Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Co-op Funeralcare Commercial

We are casting a TV commercial for Co-op funeral care.

We want to make a light-hearted film that gets people talking. While most of us have thought about our funeral wishes, only a few feel comfortable discussing them.

We are looking for real couples, best friends, colleagues, and family members with established relationships across the UK to feature in this commercial. No acting experience is necessary, just an interest in taking part. It will be fun!

The featured cast will receive a £350-day filming fee and a payment of £1000 each if they feature in the final commercial.

We are filming in the following areas: Glasgow, Cardiff, Swansea, The Lakes, Manchester and London.

Filming will be over a few days in the week commencing 31st July. Please only apply if you are available to film any day that week and live in or near one of the above areas listed.

TWA Seeking Talent for Representation

TWA, a full-serviced SAG/AFTRA and WGA Franchised Agency, is seeking talent for representation in both LA and VA locations and our upcoming location in Atlanta. We are seeking talent in all divisions from ages 5-99.

We very much look forward to your submissions and the opportunity of working with you and becoming part of the TWA family.

TMZ is looking for an experienced Senior News Desk Producer to join our team. On a daily basis, the ideal candidate will be responsible for researching, identifying, and pitching news stories. This position requires someone who is adept at enterprising stories, investigative reporting and breaking news within entertainment and pop culture. The ability to forge solid relationships and react quickly in a high-pressure, deadline-driven environment is essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to navigate through news, analyze content, and recognize big stories
• Provide original news angles and manage processes to follow those stories as they progress
• Keeping a finger on the pulse of trending news, both locally and nationally
• Knowledge of court proceedings, criminal and civil and ability to navigate through local court processes to obtain documents and information
• Strong telephone skills, including how to call law enforcement agencies, law offices, district attorneys and other official institutions which may aid in the fact-gathering process
• Ability to develop contacts, cultivate sources, and maintain relationships to aid in the news-gathering process

Requirements:

• 10+ years of progressive responsibility and experience within a network news, digital news outlet, or local station environment is required
• Ability to supervise news gathering while producing original content on your own
• Ability to work well under pressure and multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• Familiar with programs and processes such as LexisNexis, PACER, Outlook, and Word Processing, along with basic MS Office software
• Knowledge of social media, and ability to effectively use and monitor various platforms

“Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is: $132,000 – $168,000 annually”.

TMZ is a workplace that requires the COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment. Requested accommodations/exceptions will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis in accordance with law.

TMZ is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

TMZ

Senior Communications & VIP Manager

SEEN Group Vision: Be the agency the Beauty world wants to work with.

SEEN Group Mission: Originating ideas so inspiring they elevate the perceptions of Beauty.

Role Overview:

The Senior Communications & VIP Manager is the pillar and driver of the account team – this role with 6-8 years’ of experience is instrumental in providing exceptional client council and is responsible for ensuring best in class plans and executions for their accounts. They provide insight and strategy for their clients and showcases deep knowledge of the media and influencer landscape, as well as the “crowd to know” to get high profile, headline driving names to client events across SEEN. This role is a true support to the senior members of the team and cross agency, as well as being an inspiring leader to more junior members to foster their growth.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Client Service:

• Day-to-day account lead with strong client relations, understanding of their brand and ethos, ensuring exceptional client counsel is delivered
• Develop a deep understanding of client’s business in order to deliver strategic and creative campaigns against briefs, and foster strong relationship with client to build trust and SEEN loyalty
• Lead client meetings alongside your team ensuring status updates, plans and proposals are delivered in a professional and knowledgeable manner
• Take an active role in client account/project admin – contribution and quality control for junior team across all elements of client reporting and client administration
• Ensure any client requirements or issues are dealt with accordingly, having a solution-driven approach to all communication and next steps
• Manage the delivery of client reporting to ensure timely delivery for appropriate sign off and deadline management to key stakeholders

Management:

• Act as positive role model for your direct team, peers and across wider business
• Active junior team lead and team coach ensuring support in managing workload, R&R’s and prioritization
• Active junior team role in press and influencer expertise, supporting the team with informed guidance of identification, pitching and seeding strategies
• Mentoring the junior team to support them in their SEEN career developement and ensuring your team is offering effective client work, to meet client goals and deadlines
• Manage appraisals for direct reports – create KPIs and objectives during review processes

Specialist Skill Set:

• Strong written and verbal presentation skills showcasing strategic thinking and creative ideas that SEEN is known for
• Exceptional industry relationships, showcasing media and influencer/talent strategy building skills.
• Excellent pitching skills to convert high quality results and growth for clients
• Consistent growth and maintainence of strong network and knowledge of press and influencer relationships, as well as high profile names in key US regional markets for VIP
• Excellent understanding of social medial landscape, ensuring clients are provided with strategic recommendations that showcase a comprehensive understanding
• Play a lead role in the planning and execution of influencer partnership management and celeb attendance specific to eventing/activations/experiential, inclusive of contract and SOW negotiations
• You are the eyes and ears of industry (beauty and wellbeing) news, trends and insights to benefit client work and in-role specialism.
• Oversee rising talent research and gifting to stylist/agents for to engage clientele
• Identify and foster key relationships with VIPs, talent, agents and hospitality groups and venues to ensure agency is well informed on newest

