(CP) – Nickelodeon has teamed up with a transgender actor to unveil the “trans youth acting challenge,” an initiative designed to enable transgender or nonbinary youth with dreams of acting to “realize their dreams.”
Michael D. Cohen, who plays the character Schwoz on Nickelodeon’s live-action sitcom “Henry Danger” and its spinoff “Danger Force,” announced the “trans youth acting challenge” in a Facebook Live video last Tuesday. “In 2019 I shared my story with Time magazine, that I had transitioned.
And since then, I’ve been getting a lot of DMs and e-mails from trans kids who like me when I was a kid had dreams of becoming an actor,” Cohen said. “So I went to Nickelodeon and said I really want to help make it possible for these kids to realize their dreams. So together we are partnering to create the Michael D. Cohen Trans Youth Acting Challenge.”
The challenge invites parents of transgender or nonbinary youth living in the United States or Canada to help them put together an audition tape. Everyone who submits an audition tape will be invited to participate in a webinar featuring Cohen and the Nickelodeon casting team. Additionally, 12 of the participants will be invited to take part in a “Zoom acting master class” with Cohen. “I’m so excited to see these auditions. This is a dream come true for me too,” Cohen remarked. READ MORE
