New York Casting Calls & Acting Auditions

Position: Associate Producer

Company: DeSales Media Group (News Content Group)

Reports to: Executive Producer

Overview:

Currents News is looking for an experienced, ambitious, and creative journalist who can jump into a fast-paced newsroom environment to assist in the production of a Catholic–based TV news program. If you are looking for a fantastic opportunity where you will be able to contribute your experience and grow into a producer role, this is it. The associate producer wears multiple hats and plays a vital role in the day-to-day production of the newscast. You will work closely with the EP, reporters, and production staff. You will contribute by pitching stories, writing scripts, editing video, help with breaking news, learn how to line produce, write in-house packages, assist with the running of the assignment desk, and contribute to other brands within the news department.

Responsibilities:

• Write vos and in-house packages
• Pitch and develop stories
• Produce interview segments with supportive material such as video, sound bites, and ordering graphics
• Edit short vides for vos, vo/sots, and interview segments
• Learn how to line produce under the direction of the EP, and then fill-in for them when they are absent
• Work closely with the assignment desk to communicate story and information needs
• Fill in and assist on the assignment desk, as required
• Train new writers and interns
• Assist with field requests from reporters on obtaining file video and/or creating graphics
• Print scripts and distribute rundown before the program is recorded.

Background, Skills, Requirements:

• Degree in journalism, broadcast news, or equivalent
• 1-2 years of experience in a newsroom
• Exceptional news judgment and knowledge of how to avoid copyright infringement
• Ability to edit on Adobe Premiere or equivalent
• Excellent writing, communication, and organizational skills
• Ability to learn quickly and work independently
• Experience working on digital platforms with ability share content on social media
• Strong and proven ability to multi-task and to work under deadlines
• Willing to work late hours and weekends, as needed
• Basic knowledge of Catholic Church, teachings, and traditions is a plus

About DeSales Media Group:

DeSales Media Group is the non-profit communications and technology arm of the Diocese of Brooklyn. Services include media relations and strategy, marketing and social media, ad sales, educational support, video production, large events, and news content. DeSales Media Group operates NET-TV, a cable television channel that reaches more than two million people in the New York area. Its news group produces a nightly television program, two award-winning newspapers (The Tablet and Nuestra Voz), and is growing its digital department, which produces original news and informational content. We don’t just cover our own backyard. We go where the news is happening. Recently, our reporters traveled to Puerto Rico, Texas, Colombia, Rome, and Hong Kong, Panama, and Ireland. The news department is the only outlet in the country to offer extensive live coverage of papal trips and recently completed live coverage of World Youth Day in Panama, and more than 40 hours of live in-depth reporting World Meeting of Families. DeSales Media is growing. We will soon be moving into a new building, which includes a state-of-the-art newsroom and studio. DeSales is looking for creative and experienced professionals who are motivated to make a difference. The company offers competitive salaries, and many benefits including comprehensive medical and dental benefits, paid time off, 403b with a company contribution.

DeSales Media Group

Client Overview: Our client is a bright, up and coming agency, with a client list of household names.

Art Director Overview: As the Art Director, you’ve got an eye for design and a passion for helping brands stand out in the best, most creative way possible. In this role, you will establish a clear design direction that communicates the brand voice and vision across digital, print and experiential, while overseeing a team of designers.

Art Director Responsibilities:

• Communicate advanced topics in the digital space in a clear and visually engaging way to drive brand awareness and connect with target consumers
• Create, design, and direct campaigns across mobile, product, interactive, OOH, print, and digital
• Develop original and eye-catching work to help set the brand apart in a competitive and rapidly evolving industry
• Guide and oversee Junior Designers, providing constructive feedback while ensuring timelines are met
• Communicate clearly and effectively with cross-functional teams on design needs

Art Director Qualifications:

• 7+ years of agency or in-house design experience
• Experience designing, art directing, concepting
• Advanced proficiency in the Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch, and more.
• BIG IDEAS person!
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

24 Seven Talent

OK COOL is a (very) creative studio for social media.

We humanize brands. We connect them to culture. We help them think, act and behave like the people they need to connect with. Our clients are cultural powerhouses like Nike, Disney, Spotify, Converse, Mr Porter, Bumble, Tag Heuer, Gucci and COS to name a few.

