<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">~Katelyn MacIntyre, M.M.<div>www.katelynmac.com<br><div>www.facebook.com/KatelynMacMusic</div><div>@KatelynMacMusic</div><div>President, National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division</div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick <danielle@dpdcasting.com><br><b>Date:</b> April 3, 2025 at 4:42:55\u202fPM EDT<br><b>Cc:</b> Elizabeth Hay <elizabeth@dpdcasting.com><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Sharing a Breakdown: The Hog Queen (Role for Disabled Actors and Gender Non conforming Actors)</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi!</div><div><br></div><div><div>So excited to be sharing a breakdown for a project I am currently casting, with my associate Elizabeth Hay.</div><div><br></div><div>PAID OPPORTUNITY.</div><div><br></div><div>3 roles:</div><div>Seeking a LOW VISION or BLIND, White Actor for Amber</div><div><br></div><div>Seeking a <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">QUEER, NONBINARY, TRANS FEMME, AND ALL GENDER NONCONFORMING ACTOR who is Black or Latin for Ian</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Seeking a Black or Latina WHEELCHAIR USER for Monica</span></div><div><br></div><div>PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AS YOU SEE FIT AND PLEASE EMAIL:</div><div><a href="mailto:TeamDPD@dpdcasting.com" target="_blank">TeamDPD@dpdcasting.com</a> to submit!!</div><div>You can also submit on Breakdown Express, Actors Access, Casting Networks, or Backstage</div><div><br></div><div>See below and attached. Flyer (2 versions, including a low vision version) can be found attached too if you are willing to post!</div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_4244984425501441436gmail-docs-internal-guid-b6e6c52a-7fff-74d8-dfaf-e6f4d9d687c8"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Hog Queen (Short Film)-5 roles</span></p><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,40,42);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Production Company: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Inevitable Foundation Visionary LLC</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></span></div><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Shoot Date: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent">2 consecutive days between June 10-July 2</span></font></div><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Location: Los Angeles, CA (seeking an LA local hire)</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Rate: $241 + 10% per shoot day (SAG/AFTRA Ultra Low Budget Agreement)</font></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_4244984425501441436gmail-docs-internal-guid-c8938569-7fff-31ca-d035-e43218f59758"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> **SEEKING LOS ANGELES, CA LOCAL HIRES </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>This short is a part of the Inevitable Foundation\u2019s Visionary Fellowship for Disabled Filmmakers.</b></span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Visionary Fellowship is a year-long investment in disabled filmmakers through funding, mentorship and community with a focus on making a short film and packaging it into their debut feature. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Logline: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(46,49,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">When feral hogs attack a small town Texas gay bar during a drag show, all hell breaks loose as everyone trapped inside scrambles to survive both the hogs and each other. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO NOTE IF YOU IDENTIFY WITH THE CHARACTER IN ANY WAY. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">AMBER-</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">She is in her 20s. She is white. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">She is blind or low vision</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">An alternative girlie with tattoos and piercings, she has never felt like she belongs in her small east Texas town. She\u2019s above it all: the town where she lives, the bar where she works, and the annual Hog Fest that everyone is obsessed with. All she wants to do is get out of her small town (Milan, TX) and move to Austin, where she can be her weird, alternative self without the small town judgement, but she\u2019s never been able to escape velocity. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">She\u2019s a cynic. Impulsive, with a quick temper. Her soft spot is her best friend, IAN-she\u2019s fiercely loyal to them. She has been friends with IAN and MONICA since middle school.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*THOUGH THIS CHARACTER USES A WHITE CANE, WE ARE OPEN TO ALL TALENT THAT IDENTIFY AS BLIND OR LOW VISION (and can provide white cane training for this role for anyone who is not Blind or low vision and not a white cane user)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">IAN-</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">20s. Assigned Male at Birth (AMAB), they are Black and/or Latine. Nonbinary, and queer. Out and loud about it. They are definitely brat.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">They\u2019ve had to develop an over-the-top armor in their small, east Texas town but underneath that they\u2019re country through and through, with a big vegetable garden and love of the outdoors. An animal lover with a mystical streak, while everyone in their neck of the woods loves hunting and killing feral hogs, Ian wants to protect them. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">They also believe in the local legend about a cryptozoological creature that lives deep in the Pineywoods, called the Big Pig.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">An idealist, they want to make their town a better place through drag. Ian is making their drag debut at the Hog Queen Drag Show, and is the show\u2019s organizer. They are best friends with Amber and Monica is their sister.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*THIS ROLE, AND ITS PRONOUNS, CAN BE ADJUSTED TO FIT THE ACTOR CAST. QUEER, NONBINARY, TRANS FEMME, AND ALL GENDER NONCONFORMING IDENTITIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">*ACTORS WITH DRAG EXPERIENCE ARE ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">MONICA </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">She is in her 20s. She is </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Black</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">and/or Latina </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">and a </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">wheelchair user.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">A queer, witchy artist who reads everyone\u2019s Tarot spread. She\u2019s open to all of the mysteries of the universe. Ian\u2019s big sister, she helps with all of Ian\u2019s costumes. A little bit Stevie Nicks, a little bit Janelle Monae. Most definitely a boss.</span></p></span><div class="gmail-yj6qo"></div><div class="gmail-adL"><br></div></div></div></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="margin-left:0pt" align="left"><table style="border:none;border-collapse:collapse"><colgroup><col width="123"><col width="579"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:0pt"><td style="border-left:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-right:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-bottom:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-top:solid #ffffff 1pt;vertical-align:top;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="border:none;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;width:107px;height:108px"><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/vZvkQB7KLWQMqxDKLhdg8i1nvJzbwXaVEc2cwMHqyCguHYsZFQOEXGZ0Sq-udm0RraOvc3kRTiv46JVB7cl4tsesqkOYxhSoVCiL4HmzhJKM9GscpUgdxN-fbFH5gwwD7aA2z4MB" style="margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px" width="107" height="108"></span></span></p></td><td style="border-left:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-right:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-bottom:solid #ffffff 1pt;border-top:solid #ffffff 1pt;vertical-align:middle;padding:5pt 5pt 5pt 5pt;overflow:hidden"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Danielle (Pretsfelder) Demchick, CSA (VP, Advocacy)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.dpdcasting.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">DPD Casting</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">561-723-4801 (cell), EST</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">Pronouns: She/Her/Hers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap">I stand in solidarity against injustice and in support of humanity.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div>
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