Casting is in process for the ABC television series My Generation, which is due to air this fall. On Location Casting is currently casting extras for scenes. OLC needs talent for full days. Casting Directors Toni Cobb Brock and Sally Allen are casting some of the roles. Filming is taking place in Austin, TX under AFTRA contract. Submissions by union and non-union talent are accepted.

My Generation is an ABC Series produced and written by Noah Hawley, who has co-produced the shows Bones and The Unusuals. The My Generation series is a faux-documentary drama about nine high school classmates who come back to Austin, their hometown, when they are 28 years old. The series alternates between scenes of the group's senior year of high school in 2000 and footage of their lives in 2010.

Hawley has set the show in Austin because he wanted a setting with a cultural life that would realistically draw smart, ambitious, creative people back to it. The pilot in Austin has successfully paved the way for the series. Production on My Generation is creating cast and crew jobs in Austin just as Friday Night Lights ends this summer in the Texas capitol. A 100,000-plus square foot converted cold storage warehouse near the Austin airport serves as the production base for the show.

Beginning July 15, episodes are shooting in the capitol city. Parts of the Driskill Hotel and the Texas Capitol buildings are excellent stand-ins for Washington, D.C. in the story. In the pilot, Hawley has focused on the characters more than the setting, but in the series he intends to capture the color and culture of Austin. He plans to take advantage of local events to blur the line between fiction and reality.

The story in the series follows a group of young adults who have been filmed in a documentary just before their graduation from Greenbelt High School in Austin, Texas in 2000. The group includes high school types. When the high school graduates reunite ten years later, contemporary events and issues have affected them. They see that their dreams for the future have not materialized exactly as they had hoped. The series is set in the present with flashbacks to the past. The show takes a serious look at contemporary events and issues through the lives of the characters. 

The cast includes the following: Daniella Alonso as brain, Brenda Serrano; Mehcad Brooks as jock, Rolly Marks; Kelli Garner as punk, Dawn Barbuso; Jaime King as beauty queen, Jacqueline Vachs; Julian Morris as rich kid, Anders Holt; Keir O'Donnell as nerd, Kenneth Finley; Michael Stahl-David as over-achiever, Steven Foster; Sebastian Sozzi as rebel, The Falcon; Anne Son as Caroline Chang; and Elizabeth Keener as the filmmaker.

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