EXPIRES: August 31, 2025
Actors Needed for Indie Rom-Com/Feature Film in PA
Description
Casting actors for Indie Rom-Com/Feature Film, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL & NJ TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED.
About the project:
Mixed Signals is a smart, offbeat romantic dramedy about emotional boundaries, unexpected connections, and the fine line between healing and attraction.
Rate:
All roles are unpaid (at this time),
IMDb credit and meals provided, travel negotiable for select roles
Additional info:
Filming begins in Fall 2025
Phila/NJ area
Chosen candidates will be sent sides and further information for audition submissions.
Please apply if interested.
13 Project roles
Sara reed
25
-30.
Lead
A sharp-witted, emotionally complex young woman navigating dating, identity, and the silent ache of adoption. She masks deep abandonment fears with biting humor and a running internal monologue that's equal parts stand-up comedy and existential dread.
Works with kids in a community arts center.
Tone: funny but fractured, guarded yet romantic, skeptical and secretly hopeful.
Application deadline closed.
Ellie Dawson
40
-49.
Lead
Description: elegant, direct, and emotionally evolved on the outside-but carrying a buried wound from giving up her daughter for adoption in her early 20s. She's built a career and persona of control and independence, intimacy still challenges her.
Tone: poised and confident, but carries the quiet ache of unspoken history.
Casting notes: actress must carry emotional weight
gracefully. Role demands nuance, warmth, vulnerability, and maturity.
Application deadline closed.
Monica
36
-44.
Supporting roles
Ellie's best friend and business partner.
Witty, blunt, and always two steps ahead.
She offers emotional wisdom with side-eye.
Saying what needs to be said when no one else will tone: dry, sharp, loyal, insightful.
Casting notes: strong comedic instincts with grounded emotional realism for consideration, please submit your headshot, resume & reel
Application deadline closed.
Tom Reed
50
-59.
Supporting roles
Description: Sara's adoptive father. Proud, reserved, and deeply protective. Emotionally conservative, struggling with sara's need to reconnect with her biological roots.
Tone: quiet strength, internalized worry.
Casting notes: actor must portray paternal love through subtle tension. Works best with understated delivery and emotional integrity.
Application deadline closed.
Diane Reed
50
-59.
Diane reed
Supporting
Description: sara's adoptive mother. Warm, compassionate, and the emotional bridge between sara and tom. She leads with love and attempts to hold space for both pain and progress.
Tone: nurturing, wise, grounded casting notes: needs emotional accessibility, kindness, and natural maternal energy for consideration, please submit your headshot, resume & reel
Application deadline closed.
Nikki
40
-49.
Supporting roles
Description:
Robert's sister. Strong-willed, quick-witted.
A mother with a strong family bond.
Offers levity and love while calling Robert out on his avoidance.
Tone: straight-shooter with affection.
Casting notes: natural comedic rhythm with dramatic sensibility. Believable sibling chemistry with Robert
for consideration, please submit your headshot, resume & reel
Application deadline closed.
Ryan
26
-34.
Role type: day player
Description: sweet and well-meaning... Until it's clear he still calls his mom "mommy."
gentle charm hiding big codependency.
Tone: soft-spoken, lovable, slightly awkward.
Casting notes: must sell subtle shifts in likability and comedic discomfort.
Application deadline closed.
Nolan
30
-39.
Description: a personal trainer with big energy and even bigger mom ties.
He's fit, flirty, and mom still cuts his chicken tone: over-confident, clueless, lovable.
Casting notes: physical presence and comedic timing essential.
Application deadline closed.
Gavin
26
-34.
Role type: day player
Description: stylish, modern, emotionally detached. Mom helps run his dating apps. Proud of it.
Tone: glossy, slick, emotionally stunted.
Casting notes: should feel polished and socially unaware in a funny way.
Application deadline closed.
Brandon
26
-34.
Description: outdoorsy, charming, and deeply bonded to his mother-like monthly foot soak picnics bonded. Tone: quirky, wholesome, oblivious.
Casting notes: actor must balance sweetness with uncomfortable intimacy.
Application deadline closed.
Trevor
25
-30.
Role type: day player
Description: polite, clean-cut guy, mom handles all his life admin.
Emotionally immature and unaware.
Tone: innocent, sweet, frustrating.
Casting notes: needs to appear well-adjusted while embodying emotional dependence.
Application deadline closed.
Receptionist
26
-34.
Role type: day player
Description: dry-witted, emotionally fluent in side-eye.
Sees all, says little-but delivers zingers like a sniper.
Tone: deadpan, clever, underplayed.
Casting notes: great for a comedian
or actor with standout timing and quiet scene-stealing potential.
Application deadline closed.
Dylan (line cook)
25
-35.
Role type: day player
Description: tattooed and low-key poetic. The kind of guy who surprises you with depth just as you assume he's a bad idea.
Tone: rugged, soulful, effortlessly cool.
Casting notes: must ooze natural charm and vulnerability. Good banter and kind eyes
Application deadline closed.
