Casting Calls in Nashville

Nashville's screen market sits on top of its music industry, and the two are not separable: the same crews, studios and performers move between music videos, live-performance capture, commercials and scripted television.

Tennessee supports production through incentives administered by the Tennessee Entertainment Commission, and the state has no personal income tax — two of the reasons the market has kept growing. The ABC/CMT series Nashville ran here for six seasons, and 9-1-1: Nashville is shooting in the city now.

Below are the live casting calls we currently hold for Nashville and the surrounding Middle Tennessee area, updated as new notices come in.

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How casting works in Nashville

Who is actually casting here

A handful of Nashville casting offices cover most of the market, and a single incoming network series can account for a large share of the year's bookings on its own — background, featured background, stand-ins and local day players. Alongside that runs a continuous stream of music videos, artist content, commercials and faith-based and family features, much of which casts directly from open submissions.

Union status in Tennessee

Tennessee is a right-to-work state, so non-union work carries no penalty and is widely available. Incoming network and streaming productions are union and Taft-Hartley local actors into speaking roles; the music-video and commercial side is a mix of both.

What local actors should know

Music-adjacent skills are genuinely monetisable here in a way they are not in most markets — playing an instrument credibly on camera, moving well, or reading as a performer rather than an actor will put you on lists other people are not on. Beyond that, this is a local-hire market with fast turnarounds and frequent same-week bookings, so availability and a working self-tape setup are the baseline.

Where the work sits geographically

Shooting spreads across downtown and Lower Broadway, East Nashville, the studios around Music Row, and out into Franklin, Brentwood and the surrounding Middle Tennessee counties. A notice listing Nashville can easily mean a call time thirty or forty minutes outside the city.

Nashville casting FAQ

Do I need an agent to audition in Nashville?

No. Background, music video, commercial and independent work is regularly cast from open submissions. An agent becomes important for network and streaming principal roles, where breakdowns go to agencies first.

Are there paid casting calls in Nashville?

Yes. Union productions pay SAG-AFTRA scale, and commercial and music-video work is usually the strongest non-union day rate locally. Each notice on this page shows its compensation where the production disclosed it.

How do I find casting calls near me in Nashville?

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Does being a musician help in Nashville?

Frequently, yes. A large share of the local work is music-related, and productions cast for on-camera musicians, band members, crowd and venue background and performer types constantly. It is a genuine advantage in this market, not a novelty.

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