Find your next role in San Antonio.
Browse film, commercial, voice-over, background, and bilingual opportunities across San Antonio—plus Austin roles close enough for Central Texas actors to pursue.
We do not have a verified, open casting call for San Antonio on the board right now. We only publish notices we can stand behind — check the full board, which updates as new notices arrive.
Bilingual ability is a real casting qualification here
San Antonio has an active English- and Spanish-language media economy. For many local commercial, industrial, and voice-over roles, authentic bilingual performance is part of the job—not simply an extra skill.
Currently seeking bilingual talent — of all languages.
An agency restricting intake to bilingual performers is a different kind of evidence from a demographic figure. It is a working business telling you what it can actually place.
Two other things from the same agency worth knowing before you approach anyone here: they require training before representation — you will be met, assessed and enrolled in a class cycle — and they expect you to arrive at interview with a monologue prepared.
An agency that requires training is not automatically a problem
It is common and it can be entirely legitimate. The question a reader should ask is simply: does the agency profit from the training it requires? Ask directly. A straight answer is a good sign; an evasive one is the answer.
Fewer listings can still mean strong individual bookings
San Antonio posts fewer roles than Austin or Dallas, but that does not automatically mean lower pay. Some local film, commercial, and voice-over bookings offer surprisingly competitive day rates.
What the work pays
Union work exists here too — SAG-AFTRA scale and Low Budget agreements both appear on local independent features. Union rates are set nationally and are not market-specific.
San Antonio offers one of Texas's strongest local incentives
Texas cities stack their own rebates on top of the state programme. San Antonio raised its rate and added a bonus for hiring local cast, crew and military veterans — and city officials say it is now the strongest in the state.
But permits are not casting calls, and incentive dollars are not jobs
This is the honest half, and it is the half no promotional page carries. A film permit covers any shoot — including commercial, corporate and photography work that may cast nobody locally. An incentive attracts productions; whether those productions cast here is a separate question.
The board at the top of this page is the real answer. What it shows today is what the market currently looks like.
Both things are true: San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States with the best city incentive in Texas, and its production volume does not yet match either fact. Knowing that is better than being sold the first half.
Should San Antonio actors also submit in Austin?
Yes, when the schedule and local-hire requirements make sense. At roughly 80 miles apart, San Antonio and Austin form the most practical two-city acting corridor in Texas.
The honest answer is: both, and yes, you will drive. A working San Antonio actor is generally on file in Austin as well, because that is where the two established casting offices are and where the larger commercial volume sits. Being eighty miles out does not make you a bad local hire — but it does mean checking whether a posting says local hire only, because a lot of them do.
What being "local" actually costs you
Local hire means no travel and no lodging paid. If you submit to Austin work as a San Antonio actor, you are absorbing the drive and possibly an overnight. Price that in before you accept a $250 background day ninety minutes away.
Be careful with hotel-ballroom talent pitches
A San Antonio acting studio runs a free seminar built around a specific question: can a child really get onto a major children's network after one information session at a hotel here?
A local business teaching a class to counter hotel talent seminars tells you that practice is common enough locally to need countering. That is not our observation — it is theirs, and it is the most useful thing anyone in this market has published.
Three questions that sort almost everything
Showcase-to-Los-Angeles pipelines exist in this market too. They can be legitimate and they are also the shape pay-to-play takes. Apply the three questions rather than assuming either way.
Where else are San Antonio roles posted?
You are in the SAG-AFTRA Houston-Austin local — "Austin to Corpus to Houston and back" — not Dallas–Fort Worth. Contact: houston@sagaftra.org · (214) 363-8300.
External links and details checked 28 August 2026. Inclusion is not endorsement.
Common questions
Do I need to be fluent in Spanish?
For a lot of commercial work, conversational is workable and the accent matters less than the ease. For Spanish-language broadcast and narrative work, fluency is the job. If you are not bilingual there is still English-language work here — but you are competing for a smaller share of the market.
Is there enough work to make a living?
On its own, for most people, no — and the honest version includes Austin in the answer. What San Antonio offers is a low cost of living, a real if thin local market, and a commutable second market eighty miles away.
Does the military presence create casting demand?
The city incentive includes a bonus for hiring military veterans, and the bases are a major local presence. Whether that translates into a distinct casting category is worth asking the Film Commission directly.
Do I need an agent to work in San Antonio?
Not to submit here. For commercial and campaign work, representation helps considerably — and at least one local agency requires training before it will consider you, so factor that into the timeline.
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