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Join the North Coast Nomads! For the first time in 14 years, we’re calling for Performers & Character Actors to become part of the NC family and create an amazing experience for our beloved Coasties.
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These are paid positions with perks! We can’t wait to see what you got!

• Paid Positions
• Extra Festival Passes
• Dinner provided
• Parking Passes provided
• A piece of Official NCMF Merch for every Performer
• Shifts end before the headliners start so you can enjoy the end of each night

FILL OUT THE FORM BELOW TO APPLY! YOU WILL NEED TO INCLUDE A LINK TO A YOUTUBE VIDEO.

APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN NOW AND END AUGUST 7TH.

IMPORTANT: READ BELOW BEFORE FILLING OUT THE APPLICATION AND CREATING YOUR VIDEO.

*All races, gender expressions, and body types encouraged to apply.

We look forward to seeing all your submissions and welcoming many of you Nomads into the Coastie family. Good Luck!

Plural noun: nomads: a member of a people that has no fixed home but wanders from place to place.

We are casting for interactive characters with amazing costumes, immersive actors, variety performers with a unique act or skillset, pyro artists, or magicians. No flow/hula hoopers or aerial acts. All races, gender expressions, body types are encouraged to audition. A main ethos of North Coast is “Celebrate Our Differences”

Variety acts: Magicians, performance artists, high-level cirque ground acts; burlesque dancers with an unusual angle or look; FANTASTICAL performers and characters with weird, wonderful, dreamy, futuristic or technology-heavy costumes, and out-of-this-world themes rather than vintage looks; interactive performers who aren’t shy to invite festival attendees into their world. Acts must be able to hold character and/or perform skills for entire length of two (2) three hours shifts. No flow, aerial, or hulahoopers. We are not looking for musical performers.

Please fill out the form below which requires a link to a youtube video submussion of you in your costume doing 2 minutes of character work and any special performances/skills you’d like to showcase. You can send in multiple submissions if you have different characters that perform different acts. When sending your video, please remember we want to view your character as our fans would see it. Head-turning costumes, strong character work, and amazing skills is what we’re looking for.

NCMF is still at the top of Chicago fests. From the locas food, the art, to the music, they never fall short. North Coast pulled out all the stops.

- FESTpop.com

In describing the return of NCMF, OUT OF THIS WORLD seems to be the prevailing ideology. and the correct one.

- EDM.com

With it’s DIVERSE LINEUP AND VARIETY OF AFTER-SHOWS right outside the beautiful city of Chicago on Labor Day Weekend, NCMF is sure to be an awesome experience every year.

- EDMidentity.com

NCMF dominates their annual celebration… was nothing short of breathtaking.

- TheElectricHawk.com

North Coast was full of unique surprises. and this festival veteran enjoyed every minute of it.

- ElectronicMidwest.com