Chicago Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Department: Production

Reports To: Regional Director of Production

Location: New York City or Los Angeles

Who we are

BMF is a collective of Cultural Engineers headquartered in NYC with offices in Miami, Los Angeles, and London. We are a global, full-service integrated marketing agency, specializing in event design & production, brand marketing, marketing strategy, sponsorships, talent management & bookings, publicity, and social media & influencer relations. We constantly strive to expand our offering as an agency.

Our growing and dynamic production team is now looking for a senior, experienced Executive Producer who will be responsible for producing large scale projects as well as managing production teams across multiple projects on behalf of the company’s top clients.

Does this sound like you?

As an Executive Producer at BMF, you possess in-depth experience strategizing and producing a wide range of events. You can manage multiple priority projects and can envision the big picture while working hands-on to create and implement tactical solutions. You are excellent at working with Account, Creative, and Strategy and teams to ensure logistical and budget feasibility. You have a keen eye for detail, time management, team coordination, problem-solving abilities, and budgeting. Most importantly, you will actively produce and oversee project teams while managing budgets of $1MM+. You will work with Account, Creative, and strategy teams to deliver and execute flawlessly across multiple regions and categories

What a day in the life will look like:

Departmental Management:

• Provide production expertise and leadership – guide internal teams to anticipate and meet client goals/objectives, and foster organic growth
• Contribute to day-to-day management of internal and freelance producers, ensure projects are on track and reconciled in a timely manner
• Provide departmental administrative support including signing off on invoices, reviewing contracts, ensuring credit cards are reconciled, and budgets are closed
• Assist in production staff planning for both long-term and freelance for all offices
• Support overall budgeting process to ensure profitability
• Provide coaching and managerial oversight to junior staff

Production:

• Oversee and occasionally manage all facets of pre-event production, onsite management, and post-event breakdown.
• Able to oversee multiple events from beginning to end, often occurring simultaneously.
• Able to work closely with Account teams on client communications and deliverables
• Create, manage, and oversee complex event budgets, from concept to reconciliation to ensure profitability.
• Oversee venue scouting and selection.
• Work with Creative and Client Services teams to ensure the client’s vision is being met.
• Guide project team in the selection of high quality, vendors, including venue, catering, décor, fabrication, audio, lighting, photography and staffing.
• Work with BMF talent and influencer department to secure talent and fulfill riders if needed.
• Partnering with BMF Client Service leads to ensure successful client communications.
• Responsible for ensuring teams create and maintain key event documents including budget, activation deck, recap deck, run of show, work back schedule, contact list.

Pre-Contract Production Support:

• Contribute to the development of creative pitches/proposals ensuring budget and executional feasibility. When necessary, work hand in hand with a creative strategist to develop alternative concepts to fit within project confines.
• Responsible for overseeing pricing out of creative concepts, and production budgets generation included in proposals.
• Provide pre-contract departmental support including vendors; and participating in client pitch meetings.
• Strong working knowledge of new, unique venues and cutting-edge vendors
• Attends weekly brainstorms and RFP meetings.
• Working with Talent and Digital departments in securing talent and fulfilling riders if needed.
• Responsible for overseeing adherence and quality control to BMF processes and key event documents including budget, activation deck, recap deck, run of show, work back schedule, and contact list.

What you need to succeed at BMF:

You must have:

• At least 8-10 years combined experience in Events or Experiential on the agency/contractor/client side
• Five years minimum of experience as a Senior Producer in an agency setting and comfortable/measurable experience
• producing budgets of $1mm and up
• Exceptional budgeting skills.
• Extraordinary organizational and management skills, strong ability to multitask.
• Deep knowledge of cutting-edge venues, vendors and tastemakers.
• Ability to develop and communicate experiential creative concepts and ideas.
• Background in managing teams.
• Strong mentoring capabilities.
• Experience in staff planning against projects in the pipeline.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Keynote.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.

