CASTING

This post is the second in a series on what I’m looking for in the casting process. I currently work in local…

I’m getting ready to audition 70 students for a musical at the high school where I teach theatre. I also have a…

Actress Nadia Sine met with me over Zoom in the Stay-at-home social distancing of 2020 to talk with me about being a black actress in the predominantly white theatre industry. I really wanted to have this conversation, one-on-one to help me process as I look at what I can do and should do and will do about institutional racism in my own theatre community.

I am a director and an actress both. As an actress I have lately been pre-cast and invited to closed auditions. As a director I have held closed casting session and pre-cast entire productions. These situations can make performers really frustrated, so I wanted to dig in and examine my thinking, experiences and reasonings.

Invited by host Britty Marie to appear on her podcast as part of her director series, I talk about comedy verses drama,…

Robert Andrus of Jeff Johnson Casting discusses auditions, submissions, acting, headshots, resumes, and callbacks all from his perspectives as a casting director and an actor.

June 2019 – Join Centerpoint Legacy Theatre’s Production Manager Krista Davies and me as we discuss how much the assertions in Bounce: the Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice by Matthew Syed transfer to the subjective art of theatre and acting.

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