CALL SHEET 3/9/22
Jobs in London, teaching positions in the States, Festival deadlines and more. (Seven listings)
Welcome to CALL SHEET, our recurring roundup of gigs, grants, deadlines, and other professional opportunities in the realms of physical and digital immersive.
LISTING DEADLINE: Every MONDAY at 10AM Pacific Time — callsheet@noproscenium.com and/or the callsheet and jobs-board channels on our Discord.
Note: while we are happy to receive the full text of a job listing for reference, we only publish summaries with links to full job listings/casting breakdowns. To be considered your listing must be published somewhere else online. We cannot host PDFs, and will not publish full listings so as not to be responsible for errors.
Calls for festival entries, however, are eligible for being published on our newswire. Use the callsheet email, above. (Educational workshops should follow the process for event listings at Everything Immersive.)
Check out previous editions for more listings, scan some of the sites we use to draw selections from below or join our Discord and follow the callsheet and jobs board categories on the Bulletin Board.
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JOBS
LONDON
Creative Director
Immersive Everywhere
Term: Full-time
Requirements: looking for candidates with “extensive experience across a wide range of immersive theatre and attractions” amongst other qualifications.
Posted on: February 24, 2022
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We are looking for a stand-out candidate to join the company as Creative Director to shape our productions and events, as we engage with ambitious goals to make extraordinary live experiences, which will wow audiences in London and around the world.
In this role, you will lead in the creation of and ultimately deliver first-class productions and show plans for the Company’s slate of IP. You will assist the IP team with creative proposals when pitching to rights holders and work closely with the same in developing world class live experiences based on their brands.. You will lead creative teams, rehearsals and production sessions as required for the implementation of the direction across our broad portfolio working alongside the producers and general managers
You will work closely with our producing teams, based in Mayfair, London but be prepared to travel nationally for shows that we look to open across the UK, plus internationally as the company grows. You will be a commercially-minded strategic Creative Director and passionate about creating shows that satisfy the requirements within our license agreements. Most importantly we are looking for an individual who wants to work in an ever-evolving creative and collaborative environment and possess the tenacity to make things happen.
This is a hugely exciting time to be joining Immersive Everywhere, which has an excellent track record of success, including new immersive shows with the BBC, Hasbro, CBS Consumer Products with more to follow and a growing immersive theatrical show strategy presence across the globe. As we continue to successfully produce ground-breaking immersive shows and globalise our reach, our audience remains at the heart of everything we do.
Unity Character Rigger/Technical 3D Animator
Factory42
Term: Full-Time, Fixed Term
Factory42 — the immersive storytelling studio, creators of the Green Planet AR experience and Lost Origins, is now looking for a Character Rigger / Technical 3D Animator (with game engine experience). Join us in creating some of the most innovative experiences, AR, VR, apps and games in the world. We are looking for UK-based candidates, who can work remotely with the possibility of some office-based work in London in the future.
Multiple Roles — Augmented Reality Project
Anagram
Term: Short Contracts
Compensation: Varies with Role
Seeking: Producer, Co-Writer, Art Director
Deadline: March 22, 2022
We are about to start work on our new Augmented Reality project Ghosts of Solid Air.
An interactive digital story for public space, this project gets right to the heart of contemporary debates around decolonisation, racism and British identity.
Political and provocative while being fresh, irreverent and engaging — the journey happens outside the walls of the traditional museum space.
We are working on this first version for London — before taking the piece to other locations.
Production will begin in April 2022.
ROCHESTER, NY
Visiting Assistant Professor Position In Theatre
Rochester Institute of Technology
Department of Performing Arts
Term: Full-Time
Start date: August 2022
The Department of Performing Arts at Rochester Institute of Technology seeks applicants for a visiting assistant professor position in Theatre beginning August 2022. Prospective candidates are expected to have earned a terminal degree in Theatre or a related field. We seek candidates with demonstrated teaching experience and research orientations that explore intersections of theatre, performance, digital technology, game design, and related fields. Candidates should be able to teach courses in theatre as well as immersive and/or mediated theatre. Experience with extended reality and performance is desirable. Additionally, candidates should have experience creating or directing: live action, role-playing, immersive, mediated, or augmented/digital forms of performance.
