EUROPE: actors (m) 55-69 English spkrs, for tv series [P]

ref # 144138

closing date: This casting is now closed

project title: Washington Black
production type: television
pay: paid

looking for: actors
based in/around: Europe

about the project

WASHINGTON BLACK / Pilot – Straight to Series SAG-AFTRA

Exec. Producers: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Jennifer Johnson, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, DJ Goldberg, Jeremy Bell, Lindsay Williams, Sterling K Brown (Indian Meadows Productions)

Producers: Jon Paré

Writer: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds

Casting Director: Kamala A. Thomas

Casting Associate: Melanie J. Brown

Casting Assistant: Steven Gutierrez

Start Date: February 2022

Location: Iceland, Canada, Mexico

Storyline: A young Black man who grew up as an enslaved person on a Barbados plantation before traveling the world on a steampunk adventure with the plantation owner’s brother, GEORGE WASHINGTON ”WASH” BLACK is now 19 years old and living in Nova Scotia as a free man; Wash works the docks, paints, hones his flying invention and falls in love–until his past catches up with him, threatening his new life and all of his dreams that have kept him going…


Looking to fill the following roles:
role 1 | actors | male
playing age: 55 - 69
role languages:
role ethnicities: White
ROLE: PETER HAAS [GUEST STAR in 3 EPISODES]
The character: Peter Haas, is a Scandinavian man in his 60s, and a kind person. He is Mr. Wilde's expedition companion and a capable survivalist himself. He teaches Wash a few words in sign language and joins the team on a hunting mission, but suffers a grave injury no thanks to Titch's error. Peter will intersect with Washington Black later in his life and is given a second chance to help him.
*MUST BE FLUENT IN BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE.