CALL SHEET MARCH 2023
Our round-up of jobs, gigs, and other professional & academic opportunities
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.
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- Themed Entertainment Jobs Board
- Blooloop’s Theme Park, Museum and Aquarium Jobs
- Linkedin — Immersive Media
- ZipRecruiter — Immersive Media
- Interactive & Immersive HQ Jobs Board
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CASTING
PHILADELPHIA
Poison Garden — Multiple Roles
Alterra Productions
Stipends: min. $200/week
Auditions: April 3&4, 2023
Auditions for a remount of the audience favorite show from Alterra Productions.
Our auditions are in a workshop format, so please expect to do cold scenes, movement work, and long/short form improv. If you are called back, Callbacks will take place on Monday April 10th between 12pm and 4pm. You must be present at these callbacks in order to be cast, excluding extreme circumstances.
LOS ANGELES/SAN DIEGO
Brassroots District — Multiple Roles
Without Walls Festival
Compensation: varies with role, see below
Festival Dates: April 27–30, 2023
Audition Dates: March 13 & 14 (via zoom)
The producers of Brassroots District: Live in the Lot Summer ’73, an immersive music activation, are seeking performers for an outdoor production at the Without Walls Festival in San Diego, CA.
Local to Los Angeles:
NANCY — (30–40, female or non-binary, Black) The manager of Brassroots District. Ambitious, savvy, visionary, loyal. A native of New Orleans, Nancy loves music and is from a musical family, but can’t carry a tune in a bucket. Being a manager is as close as she can get to being a musician herself — and she’s damn good at it.
Compensation: $600, travel, double occupancy housing, $25 per diem for days in San Diego.
Local to San Diego:
THE BAR FLY — (any age, any gender, any ethnicity) This music junkie just loves to be part of the scene, you dig? They’re posted up at the bar and ready to dish all the hot gossip about the band while you wait for your drink. This is a *new* character, and the perfect opportunity for an experienced improviser to co-create a role in the world of Brassroots District.
Compensation: LOCAL TO SAN DIEGO $350
- Please note that given the time period, all characters use she/her or he/him pronouns, however, actors of all genders are strongly encouraged to apply.
SAN DIEGO
Bilingual Performer / Facilitator (FAIR TRADE)
Jessica Creane & Yannick Trapman-O’Brien — Without Walls Festival
Compensation: $20/hr rehearsal, $30/hr performance, $400 for translation time
Festival Dates: April 25–30, 2023
Bilingual Performer/Facilitator needed to translate and perform a two-participant interactive theater experience in Spanish and English, appearing at the Without Walls Festival . Paid position, development, rehearsal and performance time compensated. Looking for engaging, flexible performers comfortable with the following:
- staged readings, performing script in hand
- responsive facilitation of live participants, ability to “read the room” and make participants comfortable
- Outdoor performance in San Diego
- Spanish/English language translation and performance
- left and right familiarity (this script is color coded for audience members on your left and right — agility and ease are needed)
Experience with interactive / branching narrative productions, small group facilitation, or any responsive/conversational mediums is a plus. You’ll be guiding participants through an open-book script that changes based on participant responses so it’s important to get familiar with the material and stay on your toes. You will work with the creators to familiarize yourself with both the script and the piece as a whole, then produce materials to allow you to perform the script in both English and Spanish. Performers should be comfortable in open collaboration on a dynamic, changing script.
Meetings and script development will happen remotely in March-April. Rehearsals and performance will occur in person in San Diego the week of April 24th (local hire/must self-report).
Facilitators will receive $20/hr for rehearsing the piece, including at home time with materials, and $30/hr for performance time.
Translator will receive an additional $400 for work and consultation
Interested parties should Email fairtradeshow@gmail.com for details. Please include Resume, CV, or any materials you feel represent the experience you’re excited to bring to this position. Voice memos also accepted as an addendum to and/or substitute for any and all requested materials.
SAN FRANCISCO
Change Your Mind — CYM Technician
Say Nothing and Leave
Compensation: $25/hr for Thursday and Sunday shifts and $30/hr for Friday and Saturday shifts. Shifts will typically be 5 or 6 hours long.
Show Dates: Thursday — Sunday in April
Deadline: March 8, 2023
Change Your Mind is an interactive show in which every participant gets 1-on-1 interactions with a “technician.”
Your job as a technician will involve:
- Talking to participants with compassion, asking them thoughtful questions
- Facilitating a short “neurological exam” sequence
- Bringing participants in/out of booths and putting their equipment on/taking it off
Your job will NOT involve:
- Memorizing lines
- Playing a “character”
The technician role is great for anyone who enjoys deep 1-on-1 conversations with strangers.
GIGS
SAN DIEGO
Fair Trade — Stage Manager
Jessica Creane & Yannick Trapman-O’Brien @ Without Walls Festival
Compensation: $650; $20/hr for rehearsal time, and $30/hr for performance time.
Workshop Dates: 5 hour, in-person workshop on the week of April 24th (date pending availability, target dates April 25th or 26th)
Festival Dates: April 25–30, 2023
Looking for experienced Bilingual Stage Manager needed for a two-participant interactive theater experience performed at La Jolla’s Without Walls Festival, San Diego. Performances in Spanish and English.
