Walk-On Role in New Feature Film & Meet-and-Greet with Star: Alysia Reiner (Fig on ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, Sunny on BETTER THINGS) in NYC!
Jump start your career, get valuable knowledge on a live set, learn from the best! Here's your chance to win a non-speaking walk-on role in a NEW FEATURE FILM with ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK star Alysia Reiner! Meet the actress on set for a quick introduction and photo-op and then join in a day of shooting an exciting scene from her new feature film directed by Brooke Berman. Shooting will start June 2022.
Alysia Reiner, Artist & Activist
Alysia Reiner is best known as "FIG" on all 7 seasons of ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, for which she won a SAG AWARD. Her 5th season as Sunny on Peabody Award-winning BETTER THINGS on F/X x HULU, as well as the first season of SHINING VALE with Courtney Cox and Greg Kinnear for STARZ, both just started streaming. And on the big screen, she just wrapped starring in Stampede Ventures' feature film, GOING PLACES, and THE INDEPENDENT with John Cena, Jodie Turner-Smith and Brian Cox. You may also know her as Kiki Rains on HBO's THE DEUCE, or from starring in an & producing the Sundance Film Festival hit EQUITY, or the Tribeca Film Festival favorite EGG, which is 100% fresh on ROTTEN TOMATOES. A few other filmed adventures include getting married in the Oscar winning feature film SIDEWAYS, getting naked in an Emmy Award winning episode of BROAD CITY, going head to head against Annalise on HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER, and the upcoming MS. MARVEL premiering on DISNEY + June 8. Alysia loves working as a change maker for women, is on the boards of the Geena Davis Institute for Gender Equality and The Earth Day Initiative, recently received a MUSE “MADE IN NY” AWARD from The Mayor's office, and is passionately committed to protecting the environment (see livariclothing.com!). @alysiareiner on instagram & twitter, www.alysiareiner.com.
Film Director Brooke Berman has written films for Natalie Portman, The Mark Gordon Company, Vox Films, Fugitive and Red Crown. Brooke adapted and directed the short UGGS FOR GAZA which premiered at the Aspen International ShortsFest where it won Audience Special Recognition. ALL SAINTS DAY, a short film Brooke wrote, directed by Will Frears, won Best Narrative Short at the Savannah Film Festival and screened at the Tribeca Film Festival. Brooke’s feature POLLY FREED was chosen to be part of New York Stage and Film’s Screenwriters Lab where it was mentored by Kyra Sedgewick, Zach Helm and Billy Goldberg and selected as part the MOME finance lab for female filmmakers and NYWIFT From Script to Pre Production lab. PF has made it to “second round” for Sundance Screenwriting Labs two years in a row and won Best Screenplay at the Toronto Independent Film Festival. Brooke’s memoir No Place Like Home (Random House, 2010) is now available on Audible. Her plays which include Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages), Smashing (The Play Company) and A Model City (Stacey Mindich Productions), have been developed and produced across the US and internationally at theaters including Steppenwolf, 2nd Stage, the Royal Court and Naked Angels. Brooke is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Barnard College where she majored in American Studies. More info: brookeberman.net. On Instagram @brookebermannyc.