Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Casting Call: Popular Performance Apparel & Footwear Company Photoshoot

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Fitting Date: October 10, 2023

Shoot Date(s): October 11-14, 2023 (Talent will be selected for one day during this time frame)

Rate: $540.00 (Half Day – 5 Hours)

Talent Specifications:

• Male & Female talent, age range 9 y.o – 20 y.o, open to all ethnicities.
• Talent will be working out and training to obtain photoshoot images (See attached photo for reference).

Job Details: We are looking for dynamic and athletic individuals to join our upcoming photoshoot for a popular performance apparel and footwear company. This is an exciting opportunity to showcase your skills and passion for sports and fitness in a professional setting. Whether you play sports, practice yoga, or are dedicated to weight training, we want to hear from you!

Job Responsibilities:

• Participate in a fitting session on October 10, 2023, to ensure the perfect fit for the apparel and footwear.
• On your designated shoot day (between October 11-14, 2023), engage in various workout and training activities as directed by the creative team to capture stunning photos.
• Bring energy, enthusiasm, and your unique athletic abilities to the photoshoot.
• Collaborate with the photographer and crew to create compelling visuals.

Requirements: We are specifically looking for individuals who meet the following criteria:

• Kids who play sports or train: Whether you’re into soccer, basketball, or any other sport, your passion and energy are what we’re looking for.
• Young girls who can play lacrosse: If you have lacrosse skills, we want to highlight your talent.
• Young adult athletes accustomed to weight training: If you hit the gym regularly and are familiar with weight training, we want you on our team.
• Females who practice yoga: If yoga is your thing and you’re dedicated to your practice, we’d love to have you as part of our shoot.

Compensation Details: Selected talent will receive a compensation of $540.00 for a half-day shoot lasting 5 hours. You’ll also have the opportunity to be featured in promotional materials for a popular performance apparel and footwear company, which can provide exposure and open doors to future opportunities in the industry.

If you meet the talent specifications and requirements mentioned above and are excited to be part of this high-energy photoshoot, please submit your application today. We look forward to seeing you showcase your athletic prowess and style in our upcoming campaign!

FATAL ATTRACTION 1412 – Casting Call

Job Responsibilities:

• Portray the character of Lucy, a Black female in her late 30s to 40s.
• Engage in emotionally charged scenes, including an interview with detectives and interactions with the victim’s sister.
• Deliver lines with conviction and authenticity, conveying the depth of the character’s emotions.

Requirements:

• Gender: Female
• Age Range: Late 30s to 40s
• Ethnicity: Black
• Experience in dramatic roles and emotional scenes is preferred.
• Ability to effectively convey complex emotions through dialogue and body language.
• Availability on October 3rd for filming in Knoxville, TN.

Compensation Details:

• $150 per day worked.
• Hotel accommodation will be provided for the duration of the filming.

Casting Call: Featured Background for Ad Campaign

Location: Nashville, TN area

Project: Ad Campaign – TENN10 (Tennessee State Colleges)

Filming Dates:

• THURSDAY 10/12/23
• FRIDAY 10/13/23 (Potential requirement to work one or BOTH dates depending on your role. Must be available for ALL LISTED DATES to be considered! Filming times are still TBD, so candidates must have the full day available pending the actual shoot window. Please do not submit if you wouldn’t be available regardless of Call/Wrap times!)

Transportation/Accommodation: Transportation and accommodation will NOT be provided. Must be within a reasonable self-drive distance to the Nashville area, as we cannot consider anyone requiring a flight as a “Local Hire.”

Rate of Pay: $200.00 for up to a 12-hour day

Usage: Broadcast and Social Media/Web – 1 Year Buyout with renewal option

Roles Casting: Featured Background

1. CLASSROOM KIDS

   • All genders, all ethnicities
   • Age range: 7-11 years old
   • Characteristics: Confident, outgoing, not shy, fun, energetic, good on-set behavior.
   • Note: Parent/Guardian MUST remain on set with Child at ALL times!

2. DOCTOR’S RECEPTIONIST

   • All genders, all ethnicities
   • Age range: 20-50 years old
   • Characteristics: Conservative, professional, great attitude, friendly welcoming face.

3. WAITING ROOM PATIENT

   • All genders, all ethnicities
   • Age range: 18-90 years old
   • Characteristics: Wide variety of types.

