New York Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Title: Senior Art Director

Company/Location: Patients & Purpose / New York

Department/Discipline: Art

Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy and Creativity

Overview: The Art Director is responsible for learning about the basics of healthcare advertising, creating concepts on strategy, and the agency process. The Art Director is a driven and ambitious member of the creative team with an eye for design.

Responsibilities:

• Develop concepts and supporting materials for 360º healthcare advertising
• Work closely with copy and account services as a team player to ensure that the creative needs of your brand(s) are met
• Be a brand steward: manage design, typography and overall visual identity in the online and offline spaces
• Stay Creatively Fresh: actively seek and share digital inspiration (creative, technology, general digital trends) with their teams, art department, and agency
• Ability to present/communicate in an organized, professional, and effective manner
• Responsible for managing workload and timeline.
• In person client travel is required

Qualifications and Experience:

• Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• Hybrid designer: print and digital
• Minimum 2-5 years’ experience at an advertising agency
• Team oriented
• Basic knowledge of presenting creative work
• Degree in Art Design/Advertising
• Demonstrate outstanding creative conceptual and design skills through a portfolio that is clean and visually strong

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you

Patients & Purpose

Location: NYC, Los Angeles, or Seattle

Job Overview:

Pixel is an innovation and growth marketing studio, helping Fortune 500 brands test and launch new creative and products.

We are seeking an experienced and talented Creative Director to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the creative vision and direction for our clients, as well as overseeing the production of high-quality video and digital campaigns. You will work closely with clients to understand their needs and goals, and then bring those ideas to life through your creative leadership and vision.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the creative vision and direction for clients, ensuring all campaigns align with the clients’ goals and objectives.
• Oversee the production of high-quality video and digital campaigns, including creative concept development, scriptwriting, storyboarding, and post-production.
• Work closely with clients to understand their needs and goals, and develop campaigns that effectively communicate their message.
• Collaborate with the account management team to ensure that campaigns are delivered on time and on budget.
• Present creative concepts and campaigns to clients, effectively communicating the ideas and selling them in.
• Mentor and guide the creative team, helping them to develop their skills and reach their full potential.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in consumer electronics, video production, and digital marketing, and apply this knowledge to your work.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in creative direction and video production.
• Strong experience in digital campaigns and a deep understanding of consumer electronics.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively sell in creative concepts and campaigns.
• Proven portfolio of work that demonstrates your creative vision and leadership.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to mentor and guide a team.
• Bachelor’s degree in advertising, marketing, or a related field.

Pixel Employees’ Favorite Perks & Benefits:

• Hybrid remote policy: you only come into the office as needed, but you can expect approximately 85% of your work days to be remote*
• Full Health, dental, vision insurance
• One Medical Membership
• 401k matching
• Up to 6.5 weeks of paid time off per year, including an extended winter break
• Continuing education allowance
• Work-from-home allowance
• Fitness allowance
• Charitable gift matching
• 1 month paid sabbatical every 4 years

*Pixel HQ is located in New York City, but we are a remote-first company. This means we only come into the office as needed, or as directed by your manager. Full-time employees are still expected to work from the city in which they are hired in order to report to their local office as needed.

Pixel

Who are we?

The Soze Agency is a social impact creative agency. Guided by three core values — compassion, authenticity, and equity — we launch campaigns, build brands, create content, produce immersive experiences, and support movements, all through storytelling that’s grounded in culture and cultivates the conditions for a better world.

About this role

The Creative Design Team at Soze integrates social impact strategy to communicate stories through creative visuals and design that can come to life through an array of mediums and experiences. We are hiring a well-rounded Art Director to join our team of storytellers, entrepreneurs, strategists, optimists and creatives. Our ideal candidate is an interdisciplinary designer who has training and experience as a graphic designer yet can share meaningful art direction and creative feedback for our team on various storytelling outputs from digital content to IRL  experiences.

We’re looking for candidates who are:

• Design thinking. You use design to make sense of the world, and understand how it is an effective means to communicate and envision it as a place where we all can belong and thrive.
• Interdisciplinary in practice. You have experience creating graphics for different mediums, including experiential; presentation design, environmental graphics, signage, and branding for the digital and physical worlds. You might also love photography or have wet your feet in UX/UI design or motion graphics. 
• Inherently curious. You love thinking as much as making. You have a strong appetite for learning and discovery. You have a diverse set of references that you draw to find inspiration whether it is post-war Sainsbury’s Design Studio to Wangechi Mutu — that supports the team in ideation to develop grounded design concepts.
• Proactive & solutions-oriented. You push to understand and identify the real problem hiding behind the perceived one. You see the challenges you encounter as opportunities to provide innovative solutions that create positive change. 
• Skillful collaborators. From building relationships across multiple teams to navigating varied personalities, you’re eager to work with others to solve problems, brainstorm together, support each other, and push for great ideas. 

Responsibilities

Art Directors are expected to be designers while also being conceptual thinkers, problem solvers, and storytellers who work across integrated teams and multiple projects—internal and external. 

