NADIA BROOKS-COLEMAN
Melanated Christmas · Film
Casting requirements
About the role
Mia’s older sister, married with two kids, who is warm, capable, funny, and organized in a different way than Mia.
- Core traits
- warm, capable, funny, organized
- What they want
- Support Mia and draw her closer to family and softness.
- Inner need
- To keep loving Mia without trying to run Mia’s life.
- Main conflict
- Mia's emotional isolation keeps their bond one-sided as Ball pressure closes her off further.
- Arc
- flat influence arc
- Voice
- warm, direct, lightly teasing
- Performance range
- warm, funny, grounded, emotionally perceptive
- Required abilities
- naturalistic dialogue, sister chemistry, light humor, emotional warmth
- Preferred abilities
- family ensemble chemistry, holiday-romance tone
- Physical performance
- minimal
- Accent
- General American
- Language
- English
- Comparable performances
- warm older sister energy, polished but approachable
- Audition sides
- Scene with Mia that gently calls out her loneliness while staying loving
- Casting notes
- African American actor strongly suggested by family continuity with Mia Brooks.
The character breakdown from the writers, so you know who you'd be playing.
Audition sides
Record yourself, upload it to YouTube (unlisted is fine), Google Drive, Vimeo or Dropbox, and paste the link with your application. Make sure the link can be viewed by anyone who has it.
Skills required
- naturalistic dialogue
- sister chemistry
- light humor
- emotional warmth
- family ensemble chemistry
- holiday-romance tone
- comedic warmth
- grounded family realism
About the project
Mia Brooks is a gifted, tightly controlled event planner who creates warmth and elegance for everyone but herself. As Christmas lights and community traditions fill the Eastside, Mia’s own apartment remains bare, reflecting how emotionally closed off she has become. In client meetings she is sharp, funny, and impeccably professional, but she shuts down even harmless flirtation and keeps real connection at arm’s length. At her office, her loyal friend Tiffany Hall notices the cracks beneath Mia’s polish, especially when Mia reacts to a call from Kevin Rush, a man who seems to represent an old pattern of disappointment and inconsistency. Tiffany also shares a rumor that the Eastside’s prestigious Melanated Christmas Ball may need a new planner. Though Mia is clearly intrigued, she doubts that talent alone is enough to gain entry into such a legacy event and worries she will never truly be trusted in those circles. Later, at her parents’ Christmas-filled home, Mia is surrounded by easy family love, ritual, and partnership. Watching her parents and her sister Nadia move through their relationships with comfort and familiarity forces Mia to confront what is missing in her own life. In a quiet kitchen conversation, she admits that despite her success, she expected to have built a fuller life by now, not just a flawless schedule. The excerpt ends with Mia exposed in her loneliness, setting up a story about ambition, belonging, and the possibility of love.