1169 Full-Time Entertainment jobs in Chicago, Illinois

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"It's a Wonderful Life: Live in Chicago!" Seeking Actors

", seeking Equity understudy actors. Please prepare one monologue of your choice. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employees to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. All dates and roles are subject to change. All ...

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
Oak Park, Illinois Backstage
Supporting Actor Job in The Girl in the White Kurti, Female, Age 30-50 - Mom

Very painstakingly straightforward. Believes she is extremely modern yet doesn’t understand the disconnect between her daughter and herself. Sees life in black and white. Unaware and oblivious to the cracks in her family life....

Chicago, Illinois Depaul University
Lead Actor Job in STILL SHE RISE… BUT GOD, Male, Age 30-40 - Charmer

Seeking male actor, ages 30 to 40, for the role of “Charmer” in STILL SHE RISE… BUT GOD. This character is charismatic, confident, charming, emotionally layered, and initially appears loving and magnetic before revealing deeper emotional complexity. Strong emotional acting ability, authenticity, sta...

Chicago, Illinois Lachelle Evans-Beard, Casting Producer
Paid Local Casting: Short Film Roles (Chicago)

ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Casting call for short film, seeking actors. See more details below. Rate: Paid. Additional info: Location: Chicago, IL....

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
Upcoming Theatre Shows Seeking Actors

Casting call for Upcoming Theatre Shows Seeking, Equity actors needed. See more details below. Additional info: Appointments will be made by Equity via the Membership portal. Due to budget restraints, local actors are encouraged to apply. If interested, please submit your application....

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
"Ragtime" Show Seeking Actors

Non-Equity auditions for the "Ragtime" show, seeking actors. See more details below. About the project: At the dawn of a new century, everything is changing... and anything is possible. Set in the volatile melting pot of turn-of-the-century New York, three distinctly American tales are woven togethe...

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
Actors

ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Casting call for short film, seeking actors. See more details below. Rate: Paid. Additional info: Location: Chicago, IL....

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
Lead Actor Job in Desire, Female, Age 21-30 - Ally

Ally is a young bartender who appears confident and witty on the surface but quietly struggles with uncertainty about her future. The role requires naturalistic acting, strong emotional reactions, and believable conversational chemistry. Actress should be able to balance humor, vulnerability, and su...

Chicago, Illinois Thomas Angelo, Creative Producer
Lead Actor Job in Strangers That Share Memories, Female, Age 19-21 - Mae

Mae (19-21) is a young college student, artist, and lover girl at heart. She one day stumbles into Anthony--literally, bumping into each other on a sidewalk downtown. They quickly begin a relationship. However, she eventually realizes all good things must come to an end. This role requires some inti...

Chicago, Illinois Thoraia Hussein, Producer
Lead Actor Job in 'Show #1 ', Female, Age 25-28 - Toshi (Offer Pending)

(25-28) Black Woman. Fiesty. Impulsive. Resistant. Rough around the edges and a former drug addict....

Chicago, Illinois Remy Bumppo Productions
$300/Day Chicago Casting Call for African American Talent

Job Description ExtraOrdinary Casting is seeking one non-union African American male for a paid background acting opportunity filming at the University of Chicago in Hyde Park. The selected talent will appear in a featured scene involving reading a letter and performing detailed hand-focused actions...

Chicago, Illinois ExtraOrdinary Casting
Supporting Actor Job in Buy You The World, Age 20+ - Injury Lawyer Huggs

The second half of a shameless con artist whole, Huggs is as charismatic and slippery as an oil spill and as reliable as a rotted wood foundation. He and his companion, Buster, prey on injury and pray for death. You might call them merchants of misery, but they'd say you just wish you'd gotten to th...

Chicago, Illinois Backstage
Buy You The World

Logline: An immortal woman tries to convince a stranger to kill her during their road trip to the End of the World. BUY YOU, THE WORLD is officially casting — and we want the weird ones, the bold ones, the ones who were built for a story like this. Production is based in the Chicagoland area. Actors...

Chicago, Illinois Backstage
Supporting Actor Job in Buy You The World, Age 25+ - Psychic Terri

A drag queen who can sell a good story even when it’s not worth the paper it’s printed on. Psychic Terri is a grifter and a counterfeiter. Shameless, greedy, and an awfully good performance artist who can charm people out of their hopes, dreams, and money. Terri is expressive, loud, and impossible t...

Chicago, Illinois Backstage
Lead Actor Job in Buy You The World, Female, Age 20-35 - Charlotte

Charlotte wants to figure out what it means to truly love someone. In this search, she is obsessive. Her desire to love consumes and suffocates those who get too close too fast. If there was a manual for love, she’d buy it and desperately act out each instruction. Her and Sully’s wants cannot coexis...

Chicago, Illinois Backstage
Lead Actor Job in Romeo and Juliet - Fools of Sound and Fury, Age 18+ - All Roles

Seeking an ensemble of actors for all roles. Please submit two contrasting monologues from plays by William Shakespeare....

Chicago, Illinois Fools of Sound and Fury
Content Creator/Actors Needed for Upcoming TV Project

Casting call for an upcoming TV project, looking for creative, motivated people who want a real on-set experience. See more details below. Additional info: Location: Chicago, IL Serious inquiries only See the flyer attached below for detais. If you’re interested, drop your work/portfolio....

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
"John Blaze" Feature Film Seeking Background Actors

Casting call for "John Blaze" feature film, seeking background actors. See more details below. About the project: SYNOPSIS: A Chicago man survives a secret military experiment and returns home changed. As crime and corruption rise, he becomes something the city has never seen before… a force no one ...

Chicago, Illinois Unknown
Lead Actor Job in The Second City's 114th Revue Pandemonium, Please Hold, Male, Age 18-37 - Understudy

White male identifying, 20's - 30's, plays bass and guitar - Great improvisers, good singers, strong committed acting as well as great comedic timing, also good at picking up choreography....

Chicago, Illinois The Second City
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