• Provide end to end art direction and execution for branding, events, experiential and exhibit design, 360 campaigns, social, editorial, video and photo shoots
• Collaborate with a team to develop strategy and design for internal and external projects
• Production and execution of a broad array of visual communication, content and experiential pieces
• Collaborate with a team of creative designers & strategists, architects and production artists and working in close collaboration with other CSM teams (business development, accounts, partnerships, PR/communications and digital) as appropriate

Experience 

• 3-5 years of design experience ideally in a creative agency, design studio or similar environment. 
• Strong and rapid visual design skills, whether hand sketching, mock-ups, 2D or 3D renders
• Advanced knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, with emphasis on InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
• Advanced knowledge of presentation software including Keynote, PowerPoint, Google Slides
• Strong graphic/typography skills and a keen eye for exceptional aesthetic executions
• Strong comfort level researching mediums in which you may never have worked (video, interactive technology, social media, emerging technologies, etc) so as to grant flawless execution 
• Experience in conceptual content development and video editing; at a minimum, strong skills storyboarding and collaborating with photographers, videographers, directors and/or content teams. 
• Strong understanding of how to translate the client’s objectives into creative solutions.
• Oversee installations on site as needed, ability to travel for projects
• Strong organizational abilities, including time management and attention to detail. 
• Proven and tested ability to juggle multiple projects, navigate various working styles, and maintain an optimistic, solutions-oriented attitude through it all.
• Proficiency in utilizing Google Workplace, Asana and other project management systems, and understanding how they integrate with creative workflows
• Oversee installations on site as needed, ability to travel for projects
• Plusses: Experience with FIGMA, AdobeXD or other product prototyping software; comfort with collaborating with and directing digital teams
• Knowledge of After Effects and motion graphics big plus

Salary + Benefits

• Salary band for this role is $86,000 to $99,000. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.
• 100% paid medical, dental + vision benefits
• 401k plan with 50% employer matching 
• Unlimited vacation after one year of tenure, allowances for gym membership, cell phone, and personal development stipend
• The Soze Agency is a worker-owned cooperative. Full-time employees are eligible to become co-owners after two years of consecutive full-time employment. Benefits to co-ownership will be discussed during the hiring process.

The Soze Agency

CookUnity is the first chef-to-you marketplace connecting the country’s most talented chefs with eaters (consumers). We’re changing meal delivery by bringing small-batch, restaurant-quality meals to eaters across the country. Every week, a diverse collective of all-star chefs craft their signature, ready-to-eat dishes for an elevated at-home dining experience.

CookUnity is home to more than 100 of NYC, LA, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle and Miami’s most inspired and innovative chefs. Through a weekly subscription, eaters can select from a diverse, ever-changing menu of hundreds of hand-crafted meals. Our chefs create dishes that cater to a wide variety of palates and dietary preferences, so the best part of dining out can be enjoyed by everyone.

Delivering more than 1M meals per month and growing 3x YoY, CookUnity is also helping improve the livelihood of working chefs, tripling their income, enabling the growth of their own teams and personal brands. And believing that healthy food fuels stronger communities, CookUnity partners with Food Bank For New York City, the city’s major hunger-relief organization, working to end food insecurity across all five boroughs.

What we are looking for

The Creative Team is central figure in CookUnity’s Brand Marketing organization. This team leads the company’s creative and content vision, strategy and execution.

Its primary function is to drive the development of the brand’s aesthetic and voice through the strategic implementation of content. Their mandate includes production and management of creative and art direction, copy, design and filmmaking, and also leading the discovery and evolution of the emotional connection with the eater.

Success isn’t simply creating world-class brand experiences for the brand, it’s also being the team’s vanguard for cultural relevance.

The Creative Team plays an integral role in connecting the rest of the marketing team and the company to its brand expressions and experiences. And in turn, the other arms of Marketing and Product feed Creative the insights, customer data and performance data to build solid briefs and powerful brand interactions.

The Role

The Creative Director is a visionary, a discerning point of view and a shepherd, all in one. Success begins with a strategic eye, an ordered attention to detail and a graceful but firm guiding hand. The primary mandate is to manage a “studio” that not only produces an incredible volume of content and creative work from internal makers and external agencies, but also to deliver an excellent final product. This team collaborates with the rest of the Brand team to position CookUnity as the primary destination for the best food in America and with the Growth team to generate powerful creative assets that can perform efficiently in all paid channels.

This right candidate will be a master of managing multiple types of contributors and creators—a digital first view of design, video, copy, podcasts, editorial, etc. across all brand touch-points. And with the unique ability to influence people—agencies, vendors, cross-functional teams and executives.

Reporting directly to the VP of Brand Marketing, this role is a key player in the organization and collaborate closely with Campaign, Portfolio, Growth Marketing, CX and work cross-functionally with Product, Tech and Design.

