ROBIN CARUS, Casting Director, Robin Carus Casting
Q&A/Monologues ONE on ONE
Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 7pm ET / 4pm PT
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Robin Carus has been casting for 17 years. She was Head of Casting for TheatreworksUSA for nine years. While there, she auditioned thousands of actors and cast over 200 national tours and countless off-Broadway shows created by emerging playwrights and directors. Since then, she has cast countless Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows, regional theater, festivals, and films. Her credits include:
National Tours: Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Family Life Theatre, Theatreworks USA Regional: The State Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company International: Sunfish (dir. Will Pomerantz, Daegu International Theatre Festival, Korea), Sarah, Plain and Tall (Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference)
Off-Broadway/Off-Off Broadway: Culture Shock 1911-1922! (dir. Rafael De Mussa/Horizon Theater Rep), Woman at the Funerals (IATI Theatre), Pete the Girl (The Living Theatre), Aesop's Fables (dir. Theodore Mann/Circle in the Square), The Last Castrato, Like You Like It (dir.Igor Goldin/Gallery Players), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, Seussical (dir. Marcia Milgrom Dodge), Max & Ruby, Henry and Mudge (dir. Peter Flynn), Cam Jansen (dir. Gordon Greenberg), Walk Two Moons (dir: Melissa Kievman); Summer of the Swans, Junie B. Jones (dir. Peter Flynn), Sarah, Plain and Tall (dir. Joe Calarco), Romeo and Juliet.
Workshops & Readings: Far From The Madding Crowd (dir. Giovanna Sardelli), Bridges (Ken Cerniglia in coordination with Berkeley Playhouse), Valentino's Tango (dir: Chet Walker), Folk City (Theater for the New City), Art (dir. Dan Cordle), Caught (dir. Nick DeGruccio), Dani Girl (dir. Scott Schwartz)
Concerts/Special Events: The Tiny Mustache (dir. Ben Tostado), Like You Like It (54 Below), 2014 Planet Connections Gala: One Acts For A Cause (starring Melissa Leo, Mary Beth Hurt, & Caissie Levy), 2014 JFest (Resident Casting Director), 2013 One Acts For A Cause: An Evening of New One Acts by Neil LaBute, John Patrick Shanley, and Winter Miller: a benefit for Safe Horizon (Signature Theatre, NYC), FX's "Archer Live" (Irving Plaza, NYC & Theatre of the Living Arts, PA), I Stand Before You Naked (Gerald Lynch Theatre), Speargrove Presents (Julia Miles Theatre), 2009 Marathon Festival (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Strange News From Another Planet (dir. Michael Alltop/Fringe), City of Dreams (dir. Michael Alltop/MITF), Roadicide (HERE/Lincoln Center American Living Room Festival), Like You Like It (dir.Jen Bender/NYMF, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab)
Film: Love True, Weathering, Running With Sharks, The King's Pawn, Disgrace, Elvis, Rover, No Vagrancy, Skook (Additional Casting), A Breath Away, Breaking the Chain, Tiger, Underwear (Winner Best Short Savannah Film Festival).
TV: "Whistler and the Case For Beauty" (PBS), and commercials.
After a Q&A she'll see Monologues ONE on ONE
Robin Carus
Robin Carus (Casting Director) has cast everything from iconic commercials to groundbreaking theatre to independent film and television.
Upcoming projects include: Written Out, and Pay The Writer all playing at London's Riverside Theatre, the revival of Ceremonies In Dark Old Men (Theatre at St. Clement's), the film Urban Ed, concerts of To Paint The Earth (directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge at The Museum of Jewish Heritage) and Momologues (54 Below).
Recent Regional & Off-Broadway: Two Jews, Talking (starring Josh Mostel and Richard Masur at Theatre at St. Clements), The Remarkable Mister Holmes (North Coast Rep), Chicken and Biscuits (Queens Theatre), Pip's Island
Film: Urban Ed (in development), The Thursday Night Club, Green Flake Television: Now Hear This (PBS).
Robin won Webby, Hermes, Davey and Telly Awards for her contribution to Project Sing Out! She cast virtual benefits and fundraising events for Hadassah International, Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Fair Fight and the Warnock/Ossoff campaigns in Georgia, the Hudson Guild, the New Works Virtual Festival for the Actors Fund, the World Union For Progressive Judaism.
For almost 10 years she was the Casting Director for TheatreworksUSA, where she cast over 200 national tours and countless works in development, as well as, their Off-Broadway series at the Lucille Lortel Theatre - including the revival of Seussical. Member of the Casting Society of America.
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