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Dissension

Contact Email Address
mi.seagrave@student.nyfa.edu
Campus
Project Dates
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Positions to fill
Actor/Actress
Project Description

In search of:

- Young black woman (early-mid 20s)

- Young black or mixed woman (early 20s)

*Lunch provided, actors credited*

Logline: A day in the life of 18 year old Kaya and her single mom, Sasha, as they navigate their very different ways of looking at the world.

Genre: Drama

Excerpt from the script:

The door swings open before she finishes her sentence. Kaya’s MOM, Sasha, walks through the door and over to her bed, and without a word, snatches the blankets off of her. Kaya looks at her in shock.

 

KAYA

Why would you do that?

 

MOM

Watch your mouth. What time is it?

 

Kaya turns over her pillows and grabs her phone to see the time: 8:30. Kaya looks back at her mom.

 

KAYA

I’m getting up.

 

MOM

Then get up.

 

KAYA

I am.

 

MOM

Kaya, you have one more time to talk to me like that before you find your own way to school. Would you rather take the bus?

 

Kaya makes a show of stretching and jumping out of bed. Once up, she stares coldly at her mother.