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Posted Aug 20
Miami casting calls
Find Spanish- and English-language television, film, commercial, background, and Equity theatre opportunities across South Florida. Miami's biggest advantage is steady bilingual television casting throughout the year.
3 open calls · updated todayFree to submitEnglish & Spanish-languageScreen, television & Equity theatre
Track 01
Spanish-language televisionTelenovela and network series casting weekly. The steadiest work in the city, and the least written about.Track 02
English-language screenSeries and features that shoot here for the locations, not for an incentive.Track 03
Equity musical theatreA full 2026–27 season currently casting locally.See instructions
Posted Aug 20
Paid — Equity minimum ~$890/week
Posted Aug 20
The sentence that describes this market
Miami television casting keeps moving every week
Most markets work in waves — a production arrives, casts, shoots, leaves. Here is how a Spanish-language series in Miami describes its own background casting:
A Telemundo series, on its own casting notice
We will post roles and shoot information weekly… You can work more than one day if available.
Miami · background casting notice
That is continuous production. Not a project passing through town — a series operation casting on a repeating cycle, all year, with room to work multiple days.
It is why Miami's floor is steadier than almost any comparable market, and it is the single most useful thing to know about working here. You are not waiting for something to come to town. You are getting onto a list.
Which changes what you should actually do
In a project market, you submit when something appears. In a weekly market, the useful move is to get registered with the casting companies that hold the standing lists — before a call goes out, not after.
And the ladder is real: the same Spanish-language series casting background are also casting speaking roles. Extras work here is not a dead end.
Language expands your opportunity
In Miami, bilingual ability is a genuine casting advantage
Spanish is central to Miami's culture and entertainment economy. The clearest proof is not a demographic statistic—it is the way working casting offices organize their businesses.
One Miami casting office · founded 1999
Two trading names, one business
English-language work
George Ortiz CastingCommercial, film and television casting across South Florida.
Trabajo en español
Miami Talento CastingThe same office, the same casting director, a separate Spanish-language identity.
A casting office that runs a Spanish-language trading name alongside an English one is not making a gesture. It is telling you the two markets are separate enough to need separate front doors — and the company's own service list is split by language.
Practically: if you are bilingual, you are eligible for roughly twice the market. If you are not, there is real English-language work here — but you are competing for the smaller share of it, and that is worth knowing before you move.
Observed on live postings, August 2026
What Miami acting work may pay
Live Miami postings · August 2026 · illustrative, not a schedule
Miami rates
General extrasRate quoted before agency fee deduction
$150 less 20% AF
Telenovela / Spanish-language TV extrasFull-day production, Miami and Doral
$155 / day
South Florida TV series extrasEnglish-language, all types
$182 / day
Featured senior roleBefore agency fee
$600 less 20% AF
Live event contractTouring, with per diem on the road
$1,200 / week
Feature filmUnion production
SAG Mod. Low Budget
Read the fee convention carefully — it is unusual. Several Miami postings quote a rate with the agency fee deducted, not added on top. A Miami “$600 less 20%” is $480 to you. In some other markets the same job would be posted as “$500 + 20%”, which is $600 to you. Same-looking numbers, different transactions.
One more local quirk worth knowing: South Florida postings frequently read “north Florida or south Florida — TBA, travel stipend available within Florida only.” Casting here often covers the whole state.
Why Miami remains a production center
The city attracts productions even without a statewide incentive
Florida's statewide film credit expired in 2016. Miami continued working because its Spanish-language television infrastructure, distinctive locations, and unmistakable visual identity are difficult to reproduce elsewhere.
Two things hold it up. Telemundo and TelevisaUnivision maintain in-house crews and deep production resources here, which offsets the absence of a state programme entirely — the Spanish-language economy simply does not depend on it. And named English-language series and features have shot in the region with no state incentive at all, because the locations and the look are the draw.
Why that matters more than it sounds
Work that arrives because of an incentive leaves when the incentive does. Work that arrives because this is where the palm trees and the ocean and the Art Deco are, or because the network's studio is already here, is considerably harder to move.
Miami-Dade does run its own county rebate on top. Verify its current terms and funding before relying on it — Florida's county patchwork changes annually.
The track nobody counts
Miami also has a professional Equity theatre season
Equity actors were being cast locally for the 2026–27 season when we checked in August 2026, including:
Kimberly AkimboHarmony: The MusicalLeader of the PackHome for the Holidays
Which makes Miami a three-track market, not a two-track one. If you are an Equity performer, or working toward it, that is a full season of local work that no national casting directory surfaces alongside the screen listings.
Local resources
How to approach Miami talent agencies safely
You are covered by the SAG-AFTRA Miami local — 3470 NW 82nd Avenue, Suite 780, Doral, FL 33122 · (305) 670-7677 · miami@sagaftra.org
Florida licenses talent agencies — and one Miami agency publishes its number
A legitimate Florida agency holds a state licence formatted TA-xxxxxxxx. One long-established Miami agency, trading since 1972 and affiliated with SAG, AFTRA and Equity, publishes its licence number openly on its own site.
That is the behaviour to expect. Ask every agency for its number. And the rule underneath: a real agent earns commission on work you book — money never flows from you to them first. SAG-AFTRA franchises agents, not managers.
One warning specific to this city
Miami's online talent directories are the least reliable of any market we have researched — aggregator listings for “talent agencies” here have included businesses that are plainly not talent agencies at all. Check what a company actually does before you contact it, and prefer the union's own franchised list.
Where else to look
SAG-AFTRA franchised agentsThe live union list, Florida local
Miami casting officesEnglish-language and Spanish-language
Classes and coachingIncluding Spanish-language training
Headshots in MiamiWhat they cost, and when you need them
Quick answers
Common questions
Do I need to be fluent in Spanish?
For background work, conversational is generally workable. For speaking roles in Spanish-language television, fluency is the job. If you are not bilingual there is genuine English-language work here — you are simply competing for the smaller half of the market.
How do I get onto the weekly extras lists?
Register with the casting companies that hold them rather than waiting for a call to appear. In a weekly market the list is the asset, and you want to be on it before the notice goes out.
Is Spanish-language television work union?
Worth checking on a per-production basis — it materially affects whether and when joining SAG-AFTRA makes sense for you. Do not assume either way.
Should I be in Miami or Orlando?
They are 235 miles apart and doing different jobs. Orlando is live performance — parks, cruise lines, events. Miami is television, screen and theatre. Choosing between them is choosing between two careers rather than two cities.
Nearby and related
Other Florida markets
South Florida functions as one market. Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Broward postings overlap constantly — filter for the region rather than the city.
Get on the Miami list before the next call goes out
Miami posts weekly. Set an alert filtered to Spanish-language, English-language, or both, and you will see the cycle rather than chasing it.
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