What we bring to the table:

We want you to be part of a dynamic and creative team. We are vanguards in creative strategy and experts in leveraging emerging trends in popular culture, the arts, fashion and technology. We connect brands with media, influencers, artists and consumers to create today’s leading experiential activations in the market. And we’ve got the cred too: we were featured in Event Marketer’s IT List of Top 100 Event Agencies for the past four years.

We offer:

• A fast-paced, creative and collaborative environment with supportive leadership.
• A culture that values ideas and innovation from everyone at every level.
• Ongoing professional development and training; we will empower you to take charge of your career path.
• Strong benefits including health and dental and unlimited time off.

We Are BMF

This is your time to shine!

Pole Dance America is currently casting talent for our national pole dancing competition on December 3, 2022, from 3pm to 9pm!

All ethnicities and nationalities are welcome. Must be 18 years or older to enter. We can’t wait to see your amazing skills and talent showcased on stage!

Would you like to be on the judge’s panel for this event?

Selected judges must have a background in pole dance, gymnastics, swimming, aerial arts, circus, or dance.

For more info, please contact Quincy Griggs at 770-635-8170 or [email protected]

‘Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine’ Open Casting Call

Casting Call: Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine

By Lynn Nottage

Directed byt Tanasia Lewis

Produced by Abigail Williams – Joseph

When

• Rehearsals Begins: 1/5/2023
• Tech Week 2/3/23-2/8/23
• Performances: 2/9-2/12/2023 at the Theatre at Lenfest

Compensation: Stipend

Synopsis: 

Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine is a social satire that follows successful and high-powered African-American publicist Undine Barnes Calles on an unexpected journey, after her smooth-talking but dishonest husband Herve disappears with her hard-earned fortune. Suddenly bankrupt, homeless and pregnant, Undine returns to her childhood home in Brooklyn’s Wait Whitman projects, where she reunites with the family and friends she attempted to leave behind. There she faces the realities of her new life, rediscovers where she came from, and gains a fresh and gains a fresh perspective on her priorities for her future.

This is a Columbia University directing Thesis Production, written under the guindance of Anne Bogart and Brain Kulick.

 Roles: 

An Ensemble for 4 women and 4 men who play multiple characters with the exception of the actress playing Undine.

• Undine Barnes Calles (30’s Black, Female/Female Presenting): A high-powered executive at a PR firm who loses everything but gains a sense of perspective in the process; a self-made woman who endures with humor and honesty.
• Flow/Others (20’s, Black, Male/Male Presenting): Undine’s brother, a hispter with a tatty Afro ang goatee, with the habit of speaking a bit too loudly. May also play Agent Duva, Rapper, Drug Dealer, Mover, Addict, Applicant.
• Mother/Others (40’s+, Black, Female/Female Presenting): Undine’s Mother; works as a security guard at Long Island University. May also play Allision, Rosa, Inmate #2 and Applicant.
• Accountant/Others (20’s, Any Race, Male/Male Presenting): An elegantly-clad man in his mid-thirties; may also play: Addict #1, Mover, Applicants, Doctor #2.
• Herve/Guy (20+, Latino/Hispanic, Male/Male Presenting): Undine’s husband, an Argentinian con man with the grace of a flamenco dancer, Also plays Guy, a recovering addict making the most of sobriety; works as a security guard but preparing to take the fireman’s exam: may also play Lance.
• Stephie/others (18+ Black/BIPOC, Female/Female Presenting): A spacey twenty-something; Undine’s assistant. May also Play: Counselor, Devora, Pregnant Woman and Applicant.
• Father/Others (40+, Black Male/Male Presenting): Undine’s Father; works as a security guard at Long Island Unversity. May also play Yoruba Priest, Gregory, Applicant.
• Grandma/Others (50+, Black Female/Female Presenting): Undine’s grandmother, all warmth and care. She came to New York with nothing, got her high school diploma, worked two jobs, and raised five beatufitul children. May also play: Doctor Khdair, Inmate #1, Case Worker.

