Maria Harper

Project: Alice Across The Land

• Season 1 (appears in Episode 9)

• Season 2 (major role from Episode 3 onward)

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🌙 ROLE: MARIA HARPER

Maria is not your typical villain — because she’s not one. Not really. She’s the anti-hero you wish you didn’t understand. Dangerous, charismatic, and deeply haunted, Maria’s power is as much a curse as a weapon. She doesn’t want to hurt anyone — but she will if it means protecting what she loves. Or what’s left of it.

She’s the embodiment of mystery and contradiction: rage wrapped in elegance, grief cloaked in sarcasm. In Season 2, she becomes a force that disrupts everything Alice thought she understood about the world — and herself.

Maria is stitched into this story like a shadow, refusing to disappear, refusing to be simplified.

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📍 REQUIREMENTS

• Must be based in the United States and fully able to travel to Lexington, KY for rehearsals and filming

• Age: 16–19 (at time of filming)

• Ethnicity: Mexican

• Hair: Black

• Must be comfortable playing a morally complex character with emotional volatility, preferably fluent or near-fluent in Spanish

• Strong dramatic presence required — Maria’s scenes are charged with tension, grief, and moral ambiguity

• Non-union, unpaid independent production

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📅 COMMITMENT TIMELINE

Season 1

• Rehearsals: September 2026 – April 2027

• Filming: June – August 2027 (Lexington, KY)

Season 2 — TBD

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💸 THIS IS AN INDEPENDENT PROJECT

• Unpaid, non-union

• Meals and accommodations (if applicable) may be provided

• Full screen credit and a pivotal role in a dark, morally complicated fantasy arc

• A chance to portray a rare anti-villain character with nuance, heartbreak, and bite

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🎭 AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS

Deadline: March 27th, 2026

Email: aliceacrosstheland@gmail.com

Subject Line: MARIA HARPER AUDITION – [Your Name]

Please submit:

1. A headshot and full-body photo

2. A short intro video or letter (max 2 minutes or 1 page) about why you want to play Maria

3. A monologue (1–2 minutes) from a published play, film, or TV script (no original pieces). Please cite the source in the email.

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💬 FROM THE CREATOR

Maria isn’t evil — she’s wounded. And that wound has teeth. She’s the kind of girl who will burn down a house for someone who never asked to be saved. If you’ve ever loved recklessly, if you’ve ever been made a villain in someone else’s story just for surviving, Maria might be yours.