Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Purpose of the Role:

The Booking Assistant will provide administrative support to the Vice President – Programming and Booking Manager in our Broadway, Symphony, Family and Music Touring Divisions. The ideal candidate should be passionate about entertainment, entrepreneurial, self-motivated and open to working in an environment where he/she is capable of performing administrative duties rapidly. The individual should be flexible, highly organized, proficient in Microsoft Excel, and have the ability to multi-task under pressure. Administrative duties include answering incoming phone calls for the Vice President – Programming, coordinating meetings and schedules, preparing expense reports, gathering venue availabilities, venue calendar management, travel booking/coordinating for executive staff, special projects and personal assistance as needed. The ability to work unexpected frequent overtime is required. Growth opportunities exist for top performers.

Principal Responsibilities:

·      Assist the booking process by outlining a tour’s full needs and translating outline into an expense budget for labor, production equipment, venue costs, hospitality needs, and other event logistics

·      Gather venue availability, ticket scalings, and additional information on local operating conditions such as sales taxes and artist withholdings required for submitting offers to agents

·      Keep schedule for VP- Head of Programming to review the marketing plan for each event with the Marketing Department prior to the event’s announcement and public OnSale

·      Track sales goals for each event and maintain contact with Marketing on progress in achieving sales goals

·      On-Site Show Coverage as Promoter Representative, as needed, with tasks including settlement duties with touring act, local co-presenters, and/or venue

·      Assist VP of Programming in creation of touring event opportunities

Qualifications:

·      Bachelor’s degree required

·      Touring and/or booking experience in live entertainment, comedy, or music preferred

·      Strong attention to detail and organization skills are a must

·      Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and Powerpoint)

·      Polished written and verbal communication is a must to be successful in this role

Innovation Arts & Entertainment

Casting Alert:

We are looking for kids & teens of all ethnicities with acting, singing & dancing abilities!

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!

Searching for:

• MALE WITH A CAR,
• 20’s to 40’s,
• African American,
• Latino,
• Asian,
• Middle Eastern

(Please no red, white, or black cars) to work as a nonspeaking extra on Tuesday, March 14th, with a Covid test (takes about one hour) on Monday, March 13th at Cinespace Studio.

Only apply if you have worked in the past two weeks or are scheduled to work.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!

Searching for:

• MALES AND FEMALES,
• all ethnicities,
• 20’s to 70’s,
• to work as MEDICAL TYPES AND NON-MEDICAL TYPES on Chicago Fire, Thursday, March 16th. There will be a Covid test at Cinespace (takes about one hour) that you need to attend on Tuesday, March 14th.

Men: suit jacket, neck, sleeve, waist, inseam, T-shirt, shoe
Women: Dress, pants, T-shirt, shoe

CASTING SEARCH FOR A MAJOR TV NETWORK

We are casting MAJOR ROLES in a Network TV Pilot, the character description below.
Just so you know, it is free to submit. NO PROFESSIONAL ACTING EXPERIENCE NEEDED

CHARACTER DESCRIPTION

• 12-17-year-old Black teens
• English Speaking
• Skilled, versatile dancers in any of the following styles: footwork, majorette, lyrical

Search Chicago-style footwork and majorette for visual reference

This role will rehearse and shoot in Chicago, IL

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!

Searching for MALES AND FEMALES, all ethnicities, 20’s to ’70s, to work as MEDICAL TYPES AND NON-MEDICAL TYPES on Chicago Fire, Thursday, March 16th.

There will be a Covid test at Cinespace (which takes about one hour) that you need to attend on Tuesday, March 14th.

Men: suit jacket, neck, sleeve, waist, inseam, T-shirt, shoe

Women: Dress, pants, T-shirt, shoe

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, or Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert!

Searching for a:

• MALE
• CLEAN SHAVEN
• SHORT HAIR
• all ethnicities, to play a firefighter 20’s to 50’s, on Friday, March 10th, and Tuesday, March 14th.

There will be a Covid test and wardrobe fitting on Thursday, March 9th.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding border states to IL ONLY!

Please help us spread the word!

Searching for LATINO BOYS AGES 10 TO 13!!!!

Also searching for MALE LATINO PARENTS, AGES ’20s/’30s.

Casting Alert! Searching for MALE  LATINO DARK HAIR/KIDS and Male Latino Parents to work a STILL PHOTO SHOOT (this will be a photo used in the show), on Wed., March 8th, with a Covid test on Tuesday, March 7th. There will also be a fitting.

All children booked need a JOAN PHILO WORK PERMIT! If you need your child’s Joan Philo work permit, please ask for a letter of intent, and we can tell you how to obtain one. If you have a work permit, please send it as an attachment.

This photo shoot is happening quickly, and we need to submit photos to the director to choose the kids in the photograph.
Please send it in ASAP!!!

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border States to IL ONLY!
Casting Alert:

Searching for:

• MALE CAUCASIAN,
• 30’s to ’50s, dark hair,
• 5’7 to 5’8
• medium builds,

To work as a stand-in (same height and coloring as an actor to light and camera block the scene) On Wed. March 8th, you can either Covid test tomorrow, or Tuesday.

Local to Chicago, Suburbs, and Surrounding Border states to IL ONLY!
Casting Rush!

Searching for a FEMALE ’20s to ’40s,

– All ethnicities, who can work tomorrow, Monday, March 6th.

You will need to Covid rapid test at 5:30 am at Cinespace and then work at 6:30 am as an office worker in our Firehouse.