The Birthday Song
New Orleans, Louisiana | Film Short
Drama
THE BIRTHDAY SONG is an intimate remembering of Micah’s 13th birthday on the eve of Hurricane Katrina. Rooted in personal memory, this film captures the overlooked intimacy of lived experience before disaster struck—rehumanizing a widely-documented crisis through the eyes of a young Black girl.
The Birthday Song
New Orleans, Louisiana | Film Short
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THE BIRTHDAY SONG is an intimate remembering of Micah’s 13th birthday on the eve of Hurricane Katrina. Rooted in personal memory, this film captures the overlooked intimacy of lived experience before disaster struck—rehumanizing a widely-documented crisis through the eyes of a young Black girl.
About The Project
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Mission Statement
The Story
The Birthday Song follows Micah on her 13th birthday—the day she learns a Category 5 hurricane is set to make landfall in her city in less than 48 hours. In the midst of a lively Black family birthday gathering, as Micah wrestles with her own set of adolescent issues, a storm brews in the gulf. Unbeknownst to her, this storm will shape American history—and change the course of her entire life. While The Birthday Song is a narrative film, its story is rooted in true events reconstructed from personal memory, and the film itself incorporates archival elements from 2005.
This is a story I’ve told for as long as I can remember. It remains etched in my memory as a pivotal point in my life—my 13th birthday, when Hurricane Katrina hit and changed life as I knew it. I wrote The Birthday Song through the eyes of my kid self, who remembers how it felt in the quiet before the storm—the everyday highs and lows before the disaster became our story. In writing this script, I’m telling a different story—one that sees the fullness of our lives before Katrina, capturing the intangible loss of not only our homes, but the lives we lived within them.
Megan ‘Megz’ Trufant Tillman
Writer | Co-Director
Megan ‘Megz’ Trufant Tillman on her 13th birthday in New Orleans, August 26, 2005.
The Birthday Song lends a specific voice to a story the world knows, portraying Katrina through an intimate lens—through the eyes of a young Black girl who never made the headlines. While most Katrina stories focus on the aftermath, The Birthday Song tells the story of the-calm-before-the-storm. Capturing the ordinariness of New Orleanians’ lives before Katrina—what it felt like the day before, when everything felt normal—until it didn’t.
The film carefully rebuilds from memory—using photos from personal archives as inspiration—the New Orleans-circa-2005 world that Micah and her family inhabit—its textures, specificity, and style. Before Katrina...
The tone of this film is intimate, slow burn, fly-on-the-wall. The camera is an observer, a witness to life—closely studying people and place, with a patient gaze that slowly reveals our characters’ interiority. With a lush, rich, tender cinematic palette, The Birthday Song shows the beauty of Micah’s world—while also emphasizing all that she stands to lose in the midst of this transition.
Audio pulled from archival news clips functions as an immersive tool, building tension and dropping the audience into the urgency of the evacuation period, while camcorder home video POV references the act of personal archiving and reflects its central paradox—immortalizing memories, while simultaneously emphasizing their impermanence.
Music is a signature element of our storytelling. The Birthday Song will feature an original score conceptualized and composed by Megan Trufant Tillman, whose twin roles as musician and filmmaker are always working in concert (Tillman also composed original scores for our previous two films, little trumpet and Newbies). The intentional musical soundscape will reinforce the film's rhythmic and poetic voice, building a sonic language that shapes how the viewer feels for and connects to our characters, their worlds, and their emotional arcs. While our scores and original music always evolve throughout the process, we always start with a vibe—and we let that inspiration take us to new and imaginative sonic worlds. Check out a sneak peek of our inspo playlist:
Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence are an award-winning filmmaking duo hailing from New Orleans and Honolulu known as FLYPAPER. Their distinctive voice draws on their backgrounds in music and theater to compose tender cinematic portraits that explore the vast inner worlds of subjects who are rarely seen on screen. Their films are distinguished by lyrical visual language, intimate character portraiture, and original scores conceptualized and composed by Tillman. Their film Newbies premiered at SXSW 2025, where it received the Texas Short Competition Special Jury Award. Their film little trumpet (2022) received multiple jury awards, including Best Louisiana Short at the New Orleans Film Festival. Their next film, The Birthday Song, was selected as the winning project at the 2024 Indie Memphis Black Creators Forum Pitch Rally and the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival's South Pitch competition.
