Eulogy Reader (Day Player)

Company

The New School
Sam McFarland, director.

Seeking

Male, ages 40-64, All Ethnicities

Role Description

Eulogy Reader: (Day Player) a small, but vital character who first causes the buffering of the main actor, the character's most important aspect is a speech impediment he has had his whole life, and which worsens during public speech, reads a poem at an old friend's funeral, resulting in a delivery that is melancholic with a stutter.

Production Description

Sam McFarland (dir.) is casting "Buffering," a New School senior thesis film about a man who goes back home for his father's funeral and begins to have "buffering" issues in his real life, i.e. at certain points people freeze in place, become grayed out, and get a spinning loading circle on their forehead. The filmmaker describes the project as "a dark romantic comedy that speaks to a growing problem of my generation."