FILM Audition Intensive with Adrienne Stern, CD, Adrienne Stern Casting

Thursday, July 18, 2013, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

After a huge waitlist for her last intensive and after GREAT feedback regarding the level of talent she has seen at AC, Adrienne has graciously agreed to come back! Adrienne recently BOOKED two actors that she met at a recent intensive and is looking for more GREAT talent!

Currently Adrienne is casting for SIX feature/indie films that include: The Enigma of Benito Cereno, Electric City, The First, Shoedog, Extra Innings, and Margarita With A Straw.

For tonight's intensive, Adrienne will provide you with a variety of scenes to choose from a few days before the intensive online via your AC account. You are to prepare one scene that you feel represents you. You'll start off the night with a Q&A taking in the pearls of wisdom and information this veteran CD has to offer and then Adrienne will begin working with you ON CAMERA with a reader in a group format so that you'll have the chance to get coaching and observe how this constantly in-demand CD works with others. Be prepared for feedback and direction for adjustments which will surely impact your next audition!

***For this event, please print out two copies of your scene-one for you and one for the reader.***

Adrienne just finished casting SEVEN films that include: The No Game, Happy New Year, Blue World, Sundays in Fort Greene, The Suspect of St. Marks Place, Shoedog, and Losers Take All. Recent projects include: Harold, Boarding House, Blue World, Jones Party, Strange Effect, The Ivory Trade, Ten Tall Stories, Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle and Poplar Bluff. Past films credits for this office (too numerous to completely list here) include Broken English, The Insurgents, and Shanghai Hotel.

She's currently interested in meeting new talent of All Types-All Ethnicities (18+).

Register soon as space will go fast!

*** 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 headshot and create a resume in your online account upon registration.

"That was a great, great intensive that I had last night. Adrienne is one of the best guests I've worked with at Actors Connection. Unbelievable! Keep up the good work! One of the best wealth of information that I've experienced at AC!" -Armen Garo

Adrienne Stern

A seasoned Casting Director and ARTIOS winner whose films have premiered at Sundance, TIFF, Cannes, Tribeca, Berlin, SXSW, HIFF, Woodstock, Hamptons, Seattle, Venice and many other prominent film festivals, taking home first place prestigious awards that have led to distribution deals and launched actor’s careers…

Ms. Stern’s recent films include Julie Pacino’s debut I Live Here Now in theaters currently 2026; Jesus Land written and directed by Saila Kariat based on Julia Scheer’s memoir, starring Ella Anderson and Juliette Lewis; The Block starring Jack Falahee, Jackie Earle Haley, Chris Noth and Elias Koteas; Hazard starring Sosie Bacon, Steven Ogg and Alex Roe, which premiered at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival; A Brooklyn Love Story with a cast of New York’s favorite Italian actors including Vincent Pastore; Andrew Troy’s Midnight in the Orange Grove; The Simunaut’s Tale starring Miku Martineau and Dylan Baker, Before Daylight starring Lilly Krug; An Enemy of the People, a Jay Craven Film starring Elizabeth (Bitsie) Tulloch and Molly Kunz.

Ms. Stern has a successful track record of attaching name talent to features that result in obtaining financing. This includes talent lists, offer letters, deal memo’s, LOI, escrow accounts. Extensive experience in negotiating and understanding budgets to attach the right talent.

Her films include The Believer starring Ryan Gosling; Thirteen Conversations About One Thing starring Matthew McConaughey; Broken English starring Parker Posey and Justin Theroux; Joseph Pulitzer starring Live Schreiber, Sebastian Stan, Billy Magnussen, Lauren Ambrose, Rachel Brosnahan and Adam Driver as the Narrator.

Well known in the Horror/Thriller genre films include: The Girl Who Got Away (Netflix) The Directors Cut (AMC), Dementia 13 (Universal) Satan’s Little Helper, Hellbenders, Mimic Sentinel, Malevolence Bereavement, Campfire Stories, Old 37, He Never Died, Hellraiser Deader and many more.

Ms. Stern was the Casting Director of The New York Sundance Writers Lab Reading Series from 1996-2005, and has been on both the selection committee and jury for the Gen Art Film Festival. She has been a judge for the Chelsea Film Festival. She is an Artio’s winner and member of BAFTA, CSA, Academy and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She was a previous Board member of The Greenwich International Film Festival and The First Time Fest.