4. FARM HANDS

   • All genders, all ethnicities
   • Age range: 20-30 years old
   • Characteristics: Outdoorsy, accustomed to physical hard work. Farming/agriculture/animal handling experience is helpful but not required.

Job Responsibilities:

• Follow directions from the director and production team.
• Maintain professionalism on set.
• Ensure good behavior and cooperation, especially for child actors.
• Be available for the specified filming dates.
• Parents/guardians must accompany child actors at all times.

Requirements:

• Must be available for ALL specified filming dates.
• Must have a reliable means of transportation to the Nashville area.
• Child actors must have a parent/guardian present on set at all times.
• Previous experience (for specified roles) is helpful but not required.

Job Title: Featured Background for Bridgestone+ Play Like A Girl (Non-Profit) Commercial

Job Location: Nashville, TN area (Must be within self-drive distance, no transportation/accommodation provided)

Project Type: Commercial for Bridgestone+ Play Like A Girl (Non-Profit)

Filming Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Filming Times: TBD (Must have full day available, regardless of Call/Wrap times)

Rate of Pay: $200.00 for up to a 12-hour day

Usage:

• National Media: Digital, Broadcast, Web, Social Media
• Territory: Worldwide
• Term: One (1) year with Renewal Option

Conflicts: None

Roles Casting: Featured Background – Office Professionals

Role Description: Seeking individuals of ALL genders and ethnicities, aged 30-50 years old, to portray office professionals for a Bridgestone+ Play Like A Girl commercial. Ideal candidates should have a conservative, clean-cut appearance, projecting a professional demeanor. Candidates must have their own business attire, including suits for men.

Job Responsibilities:

• Take direction from the director and production team.
• Follow instructions for positioning, movements, and interactions on set.
• Maintain a professional and focused demeanor throughout filming.
• Be punctual and cooperative during the entire shoot day.
• Ensure that personal appearance and attire align with the character description.

Requirements:

• Must be available for filming on Tuesday, October 17, 2023.
• Must have a full day available, pending actual shoot window (Call/Wrap times to be determined).
• Must be within a reasonable self-drive distance to the Nashville, TN area.
• Must have a professional and conservative appearance.
• Age range: 30-50 years old.
• Must have own business attire (suits for men).

Casting Call: Male Sports Announcer/Narrator for US Cellular Digital Campaign

Job Details: We are casting for a male sports announcer/narrator for an upcoming digital campaign for US Cellular. The selected talent will be responsible for narrating three short 15-second scripts that capture the essence of sports drama and excitement. This project offers an excellent opportunity to showcase your dramatic and bombastic voice talents.

Job Responsibilities:

• Voice narration for three :15 scripts.
• Convey the dramatic and exciting tone required for the campaign.
• Collaborate with the creative team to ensure the script’s vision is realized.

Requirements:

• Gender: Male
• Age Range: 40-50
• Must have a voice that resonates with a sports announcer or documentary narrator vibe.
• Ability to deliver lines with a dramatic and bombastic tone.
• Availability for the recording session on October 23, 2023, in Richmond, VA.
• Capability to record via SourceConnect is a plus but not mandatory.

Compensation:

• Session Fee: $200
• Usage Fee: $200 for all 3 spots
• Travel expenses are not provided for this session.

Casting Call: Heartfelt Holiday Project for Major Tech Brand

Job Detail: DS Casting is thrilled to announce an exciting commercial project for a Major Tech Brand. We are seeking individuals with touching and heartfelt holiday stories to participate in this heartwarming campaign.

Job Responsibilities: Selected individuals will share their unique holiday traditions and celebrations through heartfelt messages to their loved ones who are far away. The aim is to create a diverse and emotionally resonant collection of holiday wishes.

Requirements: We are specifically looking for individuals who fall into one of the following categories:

1. Originally from a different country and now residing in New York City, who miss their immediate family back home.

2. New Yorkers with close family members (including chosen family) living in a different country, residing abroad.

Additionally, applicants should miss their distinctive and interesting holiday traditions and celebrations with that person. We welcome participants who celebrate a variety of holidays including: Thanksgiving, Hannukah, Diwali, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Lunar New Year.

