the kind of woman who is way smarter and intuitive than her surroundings have ever allowed her to express; loves her children and appreciates the life she has been afforded, although not always the personal cost of that life; is the only member of the Hallstrom family who has a inkling of Chris’ secret.

9. Female / 51-60 yrs. / Italian.
Aunt Lucia (female, mid 60s): Carmine’s Aunt, Gabby’s great aunt; the family matriarch, now that all of the older woman have passed on, but doesn’t let it go to her head; understands two things – family and what it means to be a woman in a large Italian family.

10. Male / 41-50 yrs. / Italian.
Carmine Lombardi (male, mid-40s): Gabriella’s father; the epitome of Italian-American family values (both the good and the bad) and hard work; has spent nearly his entire adult life working 16 hours a day to keep his father’s landmark restaurant afloat; loves his daughter, but intensely disapproves of her choice to attend college away from home.

11. Male / 41-50 yrs. / Caucasian.
Jack Hallstrom (male, mid-40s): Chris’ father; typical West Texan; successful local businessman who has given his family a good,=2 0stable life; a strong proponent of the “get it done” theory of life – failure isn’t an option; it doesn’t even factor into the equation.

12. Female / 41-50 yrs. / Caucasian.
Betty Kelvin (female, mid-40’s): small, plump; very “Minnesotan”; loving and protective of her adopted son; sensitive.

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