Business Skill Set:

• Responsible for account financial health, including budget tracking, expsenses, timely delivery of POs and strong internal relationships and WOW with SEEN’s finance team
• Liaise with client on annual and campaign budgets; management of all cost estimates and approvals
• Take an active role in new business involvement, inclusive of brainstorming and when appropriate taking part in the pitch team
• Take an active role in brainstorming across the agency, showcasing your strategic and creative thinking that your peers can utilise with their client portfolio
• Support in identifying and presenting opportunities to organically grow existing client business by proactively pitching SEEN Group integrated ideas and services
• Demonstrate your ability to grow your client business and cross-sell SEEN Group, making your clients aware of full specialism and services
• Assist in recruitment of talent to US team; tapping network of contacts to ensure SEEN has strong pool of diverse candidates for any open roles.

SEEN Group Values:

• Creativity
• Inclusivity
• Positivity
• Excellence

If you would like to learn more about SEEN Group visit seengroup.com or follow us on Instagram @seen_group and @communityxseen

SEEN Group

Graphic Designer – Product Packaging

Pro-Mart is a global designer, manufacturer and distributor of Home Storage and Organization products. We’re looking for an experienced Graphic Designer with product packaging production experience to join our creative team with great product packaging experience to create assets of all kinds, including but not limited to:

• Create and maintain graphics for products, packaging, marketing, branding, and presentations
• Beautifully designed product packaging
• Innovative die-lines designs
• Skillful craftsmanship of mocked up packaging

Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:

• Have expert knowledge of design, layout, typography and die-lines
• Oversee designs through ideation, concept refinement, and final production samples
• Manage the early phases of packaging design and development with other disciplines within the company
• Must have portfolio demonstrating strong vector and traditional illustration
• Knowledge of printing process and color management
• Ability to manage multiple jobs accurately while meeting short deadlines
• Strong attention to quality and detail is an absolute must
• Assist in the development of new processes to streamline workflow.
• Collaborate with photographer to communicate shot list vision and ensure correct photos are taken for packaging.
• Work with outside vendors and customers as needed to coordinate sending and approval of artwork.
• Regularly assess assignment priorities and communicate roadblocks to the Brand Director.
• Understanding of routing protocol for approval to ensure the highest level of quality before releasing file/executing.

Candidates must meet the following qualifications:

• 2-4 years of experience as a graphic designer with product packaging experience
• Skilled with Adobe Creative Cloud products specifically, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and PowerPoint
• Microsoft Office 365
• Strong layout and branding skills

Pro-Mart Industries, Inc.

MSNBC is looking for an experienced Line Producer for Ayman.

Responsibilities:

• Assist senior producer in creating daily broadcast by executing editorial vision of day.
• Serve as backup senior producer.
• Oversee daily rundown changes.
• Supervise editorial content of newscast.
• Use leadership skills to motivate, mentor and manage employees.
• Write news scripts and teases.
• Work with show director and production crew.
• Oversee all in-show graphics and story titles.
• Work with senior producer to approve (copy edit) all scripts.
• Pitch story ideas (day-of, next day, futures).
• Initiate planning process.

In Control Room:

• Preview accuracy of upcoming video, graphics and chyron.
• Preview upcoming stories and segments.
• Communicate with guests and correspondents-time cues, roll cues, thank-you’s.
• Communicate with control room staff-director, teleprompter operator, chyron operator and TPM.
• Time newscast.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in live television (i.e. morning shows, cable shows, broadcast TV, etc.).
• Must have at 1 year of line producing experience.
• Editorial experience in a fast-paced news room environment, ability to anticipate and respond quickly to change.
• Experience in story first journalism approach.

Desired Qualifications:

· Possess ability to develop story ideas, research and plan segments.

· Exceptional editorial skills: Ability to recognize stories with high potential for provocative, compelling television.

· Knowledge of current events, politics and pop culture.

· Wide-range reader of news, including op-eds.

· Strong writing skills.

· Expert tease writer.

Additional Job Requirements:

· Must be willing to work in New York, NY.

· Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States.

· Must be willing and able to work flexible hours, under tight deadline pressure, including breaking news.

MSNBC

Who we are:

Founded in 1978, GS&F is an award-winning, fully integrated marketing and communications agency. GS&F delivers proven results for clients, providing experienced marketing, creative, interactive, media, public relations and production specialists under one roof. GS&F staff numbers 90+ and our roster features major regional, national and global clients, including Bridgestone, LP Building Solutions, Juice Plus+, Butler Snow, Nashville Predators, and the Tennessee Titans. A fiercely independent agency, GS&F takes an audience-first approach to determining the path to our client’s most dramatic business potential.