Filming Details:

• WHEN: October 17, 18 & 19, 2023 (Individuals will likely be needed for one day)
• WHERE: Filming will take place in the New York area

Compensation:

• Session: $783.10 for 8 hours
• Usage (only paid if recognizable in final edit of publicly aired footage): To be paid at SAG scale rates, ranging from $325 to $1,575 or higher depending on the media and how many edits talent appears in.
• Exclusivity: Exclusivity may be held with payment of quarterly holding fees at the client’s discretion.

Contract and Usage Details:

• Contract: Standard 2022 SAG TV Commercials Contract
• Usage: Digital (includes internet and social media, but excludes streaming platforms) and Industrial, subject to change
• Exclusivity: Software

Hey! We’re Blizzard Lighting, LLC! We’re one of the World’s leading manufacturers of professional LED lighting and video wall equipment. Glad to meet you. 

We’re growing, baby! And we’re looking for experienced Product Managers to design, develop and deliver elite pro lighting and video products to customers around the world. 

Ideal candidates have previous product development/product management experience along with deep knowledge of the design and operation of professional and theatrical lighting and LED video equipment, and have considerable experience using products like ours IRL.

As a Blizzard PM, you’ll be responsible for the research and development of new professional lighting and video products and routinely collaborate with our marketing team to make sure we’re getting the word out on all of our product offerings. You’ll also be involved in training and upper-level technical support for the degens in sales. Pro tip: help them win that set of steak knives in the monthly sales contest, and they’ll be your bestie forever.

Are you interested? Of course, you are! And if you’re not, the people in charge here have forced me to include the following additional motivator to secure your application: “Imagine a workplace that is so bizarrely fulfilling and filled with such bizarre, fulfilling people that we all willingly come in when the forecast calls for 12 inches of snow in the next four hours. We call this experience ‘January.’” OK, well, yeah, that’s actually true.

Anyways – Send the usual (and unusual) stuff to [email protected]! Applicants who do not provide a resume will not be considered. Look at me making big threats now. Yeesh.

Blizzard Lighting, LLC

Job Title-Producer Level III

Location-New York, NY-Onsite

Duration-6 months

Pay Range-$70-$80/hr on W2 without benefits.

Job Description

The team is looking for a Producer to join the team. This person will focus on developing and shipping best-in-class visual systems and iconography for the brand in-product. The Producer will establish and maintain asset production pipelines for the visual systems team, work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth and consistent communication between all key stakeholders, as well as identify and source external creative teams to support product endeavors.

The Producer role requires a broad knowledge of design and development processes, an understanding of in-product work, excellent communication and project management skills, and a strong cross-functional and relationship-building capacity.

Job Responsibilities

• Negotiate and maintain icon project production schedules to ensure a smooth end-to-end development plan that meets product goals and quality bar, and ensures that all assets are delivered on time and implemented to spec.
• Establish and maintain an efficient and flexible project art process that facilitates the creation, review, feedback, revision, and deployment cycle of art asset production.
• Partner with content design to enable best practices around naming and taxonomy.
• Partner on auditing and collaborating with product partners to ensure teams have what they need.
• Identify and secure resources to keep the project on track.
• Schedule, manage, and address cross-functional feedback and stakeholder approvals.
• Predict and/or identify roadblocks and obstacles, and proactively establish meetings or integration points between teams to address and resolve them.
• Work closely with cross-functional product and engineering teams to unlock future possibilities that marry emerging technologies and creative expression.
• Facilitate, document, and disseminate decisions to key stakeholders.
• Prioritize competing needs with good reasoning and creative solutions.

Requirement

• 5+ years of creative production experience including driving the production process within a product or digital team.
• Facilitate, document, and disseminate decisions to key stakeholders.
• Excellent written communication skills and ability to market work internally.
• Experience in project management and relationship building.
• Flexibility in operation, process, and interaction is a must.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment that requires time management, task prioritization, and the ability to identify problems and work toward solutions.
• Experience working with creatives, designers, and engineers to design, build, and deliver assets and products.
• Experience working with external vendors (agencies, etc.) including sourcing and contracting, advising on/defining schedules, assessing proposed production processes, and budgets, managing assets as they are delivered, and being the daily point of contact for the internal team.

“U.S. Tech Solutions, Inc. is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected status”

US Tech Solutions

Creative Director
D2C Subscription Media Owner
$175,000-$250,000 + Bonus & Amazing Benefits
New York (Hybrid Role – 2 Days a week in the office)

Aspire is working with a distinguished brand, known for its thought-provoking content and international influence. The brand is looking for a Creative Director who will spearhead the creative team and reshape the way their brand resonates with a diverse and growing global audience.

