The Role of the Casting Director
The casting director is the first key personnel (or “key” in industry terms) hired when a film is in pre-production. The casting director, or CD, usually has ten or twelve weeks of uninterrupted time...
View ArticleThe Making of Casting By
When I was sixteen-years-old, living in New York City, I loved Woody Allen films. I may have seen Annie Hall fifteen times. I noticed that “Woody” used many of the same key players again and again in...
View ArticleWhat Makes You Unique
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken –Oscar Wilde In the HBO documentary Casting By, the late great matriarch of casting, Marion Dougherty says “every actor has a unique quality to bring to...
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