We are scripted and casting 🎈
The Thief is now casting its second season.
In this Heist Report
We are scripted and casting 🎈
Characters, by the numbers
Casting
Scripts 👏 done
Over the last few months, I finished* and published the next eight scripts that will makeup this next season. I had prematurely announced I’d finished them months prior, but during a reread after a breather I decided they relied on a narrator too much.
Actual Plays assume some degree of narration, but I had a lot of fun weaving the game Sisi and I played in and out of the world.
I am pretty happy with how the scripts shaped-up. This season, I’m able to give actors the whole shebang rather than last season’s totally out-of-context dialogue, which should help contextualize scenes.
It even looks like a script, which, as a hobbyist, scratches an itch.
Characters, by the numbers
Nathan Lunsford (listen to The Storage Papers) gave me a script-as-spreadsheet template** to help me estimate The Thief’s voice-acting budget by calculating lines and words per character.
Here is how season two shapes up. Squint to avoid the smallest of spoilers.
The script “emerged” in Descript, but I moved and reformatted it into a word document not to only improve the cast’s experience, but with the ulterior motive to publish the script through Amazon so The Thief can be published as an Audible audiobook.
But, the spreadsheet-script is really pretty elegant. My screenshot below doesn’t do it justice I murdered its elegant formatting, but you can see the programmatic beauty.
Casting
The Thief is casting, internally. Friends and supporting members of the fyrd are the first in line for paid roles. I went absolutely 👏 ham on characters who help make the world feel immersible, and I think it’s a really fun opportunity to collaborate with cool aspiring actors.
If we exhaust the pool, I’ll reach out to you all, first - Symphony’s whisper network.
Endnotes
* Well, “finished” in scare quotes.
** I’ll ask to share.
Furbelow
The Thief is produced by the fyrd: our thegns Trei Brundrett, Andy McLellan, Nandi K., and Amzylee; spear-throwers: Rebekah Monson, Andy Priestner, Mike Atchley, Patrick Myers, and Cordelia Black.
You can join the Fyrd and help me make more stories on Substack or Patreon.
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