If, like us, you’re obsessed with digital culture and you spend a massive portion of your day online, here is your chance to get paid for it.

OK COOL’s headquarters are in London but we are rapidly expanding in the US. We need a social creative lead to join our team and build our creative department and roadmap to help continue driving agency growth. We’re looking for a social first ideas person who can lead all creative work and conceptualize clever, innovative concepts across all social media channels. Our dream person is someone who can come up with ideas for TikTok, Reels, Feed and all other social media platforms and formats.

You live and breathe social creativity, presenting work to clients, have acute attention to detail, and are passionate about innovation in communication. This is a fast-paced work environment, so attentiveness and the ability to handle multiple projects with ease are a must. You’re able to stay humble while showing off your creative thinking, and will help us maintain an environment that encourages expression, inclusivity and collaboration.

You’d be in charge of:

● Lead the overall social creative vision and development process on major client accounts.

● Conceptualise short-form video content and come up with clever ideas for social media posts, mainly for TikTok, Reels, Instagram feed and YouTube

● Partner with account and production leaders to identify creative objectives and strategies; provide input into creative briefs.

● Push the creative envelope, continually raising the bar on the quality of the client’s creative while delivering successful business solutions for our clients.

● Hiring and managing a team of designers, copywriters, social mavens, content creators and more. Ultimate accountability for the quality, strategy and integrity of all creative deliverables.

● Monitor trends in the social, digital, marketing, design and advertising industries in order to position the brands as the leaders in their industry.

● Improve accountability across creative teams through management and process improvement.

● Organize a creative team with appropriate structure, experience levels, diversity of skills, etc. Plan, assign, schedule and direct work.

We’d love for you to live in NYC, LA or Miami so you can join us IRL on occasion – but we all work from home full time. 



Send your portfolio / website / IG handle and available start date to [email protected]

OK COOL

Company Description

It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world’s relationship with money by making it more relatable, instantly available and universally accessible, at Cash App you’ll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.

Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We’ve been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.

Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees’ creativity and productivity wherever they are.

Check out our locations, benefits and more at cash.app/careers.

Job Description

As an Art Director on the Creative Campaign sub-team within our Creative Design team, you will be at the heart of coming up with big campaign ideas and boundless brand extensions, and work with teams across Cash App to bring them to life. You’ll be asked to translate project strategy into innovative advertising experiences across every medium. And you’ll be a big part of a small team tasked with launching creative marketing experiences that guide our mission, and drive our business and brand forward.

The Campaign Team focuses on creating innovative brand experiences that are built upon brand values and marketing strategy, solve for audience challenges, show up authentically in culture and are executed with a high level of craft. We work across most all traditional and non-traditional spaces, whether it’s the latest social platforms, video, web and mobile experiences, outdoor advertising, experiential installations, photography, animation, and more.

Our Creative Design team is made up of accomplished creative directors, copywriters, art directors, animators, designers and copywriters. This role reports to our Integrated Campaign Creative Director.

In This Role, You Will

• Translate brand strategy and human insight into powerful and purposeful creative solutions
• Develop innovative ideas and execute campaign projects across every medium.
• Produce, enhance, and voice creative presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Work with partners across Cash App (often collaborating with writers, designers, marketers, producers, and creative directors) to guarantee an integrated brand experience.

Qualifications

• You have 3 – 6 years of relevant creative advertising experience or freelance work
• You understand how marketing objectives, strategic positioning, and audience insights can influence creative ideation
• You have a portfolio of work that demonstrates an ability to conceive for a variety of audiences, brand challenges, styles, and media.
• You generate clear ideas and concepts that solve for brand marketing objectives
• You have an eye for great design and high production value, from initial presentation to final execution.
• You have experience pushing a brand forward with fresh, inventive ideas through both new and traditional brand channels / media
• You have experience working cross-functionally to launch creative deliverables
• You have an insatiable appetite for new content and culture, an irrational ambition to make things no one has ever made before, and a contagious passion for the work that confronts challenges with optimism.
• Please submit a portfolio of work in order to be considered.

