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To apply, you must have graduated in 2023 and be a member of MEAA Equity.
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The Equity Foundation recognises the diversity of the Australian performer community and seeks to encourage a more realistic representation of Australian society on our stages and screens. We strongly encourage applications from performers of varied experiences, perspectives, and circumstances including performers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, performers with disabilities and binary and non-binary individuals. Please choose only ONE script and adapt it in any way that best suits you as an individual.
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Project Information
Type:
Television Series
Roles
Leon
Gender:
Male
Description:
(20 to 35) UNEMPLOYED
White-trash, waste of space, ‘Dumb and Dumber’ – are some of the nicknames the locals have for Leon. His main pastimes are loud music, bong smoking, drones, conspiracy theories, and shooting stuff with is crossbow – and he’s more cunning, streetwise, and lacking in empathy than people realise. Involved in Gareth’s black market tranquilizer racket, Leon started off riding Gareth’s coattails but he’s becoming more daring along the way, selling on the side to the likes of Trevor and Maureen, which makes him a growing liability to the whole operation. The way to Leon’s heart is through his stomach and he harbours an affection for Audrey, the maker of his favourite pies. After strong-arming Andy for advice, he’s finally able to express his love and ask her out.
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
Scripts & Scenes:
Robyn
Gender:
Female
Description:
(20 to 35) ROBYN is a young woman hardened to the world. As 1980 kicks off a new decade, Robyn is eighteen going on twenty-seven, and life in and out of juvenile detention has forced her to grow up quickly. Tough, resourceful and street smart, she holds a deep love for a family she doesn’t fully understand and a strong mistrust of almost everyone else.
Not black, nor white, Robyn is somewhere in between - a yellow fella. And with short cut hair and baggy clothes, she doesn’t care much for appearances. Her love of stealing cars - especially anything from the 1970s with 2 doors and a thumping V8 - has been a favourite pastime since she was a kid. Suffice to say it’s a pastime that has sent her back to detention multiple times. But she’s learnt a thing or two in juvie, and despite being unable to read or write, her colourful vocabulary is unrivalled. A lifelong vegetarian, Robyn loves animals and abhors the consumption of meat, much to the disgust of the rest of those carnivorous kids in detention. But Robyn’s always been the outcast and being a fringe-dweller suits her just fine.
It’s been two years since Robyn last saw her mum and dad – two years stuck behind bars. All because she was forced to drive the car that night. Not that she had much of a choice, with her sister Roslyn drunk in the backseat. You’d think losing your only sister would have been enough of a punishment. But someone had to take the blame - ‘Underage, unlicensed driver kills own sister in fiery crash’.
During these years Robyn has also become selfish and impulsive, constantly looking for ways to escape life and get high. But hearing on the grape vine in juvie that her estranged mother Mary may be dead, something snaps in her. Wanting to know the truth and maybe see her one more time, she escapes the guards and embarks on an adventure that will both test her and open her heart and lead her ultimately to understand that there’s the family you’re born with and the family you choose and perhaps blood really isn’t thicker than water.
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
Scripts & Scenes:
Gidge
Gender:
Male
Description:
(20 to 35) GIDGE is an outsider. Not because he wants to be, it just kinda turned out that way. Ever since he was a little kid, back in Adelaide, his father used to tell him to be more of a joiner. But even though he’d give it a red hot go, he’d always end up on the periphery. His teachers were the same, trying so hard to get him involved in the world. But they gave up on him too.
It’s not like he didn’t have friends, he was just never around long enough to keep any. It all started when his mother Elizabeth decided she needed a break from the family. But when that break turned into moving out and divorce, Gidge’s father Robert pulled himself out of the bottle and told Gidge that God had called him to a higher purpose - to travel to remote towns unknown and preach the word of the Lord. At the time it sounded to Gidge like they were about to embark on a great musical adventure together - just like the Blues Brothers - but the road movie he was hoping for never happened and instead God’s pathway felt more like a never ending trip to hell.
With every new community they would visit, Gidge was forced to try and make new friends. Not easy when you're a tall, white, city fella, who can barely string a sentence together. It didn’t help that his Dad’s religious mania grew more and more fervent. He would pull up stakes and decide to move on to some other town that desperately needed his guidance.
Thankfully, through all of the loneliness of isolation, Gidge has had one friend that has never left his side. His guitar. Its constant companionship and his love of yodelling activates him and gives him the glimmer of hope he needs to make it through each day... until, that is, he meets Robyn.
Now as they embark on their cross country journey together, Gidge will not only face some difficult truths about himself and his father, but he’ll also discover that his love for others is more powerful than he knows, and that self-love (and maybe a bit of music) is all you need to find the pathway to redemption.
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
Scripts & Scenes:
Tex
Gender:
Male
Description:
(20 to 35) Street kid
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
Scripts & Scenes:
Sandy
Gender:
Female
Description:
(20 to 35) Resist leaning into any Valley Girl whiny schtick and push Sandy to a place where the comedy lives in her entitlement and selfishness, not in her ‘performative’ emotions. The more we genuinely believe Sandy is truly distraught (and that she believes she is feeling this more than anyone else), the more unbearable she becomes. We’re looking for shape too - it doesn’t all need to be at 100%; find that rhythm between self-absorbed, passive aggressive and explosive
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
Scripts & Scenes:
Genevieve
Gender:
Female
Description:
(20 to 30) Backpackers travelling Australia. Any accents, any nationality. Witnesses of a crime, and are being interviewed by the police. Please refer to the script for more information.
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.QN
Scripts & Scenes:
Jorge
Gender:
Male
Description:
(20 to 35) Backpackers travelling Australia. Any accents, any nationality. Witnesses of a crime, and are being interviewed by the police. Please refer to the script for more information.
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
Scripts & Scenes:
Rex
Gender:
Male
Description:
(25 to 65) In Mystery Road Origin. Rex is seen as sweet elderly cab driver in Jardine. Actually he is the only cab driver in Jardine. He has been putting on his charm with single aboriginal woman Catherine to the disapproval of her grown up children. An overbearing father to Abe (local police prosecutor) his son lives in fear of him. But why? We find out Rex is an ex police officer involved in the death of aboriginal teenagers.
Role Notes:
Non binary performers please feel free to disregard binary role descriptions (including gender/pronouns) to make this role your own.