COVID

Production will follow Columbia Unversity’s COVID-19 policies and protocols. All participants will be required to show proof of vaccination. In the performance, the actors will be maskless, and the audience members will have to show proof of vaccination. Health and safelty policies are consistently updated based on New York State, New York City and Columbia Unversity guidelines and are subject to revision at any time.

Paramount Pictures Feature Film Casting American Actors

Looking for: Young American Talent for a Feature Film 

• With flawless American accents ( no specific region)
• Must have strong acting ability
• Female – any ethnicities, age 5-7 years old
• Male – Black, Aged 7-9 years old

Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Holiday Road’ Casting For A College Campus Scene

Casting for a College Campus Scene!

Types needed: 
– College Students
– Parents/Alumni/Faculty
– University Police

FILMING DATE: Monday, Dec. 5

NOTE: Mandatory Covid Testing within 48 hrs of work dates, or PCR test accepted from other projects

Filming Location: Lawrenceville, GA
Rate: $88/8
Covid Test Pays: $50

NOT a vaccine mandated film.

Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Holiday Road’ Casting For A Kick Boxing Gym Sene

Production: Holiday Road 
Starring Mark Wahlberg

Casting for a KICK BOXING GYM scene

Types needed: 
– FEMALE Kick Boxing Class members  (some with cars/some nicer cars)
– Kick Boxing Instructors- special ability pay rate
– Gym Employees

FILMING DATE: Friday , Dec. 2
Daytime filming

NOTE: Mandatory Covid Testing within 48 hrs of work dates, or PCR test accepted from other projects

Filming Location: Atlanta, GA
Rates: 
$88/8 for class and employees
$125/8 for Experienced in Kick Boxing
Car bump (if booked w/ Car): $25
Gas bump if applicable for driving in the scene
Covid Test Pays: $50

Covid Test Pays: $50

NOT a vaccine mandated film.

Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Holiday Road’ Casting Bank Scene

Production: Holiday Road 
Starring Mark Wahlberg

Casting for a BANK scene!

Types needed: 
– Bank Customers & Employees/Tellers/Execs/Guard
– Bank Employees
– Peds w. Cars 

FILMING DATE: Thursday , Dec. 1

NOTE: Mandatory Covid Testing within 48 hrs of work dates, or PCR test accepted from other projects

Filming Location: Atlanta, GA
Rate: $88/8
Car bump (if booked w/ Car): $25
Gas bump if applicable for driving in the scene
Covid Test Pays: $50

NOT a vaccine mandated film.

‘Holiday Road’ Casting Featured College Tour Group

FEATURED COLLEGE TOUR GROUP 

Prospective Students with a Parent on tour of a college they are hoping to attend!!

FRESHMAN College Students Ages 18 to 25 (looking young) 
And
PARENTS- Ages 40’s to 50’s

FILMING DATES:  4 DATES – mandatory matching!
Tue, Nov 29
Wed, Nov 30
Mon, Dec 5
Mon, Dec 12

FITTING DATE: Mon, Nov 28th 
NOTE: Covid Testing on Sat Nov 26 or  or Sun Nov 27- this holiday weekend

Locations: Atlanta, GA
Rate: $100/8
Covid Test Pays: $50
Fitting Pay: $25 + $22 bump

NOT a vaccine mandated film.

CW’s ‘Gotham Knights’ Casting Call for Guards

Will be wearing costume masks.

*Ages 18 & up.*
Location: Conyers, GA
Pays $88/8

Not a vaccine mandated production.
You will take a covid test  on your work date.

Music Video Casting Call for Featured Models

CASTING CALL for Hip Hop Artis Music Video

Date: Mon 11/28
Location: Atlanta
Paid

Seeking Beautiful Female Models 21-28yrs, ALL ethnicities.