MARGARET HLUSKO:
Age 30-40. Pretty face but years of age and stress have taken their toll. Trying hard to understand and help her son, but can’t seem to reach him. Cries in the bathroom sometimes, but pulls it together for the sake of her family.

STORY: Kids and Their Toys is a fantastical tale of a 13 year old boy who must chose his destiny after savagely beating up the school bully, navigating through erratic fantasies as he adapts to his new life. He can either escape into childlike fantasies of toys and dreams or grow up and face society.

Dianne: Female / 25-30 Years. / Any Ethnicity. Donald’s lawyer, she is a very professional woman in her late 20’s/Early 30’s. She seems refined as though her every thought and action is well planned out. She is slowly becoming unnerved by Donald’s increasingly bizarre behavior.

Lucia: Female / 18-24 Years. / Any Ethnicity. Donald’s Maid/Cook, she is streetwise but somewhat naive.

STORY LINE: The Suffering is a Gothic Horror Film. It deals with revenge, family guilt, and mental breakdown. The film concerns a young man named Robert who visits a friend of his (Donald) in the country. Upon his arrival, Robert learns of Donald’s family curse, which might be powerful enough to destroy them both.

Holly: late 20’s early 30’s, pretty upper-east side wife / lady who lunches, doesn’t work, drinks too much, is having an affair with her therapist.

Story: An upper-east side housewife must tell her husband that she is cheating on him with her shrink.

Mid 30’s. homicide detective, jaded, seen things no human should see

Mid 30’s. Co-owner of Settig & Lee Investigators. Physically fit, Compassionate yet has a hard exterior. A dedicated private investigator who takes on a missing child case to find an 8 yr. old girl, Melina Alvarez, and becomes interested in Sara Kalkin, the woman who approaches him to find her. Has flashbacks of his wife Leila and son Bryce. Struggles to come to terms that he is dying. LEAD

Caroline Cushing / Make-up Lady:
Female. Caroline Cushing: Mid - late 20s, British. Very beautiful, self-confident, laid-back, highly intelligent, sexy. Good British accent.

STORY: A heartless children’s book writer struggles to bring heart to his story of the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz when he loses himself in his story and consumes the heart of his successful writer/brother so that he can feel and bring heart to himself and his story, but when he feels all he feels is guilt and so he no longer wants to feel.

Susan - 30 to 35, attractive, warm, sensual, comic, heartfelt

Abby - late 20s to early 30s, wife who gets raped while husband is in jail, overall has a playful and rebellious character, but with a shy side, lead

Patrice - 30s, friend, co-worker, fun-loving and compassionate, supporting role

Pauline - 28-40, physically beautiful, very expressive, graceful, great voice, sexy, Femme Fatale, comfortable with her body, no inhibitions, the devil’s wife, disturbing, tried to kill herself and failed, face partly injured (wears a bandage), straightforward, silent, mysterious, LEAD.