Extras The Chi Season 1 – Showtime

Extras The Chi Season 1 - Showtime
TV Show Casting Call

Are you ready to appear on a Showtime television series? The network is filming a new TV show called “The Chi”. A casting call is looking for several background extras. Casting directors are searching for models and actors ages 18 to 80 years old. They are looking to fill the roles of partying teens, neighborhood residents, service industry workers, business class train riders, tenement dwellers, police, detectives and more. Filming will be in Chicago, Illinois June 14th through June 23rd, 2017. Compensation for selected talent will be $84.00 for 8 hours. These scenes are for the second episode of the first season.

About The Chi

The Chi is a relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story and follows a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. Jason Mitchell will play Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own someday, but is conflicted between the promise of a new life and his responsibility to his mother and teenage brother back in the South Side. [Deadline]

Key Details

Shoot Location: Chicago, IL

Shoot Dates: 6/14/17 – 6/23/17 (No weekends)

Pay Rate: $84/8

Roles & Requirements

PARTYING TEENS:
Male and Female, All Ethnicities, 18 and older (to look younger), Specific scenes include corner boys, young cats, and fine ladies indulging in legal and illegal activities and substances.

NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS:
Male and Female, All Ethnicities, 20’s – 80’s, Multiple scenes in downscale locales like day drinking in a dive bar, lunch at the chicken pit, and hanging ‘round the corner store. The regular folks in the ‘hood.

SERVICE INDUSTRY:
Male and Female, All Ethnicities, 20’s – 50’s, Scenes for everyone who makes a restaurant run – servers, bartenders, bus boys, sous chefs, prep cooks, and dishwashers.

BUSINESS CLASS:
Male and Female, All Ethnicities, 20’s – 60’s, Go-Getters commuting on the L, riding the bus, and working in an Alderman’s Office.

TENAMENT DWELLERS:
Male and Female, All Ethnicities, 30’s – 50’s, Scenes from a Skid Row flophouse full of tragic and colorful characters, drug users, and the down-and-out.

FIVE-0:
Male and Female, All Ethnicities, 30’s – 50’s, Station House scenes full of Uniforms and Detectives trying to keep the peace in the toughest parts of town.

Instructions for Submission

If you are interested and have open availability during these dates, send an email with the following to extras4thechi@gmail.com

In the subject line put the role(s) you are submitting for ie: PARTYING TEENS, NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS, SERVICE INDUSTRY, BUSINESS CLASS, TENAMENT DWELLERS, FIVE-0. You may submit for multiple roles in a single email.

In the body of the email include your: name, age range, height, weight, phone number, email, and zip code in which you currently reside

Confirm that you have filled out the current Master Survey – https://goo.gl/forms/ApXJAjgQVlnnXxPk2

Attach one current full body photo and one headshot. Dress for the role you want! Give us something new and fun for the files instead of the same old pics.

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