Diversity-in-Casting
in
Lady Magdalene's

The Screen Actors Guild (SAG) provides incentives for Diversity-in-Casting to certain low-budget productions. Here is our breakdown for Diversity-in-Casting according to the SAG definitions.

A) A minimum of 50% of the total speaking roles are cast with Performers who are members of the following four (4) protected groups:

1) Women,

2) Senior Performers (sixty years (60) or older),

3) Performers with Disabilities, or

4) People of Color (Asian/Pacific Islander, Black, Latino/Hispanic and Native American Indian)

(Speaking Roles Only)

 

Total speaking roles in Lady Magdalene's (108-Minute Producer's Theatrical Cut): 31

Speaking roles for Women: 14

Speaking roles for Minorities: (Black/African-American/Latino/Hispanic): 7

Speaking roles for actors with Disabilities: 2 (that we know of)

Speaking roles for Seniors: 9

 

Percentage of female speaking roles: 45%

Percentage of African-American/Latino/Hispanic speaking roles: 23%

Percentage of Disability speaking roles: 6%

Percentage of Senior speaking roles: 29%

Total Percentage of Diversity speaking roles in Lady Magdalene's: 75%

 

Additional Breakdown:

 

Speaking roles with a character who is in 3 Diversity categories: 3

Speaking roles with a character who is in 2 Diversity categories: 7

 

Moving away from SAG's diversity categories into general diversity, Lady Magdalene's contains actors with speaking roles in the following additional categories:

 

Anglo-American

Canadian

Czech-Cherokee-Polish-American

Gay

Hungarian-Israeli

Irish-American

Italian-American

Jewish-American

Lebanese

Lebanese-Italian

Persian

Romanian-American

Russian-American

Scottish

Scottish-American