Seeking strong ensemble cast of Los Angeles

First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033

Roles:

[MARIA]
Female-bilingual-Chicana, 50+, to play 50-60 years old. MARIA retired from an important and demanding high-level administrative job to fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer. However, MARIA has become a 24/7 caregiver for her mother, LUZ, who suffers from dementia. Maria’s obsession with caring for her mother and abandonment of herself and her husband has resulted in the separation in her marriage and the deterioration of her emotional and physical self.

[LUZ]
Female-bilingual-Mexican, 70+, to play an 80–90-year-old woman who suffers from dementia. LUZ was an independent widow until she became unable to care for herself. She now lives with her daughter, MARIA.

[VANESSA]
Female-bilingual-Chicana, 18+, to play a 20–24-year-old college student. Vanessa is the daughter of MARIA and granddaughter of LUZ. VANESSA has been away to college and is back home for the Summer and surprised to see the changes at home but mostly the transformation on her mother, MARIA, and her parents’ situation.

[LA RED]
Latina, 40+, fluent in Spanglish to play a gregarious red headed Chicana and former pachuca from Boyle Heights in her 70’s. Raised a daughter as a dedicated single mother and retired from working at the Post Office for 30 years. Now a resident of an Assisted Living facility she is forced to face her nemesis, the woman who changed the trajectory of her life.

[LUPITA]
Latina, 40+, fluent in Spanish to play a very religious well-groomed Chicana and former high-end pachuca in her late 70’s who was raised in Montebello. Widow with several children, she raised in the middle-class neighborhood of Downey with her husband, a former saxophonist for an East Los Angeles explosion sound band from the 1960’s, turned line worker in the aerospace industry. She’s a temporary new arrival at an Assisted Living facility that she resents. She not only drudges having to make new friends but will have to come face to face with the woman who her dead husband betrayed over 50 years ago.

[MRS. SANCHEZ]
Latina, 40+, fluent in Spanglish to play a Sexy Chicana and former pachuca grandma in her late 70’s, who grew up In East L.A.. She’s a resident of an Assisted Living facility, sharp, quick witted and has not lost her appetite for sex as she encourages her friend to pursue a relationship with a new male resident.

[MRS. RAMIREZ]
Latina, 40+, fluent in Spanglish to play an easy going and malleable Chicana and former pachuca grandma in her late 70’s who grew up in Boyle Heights and must now play peacekeeper between two women who are unfolding the resentments of their pasts.

[JASMINE]
Latina, 20+ to play a young streetwise Chola in her late 20’s, Nursing Assistant at the Assisted Living facility. Resident of Boyle Heights, she’s caring, rough around the edges, loves and has a strong relationship with the Seniors she in charge of but has a low level for BS. Using her street smarts she has to keep two fighting female residents from not only breaking a hip but killing each other during heated fights, resulting in her getting a lesson on how life was like for the women 50 years ago and the limited choices they had.

[PAULINE]
Latina, 25+ to play Lupita’s daughter, an upper middle-class Chicana professional in her 30s-40’s. She’s her mother’s caretaker and must now temporarily place her in an Assisted Living facility while she takes a month-long tour of Europe. The visit to the facility with her mother tests her positivity, patience and guilt.

[EDDIE]
Latino, 40+ to play a polite, well-groomed Chicano and former pachuco in his 70’s who grew up in East L.A. His good looks and charm not only reignites the female residents sensuality but causes one of the facility’s biggest fights.

[MR. MONTES]
Latino, 25+ to play a Gay Chicano in his 50’s. Administrator of an Assisted Living facility who enjoys the challenges of working with Seniors and is on the ready to address the challenges with a sense of humor and great care.

[SONIA]
Female, late 30’s. Ambitious. Cuban and speaks with a Cuban accent. She is the owner of ‘La Tempestad’ a patio bar. She is currently in a relationship with Marco. Sonia’s feelings of loneliness is compounded amidst menopausal symptoms when she must choose between her dream or her conservative boyfriend’s demands of a traditional marriage. Sonia is friends with both Terry and Anna.

[MARCO]
Male. Sonia’s boyfriend. Cuban American, mid 30’s. He is handsome, well dressed, and a bon vivant; he is suave, smooth and in control. His charm and good looks allow him to circumvent personal growth and responsibility. Marco is invested in Sonia’s success and wants to impregnate Sonia to continue to live a life of leisure. Disinterested in working, he takes advantage of Sonia’s rising success. He is having a sexual relationship with Diana, Terry’s friend.

[TERRY]
Female. A good looking, sexy, sassy, sarcastic, outspoken mid 40’s Latina. She is vain and flirtatious, confidant and savvy. She is a four-time ex-divorcee. Terry has understood that relationships do not translate to happiness. Terry enjoys drinking and using substances but willfully ignores this use. Terry is a long-time friend of Anna.

[ANNA]
Female. A professional Latina, mid 40’s, attractive. Anna is guileless and gullible. A widow, Anna is a romantic and is searching for love. She likes to think of herself as ‘politically correct’. She enjoys drinking and smoking but is discreet about her habits.

[DIANE]
Female. Sophisticated, upper-class, 50ish. Good looking and well dressed. Liberated in her lifestyle and opinions. Very articulate. Diana is an ‘Americanized’ Latina. She is confident and uninhibited.

[RAUL]
Male. La Tempestad Patio Bar ‘server’. Raul is Mexican, mid 20’s, handsome, muscular and sexually appealing. He is aware of his effect on women and pursues this interest. Raul’s secretly dreams of becoming a boxer. He is Spanish-speaking dominant and speaks English with a thick accent.