We're shooting The Birthday Song in early October on location in New Orleans. Now through the end of September, we’ll be casting, bringing on board department heads and crew (prioritizing BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ talent), location scouting, continuing archival research, building our visual language and shot list, and securing production equipment. In October, we’ll move into prep and principal photography—a 4-day shoot in New Orleans. Throughout the rest of 2025, we’ll be in post-production (editing, color correction, original score recording, and sound design), putting us on track for a 2026 release. Once the film is completed, we'll submit it to film festivals and host film screenings where you, our audience and supporters, can view the finished film!
Directors Megz + Kimiko and DP Ray Huang on the set of their film Newbies.
- $20K is our absolute minimum goal to go into production. This would help us cover cast, crew, production equipment, locations, costumes, production design, and food for our cast and crew.
- If we hit $20k, we enter our 1st stretch goal of $30K. This would allow us to successfully cover our full 4-day shoot.
- If we exceed our 1st stretch goal, we will enter our 2nd stretch goal of $40K. These additional funds would help us cover the cost of post-production: editing, color correction, sound mixing, music, and score.
- If we enter our final stretch goal of $40K plus, we’ll be able to look to the future! These additional funds would help us cover film festival submission fees, poster design, marketing, film festival travel, and much more!
Your donations, whether big or small, empower us to make this film—and help us get this powerful story on screen!
*All images and collage images were sourced from personal archives, family and friends, Sthaddeus "Polo Silk" Terrell, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Fan Blog, and ShotDeck. All clips from video sourced from 'little trumpet' directed by Megan Trufant Tillman. Photo of FLYPAPER by Justin D. Heron.*
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Cast & Crew
Costs $10,000
Our amazing cast and crew are the heart and soul of this production. Help us pay them!
Production Equipment
Costs $3,500
Help us rent camera and lighting equipment for our production!
Original Score
Costs $1,500
Writer & Co-Director Megan Trufant Tillman will compose our original score. Help us pay for musicians, studio, and mixing & mastering!
Locations
Costs $1,500
Help us rent locations for our shoot—including Micah’s home and school!
Period Costumes & Production Design
Costs $1,500
Help us take it back to 2005 through period authentic costumes, production design, and props!
Archival Footage Licensing
Costs $1,500
Our film includes archival news clips from the 2005 evacuation period. Help us pay to license this archival footage!
Food for Cast & Crew
Costs $500
Our hungry cast and crew need to eat during long shoot days. Help us feed them!
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About This Team
Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence (FLYPAPER) | Directors
Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence are a filmmaking duo hailing from New Orleans and Honolulu known as FLYPAPER. Their distinctive voice draws on their backgrounds in music and theater to compose tender cinematic portraits that explore the vast inner worlds of subjects who are rarely seen on screen. Their film NEWBIES premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it received the Texas Short Competition Special Jury Award. The duo also recently debuted PERMANENT (2025), a short documentary film on the visionary American painter Noah Davis, as part of the traveling exhibition NOAH DAVIS at the Barbican Centre in London and the Hammer Museum in LA. Their short film little trumpet (2022) has won jury awards for Best Louisiana Short (New Orleans Film Festival), Best Narrative Short (Bushwick Film Festival), Best Cinematography (Tacoma Film Festival), and Best African-American Directed Short (Phoenix Film Festival). The duo is currently preparing to shoot their next short film, THE BIRTHDAY SONG, which was selected as the winning project at both the 2024 Indie Memphis Black Creators Forum Pitch Rally and the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival's South Pitch competition.
Lauren Domino | Executive Producer
Lauren Domino is a writer and a Peabody, PGA, and Grammy award winning producer with a focus on the healing power of film. Her work as a producer includes the Academy Award nominated TIME (Amazon Studios), and BAFTA and Academy Shortlisted AMERICAN SYMPHONY (Netflix), as well as ALONE, THE EARTH IS HUMMING, BLACK FOLK DON’T, LIKE, and AMERICA. She has produced branded content and live events for The New Yorker, Elle Magazine, The Oscars, Microsoft, and Essence Festival. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Doc Branch, Producers Guild of America, The Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Writers Guild of America.
