Submissions are now open for the leading roles of Wendy/Lucy and Peter Pan.
Please read the submissions guidelines carefully.
Location: London & an abroad location TBC
Shooting: 20th April - end of June 2015
Below are the character briefs along with a description of what should be included in the email submissions.
The email address for all submissions is:
peterpancasting2015@gmail.com
All submissions should clearly state what role they want to audition for in the email heading.
Lucy/Wendy (Female, 11 - 13)
Attach to your email a short video of you introducing yourself (in character) to the camera talking about how annoying it is to be a 12 year old girl who spends half her life in hospital.
If you prefer you can provide a link to a vimeo video. No external downloads from sites such as wetransfer please.
Metropolitan Middle class
Neutral accent
White
Age 11-13 (will consider older girls if they genuinely have a younger playing age)
A pretty young girl on the brink of her teenage years, dressed in jeans and Abercrombie and Fitch, an iPod earpiece in one ear. She is sophisticated but still young enough to be cuddled when she’s in a good mood. She looks like any other girl of her age and it is only on close inspection that we notice a paleness and shortness of breath.
She has grown up in hospitals and with that has a wiseness that is beyond her years. In her 12 years she has been through more than most people go through in a life time. But she doesn’t want to be defined by her illness.
She is witty, feisty and sarcastic and like any other young girl on the brink of becoming a teenager she has her mood swings; is determined not to be treated like a kid and wants her independence and to be a grown up (unlike Peter Pan).
Lucy reads the story of “Peter Pan” to the other children in the hospital and as the story starts to inter-twine with real life we also see Lucy as the role of Wendy.
Through her incarnation as Wendy we see her caring and looking after others, rather than being the one who is always looked after. Away from hospital operations and blood tests we see a lighter side to Lucy/Wendy.
We need an exceptional young actress for this lead role. MUST BE A REASONABLE SWIMMER.
Peter Pan (Male, 11 - 13)
Attach to your email a short video of you introducing yourself (in character) telling us all about the great adventures you have in Neverland.
If you prefer you can provide a link to a vimeo video. No external downloads from sites such as wetransfer please.
Any accent
White or mixed race
Age 11 - 13 (Voice should not have broken)
The loose cannon of our story. A boy on the cusp of an adulthood he refuses to enter.
Charming, charismatic, eager & enthusiastic, with bundles of energy. There is nothing effete about this Peter Pan. There is something elemental about him, both playful and wild. Not evil, but certainly a little savage/feral.
Beneath the bravado, there is an innocence; he is just another lost boy who longs for a mother. He does everything he can to cover this up and gets defensive and angry with Wendy when she challenges him on this.
It is important that we love Peter Pan, as all the characters in the story do. All the girls fall in love with him, the boys admire and want to be just like him and adults want to protect and care for him.
We need an exceptional young actor for this lead role. He must be able to move us emotionally as well as engage and entertain.
MUST BE A REASONABLE SWIMMER.
All submissions should be sent to peterpancasting2015@gmail.com and should clearly state what role is being applied for in the email heading.