This week, I’m going to be telling stories without name-dropping and that’s going to be tough to do, but I think the stories are worth the point. Pardon the level of “vague” in what follows….
Posts tagged casting
The Great Headshot Purge
Okay, so I’m gearing up for casting three feature films within the next couple of months and that means it’s time to knock the dust off the old headshot files! Usually, after each project I…
The Dead Pile
Every now and then, I do a bit of cleaning up of the casting files. Not the tens of thousands of headshots and postcards (well, I do clean-ups of that stuff too, but usually those…
Remembering Melissa Martin
By now, I’m sure most readers have heard that top commercial casting director Melissa Martin has passed away. These past couple of weeks have been tough, for we lost Melissa, plus casting legend Sylvia Fay,…
Eyes on the Prize?
About a month ago, some keywords in one of my standing Google Alerts sent me to the production blog for the book-to-film I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell. I have not read the book,…
Staying Present
I was watching this weekend’s Georgia game and heard one of the commentators say something that seemed somewhat meaningful. This was in the final moments of the fourth quarter. The score was tied and the…
How to Become a Casting Director
For those of you who have read my first book, Casting Qs: A Collection of Casting Director Interviews, this will be a rerun. But I realized that in three years of writing The Actors Voice,…
Risk Assessment
I believe that one of the casting director’s primary duties is assessing risk on behalf of producers. Yes, we have this really cool job that involves reading a script, making a list of actors who…
Staged Readings
I’ve written before about When to Say No and When to Work for Free, but I want to address something very specific that often straddles a line in this area: the staged reading. Several times…
Laying the Groundwork for a Show Bible
Thank you so much for your articles, they have been enormously insightful. Here is my question. I intern at a casting office and have great relationships with everyone there. They are even working to help…