CALL SHEET JULY 2023
The latest opportunities in the wide world of immersive & experiential arts & entertainment (UPDATED: 7/14)
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Welcome to CALL SHEET, our ongoing roundup of gigs, grants, deadlines, and other professional opportunities in the realms of physical and digital immersive.
LISTING DEADLINE: Every WEDNESDAY at 10AM Pacific Time — callsheet@noproscenium.com and/or the callsheet and jobs-board channels on our Discord. The monthly sheet UPDATES on Thursdays with the latest listings.
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
- Blooloop’s Theme Park, Museum and Aquarium Jobs
- Linkedin — Immersive Media
- ZipRecruiter — Immersive Media
- Interactive & Immersive HQ Jobs Board
CHECK OUT OUR MOST RECENT EDITION FOR MORE
CASTING
New York City
Multiple Roles — Dreams of Dracula
Never More Immersive
Length of run: estimated 8
Compensation: $400–700/week depending on role
Rehearsals: August 14 — September 5.
Show Dates: September 6 — October 31.
Auditions: July 18th
Actors/dancers sought for multiple roles for performance at Musica NYC.
Production involves nudity, see statement at casting listing.
San Jose
Open Audition — UNHINGED: HOUSEWARMING
Winchester Mystery House
Term: 18 nights, 6 weekends; Sep 22-Oct.31
Compensation: Not Listed
In-Person Auditions: July 14th & 15th
Video Submission Deadline: Midnight PST, July 21, 2023
Winchester Mystery House is looking for energetic and enthusiastic Scare Actors who love Halloween and wish to join our incredible team of speaking and non-speaking roles for our NEW 2023 Halloween Experience — UNHINGED: HOUSEWARMING. This annual production is hosted by Winchester Mystery House, Northern California’s Top Haunted Attraction
Though NO experience is needed for some roles, other roles do require the ability to be resilient and able to adapt quickly, improvise, and remain “in-character” for extended periods of time. An ideal candidate is available to work all rehearsals and event dates. Please come dressed as yourself during your online audition… NO COSTUMES, MONSTER MAKEUP, OR PROPS PLEASE.
Seeking a diverse spectrum of gender identities, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Performers must be at least 18 years of age. Winchester Mystery House is an equal opportunity employer. We support a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing, physicals and background checks.
Denver
Murder Mystery Hosts And Immersive Performers
Broadway Murder Mysteries
Base pay: $125–250 per event
Auditions: July 25 & 26
Founded in 2020 by Broadway Entrepreneur, Monica Hammond, Broadway Murder Mysteries has created more than 25 fun and immersive murder mystery themes for a range of ages to be played in-person or virtually.
Our games are written to be flexible and allow for 4–20 players to participate as scripted characters, plus an unlimited number of audience “detectives” who work to solve the crime. Our private murder mystery parties are booked for corporate entertainment, team building, and special occasions, for audiences of 10 to 1000!
Our Hosts work with us on a freelance basis to host murder mystery parties for our clients and ensure they have a killer time. All event and coordination details are provided upon booking, so Hosts can show up to the party ready to kick off the festivities in character as one of our Lead Detectives, or Featured Suspects. Our hosts are all highly-trained and talented immersive theater performers, so we are looking for performers with improv, hosting, or immersive theatre backgrounds.
JOBS
Culver City
Technical Experience Designer — Apple Vision Pro
Apple
Term: Full Time
Compensation: base pay range for this role is between $136,000 and $242,000; medical, dental, stock programs
Posted: Jul 6, 2023
Are you interested in joining an Emmy® Award-winning creative team building next-generation interactive experiences?
At Apple, we strive to deliver surprise and delight to our millions of customers, and our team operates at the intersection of imagination and technology. This hands-on Technical Experience Designer position entails working with a dynamic, cross-discipline team to transform visionary ideas and concepts into groundbreaking consumer content. We are looking for someone ready to jump into a world of innovation and spend time in R&D — someone with a proven track record of shipping complex projects under demanding timelines.
As Technical Experience Designer, you will be a bridge between the worlds of design and engineering. You will build interactive systems and bring complex story sequences to life with your well-balanced skills in scripting and programming. You will have one foot in design and the other in engineering as you work closely with a team of designers, artists, animators, engineers, and more to deliver innovative, genre-defining experiences.
