Local to Chicago, Suburbs and Surrounding border states ONLY!
Casting Alert! We are searching for MEN AND WOMEN with either MILITARY EXPERIENCE, OR REAL SWATT, OR REAL POLICE, OR ANY person with real experience handling guns to make it look real in a SWAT scene for CHICAGO FIRE.
Please help us spread the word!!
We have a very exciting next episode of Chicago Fire and we are searching for MEN AND WOMEN, ages 20’s to 50’s, all ethnicities, to work multiple days on Chicago Fire.
You will need to be available from March 22, 23, 24, 25.
You also need to be available for a Covid test and a fitting, plus a Covid test. The Covid test will most likely be on Wed., March 16th (takes about one hour), A fitting on Friday, March 18th (takes about 2 hours), and a Covid test on Sunday, March 20th.
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