CASTING NOW
THE INCREDIBLE EDIBLE
Feature Film

IRIS BERENFELD

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 17-18 (18TPY)
• Marshall High’s valedictorian. Bright, ambitious, and strait-laced to a fault. Speaks three languages but can’t read a room. Academic perfectionist who’s sacrificed every teenage experience for grades and her mother’s approval.Minor fighting / stunts, a stunt coordinator will be present.

SUSAN BERENFELD

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 40s
• Vice Principal. Frazzled energy in a power suit. Single mother juggling career ambitions and helicopter parenting. Former valedictorian herself whose life got derailed by early marriage. Desperate to give Iris the opportunities she never had, even if it means controlling every aspect of her daughter’s life.

NORA

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 18
• Iris’s ride-or-die best friend. Hello Kitty meets theater goth. Gives zero effs but all the heart. The bridge between Iris’s uptight world and actual teenage fun. Protective, loyal and nursing a massive crush on Stephanie while trying to get Iris to loosen up before graduation.

OLIVIA

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 18
• Olivia is 18 going on 26. Marshall High’s queen bee in bandana tops and hot pink booty shorts. Popular and gorgeous but secretly struggling academically. Uses mean-girl tactics to hide insecurities about not graduating.

MS. MACELROY

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: Late 20s
• Gung-ho first-year English teacher. Secretly thinks she’s in an episode of Law & Order. Uses staplers like pistols and speaks in tactical operation language.

STEPHANIE

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 18
• (Nora’s love interest) Hot girl with unique, mysterious cool vibes.

HOT MOLLY

• Female
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 18
• Olivia’s BFF and partner in crime.

BEN

• Male
• Open ethnicity
• Age: 18
• Nora’s twin brother. Cute misguided rebel genius in a rocker T-shirt. Got a perfect SAT score but deliberately tanked his chemistry final so Iris could be valedictorian. Runs a secret edibles business while harboring long-suppressed feelings for his rival.

ZIGGY

• Male
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 18
• Hippie grunge stoner in a tie-dye hoodie. Young Matthew McConaughey energy with a goatee. The school’s dealer but also surprisingly deep—quotes Ralph Waldo Emerson and gives solid life advice. Enlisting in the Army post-graduation since he lacks grades and money for college.

COACH BRODY

• Male
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 40s
• Boyishly handsome with perpetual bedhead. Team jersey and baller shorts. New faculty member with awkward finger guns and dad-joke energy. Secretly an undercover officer investigating the school’s drug operation while dating the Vice Principal.

PRINCIPAL GIBBONS

• Male
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 50s
• “World’s Best Principal” T-shirt under an ill-fitted blazer. Obsessed with boats and retirement planning. Outwardly cheerful and hands-off, inwardly corrupt – bankrolling the school’s edibles operation to fund his dream yacht.

ROGAN HUDSON

• Male
• Open Ethnicity
• 17 (18TPY)
• Super cute Ken doll of Marshall High. Lacrosse-playing golden boy with symmetrical facial features. Seems perfect on the surface but reveals himself to be a shallow bro who sees girls as conquests, not people.

CLYDE JONES

• Male
• Open Ethnicity
• Age: 18
• Super hot high school guy, the silent badboy. NOTE: would be great if he knew how to ride a motorcycle.

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