C4B Gambling Intervention
Description
Casting a non-broadcast, mobile-app-based, video and audio-based addiction-therapy program to be used as part of a multi-year, closed, patient study. Synopsis: Yale University Dept. of Psychology, supported by the Mohegan Tribe of CT, will create a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) digital intervention mobile app aimed at expanding treatment options for individuals suffering from problem gambling, giving them skills and techniques to treat their gambling addiction.
1 Project roles
Beatrice
Female
60
-70
y.o.
Black / African Descent
Black cisgender woman, 60-70 years old. Seasoned actor with range and excellent memorization skills for on-camera and voice-over reenactments of real life/situational scenes; note this is a smoking role; talent may be required to use non-tobacco or herbal prop-cigarettes as well as work with a pet (cat or dog); Talent must state their comfort level with smoking and pets in their self-tapes. Beatrice is a grandmother with a gambling problem; trying to escape from her depression and grief from her husband’s death, Beatrice gambles to escape, enjoying the social aspect and the energizing, electric atmosphere of being in the casino; however, this has negatively affected her physical and mental health and has strained her relationships with her daughter and others as she’s had to borrow money due to financial problems; this role appears in 12 videos (8 testimonial/teleprompter and 4 dialogue/memorized scenes), total screen time under 30 mins; casting is only seeking talent based in New England, the tri-state area, and Massachusetts; (lead.)
Application deadline closed.