CALL SHEET 4/13/22
Jobs in NYC, a digital storyteller fellowship, and new play grants in LA
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.
- Themed Entertainment Jobs Board
- Linkedin — Immersive Media
- ZipRecruiter — Immersive Media
- Interactive & Immersive HQ Jobs Board
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JOBS
NEW YORK CITY
Production Manager
Bottom of the Ocean
Term: Part Time (10 hrs/week)
Compensation: $38/hr.
Location: Bushwick
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This role oversees the reset of our props, set, and costumes as our immersive theater show is performed a dozen times every week.
Graphic Designer
Gotham Immersive Laboratories
Term: project based
Compensation: $40-$60 / hour, commensurate with experience
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Gotham Immersive Laboratories is the company behind the Great Gotham Challenge, an immersive puzzle adventure company based in New York City. We use puzzles, technology, immersive theater, history, and a lot of hard work to create unforgettable experiences for participants. Our team is expanding to include an on the ground correspondent in NYC who can help set up our teams to execute the production of a library of “Challenges” we offer both virtually and in person for private clients who seek unconventional team-building experiences.
About the position: GIL is looking for a freelance graphic designer and illustrator to work with us in a freelance capacity. This can be remote, although the ability to physically visit NYC locations is a huge plus. This is an opportunity to work in a creative environment where your work regularly and quickly makes it onto all sorts of weird physical objects — from spring-loaded pop-up paper cubes to custom card decks to billboards in Times Square.
NYC Clue Ops Associate
Gotham Immersive Laboratories
Term: 5–20 hours per week and work to provide an opportunity for at least 20 hours per month
Compensation: $22 — $35 / hour, commensurate with experience
What we do: Gotham Immersive Laboratories is the company behind the Great Gotham Challenge, an immersive puzzle adventure company based in New York City. We use puzzles, technology, immersive theater, history, and a lot of hard work to create unforgettable experiences for participants. Our team is expanding to include an on-the-ground correspondent in NYC who can help execute the production of a library of “Challenges” that we offer both virtually and in-person for private clients who seek unconventional team-building experiences.
About the position:
The NYC Clue Operations Associate will liaise with clients, prepare necessary materials for challenges, and be an on-the-ground contact with many of the vendors and partners we work with. If desired, they can also be trained as a “Cluemaster” to run and perform in challenges. Duties may include, but are not limited to; helping brief clients on their upcoming challenges and acting as their point-of-contact, printing and preparing physical packets for Cluemasters to run challenges, setting up challenges in the backend of the proprietary GGC web application and other technological components of the games, scheduling and providing instructions to vendors and performers, and challenge-day troubleshooting. This work requires an excellent attention to detail, great communication skills, and a desire to make things work.
FELLOWSHIPS
REMOTE/LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK
Digital Storytellers Lab
Jewish Writers’ Initiative
Term: August 2022 — May 2023
Stipend: $20K
Eligibility: Based in the U.S., at least 21 years of age, have experience in medium of choice
Deadline: June 1
The Digital Storytellers Lab is an eight-month fellowship that gives digital storytellers the opportunity to kickstart the development of new, narrative, digital audio/visual media exploring Jewish themes. The program provides fellows with a stipend, mentorship, and technical and subject-matter expertise to support the development of their projects.
Projects developed in this program should feature narratives that explore Jewish themes, such as Jewish identity, culture, values, heritage, religion, spirituality, or history. Stories may be fictional or non-fictional in nature, and must be written and designed for new media platforms. Priority will be given to projects that investigate lesser-known aspects of the Jewish story, or that reimagine well-known stories for new audiences and new platforms. We welcome your creativity in both content and form.
Up to twelve storytellers will be selected for the inaugural cohort of the Digital Storytellers Lab. Each participant will receive a stipend of $20,000 for participation in the program, in a non-exclusive relationship, affording them — within a set schedule and with output milestones — the comfort, means, and time to develop their projects. Additional resources may be available at staff discretion, according to the unique needs of each project. Writers own their scripts and other materials.
GRANTS
LOS ANGELES
Original Work — New Plays
LA NEW PLAY PROJECT (LANPP)
Award: up to $20K for playwright, and up to additional $20K for first production
Eligibility: Premiere must take place in Los Angeles County. Plays may have been presented as a workshop but must not yet have been fully produced. Playwrights need not be Los Angeles-based.
Deadline: 5:00 PM, June 1, 2022.
LA NEW PLAY PROJECT (LANPP) announces its second year of financial support for original work presented in Los Angeles’ small and midsize theaters. This two-tiered grant program offers $20,000 grants to playwrights for new, unproduced plays, with an additional $20,000 to producers to help support the play’s world premiere production. The funding is intended to award excellence in playwriting, encourage the production of new and untried plays on the smaller stages of Los Angeles, and help stabilize theatrical productions that originate here but that may resonate beyond the borders of Los Angeles County.
The play must go into production within eighteen months of the announcement of the award. The premiere must take place in Los Angeles County and be presented by a small-to-mid-sized theatrical producing entity (under $2 million annual expenses).
Producers in partnership with playwrights are invited to submit new scripts that are under consideration for production. A distinguished peer panel selects one-to-three projects for the award.
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