Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Production Title: Photo Shoot Casting Call

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting, actors, models, and influencers to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois.

Casting: 

• Females
• ages 18-30 years, of Chinese descent
• Must live or near chicago

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: Commercial Casting Call

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting real families to work on scenes filming in Chicagoland Area.

Casting: Real Families

•  Families with a child who has down syndrome or families who speak ASL (American Sign Language) with a deaf or hard of hearing parent or child.

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: Pay is $700 per person

Production Title: HBO New Season of ‘Somebody Somewhere’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting extras to work on scenes filming in Western Suburbs on Monday, June 13th.

Role: College Students

• 18 years old and above
• All ethnicities
• to portray as KSU Students
• If you have an elderly parent you can bring in, we may be able to cast you as a Nurse. 

Elderly Women

Covid Test: June 11, 2022

Rate: Pay is $120 for up to 8 hours each day.
+ $50 for days you need to go in for covid testing

Production Title: ‘Justified: City Primeval’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting, actors, models, and influencers to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois from Monday, June 13th to Tuesday June 14th. Must be available to work in full-time. 

Role: Casino Background Extras

• All types
• Some dressy, some casual, a couple cowboy hats
• Interesting facles of all types.
• We will need more African American

Covid Test: June 10, 2022

(You need to be ‘fully’ vaccinated and boosted. See Covid Compliance Guidelines put out by the CDC in previous covid post.)

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: ‘Justified: City Primeval’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background extras to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois. 

Role: Bouncer Types

• Male
• All ethnicities
• 21+ and above

Covid Test: TBA (Chicago City Studio)

Rate: $150 each shoot day +  $50 fitting days + $50 each covid testing

Production  Description: 

Timothy Olyphant is dusting off his cowboy hat (you know the one). Olyphant will reprise his role as Raylan Givens, that smoking gunslinger, in a miniseries spinoff of FX’s crime drama Justified, which ended in 2015. Graham Yost and the creators of the original award-winning series, Elmore Leonard and Fred Golan, will also return.
Following the original series, it will be based on Elmore Leonard’s book City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. The new limited series will be based on Leonard’s novella Fire in the Hole and other stories featuring Givens. After Givens’s work in Kentucky is completed, the United States Marshal resides in Miami before moving to Detroit and becoming involved with the case of the Oklahoma Wildman.

Speaking of dangerous men, FX announced the addition of eight new actors to the cast of Justified: City Primeval. Boyd Holbrook, Vondie Curtis Hall, Norbert Leo Butz, and Victor Williams have been added to the main cast as new characters alongside Aunjanue Ellis, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, and Vivian Olyphant. Other Justified actors such as Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder or Jere Burns as Wynn Duffy have not confirmed if they will return for the revival, while new faces will be joining Olyphant.

Production Title: Power IV: Force

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting extra to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois on Friday, June 10th.

Role: Sibling Boy

• African American boy
• ages 10-12 years old

Covid Test: June 9, 2022 

Rate: Pay is $150/8 + Covid Test Bump
Covid Testing Rate:  $60/4

• A two-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination series, and if eligible, a booster dose for those who are 5+ months past their second shot. Currently, the Pfizer booster is approved for everyone ages 12+.
• A two-dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccination series and if eligible, a booster dose for those who are 5+ months past their second shot. Currently, the Moderna booster is approved for everyone ages 18 and up.
• A single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination, and if eligible, a booster dose for those who are 2+ months past their single dose. Currently, the Johnson & Johnson booster is approved for everyone ages 18 and up, but an mRNA booster is recommended in many cases.
• OR If you are not yet eligible for your booster shot, your vaccine status is considered up to date. You must obtain your booster promptly once you become eligible and submit validation that you received your booster dose.

Production Title: Commercial Casting Call

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting, actors, models, and influencers to work on scenes filming in Downers Grove, Illinois on Thursday, June 9th

Role: Model 

• Female
• Age 65+plus
• (any ethnicity)

Covid Test: June 9, 2022

Rate: Pay is $$

Production Title: Power IV: Force Casting Hot Dancers

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting hot dancers to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois on Thursday, June 9th.