Who we are looking for:

Our team consists of makers, analysts, creatives, strategists, thinkers, tinkerers and more. If you are a big idea thinker, can find a nugget of wisdom in the smallest data point, are relentless in your pursuit of doing great work and are unafraid to say the tough stuff, we want you here.

Are you pixel perfect in your execution of creative files? Do you agonize over accurate spacing, color selection, and asset specs? Are you a creative machine that can create endless variations and iterations on established brand or campaign standards? In the role of Creative Producer you must be one part designer, one part production artist, one part organization expert and one part project manager. You must be able to ensure that all creative files are technically correct, resulting in high quality print or digital ready files and fulfilling the approved design work and internal production requirements.

You’ll likely need the following qualifications and experience to be successful in this role:

• We believe that years of experience is just a number; that said, typically someone in this role has 2–3 years of design, production artist, or print production experience
• Prior agency experience would certainly help you get up to speed more quickly but isn’t required for this role
• Should possess a mastery of InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro, After Effects as well as other design tools and technologies
• Prior experience with developing HTML5 ads, motion graphics, and other interactive art is highly desired in this role
• Must have a solid understanding of all production and printing industry technical requirements such as pre-press file set up for commercial offset printing as well as digital commercial printing
• Highly collaborative artist who works to produce all files according to the art director’s specifications
• Ability to take a master design concept and version out various deliverables for both print and digital while maintaining a brand’s design guidelines for a cohesive marketing campaign.
• Advises creative team on best practices for the creation and distribution of assets
• Skews toward the technical side of design and less about “big creative ideas”; candidates should be comfortable with this aspect of the role
• Should possess a “library catalog”-type mental organizational ability with the desire to create organization structures to best execute a large amount of creative assets
• Not afraid of voicing a dissenting or contrarian point of view, especially when it supports the brief, the creative idea or the business objectives of a project

Additional information:

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:

There is power in celebrating who we are. GS&F is committed to embracing and welcoming past, current and future employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status and other characteristics that make our employees unique. After all, diversity feeds the best friendships because what makes you, you…makes us, us.

Because of this commitment and our commitment to improve, we have set important DE&I milestones and goals for our agency. To that end, you may be asked a question about your gender, ethnicity, disability or veteran status as you submit your online application. Rest assured we don’t have the ability to track your responses to these questions back to you, and it’s never considered as part of your candidacy for a position at GS&F. If we say we want to improve, we simply want to know we are actually improving.

Location:

We are only considering candidates that currently live in or wish to relocate to Nashville in the near future (first 90 days of employment).

As a full-time member of the GS&F team, we offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Health, dental, vision coverage
• 401K match
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Life insurance
• Generous PTO
• Professional development opportunities and growth-oriented tools
• Support for mental and physical health
• Generous parental leave
• Relocation support

GS&F

WHAT WE BELIEVE

We believe in inclusion, we believe in self-expression, we believe in no judgement and we believe in individualism.

WHO WE ARE

We are bold, we are tenacious, we are courageous and brave.

We are a cast of characters;

We embrace our differences and we share our likenesses.

Some of What’s in it for You!

• Paid Personal Days
• Generous Benefit package
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Loyalty Reward Program
• Generous welcome gift
• Company events

As the Senior Producer, reporting to the Associate Art Director, you will be responsible for the operational foundation in the creative team. As the lead liaison between several internal teams and external talent and vendors, you will be responsible for ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Some of What You’ll Do:

• Act as the operational leader for all creative project management and be the main contact for operational issues in production
• Create and manage creative budgets, while ensuring the delivery of projects are on budget
• Responsible for drafting proposals, Statements of Work (SOWs), Change Orders, Project Schedules, technical specifications, RFPs and any other production-oriented documentation
• Draft and maintain project status document
• Coordinate with the marketing team to define project briefs based on deliverables, budget, and schedule.
• Authorize and initiate talent / team bookings
• Maintain and communicate updated project schedules to all necessary parties in appropriate
• formats (client calendar, Basecamp calendar, Google calendar, Gantt Charts, etc)

Some of What You’ll Need:

• Minimum 5 years of producing experience in a premium brand or a premium Creative/Brand/Agency setting.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communications skills, as well as organizational, multitasking and time management skills
• Skilled in MS Office, Mac OS, Google Docs,
• A proven history of success managing creative output for premium or luxury consumer companies including but not limited to managing everything from large scale institutional campaigns to small social shoots to e-commerce production
• Some travel required

Some of Who You Are:

• Outgoing personality, vocal, inquisitive, friendly under pressure
• Demonstrated Strong Leadership Skills

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