The Creative Director will be responsible for:
* Elevating creative leadership to new heights, setting the benchmark for excellence, sparking inspiration, and consistently delivering unparalleled creative output across various projects.
* Infusing the brand with fresh vitality through daring and imaginative storytelling, establishing a profound connection with our expanding international community.
* Work closely with the EVP of Marketing to define the distinctive brand voice, visual aesthetics, and brand character, ensuring a harmonized and cohesive identity across all business sectors and product offerings.
* Lead and guide a team of both internal and freelance art directors, designers, and copywriters. Oversee their contributions to brand campaigns, partnerships, user engagement initiatives, and digital user experiences.

The Creative Director will have the following experience:
* You will have started your career or had experience in Copywriting.
* Strong Creative Directing background with experience working in an agency environment.
* Previous experience working for a D2C subscription brand.
* Exposure to working with B2B Businesses and Campaigns is essential.
* Able to manage multiple projects and prioritize to ensure that deadlines are met and projects are delivered to a high quality.
* Experience leading and growing a Creative team to build design solutions through brand building and storytelling.

If this sounds like you then I’d love to hear from you! Please click apply.

We Are Aspire is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

WeAreAspire

Do you crave well-designed objects? Does perusing the aisles of a home showroom fill you with joy and wonder? If you want to meld your love for home aesthetics with your keen eye for crafting stories through art, we are looking for you as a full-time Art Director. Join a national interior design resource and home/bath retailer – they’re soaring to new heights as an industry leader.

Our ideal talent is a highly skilled Art Director who will push the boundaries of traditional consumer shopping and take our client to the next level by crafting compelling visual design and bringing brand shine like a shooting star. The Art Director will be responsible for brand identity and aesthetics, generating innovative visuals across all mediums: campaign development, graphic design, photography, branding, UI/UX + web, package design, 3D/CGI, and motion. We expect the keenest eye, the finest attention to detail, and the highest aesthetic for extraordinary visuals working across all media.

As a key creative team member, you’ll partner closely with copywriters, designers, photographers, and videographers, as well as e-commerce, sales teams, and product development

As an Art Director in this position, you can expect to:

• Develop and present content creation briefs for new product launches, including guidelines for photography, graphic design, motion, and 3D, both independently and in collaboration with copywriting partners and the Creative Director
• Brief, outsource, and manage the production of assets across different mediums (photography, motion, graphic design, and 3D) and for different usages (product silos and lifestyle interiors—both in photography and 3D, as well as line drawings and post-production)
• Develop, guide, and maintain visual brand guidelines throughout all assets
• Art direct, plan and execute campaign photo and video shoots, as well as 3D production
• Partner and collaborate with on-staff creatives and freelance resources to create assets across brand ecosystem
• Oversee and execute when necessary creative from concept to pre-production through to final creative QC & asset delivery
• Supervise and direct staff responsible for creative production and in-house assets
• Work with other departments to meet all production specifications

We are looking for an Art Director who has:

• 3+ years of experience as an Art Director in an ad agency, freelance, or in-house environment
• 5+ years of experience in multidisciplinary design
• An affinity for well-designed home and bath products, interiors and accessories, architecture, and interior design
• Excellent communication skills
• Impeccable eye for detail
• Ability to meet hard deadlines and manage multiple projects while maintaining high-quality standards
• Work independently or with limited guidance
• A background in interior design, and furniture. or home goods brands is a major plus
• Extensive abilities across the Adobe Creative Suite of products and Figma
• Adept in working within a fast-paced environment

This is a remote (Eastern Time Zone only) full-time opportunity to work for a company in the Valley Stream, NY area. Shuttle transportation is available from the train station. The salary is $95,000 annually. 100% remote work is not available for this position.

To apply, please submit your resume and portfolio link for immediate consideration.

Due to the volume of applications, we are unable to respond to each application personally. If we are interested in your qualifications, we will contact you via telephone or email as soon as possible. By applying for this position, you agree to be contacted by email or text message. Message and data rates may apply.

icreatives is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants and talent will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by law. We believe in providing a culture that embraces and champions diversity, equity, and inclusion because it truly fosters creativity.

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