Austin Conservatory Announces its Own Script to Screen Team!

Join the Script to Screen Team in Austin!

The Austin Conservatory announces its first Script to Screen read.  A Feather in the Rain by Alex Cord will be presented at Austin’s State Theater on Monday, March 30 at 7 p.m.

The Script to Screen Team was introduced in Houston last year and has been presenting successful LIVE presentations of WGA scripts before area investors, directors, producers, agents and other industry folk. The March 30 read is the first chance the Austin community will have to participate in this growing venture.

Casting for A Feather in the Rain is underway. For possible consideration to become part of the Script to Screen Team, please submit your headshot and resume to tavery@sag.org no later than March 6, 2009.

We are looking for SAG members able to portray the following:

JESSE BURRELL A youthful 45 to 60, grey-haired, trim, the charm and orneriness of Paul Newman in a character  mix between “Nobody’s Fool” and “Harry & Son,” Horse trainer;  26-year-old Zachary’s father [LEAD]

HOLLY MARIE BASSETT (30’s) (Bear’s daughter) Shapely, Beautiful model by day, does film editing and camera work in the City, reporting and covering small local-events.  Rode horses as a child. From Denver, Colorado, grew up on the ranch but now a city girl.  Practices Yoga and familiar with indigenous customs. 

ABBIE (ABIGAIL) ROTHWELL (21 yr old female) Woodfire red hair, freckles and flashy smile, tomboyish, helps Jesse on the ranch, prankster, smart aleck, impish, wise-cracking 

LARRY LITTLEFIELD – Wealthy cowboy legend from Colorado (50’s-60’s) organizes horse events benefiting charities,  The epitome of cowboy, gray-haired, youthful, tough as woodpecker lips, sun burnt, fit. 

HENRY “BEAR” BASSET – 60’s, bright-eyed face with flashing smile under a clean black cowboy hat.  Barrel-chested, powerful. 

RUBY BASSET – Bear’s wife, thin barely 100 lbs., long skirt, boots, fringed jacket and old-time Charle Russell Stetson with a smile that makes Bear’s smile pale.  Gregarious. Identifies with Jesse’s loss.  She and her husband both lost a son. 

DR. WALTER NALLS (60) 6’2, big man, large belly, cigar smoking, Rich ranch and horse owner of Buckshot’s sire, the sorrel colt, wealthy Texan, starched and creased Wranglers, ostrich boots. 

LEONA McCARTHY 50’s, polished, tastefully bejeweled and bedecked, wife of Superior Court Justice Lamar McCarthy

LAMAR McCARTHY 60’s Leona’s husband, a superior court judge, wears alligator boots, fine flannel. Horse owner/trader.  

DARYL ANN HENLEY – mid 40’s  - Wears silver spurs on $1,000 custom made boots, tight wranglers painted on the Mackintosh butt, white silk shirt rippling over busty  $10,000 breasts, flaunting sexuality.  Rich and playful, gets what she wants. 

ANNOUNCER at Cutting Finals in Ft Worth and AIRPORT 

KEVIN BRADLEY early 50’s, trim, fit horseman 

ERIC – Photographer (1 scene) – Flamboyant gay model photographer.

ALICE (27) recently married, pretty, sister-in-law to HOLLY, married to HOLLY’s brother, Brad who died from head injury after an altercation 

RICARDO VALVERDE –  Mexican 40’s  (Jesse’s hired hand on the ranch) Thin, Hardworking, ranch hand. Fluent Spanish.

HARVEY - 40’s (JESSE’s accountant) VOICE OVER; pragmatic, stickler 

BRANTLY – (30’s-40’s) unshaven Texas Ranger

SUSAN HAMPTON – (30’s) glamorous blond, cowgirl, James Bond actress 

LYLE 30’s manager of the Yellow Rose, upscale country-western dancehall/bar

DR. JOHN – veterinarian

DR. WILSON –Heart Specialist

DR. ELLIOT FULLER - obstetrician

DR. DALE SCHMIDT, an equine practitioner of chiropractic acupuncture, and veterinary medicine 

NURSE – Delivery Room.

TALL MAN at Gas Station, arrogant, privileged, with black, barbered, beard, driving red Japanese sports car with California license plates

ROGAINE – Male early 40’s, computer nerd losing his hair, obviously a Rogaine user.

BOBBY HUNT – rival cutter at rodeo

ROXANNE MILBURN – (late teens) tall, strong, kind-eyed, shy smile, works w/ horses

ZOE – 5 year old girl

FATHER (40’s) father to 10-year old Danny who is in a wheelchair

DANNY (10 year old) wheel-chaired, paraplegic – cystic fibrosis

VETERNARIAN

CARLEY  BRADLEY (wife of Kevin) 45, soft-spoken, well-read, southern belle

DRIVER of horse carriage for hire in Denver

BIG GUY in black T-shirt, biceps and stupid grin, late 20’s, a big man at bar, little drunk

KELLY SUE mother to 12-yr old wheel-chaired bound Wiley, nervous, protective