"Misery Loves Company" Indie Feature Film Needs Actors
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Casting call for "Misery Loves Company" a non-union independent feature film, looking for actors. See more details below. About the project: Based in Chicago, exploring love, grief, ambition, music, family, faith, and the consequences of seeking comfort in another person’s pain. Content advisory: The story addresses infidelity, family conflict, emotional abuse, suicidal thoughts, suicide, and a staged firearm confrontation. Role-specific content and requirements will be provided with the audition sides. Rate: All listed roles are paid. Additional info: Location: Chicago, Illinois. Callbacks: December 15–16, 2026. Principal photography begins: March 2027. If interested, submit with the exact character name in the subject line, followed by your full name. Example: MISERY LOVES COMPANY — Character Name — Your Full Name. Include the following materials: Full name, phone number, and email address. Height, weight, and playable age range. Headshot, full-body photo, and half-body photo. Acting reel, preferably as a link. Acting résumé. Audition sides will be sent for the requested role. Record a self-tape using the provided sides, upload the audition file, and share an accessible link that does not require casting to request access. Name the file using this format: CharacterName_YourFullName (example: AjaMisery_JaneDoe.mp4). Submit your completed audition and all required materials by October 27, 2026.
6 roles
Lead role. A talented Chicago music producer and devoted single father, son of a famous R&B singer. He struggles with grief, his father’s absence, and the pressure to establish his own identity. Warm, funny, impulsive, and conflict-avoidant. Substantial dramatic role.
A poised, compassionate pastor whose public composure conceals wounds from her relationship with her mother and an unhappy marriage. Her connection with Cortes becomes both a lifeline and a source of painful choices. Emotionally demanding, substantial role.
Cortes’s cousin, A’ja’s husband, and a charismatic rapper. Bold and comic on the surface, but selfish and unfaithful beneath the swagger. Requires a range from brash comedy to serious drama. Substantial role.
Major supporting and featured role. Cortes’s glamorous, ambitious, calculating wife. Magnetic, funny, image-conscious, and cruel toward Cortes’s daughter. Large supporting role.
A young pop star searching for an authentic R&B sound. Requires nuanced dramatic work in a serious conversation about suicidal thoughts.
A blonde, curvy aspiring rapper in Chicago’s music scene. Confident, flirtatious, and quick with a comeback. Appears at a music-video shoot, in church, and in a television segment set five years later. Featured supporting/small speaking role.
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