#flntv.roles

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- Network Executives: You're a suit, a money maker. You either rub shoulders with the 1% or you are the 1%. It's a dog eat dog world, there's no room for in-betweeners or outsiders. You're either old money or you're new money who works for the people with old money. Either way, you all work for or with The Network. Like clockwork, every midnight on Friday night that damn comedy show Friday Late Night comes on and people watch it. It gives the show ratings, it gives the show popularity and it gives the show money even though The Network takes a huge cut of Friday Late Night's money, especially what they draw in after each season ends. You've been counting your cash no matter how high or low it stacks but The Network prefers it to be high and you do too. You and all the other Executives have gotten word that The Network might kill Friday Late Night if their ratings don't go up. They don't want to keep investing in a money pit and neither do you, you hate losing money no matter how much of it you already have. So, you've been meeting with the creator of Friday Late Night and his spouse and they've both been schmoozing you and the other Executives like usual. You weren't really listening until they brought up that they're having a documentary made, some documentary they swear will save their show. You don't believe in their dreams, you think they're not only wasting their time but you think they're wasting your time as well... and everyone knows that time is money. The clock is ticking and there's no telling when you and the other Executives will be picking up the phone and telling everyone at Friday Late Night to pack up and go home for good.

(0 out 10 Executive roles available. Any gender, must be 50+, FC suggestions: Jeff Goldblum, Gugu Mbatha Raw, Giancarlo Esposito, Michelle Yeoh, Idris Elba, Stanley Tucci, Pedro Pascal, Demi Moore, Morris Chestnut, Salma Hayek, Walton Goggins, any faceclaim!)

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- The Ace of Spades: Friday Late Night is his baby, his creation, his brainchild. He's like a father figure to everyone there, but that only gets him so far. The network executives lately have been threatening to pull the plug on Friday Late Night if ratings don't go up in the upcoming third season. He's extremely stressed out and in order to try to get ratings up for the anticipated third season, he's hired a documentary crew to film a behind the scenes look at Friday Late Night called Friday Late Night TV, a raw, gritty, vulgar and unedited look behind the scenes of Friday Late Night. He knows that not everyone will like cameras in their faces when they're not on stage but he doesn't care, because at this point he's desperate for his show to stay afloat. He also hasn't told the cast or crew about the show's financial issues, the only one who knows is his financial advisor who is also his assistant who is also his spouse, The Ace of Hearts. The Ace of Spades has a lot to deal with. It's no wonder he hasn't yet collapsed from exhaustion.

(Must be a cisman in his 60s. FC suggestions: Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt, Steve Buscemi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Willem Dafoe)

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- The Ace of Hearts: Being married to the creator of Friday Late Night is no easy feat. Marriage to them is like a rollercoaster with no exit. A lot is on the line, not just their love for The Ace of Spades, but their money, their livelihood, their future. They don't want to see the show sink like the Titanic, but they don't know if it can stay afloat due to running recent numbers and seeing that they're really close to being in debt which as their husband's financial advisor and assistant, it freaks them out. They're a supporting person when it comes to the cast and crew, they're beloved by everyone who works there and they have no issue schmoozing network executives to give them more money, but it all is starting to make them feel bad because other than the network executives and The Ace of Spades, they're the only one who knows about how bad the show is really doing and lately it's been taking a huge toll on them, to the point where they've been thinking about walking away from the show as a whole.

(Can be any gender, in their 60s. FC suggestions: Angela Bassett, Marisa Tomei, Meryl Streep, Brendan Gleeson, Denzel Washington, Don Cheadle)

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Non-Skeleton Crew

- Writers: They're the backbone of Friday Late Night. They're basically trapped in the writers room all the time writing material for the cast to perform for the show. They say that writers day for Friday Night's show is always on Monday but that's a lie, really the writers are sometimes writing comedy sketches until the very last second that the show airs at midnight on Friday nights. The writers of the coveted writers room are all wacky and quirky and are of different age groups and all have different life experiences. Some are brand new at writing comedy sketches while others have been writing comedy sketches since at least the 1970s. Disagreements on different comedic bits happen all the time in the writers room and if you peek your head into their offices when you hear yelling, you just might catch a glimpse of a fight breaking out between older or younger writers or the beginnings of a younger writer revolt against older writers. It's like a battleground in the writers room and the only time that they're not all at each other's throats is either on the off season or after the filming of a holiday special to throw a holiday party and celebrate finally getting some days off. Lately they've expressed as a group how against the documentary they are, some hate the idea of it for various different reasons, while others don't mind it but one thing they can all agree on is that with the documentary cameras rolling in their offices, they definitely need more office space because of how cramped the writers room has gotten.

(11 out of 12 sketch writer roles available. Any gender, must be 25+, FC suggestions: Da' Vine Joy Randolph, Ayo Edebiri, Rachel Sennott, Cillian Murphy, Lewis Tan, Andrew Garfield, Stephanie Beatriz, Danny Devito, Howard Charles, Natasha Lyonne, Angela Sarafyan, any faceclaim!)

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- Costumers, Makeup Artists and Hairstylists: They come from all different walks of life. Some had dreams of exercising their craft on Broadway stars while others simply needed a job to pay the bills. Some also have been doing their jobs in the beauty, hair or costume industry for a very very long time and simply didn't want to retire. They are the polar opposite of the writers, they all get along for the most part because they all have their own individual roles instead of contributing to the same thing. From bright to dull colored fabrics with different sewing patterns, painted faces to minimal makeup and crazy hairstyles to modest hairstyles or wigs, this department at Friday Late Night can do it all and more... they just wish that the documentary crew would film their art a bit more.

(0 out of 12 roles available. Any gender, must be 25+. FC suggestions: Jessica Alba, Hunter Schafer, Issa Rae, Jennifer Coolidge, Jung Hoyeon, Jacob Elordi, Jharrel Jerome, Riz Ahmed, Taye Diggs, Harris Dickinson, any faceclaim!)

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- The Band: You're looking for your big break and at first you thought you found it in the form of being the main band for Friday Late Night but then you started hearing rumors that the last five bands before yours got fired because of... well you're not sure why they got fired, but the fact the show has already gone through five bands and is only on it's third season is a bit concerning, but you and the band need the money. You witness chaos Friday night after Friday night and all you can think is that you thought musicians were divas... but comedians are way worse. The filming of the documentary has started and you and the band are excited because it'll be giving your music exposure. It's all make or break for the band because you're pretty sure if you don't do damn good for the upcoming third season of the show, then you're pretty sure you'll be out of an important gig and back playing small gigs in the streets of New York like you and the band were doing previously.

(Lead singer - Open, Backup singer - Open, Guitarist - Open, Bassist - Open, Drummer - Open, Keyboardist - Open. Any gender, 25+, any faceclaim!)

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- The Fans & The Groupies: Some people think that you have to be pretty unhinged to be a fan of Friday Late Night due to how crazy their comedy is. But hey, it makes you laugh every Friday night and you thoroughly enjoy it. Some fans have managed to get tickets to see the show live in person while others watch from home. Some of the fans who watch it live are just glad to experience it from up close, while others take a step further and actively seek out members of the cast to sleep with in order to brag to their friends that they slept with a Friday Late Night cast member. Those fans are Friday Late Night groupies. Some of them get lucky and sleep with cast members but other times they're not so lucky and just settle to sleep with a crew member, a band member or a fellow fan. Either way, the fan base and the groupies are the lifeline of Friday Late Night and are the reason why it even exists.

(Infinite number of fan and groupie roles available. Any gender. Must be 25+. Any faceclaim.)

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