Hello Benjamin Films | Producers
Hello Benjamin Films is an artist driven company that specializes in bold, uncommon, and unapologetic fiction & non-fiction films. Their projects have garnered support from high profile institutions such as Ford Foundation JustFilms, Sundance Documentary Fund, Women In Film, Field of Vision, and TIFF’s inaugural K-Story Fund. Their most recent films are currently making waves on the festival circuit, premiering at renowned festivals like the International Film Festival Rotterdam and BlackStar.
Ray Huang | Cinematographer
Los Angeles-based cinematographer Ray Huang emerged from the dynamic cultural melting pot of the Lower East Side, New York City. Steeped in street culture & the fine arts from an early age, he frequently draws inspiration by juxtaposing the two in the attempt to find truth in his photography. Huang’s narrative work has been featured in film festivals around the world, including Sundance, TIFF, Venice, SXSW, & Tribeca. His breakthrough feature film SNAKEHEAD is now streaming on Hulu, and his work on the Emmy-winning mini series RACE: BUBBA WALLACE is now streaming on Netflix. His commercial work includes clients Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Hyundai, Burger King, Toyota, Peloton, AT&T, SAP, & NFL films. Huang has also worked with renowned musical artists including U2, Metallica, Nas, 2Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, The Killers, Miguel, & Maluma. His feature work includes the blockbuster feature film UNSPOKEN for CMC Pictures, A GREAT DIVIDE starring Ken Jeong, which tackles the complexity of anti-Asian American racism in the American heartland, and ONCE AGAIN (FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME) from acclaimed writer/director Boaz Yakin. Huang also recently shot Megan Trufant Tillman’s award-winning short little trumpet, and Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence’s SXSW award-winning short NEWBIES.
Carol Hee Kim | Production Designer
Carol Hee Kim is a Korean-American Production Designer for film and fine art projects. She earned her BFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University and began her career working in the art world in New York. She immersed herself in studio production by working for contemporary artist Jeff Koons, specializing in project management, object research, and color development for large-scale sculptures and installations. She now translates her creative skills to film design and has served as Production Designer on a range of projects, including Katarina Zhu’s feature BUNNYLOVR (Sundance 2025), Kit Zauhar's feature THIS CLOSENESS, Emily Cohn's episodic short THIS REALLY HAPPENED, musician Berhana's visual album The Nomad's Dream, and Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence’s SXSW award-winning short NEWBIES. Carol is proud to collaborate with a diverse group of talented artists, makers and builders.
Erica A. Hart | Casting Director
Erica A. Hart, CSA was born and raised in Washington, DC, and studied film and television at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She started at ABC Primetime Casting and then moved to independent casting. TV/Streaming: BLACK MIRROR (SEASON 6 US CASTING), A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW (SEASON 4), THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE, JODIE, BUST DOWN, THE GIRLS ON THE BUS, THE EQUALIZER (SEASON 4 & SEASON 5), LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, and SURVIVAL OF THE THICKEST (SEASON 2). Broadway: CHICKEN & BISCUITS, PASS OVER, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING. Film (Selected): WE STRANGERS (SXSW), VEO VEO A FAMILY (TRIBECA), THE SURROGATE (SXSW), LAPSIS (SXSW), CUPIDS (TRIBECA), and NATIVES (SXSW). OFF-BROADWAY: HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF (NYTW), SATURDAY CHURCH (NYTW), SCARLETT DREAMS (MIDNIGHT THEATRICALS). Regional: EL COQUI (LONG WHARF THEATRE). Music Videos: FIGHT FOR YOU (H.E.R. - OSCAR WINNING SONG) and GET SOME (GHOSTED - PREMIERED AT SXSW). Erica is an Artios award winner, is on the Board of the Casting Society, is a member of the TV Academy, and is an educator at different colleges and universities.
