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Don’t look for Jennifer Venditti’s name on a big franchise movie (that’s not really her scene). Far more attractive to the casting director is a project that will challenge both the viewer and herself. It’s why she works repeatedly with… Read More

Did you see Apple TV’s Presumed Innocent? You may have noticed that the star Jake Gyllenhaal’s wife in the movie was played by Ruth Negga, a Black woman. That character was white in the original novel on which the show is… Read More

Casting Director John Papsidera has had an extraordinary casting career. His recent hits include Happy Gilmore 2, the critically acclaimed film Oppenheimer, which swept the Academy Awards and Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which opened number one at the box office and quickly… Read More

Over the course of her 20-year career, Maribeth Fox has some pretty impressive casting credits to her resume. For starters, there’s both A Quiet Place and A Quiet Place 2, Late Night and the Amazon series Modern Love. She’s also… Read More

British-based casting directors Lucinda Syson and Natasha Vincent are responsible for populating the exciting worlds of the futuristic Galactic Empire on the Apple TV+ series Foundation, loosely based on Isaac Asimov’s book series. Syson, who won an Artios Award for… Read More

Kathryn Brink is one of those rare people who has thrived in the entertainment business in spite of never living in either New York or Los Angeles. She’s spent her entire adult life in New Mexico, and has never found… Read More

There has been an interesting and dangerous trend in commercial auditioning of talent claiming they are a local hire, when in fact they are not. I believe this is an effect of boundaries altered and blurred due to the industry… Read More

The word that comes to mind when you’re talking to Dan Hubbard is “refreshing.” How else to describe someone who grew up in the casting business, but instead of being jaded, still geeks out about movies and TV shows he… Read More

Chances are, if you’re an actor in New York, you’ve auditioned for Kate Geller. One of the foremost casting directors of indie films, Geller has worked on more than a dozen features in just the last couple of years and… Read More

In television and film casting, the decision to select an actor for a role typically rests with the production team, which includes the director, casting director, producers, and executive producers. While the casting process can be complex and involve multiple… Read More

The commercial industry is a little bit hard right now. Generally, everything for commercial actors (and agents, and casting directors, producers… etc. etc.) is just a notch more difficult than it was, let’s say, pre-COVID. I’m all for a collective… Read More

The Snapshot In the Sundance smash Hit Man, Adria Arjona is Madison, a beautiful young woman in a bad marriage who may or may not want her estranged husband killed. She approaches a man she thinks is a professional killer,… Read More

When John Papsidera was hired to be the casting director for Yellowstone, he had no idea he’d eventually be a key player in helping to populate a western universe, which would come to include the spinoffs 1883 and 1923. The… Read More

Emily Brockmann is one of those rare birds who knew exactly what she wanted to do at a very early age. Few people know what career they want to pursue as a teenager, and even fewer decide so firmly on… Read More

Julie Schubert was, by her own admission, not a good actor. She is, however, a very good casting director. Just take a look at her impressive list of credits and they’ll do the talking for her: the six Netflix Marvel… Read More