Connecticut Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Production Title: Amazon Series Casting Barista

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, May 24th. 

Roles: Coffee Shop Baristas

• Men and women
• age 18-35
• Please note if you have real barista experience

Covid Test: May 23, 2022

Rate: Pay is $161/12 hours + $50 for COVID bump

Production Title: ‘LeBron James’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Cleaveland or Ohio on Monday, May 23th. 

Role 1: Basketball Players

• Age: 9-15
• Gender: Male
• Ethnicity: African American

• Parent must be fully vaccinated; including booster (if eligible)
• Please note, your vaccination status will be verified by production
• Must have full day availability (filming can be 12-14 hours)
• Guardians be with the minor at all time
• MINORS CAN NOT SUBMIT THEMSELVES.
• All minors must be submitted through a parent/guardians email account. Parental/Guardian consent is mandatory and consent forms will be provided to all minors who are booked.

Covid Test: May 24, 2022
 A mandatory covid test is required in Beachwood OH. This COVID tests are paid by production and you will receive $30 testing stipend.
Guardians must covid test with minor to be on set!

Rate: Pay is $88/8 hours + $30 covid bump

Production Title: Infomercial Hair Straightener

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting hair stylist to work on scenes filming in Tri-State Area on June 2022.
Must be able to work on the said month. 

Roles: Male Hairstylists

• Must be knowledgable of hair products/tools
• Good with their hands
• Great Energy
• Ability to read a teleprompter is a plus

Covid Test: TBA

Rate: Pay is $5000 for1 rehearsal day, 2 shoot days, & usage.

Usage: Informercial, website & social media campaign in perpetuity with exclusivity of 3 years

Stylist cannot currently rep any products/brand

Production Title:  Nickelodeon ‘Fantasy Football’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia from Wednesday, May 18th to Friday, May 20th. Must be able to work on the said date. 

Roles: Robotics Spectators

• Ages 18-60
• Ages 18+
• All ethnicities
• Variety of types

Covid Test: May 18, 2022

Rate: Pay is $135/12 for each filming day(s) and $33.75 for testing

Production Description:

A fifteen-year-old girl controls her father’s athletic ability, which is a professional football player on the field, via a video game.

The girl’s father was a former college football star who became a professional player. However, he was injured in a game and can no longer play. The girl finds out that she can control her father’s ability on the field by playing a video game. She uses this power to help her father’s team win games.

The girl’s father is amazed at his daughter’s ability to control his football playing. He is also proud of her for using her power to help his team win. The girl is happy to be able to help her father and his team.

Production Title: FX ‘Kindred’ 

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia from Friday, May 20th. 

Casting: African American Extras

• Male
• Aged 30-50

Covid Test: May 20, 2022.

This is a Zone A Production – per studio policy, all talent must be fully vaccinated, with a booster shot if applicable.
(5 Months past 2nd or Final dose of vaccine)

Rate: $100/8 hours
Testing Bump: $45

Production Description:

FX Kindred, Dana is a young Black woman and aspiring writer who has abandoned her family’s duty in order to pursue a writing career in Los Angeles. She is demeaned and terrorized by a group of slave catchers who, before she can settle into her new house, violently seize her back and forth in time to a 19th-century plantation with which she and her family are intimately linked. Interracial romance threads through her past and present, and the clock is ticking as she struggles to confront the secrets she never knew that ran through her blood.

Production Title: ‘Justified’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting stand-in to work on scenes filming in Chicago, Illinois from Wednesday, May 18th to Thursday, May 19th. Must be able to work from the said date. 

Roles: Judge Stand-In

• African American
• 5’1″–5’4″

Covid Test: May 18, 2022

Rate: $175 for up to 10 hours, plus overtime. Plus $50 for covid testing 48 hours prior to each day.

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: ‘LeBron James’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Cleaveland or Ohio on Tuesday, May 24th. 

Role 1: Toddler

• Age: 2-5
• Gender: Any
• Ethnicity: African America

Role 2: Young Mother

• Age: 18-25
• Gender: Female
• Ethnicity: African American

• Parent must be fully vaccinated; including booster (if eligible)
• Please note, your vaccination status will be verified by production
• Must have full day availability (filming can be 12-14 hours)
• Guardians be with the minor at all time
• MINORS CAN NOT SUBMIT THEMSELVES.
• All minors must be submitted through a parent/guardians email account. Parental/Guardian consent is mandatory and consent forms will be provided to all minors who are booked.

Covid Test: May 24, 2022

Rate: Pay is $88/8 hours + $30 covid bump

Production Title: Warner Bros FEATURE FILM: “The Color Purple-The Musical’

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Atlanta, Georgia from Wednesday, May 18th to Monday, May 23rd. Must be able to work from the said date. 

Roles: (DIRECTOR SELECTED) SHUG AVERY UPSCALE PARTY GUESTS

• Atleast 18 years old or older

Covid Test: May 18, 2022

Rate: $110/10 + overtime if necessary
Covid Bump: $27.50/2

Production Description:

Based on Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple is a Tony Award-winning musical about love, hope, and redemption.
Set in the deep south in the 1930s, Celie Harris is a poor, uneducated black woman who is constantly abused by her father and her husband. She has two children that she never sees and is forced to work as a maid for her husband’s family.

Celie begins to find hope when she meets Sofia, a feisty black woman who stands up for herself and her family. Sofia teaches Celie that she deserves to be respected and loved. Celie also forms a close bond with Shug Avery, an unconventional woman who helps Celie see the beauty in herself.

The Color Purple is a story of strength and resilience in the face of adversity. It is a powerful tale of love, sisterhood, and hope that will stay with you long after the curtain falls.

Production Title: ‘WACO : AFTERMATH’ 

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting background actors to work on scenes filming in Santa Fe, New Mexico from Friday, May 20th to Monday, May 23rd.

Roles: Memorial Patrons

• Atleast 18 years of age or older

Covid Test: May 20, 2022

Rate: Pay is $105/ 8 hours + $45 fitting fee

Production Description:

The Waco Aftermath Series is a eight-part documentary series that tells the story of what happened after the fiery end to the siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. The series features interviews with key players on both sides of the standoff, as well as never-before-seen footage and photos.

The Waco Aftermath Series is produced by Emmy-winning filmmaker Jarek Kupsc.

Production Title: Project Fraud Music Video

Job Description: Casting directors are now casting, actors, models, and influencers to work on scenes filming in Greater Toronto Area Ontario, Canada
 from Sunday, May 22nd to Tuesday, May 24th. Must be able to work on the said date. 

Roles: THE KING

• 35 to 50 years old
• White male
• Over 6 feet
• Large stature (wrestler body type, burley etc).

Covid Test: on set

Rate: $550 (fitting and shoot day)