COMMERCIAL
COMCAST “READY FOR THE GAMES”
WHO ARE YOU CASTING?
We need folks from the Portland and Mt Hood area with the skills/experience below:
Ski Instructors
Skiers with a lot of experience on a ski simulator (like this)
Competitive Luge or Skeleton athletes
Bartenders or Servers
Front desk or Concierge (or other hospitality) workers
Commercial Bakers
Anyone our location scouts send to this page (thanks Doug + James!)
WHAT IS THIS FOR?
This will be a commercial for Comcast Business – similar to the commercial seen here, but themed for the Winter Olympics.
We’ll cast a number of actors and non-actors with specific skills (you, hopefully!) to work for a day either in the Portland area, or the Mt Hood area.
To be considered for the project, you’ll need to send us your information, along with some media (photos and video), and then we’ll audition you either during our normal auditions this + next week, or at callbacks the week of Nov 8.
TITLE: Ready for the Games
UNION STATUS: SAG-AFTRA
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Director’s Bureau
PAY: SAG-AFTRA scale for commerical projects. Minimum pay: $712/8 hour day (session). Residuals paid per the SAG-AFTRA commerical code.
CALLBACKS: Nov 8 or 9, 2021
SHOOT DATE: Nov 15th-17th (pending)
SHOOT LOCATION: PDX
USAGE: Network&Cable TV,Spot, Possibly Theatrical and Industrial, Internet(8 month or 12 month cycles)
WHEN IS THIS SUBMISSION DUE?
We have 3 submission deadlines – earlier is always better!
deadline 1: 6pm Friday, October 29
deadline 2: 6pm Monday, Nov 1
deadline 3: 9pm Wednesday, Nov 3 (this is basically the last possible chance to submit!)
AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM ON OCT 29, NOV 1 and NOV 2 – if our producers like your self-submit, we’ll call you in for an audition on one of these days!
CALLBACKS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM on NOV 8 & 9 – some roles will skip the first round of auditions and go straight to callbacks
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