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, and always assess candidates on an individualized basis.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.
Cash App

Our client is one of the most coveted skin care brands in the world. Based in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, they are a collaborative, dynamic, creative and closely connected group that has built the brand into a global beauty powerhouse and a leader in ultra-luxury skincare.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Art Director is responsible for strategic content creation from inception through completion. Reporting into the Vice President and the Executive Director, the art director develops concept campaigns from ideation to execution of all assets for a 360 campaign. The ideal candidate will create extraordinarily strong storytelling and is an analytical thinker, able to create holistic content and execute breakthrough consumer-centric initiatives across our brand channels – print, digital, and social media. They will work cross-functionally with Copy, Digital, Visual Merchandising, and the Social team to develop campaigns. The candidate will be an innovative, strategic, passionate creative thinker with strong problem-solving skills.

RESPONSABILITIES:

• Create awe-inspiring, strong story-telling creative content creation/campaigns
• for all global programs that resonates with target audiences.
• A definitive creative vision, a high level of design sophistication, a keen eye for photography, and strong typography skills are essential.
• Direct projects from concept through coordination of photo shoots, retouching, mechanical production and release.
• Lead with various departments and functions including Designers, Visual Merchandising, Copywriters and Production Artists during project development.
• Partner with Operations to meet fast paced timelines
• Ensure best in class standards are being met.
• Integrate specific projects with overall brand standards and style guidelines.
• Take ownership of deliverables and initiatives with acute attention to craft and detail
• Be able to present ideas to senior management team
• Must have a good eye for layout and details and an expert in luxury space.
• Must have a good eye for color and experienced in image color markup

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Position requires 8+ years related experience at a traditional ad agency or similar experience in a brand creative studio.
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, After Effects, and Keynote to create presentation decks
• Good interpersonal skills required, a team play mentality.
• Is self-motivated and resourceful with a positive, can-do attitude.
• Conceptual thinker. Being able to ideate, present, develop, and execute projects from start to finish in highest quality.
• Ability to work in a fast- paced environment, manage multiple projects under tight deadlines, and adapt to changing priorities and creative approaches.
• Strong organizational skills, meticulous and detailed oriented in both your technical work and your ability to expertly present your designs
• Great understanding of luxury market and be familiar with trends in culture, luxury arena, design, technology, user experience, and social media
• Understanding and implementation of animation and video production skills a plus.
• Working knowledge of prototyping tools (InVision, Marvel, etc.)
• Story boarding, motion graphics and video experience

TDA Creative

Major Brand Photo Shoot

Rush Call Major Brand Shoot

Hispanic Male and Female Extras

Today, Friday October 7th

Time: 3:30 PM 

Location: Harlem, New York

FX’s Feud: Capote and His Women Casting Call

Waldron Casting is seeking Men and Women interested in PAID background work on the FX series Feud: Capote and his Women.

Specifically seeking those who can portray sophisticated Manhattan socialites, wealthy types, and Manhattanites int he 60s and 70s. Looking for individuals with hair and body types that era of Manhattan.

We are committed to inclusive, diverse casting. Qualified performers should submit without regard to age, sex, ethnicity, race, color, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity, or any other basis prohibited by the law unless otherwise specifically indicated. 

If you are cast, you must provide I-9 documentation that establishes your identity and employment eligibility. If you do not provide this as required by law, you will not be allowed to work.

‘No Hard Feelings’ Casting Call

Waldron Casting is seeking NON-UNION actors who reside in the Hampton area for background work on the film, No Hard Feelings. This is to portray Hampton locals for scenes set on the beach, boardwalk and cafes. MUST be OK with Summer Season exterior work as the movie is set during a HOT JULY. We will be filming in the Hampton area during the week of Monday October 10th ***NO EXPERIENCE NEEDED***

Covid testing would be in the Hampton area and you would need to test the day before your scheduled work day. You would be required to follow covid-19 protocol and wear a mask at all times and follow social distancing. You would be wearing a KN95 mask. You would only be able to take it off while cameras are rolling per SAG/AFTRA protocol. Your child and the parent/guardian would be PCR tested on set.

CBS ‘Blue Bloods’ Casting notice:

Seeking Vietnamese Actors for Blue Bloods (CBS). 9-12 yrs old.

This kid is running around his neighborhood as Danny tries to get info on Sonny’s whereabouts. CO-STAR.

*MUST SPEAK VIETNAMESE. Episode is shooting one day in NYC between 10/6 – 10/17. Contact us at: [email protected]