Brent Caballero | Casting Director
Brent Caballero, CSA brings more than 15 years of experience in the film and TV industry to his regional casting work in Louisiana. Select credits include location casting on THE IRON CLAW, BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC, PITCH PERFECT 2, THE MAZE RUNNER, BABY DRIVER, and BAYWATCH, and extras casting on SINNERS, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, PITCH PERFECT, KINDS OF KINDNESS, C’MON C’MON, HIT MAN, I’M A VIRGO, QUIZ LADY, QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, TRUE DETECTIVE, and TREME.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
The Birthday Song follows Micah on her 13th birthday—the day she learns a Category 5 hurricane is set to make landfall in her city in less than 48 hours. In the midst of a lively Black family birthday gathering, as Micah wrestles with her own set of adolescent issues, a storm brews in the gulf. Unbeknownst to her, this storm will shape American history—and change the course of her entire life. While The Birthday Song is a narrative film, its story is rooted in true events reconstructed from personal memory, and the film itself incorporates archival elements from 2005.
This is a story I’ve told for as long as I can remember. It remains etched in my memory as a pivotal point in my life—my 13th birthday, when Hurricane Katrina hit and changed life as I knew it. I wrote The Birthday Song through the eyes of my kid self, who remembers how it felt in the quiet before the storm—the everyday highs and lows before the disaster became our story. In writing this script, I’m telling a different story—one that sees the fullness of our lives before Katrina, capturing the intangible loss of not only our homes, but the lives we lived within them.
Megan ‘Megz’ Trufant Tillman
Writer | Co-Director
Megan ‘Megz’ Trufant Tillman on her 13th birthday in New Orleans, August 26, 2005.
The Birthday Song lends a specific voice to a story the world knows, portraying Katrina through an intimate lens—through the eyes of a young Black girl who never made the headlines. While most Katrina stories focus on the aftermath, The Birthday Song tells the story of the-calm-before-the-storm. Capturing the ordinariness of New Orleanians’ lives before Katrina—what it felt like the day before, when everything felt normal—until it didn’t.
The film carefully rebuilds from memory—using photos from personal archives as inspiration—the New Orleans-circa-2005 world that Micah and her family inhabit—its textures, specificity, and style. Before Katrina...
The tone of this film is intimate, slow burn, fly-on-the-wall. The camera is an observer, a witness to life—closely studying people and place, with a patient gaze that slowly reveals our characters’ interiority. With a lush, rich, tender cinematic palette, The Birthday Song shows the beauty of Micah’s world—while also emphasizing all that she stands to lose in the midst of this transition.
Audio pulled from archival news clips functions as an immersive tool, building tension and dropping the audience into the urgency of the evacuation period, while camcorder home video POV references the act of personal archiving and reflects its central paradox—immortalizing memories, while simultaneously emphasizing their impermanence.
Music is a signature element of our storytelling. The Birthday Song will feature an original score conceptualized and composed by Megan Trufant Tillman, whose twin roles as musician and filmmaker are always working in concert (Tillman also composed original scores for our previous two films, little trumpet and Newbies). The intentional musical soundscape will reinforce the film's rhythmic and poetic voice, building a sonic language that shapes how the viewer feels for and connects to our characters, their worlds, and their emotional arcs. While our scores and original music always evolve throughout the process, we always start with a vibe—and we let that inspiration take us to new and imaginative sonic worlds. Check out a sneak peek of our inspo playlist:
Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence are an award-winning filmmaking duo hailing from New Orleans and Honolulu known as FLYPAPER. Their distinctive voice draws on their backgrounds in music and theater to compose tender cinematic portraits that explore the vast inner worlds of subjects who are rarely seen on screen. Their films are distinguished by lyrical visual language, intimate character portraiture, and original scores conceptualized and composed by Tillman. Their film Newbies premiered at SXSW 2025, where it received the Texas Short Competition Special Jury Award. Their film little trumpet (2022) received multiple jury awards, including Best Louisiana Short at the New Orleans Film Festival. Their next film, The Birthday Song, was selected as the winning project at the 2024 Indie Memphis Black Creators Forum Pitch Rally and the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival's South Pitch competition.
We're shooting The Birthday Song in early October on location in New Orleans. Now through the end of September, we’ll be casting, bringing on board department heads and crew (prioritizing BIPOC, women, and LGBTQ+ talent), location scouting, continuing archival research, building our visual language and shot list, and securing production equipment. In October, we’ll move into prep and principal photography—a 4-day shoot in New Orleans. Throughout the rest of 2025, we’ll be in post-production (editing, color correction, original score recording, and sound design), putting us on track for a 2026 release. Once the film is completed, we'll submit it to film festivals and host film screenings where you, our audience and supporters, can view the finished film!