The successful candidate will join a vibrant, interdisciplinary unit, whose faculty members share a strong commitment to emerging, interdisciplinary, and diverse forms of performance that blend art, design and technology. In the Department of Performing Arts at RIT, this commitment builds on expanding scholarship and coursework in the following areas: (1) new ideas of performance that reach diverse audiences and integrate global traditions and approaches, (2) working creatively at the intersection of art and technology, (3) performance and accessibility, particularly with the deaf and hard of hearing, and (4) involvement with co-curricular activities through the nationally unique Performing Arts Scholars Program. In this dynamic context, the successful candidate will be able to offer courses at all undergraduate levels and engage with students in co-curricular groups in areas such as introduction to theatre and performance, devising theatre, and virtual worlds. There will be opportunities for new course development and collaborative performance projects within and beyond the College of Liberal Arts.
COLLEGE PARK, MD
Lecturer In Acting For Live Digital Performance
University of Maryland
School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies
Term: 9-month full time (non-tenure eligible), two-year appointment with a possibility of renewal
Start Date: August 2022
For best consideration: 16 March 2022
Duties will focus on acting and performance for multiple platforms, including stage, virtual, and hybrid. Teaching responsibilities in area of expertise as related to current curriculum in Acting, Acting for the Camera, and Voiceover. In addition, the candidate will design and teach new courses that contribute to curriculum in arts and technology. The successful candidate will maintain a program of research/creative activity appropriate to the University of Maryland’s standing as a Research I University and will regularly disseminate the results of their investigations in appropriate national/international forums. The Maya Brin Institute faculty, in addition, build their teaching portfolios by teaching general education classes and required graduate courses as appropriate to their training and experience. TDPS faculty are required to be actively involved in School governance, the intellectual and artistic life of the School, the College of Arts and Humanities, and the University community.
We seek candidates whose research, teaching, and service have prepared them to contribute to diversity and inclusion.
FESTIVAL & EXPO DEADLINES
PHILADELPHIA
Artist Open Call
Cannonball Festival
Financial Model: Cost Sharing, assistance available for qualifying applicants
Festival Dates: Sep. 1–30, 2022
Deadline: April 15
Cannonball Festival presents risk-taking independent artists in back-to-back performances next to delicious lounge spaces, fostering creative collisions and community conversation.
Cannonball Festival is announcing the launch of the 2022 Artist Open Call. Running from September 1–30, 2022, Cannonball Festival will take place at both the Maas Building and the Icebox Project Space in Philadelphia. This artist-produced festival will feature a cost-sharing buy-in model, in which independent artists can pay a flat fee for production services, marketing and space rental. The festival also offers opportunities for co-presentation, and at least three performance projects will be selected for the BIPOC New Work Presentation track, which offers additional marketing support and a $2,500 stipend for artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color. Applications will be accepted from March 1 — April 15.
VANCOUVER/REMOTE
SIGGRAPH 2022 Electronic Theater
SIGGRAPH
Event Dates: 8–11 August, 2022
Deadline: 22 March 2022 at 22:00 UTC/GMT
Since 1999, the SIGGRAPH Computer Animation Festival’s Electronic Theater has been recognized as a qualifying festival by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It began as an annual showcase of advances in computer graphics, and now celebrates the rise of computer graphics as a medium for storytelling in animation, visual effects, games, scientific visualization, and more.
Submit your best work that educates, entertains, or informs for your chance to be featured in this prestigious showcase. An internationally recognized jury will review your work and award Best in Show, Jury’s Choice, and Best Student Project prizes. Notably, several works originally presented in the Electronic Theater have been nominated for or have received a Best Animated Short Academy Award.
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