If you are excited by the opportunity to craft experiences that delight millions of customers, we want to hear from you!
Real-Time Interaction Animator — Apple Vision Pro
Apple
Term: Full Time
Compensation: base pay range for this role is between $136,000 and $207,000; medical, dental, stock programs
Posted: Jul 6, 2023
Apple is where individual imaginations gather together, committing to the values that lead to great work. Every new product we build, service we create, or Apple Store experience we deliver is the result of us making each other’s ideas stronger. That happens because every one of us shares a belief that we can make something wonderful and share it with the world, changing lives for the better. It’s the diversity of our people and their thinking that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do. When we bring everybody in, we can do the best work of our lives. Here, you’ll do more than join something — you’ll add something.
Apple Vision Pro is a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with your physical space. It will allow us to do the things we love in ways never before possible — all while staying connected to the people around us.
The ideal candidate is strong keyframe animator who can demonstrate the principles of animation, and bring to life character performances, to a highest standard of quality in a real-time, interactive production. This role will focus on the facilitation of real-time animation workflows and digital content creation, while balancing considerations for visual fidelity, interactivity and performance optimization. There is a substantial R+D component to our development and production. If you are excited about defining new workflows, and passionate about embracing new forms of content creation and delivery, this is your call.
Denver
Off-Center Line Producer
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Term: Full-Time
Compensation: $68,000–73,000
Posted: 7/10/23
Off-Center is the DCPA’s most adventurous line of programming, dedicated to creating unexpected theatrical experiences that place the audience at the center of the story. Off-Center has been recognized as a local and national leader in immersive entertainment and will continue to take a leadership role in the evolution of the artform and the industry.
The new Off-Center Line Producer position will help lead the next chapter of Off-Center, creating more immersive experiences for Denver, exploring new business models, and building national producing and presenting partnerships. This role will produce and manage Off-Center programming, working closely with artists and teammates across the organization to develop, plan, build, and run Off-Center productions. The Line Producer will be a key collaborator in selecting programming, developing new projects, and strategic decision making. The role will also be deeply involved in exploring the feasibility of building projects to travel to other cities after their initial Denver run and implementing and managing possible future travelling productions.
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The Off-Center Line Producer will report to the Executive Director & Curator of Off-Center and will supervise a number of direct reports (temporary employees) specific to each production or project.
Corrales, NM
Producer in Exhibition Design
Ideum
Term: Full Time
Compensation: $65,000 ‒ $85,000
Producer in exhibition design is an in-person position in the Project Management and Producer group at Ideum. The Producer in this role oversees exhibition projects and is also the primary supervisor of Exhibit Design staff who may report on a project basis to other Producers. A Producer will have proven to be both a highly skilled project manager and an excellent manager of employees and departments.
The Producer is expected to have a broad and deep understanding of trends and new developments in our industry, including the range of exhibit development approaches for different types of clients, exhibit design and production processes and tools, as well as key hardware and software products and processes.
In addition to managing projects and overseeing the Exhibit Design Work Area, the Producer in Exhibition Design is also charged with helping staff grow at Ideum. The Producer must demonstrate high emotional intelligence, superior listening skills, creative problem-solving abilities, and have a vested interest in helping the teams in Creative Services reach their highest potential.
ACADEMIA
BOSTON, MA & OAKLAND, CA
Professor of Practice or Open-Rank Teaching Professor in Games
Northeastern University (Boston & Mills College Campuses)
Term: Full Time
Salary Grade: FAC
The Department of Art + Design in the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) of Northeastern University seeks exceptional applicants for a part or full-time, non-tenure track Professor of the Practice or Teaching Professor (open rank) position in Games either for the MS in Game Science and Design on the Oakland campus, or for the MS in Game Science and Design and the undergraduate Game Design Programs on the Boston campus.
We are seeking interdisciplinary applicants who are practicing game developers with specific expertise in game production, the business of games, game art, and games design. Applicants should have a passion for advancing the design and development of games through their teaching, mentorship, and leadership. Ideal candidates are active participants in the field with key contacts in the game industry, and experienced speakers/writers about their creative practice.
Successful candidates will teach existing courses in game art, game production, game design, the business of games, and/or game studio courses, and help our game development students to manage their projects and successfully release and promote their games to audiences outside the University. The position will also advise students and help to facilitate industry connections for them. The position offers opportunities towards curriculum development and collaboration with research faculty in games towards the creation of game development projects across art, health, AI, sustainability, aging, and other relevant domains. This position is renewable and can be taken part-time (0.33 fte, 0.5 fte, or 0.66 fte appointment) to continue the applicant’s engagement and practice in industry.
