The upcoming series on the Oprah Winfrey Network otherwise known as OWN, “Queen Sugar” is looking for men for an upcoming shoot. The series is based on the novel of the same name and is being written and directed by Ava DuVernay. Variety describes the series as following the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon (playing by Rutina Wesley), the formidable journalist and activist from New Orleans, and Charley Bordelon (Dawn-Lyen Gardner), a modern woman, who, with her teenage daughter Micah, leaves her upscale apartment in Los Angeles and moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father – an 800-acre sugarcane farm.”
The show is being executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and the director Ava DuVernay. She developed the series for television and wrote its pilot episode. She is set to direct several episodes for the first season. Casting directors are looking for Latino Men to play Migrant Workers on the show. The shoot is set to take place on April 21st and April 25th. You will be called upon through July so you should have relatively open availability.
The shoot is taking place in Vacherie, Louisiana. If you are interested in being considered to be on the show, you should submit to queensugarcasting@gmail.com. In the email you should include your name, age, contact number, height, weight, city and state of residency and clear photos. They ask you put Migrant in the subject line of the email. This is an awesome chance for some ongoing work on a major network show by one of the world’s most well-known people in the world. Apply now for you chance to be on the show.