Responsibilities

• The Creative Director will lead the marketing vision for our brand expression
• Provide the Growth marketing team all the creative assets they need to unlock great performance in paid channels at scale.
• Lead and inspire the Creative Team of designers, art directors, copywriters and motion designers—in-house and freelance
• Lead 3 creative pods, each including designers, writers and the support of producers and freelance editors and production:
• Performance Creative Studio—growth marketing advertising creative with a high iteration cycle to accelerate ad performance and improve brand experience
• Campaign Creative—from direct response all the way to 360 brand campaigns across all types of digital and traditional media
• Brand Creative—as that we just launched an internally-built, company-wide brand reimagining, this team is continuing to imagine the future of the evergreen brand assets design, positioning, brand strategy, product experience, brand voice + identity
• Lead + own key Creative’s initiatives from kickoff to completion—most notably the physical brand experience.
• Run cross-departmental discovery, overseeing shoots and production, hands-on in design execution for print and digital, addressing feedback from stakeholders, etc.
• Conceptualize and execute message and designs for marketing campaigns across digital and print
• Be a go-to resource for the heads of Campaign, Growth and Product

Qualifications

• 10 + years of relevant experience ideally within an in-house creative team
• Must have a background in art direction and hands-on skills as a graphic designer or copywriter
• Experience working for a DTC or subscription brand is ideal
• Experience in advertising / creating impactful 360 marketing campaigns
• Experience working with Marketing teams and understanding business metrics
• Experience managing and leading a creative team of designers, copywriters, etc
• Working closely with producers, project managers and production partners to create campaigns within budget
• Ability to successfully organize, prioritize and manage multiple projects in a deadline-driven environment
• Experienced concept developer and strong in directing photo and video shoots
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to mentor and grow an in-house team
• Expert knowledge in Google Suite, Adobe Creative Suite + Figma
• Great wit is a must

Compensation

• All final pay rates will be determined by candidates experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data
• Pay Range: $150,000 – $175,000 per year

Benefits

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If you’re interested in this role, please submit your application and if we think you might be a fit, we’ll get in touch with you. Thank you for your time!

CookUnity is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are dedicated to creating a community of inclusion and an environment free from discrimination or harassment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

CookUnity

MAKE UP ARTISTS NEEDED

– PAID OPPORTUNITY

– MOUNT VERNON, NY

– MARCH 26TH

MAKEUP ARTIST WILL DO 3 MODELS

2 PM-5 PM

Liz Lewis Casting Partners and SELF are casting for Tristate area people who have vitiligo to discuss their experiences and how it affects them emotionally and physically.

The younger and older patient will appear in the video, and the portrait patient will appear in photos.

This will be part of SELF’s My Way To Well campaign.

This is a non-union project (not being produced under the SAG-AFTRA contract).

Looking for:

• A young patient, preteen, age 12-14 (must be legally 12)
• A senior patient, 55+
• Portrait patient, age 21-40, who has had vitiligo for 5+ years
• Shoot: One 10 hour day the first week of May 

Location: NY Tri-State area

Compensation:

• Young and senior patient: $1000
• Portrait patient: $550

IMMEDIATE CASTING FOR A TWO-CHARACTER MUSICAL COMEDY!

Seeking all ethnicities!!!!

Two rural North Carolina cucumber farmers facing foreclosure of their beloved family farm approach an Oscar-winning actress-turned-beauty guru with a formula for a super-effective beauty mask. But when she tries to buy the farm right out from under them, our “hayseed heroes” must act fast, or they’ll find themselves in a real pickle! Duncan Christy and Ina Chadwick’s musical comedy, Rue d’Awakening, is a ridiculous romp on the rural side that you’re sure to feel in your funny bone!

TYPE: Musical Comedy

CONTRACT: AEA Showcase Code (New York Theatre Festival) 

SALARY: $825 Total  ($501 flat fee plus $324 AEA archival recording)

PERFORMANCES: May 4th @ 6:15 pm, May 6th @ 2:15 pm & May 7th @ 6:00 pm 2023 at Teatro Latea 107 Suffolk St, NYC

REHEARSALS BEGIN:  On/Around April 10, 2023, at a Midtown Location TBA- 

MANDATORY TECH REHEARSAL- May 4th @ 1:30-6:00 pm

SEEKING: Union/Non-Union Talent for the following roles:

“GRANNY B” BERTHA MALPHRUS:

• Female,
• 50s – 70s,
• Any Ethnicity.
• Good comedy chops.
• Mezzo w/ Strong Belt.
• Opinionated, abrupt, vital, energetic foul-mouthed, yet emotionally vulnerable.
• A modern-day Granny Clampett. After a failed love affair with her husband Buck, she returns to Loblolly Farms, owned by her family. That is if the bank doesn’t seize it for taxes owed.

CLEM:

• Male,
• 40s – 60s,
• Any Ethnicity.
• Good comedy chops.
• Character Bari-Tenor.
• Smart, kind, a hard-working hopeless romantic, and a distant relative of Granny B to whom he is lovingly devoted. Careful of speech and surprisingly resourceful. His cucumber mask formula could save the farm if his secret ingredient remains just that… a secret.

SEEKING MALE FOOTBALL PLAYERS FOR A NEW TV SERIES IN NY/NJ AREA

VARIOUS DATES: APRIL- AUGUST

MALES: 18-35 ALL LEVELS OF PLAYERS

CASTING NEWBORNS

Seeking:

• 15-day to 3 month old babies (singles/twins/triplets) to play white female infant on 4/5/23 in Newburgh, NY