Directors Megz + Kimiko and DP Ray Huang on the set of their film Newbies.
- $20K is our absolute minimum goal to go into production. This would help us cover cast, crew, production equipment, locations, costumes, production design, and food for our cast and crew.
- If we hit $20k, we enter our 1st stretch goal of $30K. This would allow us to successfully cover our full 4-day shoot.
- If we exceed our 1st stretch goal, we will enter our 2nd stretch goal of $40K. These additional funds would help us cover the cost of post-production: editing, color correction, sound mixing, music, and score.
- If we enter our final stretch goal of $40K plus, we’ll be able to look to the future! These additional funds would help us cover film festival submission fees, poster design, marketing, film festival travel, and much more!
Your donations, whether big or small, empower us to make this film—and help us get this powerful story on screen!
*All images and collage images were sourced from personal archives, family and friends, Sthaddeus "Polo Silk" Terrell, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Fan Blog, and ShotDeck. All clips from video sourced from 'little trumpet' directed by Megan Trufant Tillman. Photo of FLYPAPER by Justin D. Heron.*
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Cast & Crew
Costs $10,000
Our amazing cast and crew are the heart and soul of this production. Help us pay them!
Production Equipment
Costs $3,500
Help us rent camera and lighting equipment for our production!
Original Score
Costs $1,500
Writer & Co-Director Megan Trufant Tillman will compose our original score. Help us pay for musicians, studio, and mixing & mastering!
Locations
Costs $1,500
Help us rent locations for our shoot—including Micah’s home and school!
Period Costumes & Production Design
Costs $1,500
Help us take it back to 2005 through period authentic costumes, production design, and props!
Archival Footage Licensing
Costs $1,500
Our film includes archival news clips from the 2005 evacuation period. Help us pay to license this archival footage!
Food for Cast & Crew
Costs $500
Our hungry cast and crew need to eat during long shoot days. Help us feed them!
Cash Pledge
Costs $0
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence (FLYPAPER) | Directors
Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence are a filmmaking duo hailing from New Orleans and Honolulu known as FLYPAPER. Their distinctive voice draws on their backgrounds in music and theater to compose tender cinematic portraits that explore the vast inner worlds of subjects who are rarely seen on screen. Their film NEWBIES premiered at the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival, where it received the Texas Short Competition Special Jury Award. The duo also recently debuted PERMANENT (2025), a short documentary film on the visionary American painter Noah Davis, as part of the traveling exhibition NOAH DAVIS at the Barbican Centre in London and the Hammer Museum in LA. Their short film little trumpet (2022) has won jury awards for Best Louisiana Short (New Orleans Film Festival), Best Narrative Short (Bushwick Film Festival), Best Cinematography (Tacoma Film Festival), and Best African-American Directed Short (Phoenix Film Festival). The duo is currently preparing to shoot their next short film, THE BIRTHDAY SONG, which was selected as the winning project at both the 2024 Indie Memphis Black Creators Forum Pitch Rally and the 2024 New Orleans Film Festival's South Pitch competition.
Lauren Domino | Executive Producer
Lauren Domino is a writer and a Peabody, PGA, and Grammy award winning producer with a focus on the healing power of film. Her work as a producer includes the Academy Award nominated TIME (Amazon Studios), and BAFTA and Academy Shortlisted AMERICAN SYMPHONY (Netflix), as well as ALONE, THE EARTH IS HUMMING, BLACK FOLK DON’T, LIKE, and AMERICA. She has produced branded content and live events for The New Yorker, Elle Magazine, The Oscars, Microsoft, and Essence Festival. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Doc Branch, Producers Guild of America, The Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Writers Guild of America.
Hello Benjamin Films | Producers
Hello Benjamin Films is an artist driven company that specializes in bold, uncommon, and unapologetic fiction & non-fiction films. Their projects have garnered support from high profile institutions such as Ford Foundation JustFilms, Sundance Documentary Fund, Women In Film, Field of Vision, and TIFF’s inaugural K-Story Fund. Their most recent films are currently making waves on the festival circuit, premiering at renowned festivals like the International Film Festival Rotterdam and BlackStar.
