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6 Casting Directors in 1 Fun Night

Join Brooke and Mary along with casting directors David Morris, Lauren Charkow, Rachel Reiss and Rebecca Yarsin for a 1.75 hour Zoom workshop.

With production back to normal,  it's important for casting directors to know you have a professional set-up and are ready to submit your self tape auditions. We will start the workshop getting a peek at your home set-up and then have you do 2 pieces of copy (provided in advance or you can choose copy of your own).  Feedback will be given on both set-up and audition. 

Once registered we will contact you for headshot, resume or website to forward onto the casting directors in advance.

The workshop will wrap-up with a short Q&A.

Workshop limited to 12 peeps so sign-up fast. 

Please note that this is not a pay to play workshop. 

About Your Instructors

Lauren Charkow

Casting Director, Lauren Charkow Casting

A veteran of the NYC casting scene, Lauren has well over a decade of experience casting everything from big budget television documentaries and celebrity-driven national ad campaigns to micro budget indie films and web content for startups. She maintains an extensive real people database and has close working relationships with both SAG and non-union agents.

David Morris

Casting Director, Grande/Morris Casting

After 5 years at Telsey + Company, David has recently joined forces with Fay Grande to form Grande/Morris Casting. David casts on camera commercials, voice overs and industrials and is always looking for innovative, creative, new actors. Recent commercials include: Time Warner Cable, TD Ameritrade, Cognizant, Papa John's, Verizon, Ikea, Fanta, Stouffer's. David also cast his first feature film last year "No Retreat" which is currently in production. Most recently, he's cast short films "Brain Off" and "Feral Mix." David is an adjunct professor at Pace University and a proud alum of NYU/Tisch.

Rachel Reiss

Casting Director, Liz Lewis Casting Partners

Rachel is a casting director at Liz Lewis Casting Partners where she casts film, TV, voiceovers, and commercials nationwide. She began her career casting shows for numerous networks including the Bravo, Lifetime, Oxygen, A&E, Spike, and Discovery. Most notably, she cast 11 seasons of Chopped on the Food Network. Since joining Liz Lewis, she casts voiceovers for clients such as AT&T, Phillips Grooming, Zicam, and Bacardi, and over 100 commercials including Publix, Trojan, Time Warner Cable, Coke, and Kindle. Most recently, she cast the comedy feature film Wifed Out starring Eve and Marc Maron and is currently working on three other films. Rachel was a panelist for Casting Commercials for the New York Women in Film and TV. She is a graduate of Boston University.

Rebecca Yarsin

Casting Director, House Casting

Rebecca casts National and Regional Commercials and Industrials as well as National and Regional Voice-Overs. Recent commercials include: Apple, Time Warner, Cablevision, AT&T, Bank of America, TD Bank, Chase, Burlington, Verizon, Lay's, Old Navy, Gillette, Macy's, Microsoft, Hertz, Ketel One, Bacardi, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts, Hershey's, Dove, Charles Schwab, Dr Scholls, Kit Kat, GNC, Reese's, Acuvue, Dos Equis, Marie Callender and many others. She also works on many web series, shorts and plays as well as directing her own projects. She is always looking for new talent! She was formerly in theatrical casting and worked as a Producer on Broadway and Off-Broadway for many years.

Mary Egan Callahan (Host)

Casting Director, House Casting

Brooke Thomas (Host)

Casting Director, Brooke Thomas Casting

Frequently Asked Questions

From real people to real actors, Casting Loop instructional offerings are for people who are looking to book television commercials and TV programming. Our classes, workshops and events fill up with everyone from curious, unsigned, non-union aspirers looking to get into the business to established actors looking to improve and hone their performance techniques for commercial and TV auditions. While actors, comedians, and improv artists consistently sign up to our classes, we have many, many people from all walks of life, like doctors, lawyers, assistants, housewives, athletes, business professionals, art dealers, etc., etc., etc.

Thousand of our students have taken classes and we see them appearing on ad spots, television shows and film everyday. Some who went on to train for commercials (usually before they got popular) via our class and then rose up the entertainment ladder include: Ben Schwartz (House of Lies), Nick Kroll (The Kroll Show, The League), Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation, Safety Not Required), Bayne Gibby and Jason Mantzoukas (Enlightened), Ed Helms (Daily Show, The Office,The Hangover), Adam Pally (Happy Endings), Jessica St. Clair (Best Friends Forever, Bridesmaids), Rob Huebel (Human Giant, Adult Swim series Childrens Hospital) Michael Nathanson (Side Effects), Kate McKinnon (SNL), Pete Holmes (voice of the E-Trade baby and soon to be host of The Midnight Show with Pete Holmes). ...This is a very small partial list! ...And maybe you’ve seen people in ads that you didn’t know were past students such as comedian Coleman Green (Cablevision pink pixel), actress/songstress Nadia Quinn (Yoplait yogurt), Sara Megan Thomas (wrote and starred in the movie Backwards), Jim Connelly (Amtrak and many other ads). This list goes on and on...

Plans change, we get it. If you book a job or something else comes up we'll try to resell your seat if you notify us 7 or more days prior to the start of the class or workshop. (Go to "Contact Us" to let us know.) But if it's a 7 day or less notice and we can't fill your seat, we won't be able to refund.

workshop$100

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