Experience appreciated in:
- Immersive, interactive, and/or outdoor performances
- Managing performances occurring at multiple locations at once (all within sight of one another)
- Stage managing shows in both English and Spanish
- Additional Responsibilities: Online/asynchronous organization of workshop materials and communication with the team leading up to event.
Interested parties should Email fairtradeshow@gmail.com for details. Please include Resume, CV, or any materials you feel represent the experience you’re excited to bring to this position. Voice memos are accepted as an addendum to and/or substitute for any and all requested materials.
SAN FRANCISCO
Multiple Positions
Eye Zen Presents: OUT of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real
Compensation: varies with position
Positions sought include: Stage & Tech Manager, Technical Director, Deck Manager, House Manager, Choreographer, Music and Sound Designer
Project Description:
OUT of Site: Sylvester, The Mighty Real is a new immersive, site-specific, performance-driven walking tour exploring the hidden history of San Francisco’s very own international disco diva, Sylvester. The work will provide an accessible historical understanding of racial equity within the queer liberation movement in the Haight-Ashbury against the backdrop of the civil rights and anti-war movements, student uprisings, and feminist liberation of the 60s and 70s.
JOBS
NYC & LA
Multiple Positions
Giant Spoon
Compensation: varies with position
Positions sought include: Experiential Writer, Experiential Producer, Copywriter, Art Director
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LONDON
Development Co-ordinator
Punchdrunk Enrichment
Salary: £28,500
Term: Flexible
Start Date: Tuesday 2nd May 2023
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Applications close on at 11.59pm on Monday 27th March 2023
The role of Development Co-ordinator is a pivotal position within the Punchdrunk Enrichment charity team and is critical to the financial underpinning of our charitable engagement.
We are seeking an experienced and motivated fundraising professional with a strong sense of initiative and integrity, whose organised and proactive approach can be applied within the role.
The Development team is currently a partnership of two, so the candidate should be a great collaborator and able to manage their own workload to ensure income targets are met.
GRANTS
UNITED STATES
Black Immersive Creators Grant
Award: $10,000
Open to: US-based Black artists over 18 years old
Deadline: April 30th at 10pm PST
The Black Immersive Creators Grant is a cash award of $10,000 for US-based Black artists who are interested in creating immersive artwork.
This grant is open to artists who create primarily immersive experiences, as well as those who are new to the immersive industry who are interested in pushing the boundaries of their existing practice.
We invite early career and established creators to pursue this grant. The applicant must be the director, lead producer of the project, or be in a similar leadership capacity.
This award is for the production of a new original immersive project, or a new sequel or enhancement to an existing project. Completed projects and/or previously-released projects are not eligible.
RESIDENCY
Denver
NO VACANCY 2023
RiNo Art District
Benefits: $8500 unrestricted stipend per artist or artist group, one and a half month residency
Residency begins: April 17
Deadline: April 5, 2023
NO VACANCY 2023 is an artist residency program presented by RiNo Art District, in collaboration with EDENS and sponsored by Davis Partnership Architects. The goal is to convert an empty, soon-to-be-razed warehouse space in RiNo Art District, Denver into a group art installation and to support artists by providing them with funding and temporary physical space. In addition to the group installation, each artist will have their own area to create and do with as they please. It will be open to the public at various stages of the residency. The building and space inside is your canvas — tell us what you would do with a one-and-a-half-month residency! We’re looking for a diverse group of artists from muralists to projectionists, to performance artists, sculptors, digital artists, and beyond.
- Submissions due by Wednesday, April 5, 2023; artist selection will be made by a committee of RiNo Art District staff, board, and past NO VACANCY artists. Artists will be notified by April 10 with a move in date of April 17, 2023. Please note that this is a quick turnaround due to the nature of the opportunity to activate a building set for demolition.
Bristol
Location Based VR Fellowship in Residence
Marshmallow Laser Feast, UWE and All Seeing Eye
University of Bristol/Watershed
Compensation: £12,000 for 6 months at roughly 2.5 days/week
Deadline: Thu 20 April, 10:00 BST
Applications are now open for an exciting Fellowship hosted by UWE Bristol in collaboration with Marshmallow Laser Feast and All Seeing Eye: Location-Based Virtual Reality, supporting an accessible design process.
An opportunity to spend six months in the Pervasive Media Studio working with UWE Bristolin partnership with Marshmallow Laser Feast and All Seeing Eye.
This is a practical Fellowship where you will explore the ways in which people with different Disabilities might experience and value various modalities (such as such as type of headset, controller and environmental interaction) in location-based VR, and how this should inform the design process.
Our Fellowships are aimed at freelancers, practitioners, industry and academics. They are intended to be a period of collaborative thinking and experimentation, applying practice, expertise or relevant experience.They are an opportunity to explore ethical questions, consider what makes a meaningful experience for audiences, ask new questions and test high-risk ideas.
