{"id":2295579,"date":"2026-02-23T15:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2295579"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:33:11","slug":"sony-pictures-television-opens-submissions-for-elevate-actors-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sony-pictures-television-opens-submissions-for-elevate-actors-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Pictures Television Opens Submissions for Elevate Actors Fellowship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sony Pictures Television has opened submissions for the next cohort of its expanded Elevate Actors Fellowship, TheWrap can reveal exclusively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Designed as a career launchpad for new and diverse voices, the actors fellowship consists of five weeks of masterclasses and industry training, and provides participants with direct access to casting directors, showrunners and studio leadership across the Sony Pictures Television ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The program culminates in a showcase on the Sony lot attended by more than 150 casting directors, agents, EPs and showrunners, offering a prime ground for auditions and bookings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This year\u2019s fellowship has been expanded from past programs as a part of the studio\u2019s Elevate initiative, which built on the foundation of the diverse directors program. The Elevate initiative aims to create a unified, studio-wide pipeline for emerging actors, writers and directors as a part of the studio\u2019s long-term commitment to advancing new and diverse voices in scripted television.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p>SPT\u2019s 2024 actors fellowship (Tori McCaleb)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Elevate program extends into actors, writers and directors fellowships, with alumni finding career successes both inside and outside of Sony Pictures Television. Members of the previous actors fellowship have been booked on series including\u00a0\u201cFor All Mankind,\u201d\u00a0\u201cS.W.A.T. Exiles,\u201d\u00a0\u201cThe Pitt,\u201d\u00a0\u201cAbbott Elementary\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cDays of Our Lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Members of the writers fellowship have been staffed on Sony Pictures TV series\u00a0\u201cS.W.A.T. Exiles,\u201d\u00a0\u201cUniversal Basic Guys\u201d and\u00a0\u201cAmerican Hostage,\u201d while alumni from the director program have shadowed on SPT series including \u201cDark Matter,\u201d \u201cPlatonic,\u201d \u201cDoc,\u201d \u201cS.W.A.T.\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cMy Life with the Walter Boys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Elevate initiative is backed by significant studio support, including a partnership between SPT\u2019s creative and D&amp;I divisions to maximize resources, reach and longterm impact.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Applications for the actors program open Monday at 7 a.m. PT and are available <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/us.castitreach.com\/ag\/spe\/elevate\/welcome.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">here<\/a>. The program will take place in Culver City, California and runs from mid-August through mid-September 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/media-platforms\/tv\/sony-pictures-television-opens-submissions-elevate-actors-fellowship\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sony Pictures Television Opens Submissions for Elevate Actors Fellowship | Exclusive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sony Pictures Television Opens Submissions for Elevate Actors Fellowship | Exclusive<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:TheWrap;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">TheWrap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Pictures Television has opened submissions for the next cohort of its expanded Elevate Actors Fellowship, TheWrap can reveal exclusively. Designed as a career launchpad for new and diverse voices, the actors fellowship consists of five weeks of masterclasses and industry training, and provides participants with direct access to casting directors, showrunners and studio leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2295580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[351500,444825,307149,305092,444826],"class_list":["post-2295579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-casting-directors","tag-elevate-actors-fellowship","tag-sony","tag-sony-pictures-television","tag-writers-fellowship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sony-Pictures-Television-Opens-Submissions-for-Elevate-Actors-Fellowship.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295581,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295579\/revisions\/2295581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2295580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}