Series Regular Casting for new Disney Channel Sitcom, "Jessie"
Posted by Craze Agency on Wednesday, April 6, 2011
New Disney Channel
Sitcom, "Jessie" auditioning actors for series
regulars.
Debby Ryan will play the starring role of au pair
Jessie.
It’s A
Laugh Productions, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, will begin
production on a new promising family sitcom for Disney Channel titled, "Jessie"
this summer, 2011. Auditions are underway for
the series regulars, and additional casting will continue throughout spring
2011. Casting calls have gone out to talent in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago,
Miami, Vancouver, and Toronto for the series regulars.
The show will star Debby Ryan playing the title role of a rural Texas teen who becomes an au pair to a rich couple with "difficult" kids. Debby Ryan is an amazingly talented 17 year old actor, singer, songwriter, and musician (plays piano and guitar) who started acting at the age of seven. Ryan has become one of the most admired and popular talents of her generation. She is an outstanding role model for young people, spending her spare time at Ronald McDonald House to help raise money for kids in need, and is involved in Disney's "Friends for Change" charity where kids can help choose how Disney will invest $1 million in environmental programs.
Pamela Eells is creator/writer/executive producer of "Jessie". Eells has been nominated twice for Primetime Emmy Awards and has served as writer and/or executive producer of such huge hit shows as "Family Matters," "Mad about You," "The Nanny," "Married with Children," "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," "The Suite Life on Deck," and the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie "The Suite Life Movie".
Richard Correll will direct an unknown number of "Jessie" episodes. Correll has directed numerous episodes for series that Pamela Eells has executive produced, as well as writing and/or directing several other Disney Channel series and movies such as "Cory in the House," "That's So Raven," "Hannah Montana," and "Hannah Montana: The Movie".
Some of the "Jessie" series regulars to be cast are the following:
• Female, Caucasian, to play 12 years of age. Sarcastic tough personality.
• Male, Asian, to play 12 years of age. Slacker type personality.
• Male, Hispanic, to play 8 years of age. Ball of energy.
• Female, African American, to play 5. Adorable.
• Male 40's - 50's, ethnicity open. To play the butler.
• Male, 30's. To play the 4 adopted kids father.
• Female, 30's. To play the 4 adopted kids mother. She is a movie star.
The series will be taped in front of a live studio audience at Hollywood Center Studios. "Jessie" is slated to debut on Disney Channel in Fall 2011.
Principal Actor Casting
The show will star Debby Ryan playing the title role of a rural Texas teen who becomes an au pair to a rich couple with "difficult" kids. Debby Ryan is an amazingly talented 17 year old actor, singer, songwriter, and musician (plays piano and guitar) who started acting at the age of seven. Ryan has become one of the most admired and popular talents of her generation. She is an outstanding role model for young people, spending her spare time at Ronald McDonald House to help raise money for kids in need, and is involved in Disney's "Friends for Change" charity where kids can help choose how Disney will invest $1 million in environmental programs.
Pamela Eells is creator/writer/executive producer of "Jessie". Eells has been nominated twice for Primetime Emmy Awards and has served as writer and/or executive producer of such huge hit shows as "Family Matters," "Mad about You," "The Nanny," "Married with Children," "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody," "The Suite Life on Deck," and the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie "The Suite Life Movie".
Richard Correll will direct an unknown number of "Jessie" episodes. Correll has directed numerous episodes for series that Pamela Eells has executive produced, as well as writing and/or directing several other Disney Channel series and movies such as "Cory in the House," "That's So Raven," "Hannah Montana," and "Hannah Montana: The Movie".
Some of the "Jessie" series regulars to be cast are the following:
• Female, Caucasian, to play 12 years of age. Sarcastic tough personality.
• Male, Asian, to play 12 years of age. Slacker type personality.
• Male, Hispanic, to play 8 years of age. Ball of energy.
• Female, African American, to play 5. Adorable.
• Male 40's - 50's, ethnicity open. To play the butler.
• Male, 30's. To play the 4 adopted kids father.
• Female, 30's. To play the 4 adopted kids mother. She is a movie star.
The series will be taped in front of a live studio audience at Hollywood Center Studios. "Jessie" is slated to debut on Disney Channel in Fall 2011.
Principal Actor Casting
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No phone calls or personal drop-offs
Los Angeles:
Sheryl Levine
"Jessie" Casting
1040 N. Las Palmas Avenue
Building 2
Suite 205
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Story:
The series will center on a teen named Jessie (Debby Ryan) from rural Twitty, Texas who moves to New York City with aspirations of becoming a star, but winds up becoming a nanny to a very wealthy family with four adopted kids, one Caucasian, one Asian, one Hispanic, and one of African descent. Since the mother is a movie star, the parents are often gone working long hours and on location out of town, leaving Jessie to fend for herself - with the help of the butler of course.
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