ARTIST OPEN CALL
UNITED STATES
Art Park Open Call for Emerging Artists
Showfields
Some financial support
Open to: visual, sculptural, and installation artists
Pride Deadline: April 20, 2023
Welcome to Art Park’s Open Call for Emerging Artists in local communities across New York, Brooklyn, Miami, and DC (and expanding to more cities soon)! We are thrilled to invite talented artists from these communities to submit their work for consideration to be showcased in our stores. We are a lifestyle discovery store that strives to offer our customers the opportunity to discover anything from sustainable, well-made products to unique and high-quality products, while also engaging with art and creativity. We believe that local artists are the backbone of any community, and we want to do our part in supporting their work.
Selected artists will have the opportunity to display their work in our stores for a designated period of time,while having their pieces up for sale. We understand that pursuing a career in the arts can be financially challenging, and we want to provide support for local artists to continue pursuing their passion. Selected artists will receive the funds to cover their labor, material, and transportation, with cost dependent on a case by case basis.
REMOTE/XR
Showcase Open Call
OnBoardXR
Showcase Dates: May 8–22; Oct. 2–16
Deadline: one month before each showcase
OnBoardXR participants bring first-prototypes to life at the cutting edge of web-based virtual reality in a combined showcase event. OnBoardXR is a non-profit, volunteer-driven initiative to onboard new artists and audiences into live performance on the immersive web. Therefore our events our held seasonally based on volunteer and participant availability.
The 2023 will include two seasonal showcases while offering support to continued development and production of previous prototypes. New proposals will be considered up to one (1) month before the beginning of each Showcase. All Participants will be required to attend a group overview one (1) month before the beginning of their Showcase, followed by a 2-week development and build cycle on Participants’ own schedule.
Each Season, a loose theme is proposed and Participating Artists are invited to submit an Application to present a live performance prototype on the OnBoardXR platform during the Showcase dates and submit an case study paper documenting their process and learnings.
PHILADELPHIA
Canonball Festival Snack Track
Canonball Festival
Provided: Guaranteed performance space; $600 Development Funding
Deadline: April 16, 2023
You’re an innovative, exciting Creator with Big Ideas — but have you tried thinking Small? What could you make in a bite-sized portion? What happens when the story of your work doesn’t happen all at once, but in brief windows again and again? What could you build by spreading production costs out over time, and developing through iteration? Cannonball is inviting you to find out how performance can be your greatest development tool with its newest production track for micro-installations, pocket-sized performances, and theatrical snacks.
We welcome applications from:
- Performers, game designers, installation artists, and the creatively promiscuous
- Creators working towards large-scale interactive projects who wish to experiment and develop one specific aspect, portion, or mechanic of the larger work.
- Creators with established practice looking to experiment with interactive/audience responsive work
- Creators interested in exploring the long-term sustainability and flexibility of small-scale, low-overhead, recurring productions.
The Snack Track is funded in part from the proceeds of the Telelibrary, and by donations from the community.
INDUSTRY EVENT SCHOLARSHIP
LOS ANGELES
The Next Stage Immersive Summit — Scholarship
The Immersive Experience Institute
Award: Admission to 3-Day Summit event & workshops, valued at $600
Total Awarded: 20
Event Dates: June 2–4, 2023
Application Deadline: March 31st
Awarded On: April 5
20 applicants will receive full scholarships to the 2023 Next Stage Immersive Summit, the premiere gathering of immersive creators & producers.
The same form is used to apply for subsidized badges (at $250), of which 20 will also be awarded. Applicants may apply for both or either.
This is open to students and creators in every immersive discipline: theatre, XR, gaming, marketing, themed entertainment and installation art.
DEVELOPMENT ACCELERATOR
THEatre ACCELERATOR: The Heroine’s Journey in XR
apples and oranges ARTSSession: April 24, 2023 — May 15, 2023
Deadline: March 20, 2023
An immersive musical theatre intensive development accelerator harnessing augmented and virtual reality technologies to advance the future of storytelling.
In The Heroine’s Journey in XR, creative teams will explore female driven stories using the not often explored Heroine’s Journey as a primary tool, with assistance from the latest in technology, including AI.
With a generous grant from the Melinda Gates Pivotal Foundation and The Shubert Organization partners, THEatre ACCELERATOR: The Heroine’s Journey in XR offers creative teams on opportunity to explore how AR and VR can be used to help develop, iterate, rehearse and distribute their female supportive stories. Teams receive technology to assist in their experimentation and investigation along with access to some of the top professionals in the emerging field today.
POSTGRADUATE
LONDON & YORK
Archeology Doctoral Partnership
University of York and Museum of London Archaeology
Term: Full or Part Time
Includes: Stipend & Allowance
Start date: 1st October 2023
Application Deadline: 15 April, 2023
Eligible: both Home and International applicants
Could a serious ARG based around the city of London, its historic fabric and the archaeological objects found within it, enhance our knowledge of the history of London, produce more data (for instance photographic surveys of buildings) and allow Londoners and visitors to engage more deeply with their historic environment?
The successful candidate will work with MOLA to create a unique multimedia public engagement experience, showcasing MOLA’s extensive knowledge and collections, as well as involving new and different audiences with an innovative form of citizen science.
The University of York and Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship from October 1, 2023 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.
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