ON CAMERA Film & TV Audition Technique - 4 Week On-Camera Class with Susanne Scheel Eleazer CSA, Casting Associate, Ellen Chenoweth Casting

Monday, January 4, 2016, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Here's your chance to work for four weeks on-camera with this top NY CD who has worked on FOUR Academy Award winning films: The Blind Side, The Descendants, Moneyball and Argo.

Susanne is currently casting for a new TV series, an independent film and just worked as Ellen's associate on the Coen Brothers next feature film "Hail, Caesar!" The cast has over 70 roles and includes George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Channing Tatum, Ralph Fiennes, Tilda Swinton & Scarlet Johansson. Her most recently released film; The Normal Heart received 18 Emmy Nominations including one for casting and a Casting Society of America (CSA) Artios Nomination for Susanne as the associate and Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond as the Casting Directors.

Each week will build on the last and all sessions will be on-camera. The course will start off with prepared sides so that Susanne can get a "feel" for your type as well as an opportunity to focus on each actor's individual on-camera habits and how this could affect your audition. From there, she will focus on both cold and prepared sides including feature and indie films as well as television sides.

You will also self-tape and submit to see how well you are coming across to casting directors who you don't know you as an actor.

Susanne has been working in Film, Television, Commercial and Theatrical casting for over 6 years. She has worked with notable casting directors such as Avy Kaufman, Francine Maisler, Lora Kennedy, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, Amanda Mackey, Joseph Middleton and Tracy "Twinkie" Bryd and currently works with Ellen Chenoweth.

Last year, Susanne was called to head the casting of feature Indie film Delirium directed by Lee Roy Kunz and starring Lee Roy Kunz, Cru Ennis, Tyler Shields, Lydia Hearst, Beatrice Rosen (The Dark Knight) and Julia Snigir (A Good Day to Die Hard). The film takes place all over Europe and is set to release later this year. The film already is generating a buzz in the industry and has been written up in Variety.

Susanne recently finished her 2nd indie feature entitled Folk Hero and Funny Guy starring Alex Karpovsky (Girls, Inside Llewyn Davis), Wyatt Russell (22 Jump Street & That's What I'm Talking About,Richard Linklater's follow-up film to Boyhood), Hannah Simone (New Girl), Michael Ian Black and Melanie Lynskey.

In 2013, Susanne also joined the creative team as Casting Director of the independent stage production of Point Break Live! This stage parody of the 1991 beloved film holds the record of Los Angeles' longest running stage show having been in production for over eight years. It has also been in production in Seattle for over three years. The NY production launched August 2nd, 2013 and has sold out over 20 shows to date and more shows are added every month.

Susanne is a proud associate member of the Casting Society of America and alumni of Boston University Film School.

Please click this link to view Susanne's IMDB credits

*** Scenes will be recorded on-camera. As a courtesy, your video clips will be made available to you within a week. An email notification will be sent when the clips are available to view and download from your Actors Connection account. Please note: from time to time technical issues do occur. As a result video clips are a courtesy, not a guarantee.***

Please upload your HS and create your resume in your Actors Connection profile upon registration.

TESTIMONIALS:

"Susanne actually cares about each actor and helping them succeed. Her personal critiques and casting secrets boost the actors knowledge and technique tremendously." -Christophe Morabito

"Susanne is wonderful. She has so many great words of wisdom. I really enjoyed all of her assignments." -Michelle Liu Coughlin

"Susanne is amazing!" -Alexander Kirby

"Susanne is very good at directing actors. Simple and straight forward. Loved the small class, it made our own time that more impactful." -Sara Wahnish

"Susanne was so relatable and approachable. She made every night super informative." -Kelsey Robinson

"Susanne was incredibly generous with her time, knowledge and information as a casting director as well as being very supportive and encouraging." -Maria Lawson

"I've become a better actor, gained confidence and lost my nerves. I learned to become a better active listener which translates well on camera." -Kenan Wei

Susanne (Scheel) Eleazer