Disney's Cultural Representative Program will make a return to Walt Disney World in August 2022 after more than a two year-long pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Disney said today, "the Disney Cultural Representative program will return in phases and begin welcoming the first new participants in August."
Participants from select countries whose program was shortened, cancelled or waitlisted in 2020, as well as those who had an offer and had not yet arrived, are currently being contacted for the first opportunity to reapply.
During the phased re-introduction, initial recruitment will start in Germany, Norway, Italy, France, UK, and Canada for World Showcase at EPCOT. Additional countries will be added once they clear travel restrictions and / or have CDC-authorized vaccine availability.
The Cultural Representative Program provides Cast Members that work at the pavilions of EPCOT's World Showcase. Since EPCOT's reopening in summer 2020, the World Showcase pavilions have been staffed by local Cast Members dressed in standard costumes.
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