NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY ACTORS WANTED

I Sign and I Live, the film, is now in production. Actors are being sought for the roles of 5 Deaf/hearing actors, which includes 2 doctors and 3 nurses and 2 hearing actors, a clerk, a homeless person, cashier and customer. Filming will take place in the NYC/NJ area and will begin on the weekend of Feb 6-8, 2009, continuing on weekend days through Monday, March 30, 2009. More acting roles will be announced soon. “Stayed tuned” and keep an eye out here on this blogsite for any upcoming announcements related to casting for these additional openings.

Here are the descriptions of the roles:

Deaf/Hearing Actor (no dialogue): Doctor #1 is 25 to 50 years old. No specific appearance or gender type requirements. Dawn is a patient of Doctor #1. The doctor faces a challenging issue by trying to find out what’s wrong with Dawn.

Deaf/Hearing Actor (no dialogue): Doctor #2 is 25 to 45 years old. No specific appearance or gender type requirements. Doctor #2 is working with Doctor #1 during the time when the hospital announces an instance of “Code Blue.”

Deaf/Hearing Actor (no dialogue): Nurse #1 is 25 to 30 years old. No specific appearance or gender type requirements. Nurse #1 runs in the hospital patient’s room and sees what’s happening, then calls for Doctor #1’s help.

Deaf/Hearing Actor (no dialogue): Nurse #2 is 32 to 40 years old. No specific appearance or gender type requirements. Nurse #2 brings the equipment into the patient’s room.

Deaf/Hearing Actor (no dialogue): Nurse #3 is 35 to 59 years old. No specific appearance or gender type requirements. Nurse #3 pushes Daisy away from Dawn, so that medical personnel can give Dawn emergency treatment.

Hearing Actor: The clerk is 45 to 70 years old. He’s old and looks haggard. The clerk is always in bad mood and doesn’t want to be bothered by other people. He doesn’t want to work with anyone. He’s always focused on himself and he is the type of a person who must have things his way. He’s ignorant on the issue of communicating with Deaf people.

Hearing Actor: The homeless person is about 33 to 50 years old. Year by year, people have learned to forget that homeless people are real human beings and are a part of society. When something happens in the subway, Daisy makes the analogy between homeless people and Deaf people.