Ray Huang | Cinematographer
Los Angeles-based cinematographer Ray Huang emerged from the dynamic cultural melting pot of the Lower East Side, New York City. Steeped in street culture & the fine arts from an early age, he frequently draws inspiration by juxtaposing the two in the attempt to find truth in his photography. Huang’s narrative work has been featured in film festivals around the world, including Sundance, TIFF, Venice, SXSW, & Tribeca. His breakthrough feature film SNAKEHEAD is now streaming on Hulu, and his work on the Emmy-winning mini series RACE: BUBBA WALLACE is now streaming on Netflix. His commercial work includes clients Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Hyundai, Burger King, Toyota, Peloton, AT&T, SAP, & NFL films. Huang has also worked with renowned musical artists including U2, Metallica, Nas, 2Chainz, Wiz Khalifa, The Killers, Miguel, & Maluma. His feature work includes the blockbuster feature film UNSPOKEN for CMC Pictures, A GREAT DIVIDE starring Ken Jeong, which tackles the complexity of anti-Asian American racism in the American heartland, and ONCE AGAIN (FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME) from acclaimed writer/director Boaz Yakin. Huang also recently shot Megan Trufant Tillman’s award-winning short little trumpet, and Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence’s SXSW award-winning short NEWBIES.
Carol Hee Kim | Production Designer
Carol Hee Kim is a Korean-American Production Designer for film and fine art projects. She earned her BFA in Art Theory & Practice from Northwestern University and began her career working in the art world in New York. She immersed herself in studio production by working for contemporary artist Jeff Koons, specializing in project management, object research, and color development for large-scale sculptures and installations. She now translates her creative skills to film design and has served as Production Designer on a range of projects, including Katarina Zhu’s feature BUNNYLOVR (Sundance 2025), Kit Zauhar's feature THIS CLOSENESS, Emily Cohn's episodic short THIS REALLY HAPPENED, musician Berhana's visual album The Nomad's Dream, and Megan Trufant Tillman + Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence’s SXSW award-winning short NEWBIES. Carol is proud to collaborate with a diverse group of talented artists, makers and builders.
Erica A. Hart | Casting Director
Erica A. Hart, CSA was born and raised in Washington, DC, and studied film and television at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She started at ABC Primetime Casting and then moved to independent casting. TV/Streaming: BLACK MIRROR (SEASON 6 US CASTING), A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW (SEASON 4), THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE, JODIE, BUST DOWN, THE GIRLS ON THE BUS, THE EQUALIZER (SEASON 4 & SEASON 5), LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER, and SURVIVAL OF THE THICKEST (SEASON 2). Broadway: CHICKEN & BISCUITS, PASS OVER, DEATH OF A SALESMAN, JAJA'S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING. Film (Selected): WE STRANGERS (SXSW), VEO VEO A FAMILY (TRIBECA), THE SURROGATE (SXSW), LAPSIS (SXSW), CUPIDS (TRIBECA), and NATIVES (SXSW). OFF-BROADWAY: HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF (NYTW), SATURDAY CHURCH (NYTW), SCARLETT DREAMS (MIDNIGHT THEATRICALS). Regional: EL COQUI (LONG WHARF THEATRE). Music Videos: FIGHT FOR YOU (H.E.R. - OSCAR WINNING SONG) and GET SOME (GHOSTED - PREMIERED AT SXSW). Erica is an Artios award winner, is on the Board of the Casting Society, is a member of the TV Academy, and is an educator at different colleges and universities.
Brent Caballero | Casting Director
Brent Caballero, CSA brings more than 15 years of experience in the film and TV industry to his regional casting work in Louisiana. Select credits include location casting on THE IRON CLAW, BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC, PITCH PERFECT 2, THE MAZE RUNNER, BABY DRIVER, and BAYWATCH, and extras casting on SINNERS, 12 YEARS A SLAVE, PITCH PERFECT, KINDS OF KINDNESS, C’MON C’MON, HIT MAN, I’M A VIRGO, QUIZ LADY, QUEEN OF THE SOUTH, ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI, TRUE DETECTIVE, and TREME.