As a part of our Young Artists' Initiative, MediaContex will work with its partners to create a pilot of an audiodrama of our students' original idea:
Synopsis
Eventually, his father’s services attract the attention of a wealthy landlady, she employs him to exorcise the ghosts in Number 44, a house that she hopes to sell. If he is able to complete this job within one year, she promises to reward their family with enough money to stop their scam for good.
At first, Jason assumes that his latest gig will be as easy as his previous assignments. However, his expectations are dashed once he meets Franklin, Mary-Ann and Okiku, three ghosts who have no unfinished business, and are simply trapped on earth because they refuse to move on.
Now, Jason must overcome his greatest challenge yet – Before the year is up, he must help these ghosts move into the light, whether they like it or not.
Character List
Jason
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Gender: Male
Age: 16 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Kind and compassionate, Jason uses his clairvoyant powers to guide the dead to the afterlife. Wise beyond his years, Jason understands that his father poses as a medium in order to find and contact his deceased mother. However, he does not have the courage to tell his dad to stop his charade. Given that his father is a professional conman, Jason is a proficient liar. He lies about his powers in order to appear normal, but he wishes that he could meet people who accept him for who he is. Lines:
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Franklin
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Gender: Male
Age: 30-40 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Franklin, who died during the Great Depression, hung himself so that his impoverished family would be able to collect his life insurance. Cranky and coarse, he delivers cutting insults about his friends, and entertains himself by frightening those who enter Number 44. Although he would never admit it, he refuses to move on out of fear. After being on earth for so long, he’s terrified of what would happen once he walks into the light. Lines:
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Mary-ann
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Gender: Female
Age: 12 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. On her good days, Mary-Ann seems bubbly and sweet. However, she can be bratty, impatient and manipulative when she drops her adorable façade. Mary-Ann died in a freak accident, in which she was decapitated by a steel pipe that was thrown up by a grass cutter. After her death, she chose to stay behind to take care of her parents. Although her parents are long-gone, Mary-Ann chooses to stay with Franklin and Okiku, who she secretly worries will be upset if she moves on without them. Lines:
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Okiku
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Gender: Female
Age: 18 Accent: Standard American is preferred, but not compulsory. You may audition with any accent you choose. Okiku, a vengeful spirit who killed anyone who entered a house in Japan, was forced to relocate when her haunt’s last occupant burned it to the ground. She tethered herself to the girl who destroyed her house, and eventually killed her when she moved into Number 44. Ever since then, no other tenants have lived in Number 44, and Okiku has spent decades waiting for another mortal to kill. Although she tries to kill Jason and his father in numerous ways, she is constantly foiled by Jason’s ingenuity, and his irritating attempts to befriend her. Lines:
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Audition Deadline
Audition Requirements
- High quality recording. No pops, clicks or buzzes.
- Save the lines as “CharacterName_FirstLast_linenumber.mp3” (e.g. Jason_FrankL_01.mp3).
- Place lines in a zip/rar folder labeled “CharacterName_YourName_Audition” before emailing.
- Send your audition, your name, and email you wish us to contact you with, to [email protected]. Label your Email Subject as “Number 44 - *your name*”.
If you have any questions, please contact our casting partner - Tiffany at [email protected].
Rates will be discussed if you are shortlisted for the role.
If you have further questions, please refer to the FAQ section below.
Thank you for your support!
FAQ
Each project has its own budget, requirements, and plans for distribution. If you are cast for any of these roles, you'll be contacted by our casting representative, and will be able to negotiate your rates with them.
If you are cast, your clips will be used for internal pitching purposes. If you are cast, our students will use your clips to create pilot episodes, which will be showcased to our network of producers.
Your audition clips will not be used without your permission.
If this project generates enough funding and support from our network, we will broadcast our pilot materials to the public. Until then, selected voice actors will be paid for their work, and they will be credited in our internal pitching materials.
We are generating pilot materials for internal pitching purposes, and are currently unable to publicly disclose the cast list.
If we are able to generate enough funding and support to make this project public, we will disclose a full list of our cast and crew. Until then, our cast and crew will be paid for their work, and they will be credited in our internal pitching materials.
Please ensure that you’ve sent your clips to the right email – [email protected].
Please make sure that you haven’t incorrectly typed “mediacontext”.com instead.
If all else fails, please contact Tiffany at [email protected] for assistance.
Of course! We keep all of our auditions on record. Even if you aren’t cast for this project, we’ll contact you about future opportunities.
Alternatively, you may contact us at [email protected] and tell us what your preferred accent is. We’ll let you know if any VA opportunities come up.
If a character has a "Standard American" accent, we'd like you to use a typical General American accent for all of your lines.
Sorry, friend. Auditions will be closed after the deadline we've listed. However, we'll regularly update our auditions page with new projects, and you won't be short of opportunities.
You're welcome to submit 1-3 takes per line. Compile all of your takes for each line into a single file.
Label each line according to their line number. If there are four lines for your character, you should have four files in total.
Sure. Please separate each character’s lines into separate ZIP folders, and label each file as:
“CharacterName 1_YourName_Audition”
“CharacterName 2_YourName_Audition”
You may include all of your files in the same email. Label your email subject as: "[CharacterName1], [CharacterName 2] _YourName_Audition”
We're always looking for new talent. Feel free to share your demo reel, profile, website, etc. in your audition email.
If you're shortlisted for our roles, you'll hear back from us approximately 2-5 days after the audition deadline has passed.
Please don't hate us if we don't send you a reply. Due to the number of auditions we receive, we may not be able to respond to each email. However, we appreciate your submission, and we hope that you'll continue to support our projects!
Unfortunately, MediaContex's team has a lot on their plate, and we may not be able to deliver feedback to individual VAs. However, we're very grateful to you for reaching out, and we hope that you'll continue to support our projects!
