CASTING CALL - FEMALE FOOD AFICIONADO

2009-03-31T08:22:00.000-07:00

Emmy-winning production company seeks a charismatic, athletic, adventure-minded female food aficionado for a new reality-based TV series.

Ideally, our female co-host will be professionally trained in the culinary arts, but an ardent, self-taught borderline food-nut would also work. Experience as a chef, sous-chef, or skilled galley slave, with international exposure or foreign language skills, would be a super-plus. Her style will show a passion for seeking out specific key ingredients right at the source, wherever they be found domestically or worldwide, for an incredibly memorable meal.

Our female co-host will be culturally inquisitive and open to new experiences around the world under a broad range of conditions. She'll be about age 25-37, attractive, health-conscious, charismatic and camera-friendly. She may have little or no experience in the wilderness, but is gutsy and happy to learn. Production will be physically challenging--even grueling at times--depending on the environment. She is cheerful, tough, and no quitter or prima donna.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

Fluent English; valid passport; willingness and availability to travel and work in the United States and internationally, sometimes for weeks at a time; clean police record; no drugs, smoking, or other personal habits or skeletons in the closet that might endanger anyone or slow production; the flexibility and willingness to adapt to major program or creative changes; strong work ethic; sense of humor, and the ability to live and work as one with co-host and crew.

AUDITION MATERIALS

This is a paid and insured position. Serious candidates should submit a selection of culinary and adventure images, a cooking summary, descriptions of exciting or unique cooking, adventure or travel experiences, and articles or other supportive materials.

Most importantly, candidates must submit a video clip of about 5 minutes in length including the following: 1) a description of why you love food, cooking and adventure; 2) a passionate explanation of why you feel you are the perfect candidate for this role; 3) a sequence of you engaged in vigorous outdoor activity; 4) a sequence of you dressed for an evening engagement in which you explain why you are just as capable of handling yourself at a dinner party or night out in a foreign country as you are in a tropical storm in the deep jungle. Feel free to include any other clips that you feel shed additional light on your enthusiasm, intelligence, sense of humor, language skills, athleticism and durability. Have fun with it, but make sure your passion shines through!

Submission deadline is July 15, 2009. For video and other large files, please send via www.yousendit.com or www.vimeo.com or a similar file transfer service. All materials may be submitted to Walt at info@firststryke.com.

HUNGRY FOR ADVENTURE

CASTING CALL - FEMALE FOOD AFICIONADO