Ted Groghl

Harbor City Animated Short

CASTING CALL:
TOBY'S PARENTS!
Darmell and Deja Young

General Project Info for Voice Actors

Audtitions open until
February 14th, 2024!

PROJECT DETAILS

Harbor City is an original independent animation series of shorts following a group of friends, their families, their community, and the goofy, uneventful things that happen within it. The roles presented in this casting call currently only have concrete plans to appear in one short for now, but would be very likely to appear in more shorts down the line. So, if you’d like to audition for one of them, it would be awesome if you’d be open to further projects with the role after this one!
This short has a runtime of approximately two minutes.

PLEASE READ BEFORE CHOOSING CHARACTERS!

Please note - many characters in Harbor City in this and potential upcoming casting calls can be played by anyone, but I would like to make sure that some characters’ identities are represented by their voice artists. So, if you wish to audition for a character with an underlined description in their profile, I strongly encourage voice artists who represent that group to do so.All applicants must be 18 years or older. As for the specific age ranges in each role description, even if you aren't in the age range listed for a role, if your voice sounds like it could fit the age range specified please consider auditioning!To any who fall outside of the preferences for these currently offered roles, do not fret! Harbor City is an ever-evolving project which will likely offer more opportunities in the future, so stay tuned! <3

Click the icons below to view more info and audition lines for each character!

Ada Mantodea

Darmell Young

  • Black Male

  • Late Forties-Fifties

  • American Accent

  • Flat, steady vocals __

Ted Groghl

Deja Young

  • Black Female

  • Late Forties-Fifties

  • American Accent

  • Upbeat, warm vocals __

WORK DETAILS

All voice actors will be paid for their work on this project. If you don’t have a method to receive payment, please let me know in your audition email so we can work something out, but the ability to be paid is a requirement for taking a role. I am willing to compensate in any remote method most convenient to you - Paypal, Ko-Fi, Venmo, etc. **Each artist will be paid a flat fee of $30 upon joining the project, and an additional $20/hour for recording sessions. **

The lines will be recorded via Discord, Teams, or Zoom call so we can have live feedback while recording - whichever is most convenient to you, although Discord is preferred.

I’ll be scheduling this session as soon as the roles are selected, and will get in touch with you to schedule via whatever contact information you specify in your audition email.

CONTENT

The series is a lightly comedic series of skits of a tight group of friends and family. The aim of the story, at large, is to illustrate the odd and inconsistent warmth of mundanity, and loving yet boring close relationships. The content doesn’t aim to preach, more to comfort and entertain all audiences while sharing stories featuring characters from all walks of life. Substantial LGBTQ+ representation is a central goal of the project - the characters Ted and Toby have a romantic relationship, and Ada is a transgender woman.

This particular short depicts Toby Young, Ted Groghl, and Ada Mantodea going to a hardware store with Toby's dad, Darmell Young. In the first half of the short, they get into some conversation in the car about a misleading (and distracting) promotional sale for sinks while Toby tries to remind his dad of their original purpose (to get a part for Toby's parents' car).In the store, Darmell is still a bit focused on the sale, and Toby and his mom Deja (over the phone) try to dissuade him from getting one. Other brief, unfortunate hijinks ensue, but can be viewed in their entirety in the script below!

The series's TV Parental Guidance rating would likely be TV-14, on account for language, light sensuality, and comic violence.

Concept Sketches:

CONTACT

Anyway, that’s about all! If you have any other questions or comments, please get in touch with me via email at [email protected] or via direct message on Twitter, Instagram, or Discord (@Pafbar). Thanks so much for reading, I can’t wait to hear your interpretations of these characters!

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