Casting Call...

Have you ever pretended? Pretended to feel something you didn't? Pretended to be someone you aren't? Have you ever opportunistically seized a moment to enact a bit of subterfuge? Are you fascinated with the effects of your affectations? Was your portrayal so believable that those around you went on with matters, none the wiser? Or perhaps your performance was exposed, and your integrity was called into question. Have unsophisticated minds called you a liar? A deceitful con? Maybe you're an actor! If you are, and you live in the Colorado area (specifcially Denver / Boulder), we need you. Beginning in November, we begin shooting a full season of The Stuart Davis Show, a spiritual comedy with a rock 'n roll twist. (I may re-name this show The Stuart Davises in order to distinguish it from the previous format of The Stuart Davis Show which is all over YouTube, and is not indicative of what this show will be...) The entire season will be shot and edited in high-def, with broadcast-quality production at every step. I (stuart) will write, direct, and play three different versions of myself in the show. Each episode will clock in at between 20 and 30 minutes. It's based on real events in my life, flushed out with great liberty. Think Curb Your Enthusiasm meets Flight Of The Concords, but with a lot more spiritual content (the clashing and kissing of Buddhism, Christianity, Voodoo, and more) and a lot more sexual humor (if Tell Me You Love Me were funny...) and a lot of Rock 'N Roll (every episode features a video of an original Stu song within it, woven into the plot line. It's about trying to become more human, the clumsy integration of family, spiritual practice, sexuality, entertainment business, and the contradictory aspects inside each person. But why am I telling YOU? I need actors. Dozens of GOOD actors. You won't get paid much and it will be hard work. But it will be a LOT of FUN making this show, and it has a very promising future. The intention is to sell the show, but regardless of its fate with networks, our commitment is to have it seen by hundreds of thousands of people. There will be a full advertising campaign behind its launch. I am, by choice, circumventing a lengthy development process. Simply put, I saw two approaches available to me at this time; Option #1: Come up with a concept, write it out. Go to meetings with innumerable executives, pitch your show over and over. Hope somebody buys a pilot. Hope if they buy the pilot they even air it. Pray if they ever air it, they buy some episodes based on its ratings on one night (also hope market-demographic research supports you as a solid bet with their corporate situation). And cross your fingers that through this whole process your concept and vision remain remotely recognizable by the time it's broadcast. Option #2: Make the show. Make it great, put out everywhere in the World for FREE (YouTube, home site, plus dozens of other outlets), promote the shit out of it, and let the fan base find the show and express their support for it. Let the public TELL the networks they love the show. The work is done. You sell the show to a suitable network partner. I LOVE creating. I don't like spending years in development trying to persuade executives to let me make a show. I want to see a vision come to fruition, to give it feet in the real World. I don't want to wait for a 'green light'. Majeski Media has given this show the green light. So, Stuart Davis Brand and Majeski Media are doing something that we feel is unique and timely. We are launching our own series. We are making 12 broadcast-quality episodes (a full season) of The Stuart Davis Show. The show will air, one episode a week, for three full months, beginning this spring (at about the same time my new album comes out). I am attempting a slightly more integral approach to my comedy with this show. First, the three Stuarts occupy three basic altitudes, or developmental perspectives. The "Black" Stuart clone is at a pre-conventional center of gravity (Narcissistic, impulse-oriented, base-drives). The "White" Stuart clone is at a Conventional center of gravity (rule, order, mythic-membership). "Normal" Stuart has a tenuous hold on Post-Conventional (he can see all perspectives, but can also pick the pebbles from the rice, so to speak). Other characters represent left / right hemispheres of the brain. There is lots of play with states / stages, masculine / feminine, and types of intelligences, etc. However, my primary loyalty is just to make something funny, entertaining, and unique. Let's face it. How many spiritual comedies have there been? Isn't it time for one? Isn't it time for one that doesn't just make fun 'OF' spirituality? Why not celebrate the Kosmic Punch Line that is Awakening? On the one hand, all comedy is spiritual. On the other hand, where is the spiritual comedy? If you'd be interested in being involved in the show, send me a head shot and a one-page bio / point sheet about yourself. From these, I will get back to individuals I think may work for roles in the show. We will hold a reading the first week of November in Boulder to make sure the casting fits. I will send scripts out to anyone I think is a candidate for a role. You need Final Draft in order to read the scripts. Let's make funny! Stuart Davis