Roles: Hot Dancers

• Male or  Female
• 18-35 years old
• Latino

Covid Test: June 8, 2022

Rate: Pay is $175/8 + Covid Test Bump
Covid Testing Rate:  $60/4

• A two-dose Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination series, and if eligible, a booster dose for those who are 5+ months past their second shot. Currently, the Pfizer booster is approved for everyone ages 12+.
• A two-dose Moderna COVID-19 vaccination series and if eligible, a booster dose for those who are 5+ months past their second shot. Currently, the Moderna booster is approved for everyone ages 18 and up.
• A single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination, and if eligible, a booster dose for those who are 2+ months past their single dose. Currently, the Johnson & Johnson booster is approved for everyone ages 18 and up, but an mRNA booster is recommended in many cases.
• OR If you are not yet eligible for your booster shot, your vaccine status is considered up to date. You must obtain your booster promptly once you become eligible and submit validation that you received your booster dose.

Production Title: ‘Justified’: City Primeval

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting stand-ins to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, June 7th.

Role: Car Drivers

• Male
• African American
• 18 years old and above

Covid Test: June 6, 2022 (Chicago City Studio)

Rate: $$

Production  Description: 

Timothy Olyphant is dusting off his cowboy hat (you know the one). Olyphant will reprise his role as Raylan Givens, that smoking gunslinger, in a miniseries spinoff of FX’s crime drama Justified, which ended in 2015. Graham Yost and the creators of the original award-winning series, Elmore Leonard and Fred Golan, will also return.
Following the original series, it will be based on Elmore Leonard’s book City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. The new limited series will be based on Leonard’s novella Fire in the Hole and other stories featuring Givens. After Givens’s work in Kentucky is completed, the United States Marshal resides in Miami before moving to Detroit and becoming involved with the case of the Oklahoma Wildman.

Speaking of dangerous men, FX announced the addition of eight new actors to the cast of Justified: City Primeval. Boyd Holbrook, Vondie Curtis Hall, Norbert Leo Butz, and Victor Williams have been added to the main cast as new characters alongside Aunjanue Ellis, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, and Vivian Olyphant. Other Justified actors such as Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder or Jere Burns as Wynn Duffy have not confirmed if they will return for the revival, while new faces will be joining Olyphant.

Production Title: ‘Justified’: City Primeval

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting stand-in to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois from Monday, June 13th to Tuesday June 14th, 2022. 

Role: Cocktail Waitress

• Females of any ethnicities.
• Must be fully vaccinated and boosted
• 18 years old and above

Covid Test: June 13,2022 (Chicago City Studio)

Rate: $250 each shoot day +  $50 fitting days + $50 each covid testing

Production  Description: 

Timothy Olyphant is dusting off his cowboy hat (you know the one). Olyphant will reprise his role as Raylan Givens, that smoking gunslinger, in a miniseries spinoff of FX’s crime drama Justified, which ended in 2015. Graham Yost and the creators of the original award-winning series, Elmore Leonard and Fred Golan, will also return.
Following the original series, it will be based on Elmore Leonard’s book City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. The new limited series will be based on Leonard’s novella Fire in the Hole and other stories featuring Givens. After Givens’s work in Kentucky is completed, the United States Marshal resides in Miami before moving to Detroit and becoming involved with the case of the Oklahoma Wildman.

Speaking of dangerous men, FX announced the addition of eight new actors to the cast of Justified: City Primeval. Boyd Holbrook, Vondie Curtis Hall, Norbert Leo Butz, and Victor Williams have been added to the main cast as new characters alongside Aunjanue Ellis, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, and Vivian Olyphant. Other Justified actors such as Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder or Jere Burns as Wynn Duffy have not confirmed if they will return for the revival, while new faces will be joining Olyphant.