OAKLAND, CA
Part Time Lecturer, Games or Game Design
Mills College at Northeastern University
Term: Part Time
Compensation: per credit rate is $2,250
Mills College at Northeastern University seeks applicants to teach undergraduate courses in Design or Game Design. All classes will be taught at the Mills College campus in Oakland, California. Part Time Lecturers will hold office hours as appropriate.
FESTIVAL & CONFERENCE OPEN CALLS
SAN DIEGO
Artist Submissions
Without Walls Festival/La Jolla Playhouse
Festival provides: presenting fee, housing (for non-local artists), infrastructure
Deadline: July 31, 2023
2024 WOW Festival Dates: April 4–7, 2024
We are only accepting submissions for experiential projects, including immersive, site-inspired, spectacle, interactive, street performances, puppets and activations that work in a festival environment.
Without Walls (WOW) productions offer a dizzying array of interactive and site-inspired experiences. Full of diverse offerings, WOW shows have one thing in common — they are an invitation to reimagine what theatre can be through intriguing and playful experiences. For the 2024 festival, there will be access to outdoor locations and limited indoor spaces. (Due to the nature of WOW programming, we do not offer our traditional theatre spaces.)
SAN JOSE
Call For Artists
VERGE 23/GreenBiz Group
Event Dates: October 24–26
Deadline: July 28, 2023 (5PM PDT)
Eligibility: Open to artists or teams over the age of 18 globally.
VERGE — the leading climate tech event — is looking for exceptional artists to illuminate the critical themes of our time. We aim to spark conversations and inspire change, transcending traditional boundaries through the power of art.
VERGE 23, taking place October 24–26 at the San Jose Convention Center, will attract over 5,000 leaders, all committed to accelerating solutions to the climate crisis in critical areas such as clean energy, sustainable transportation, carbon removal, regenerative food systems, net-zero buildings and the startup ecosystem.
Budget: All-inclusive budgets may range from $500 — $3,000.
Loaned and commissioned art are both considered. Offsite experiences will also be considered.
ONLINE/CANADA
Performance & XR 2023 Call for Proposals
Single Thread and Electric Company Theatre
Compensation: Fees provided for successful applicants
Event Dates: November 10–19th, 2023
Deadline: July 17, 2023
Calling Performing Artists, Technologists, Experience-Makers, Game Developers, and the XR Curious!
The PXR Conference, hosted by Single Thread and Electric Company Theatre, celebrates the evolution of live performance in virtual, augmented and mixed realities. Now in its 4th year, this national event brings Canadian creators together using a social virtual reality platform to share best practices for working within these new media.
We are seeking proposals for this year’s Conference, which will include programming from November 3rd — November 19th, 2023. You can apply for one or more of the following streams:
Experience — for new, in-development and presentation-ready live performances in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality
Engage — traditional Conference presentations, turned them upside-down, inside-out, and flipped onto a VR Headset
Laboratory — focuses on the technical aspects of developing a live XR performance
Email contactus@singlethread.ca if you have any questions.
RESEARCH INTERVIEW (PAID)
Note: we will post paid surveys and other paid research opportunities on occasion, but will not post unpaid as there are so many of those and this is about career opportunities. Sometimes a $50 survey is exactly what someone needs to clear rent.
ONLINE/UK/INTERNATIONAL
Digital Assets/Motion Data Research
Unwired Dance/Alexander Whitley Dance Company
Interview Fee: £50 (international payment possible)
Interview Dates: 18th and 25th of July 2023 (UK time)
AWDC is working on a new digital tool to help creators compose movement sequences and create assets with motion data. As part of the development of the project, we would like to engage with participants willing to share their experience and help us understand how this new tool could help them.
We are particularly interested in talking to people working in creative industries and working with 3D assets such as 3D artists, character designers, game designers, creative technologists, visual artists, content creators, film makers, theatre makers, performers, etc.
Participants with all backgrounds and geographical locations are welcome!.
Thanks again to MEOW WOLF for sponsoring this year’s Next Stage Immersive Summit Next Generation of Creators & Audiences Pillar!
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