"Kudzu 2012: A Gentrification Tale!" Needs Actors

Angela is peri-menopausal and dealing with her increasingly strained relationship with her mixed-race daughter and the pressures of her not-so-hot job at upscale EcoGrocer. She’s vulnerable and the walls are closing in.

Zac is the developer and CEO of OSM, the app that plants techies in cities where they can do the most damage—um, work their transformative magic. Zac is unapologetic about his ambitions to change everything.

A pragmatic, mixed-race community college student who’s found her niche in coding, Tamika’s loaded with determination and eagerness, but low on insight. She feels that no one in her family “gets it”—about tech, or her.

The new produce manager of EcoGrocer and a white transitioning transgender woman, Sally isn’t as progressive as you’d think.

Placed next door to the Warfields by the OSM app, Kayleigh works and shops at EcoGrocer and karens whenever she can.

An Oakland native and semi-disabled community activist whose ties to City Hall aren’t as strong as they used to be, Melbert Sr. is devoted to his younger wife.

He’s the neighborhood dude who’s never seemed to have a real job. That huge home he inherited? It’s falling apart, but he’s too oblivious to care. He sells vinyl records out of his garage and has a thing for light skin and young women.

First-term mayor of Oakland and Melbert’s former comrade in community activism, Billie wants to surf the tech wave to further their political ambitions.

Once a feisty in-your-face community activist, Miss Mabry is now suffering from dementia, but she has moments of energetic clarity.

Clark is a blusterous local newscaster who loves the sound of his own voice.

Marquanshavante is a security guard at EcoGrocer and has a crush on Tamika. He is not Marquanshavanti.