CAROL HANZEL, Casting Director, Carol Hanzel Casting

Q&A/Monologues/Songs ONE on ONE

Friday, June 17, 2016, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

This event is in the past.

A brilliant guest who casts for theater, TV, film, commercials and industrials. Carol has cast over 3000 commercials both on camera and V/O and is always busy with both SAG, AEA and non-union projects.

Currently, Carol is casting Her Excellency (staged reading), Soul Mates (guest artists vocal act for cruise ships), Gotta Getta Girl (Amas Musical Theatre, Martin Luther on Trial (up-coming off-Broadway), and a children's animated pilot for PBS. Her recent theater projects include: Cut Throat (Abingdon Theatre Co), Cagney (York Theatre Co.), The People Before the Park and By the Water (Premiere Stages). Recent Commercials and Voice-overs for: Waggin Train, Tombstone Pizza and USGA.

Past Broadway and national tour credits include: Swing!, Sally Marr and her Escorts, The Screwtape Letters, The Great Divorce, Girl's Night, and Defending the Caveman. Other prior theatre projects include: Divorce Party, Cougar-the Musical, Hellman v. McCarthy, Signs of Life, My Vaudeville Man!, Wanda's World, Tarzan, Legally Blonde, Backwards in High Heels, Dr. Sex, Theda Bara and the Frontier Rabbi, Dorian Gray, Trophies, Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods, The Good Counselor, Duck Crossing, Madison, Lizzie Borden, Rabbit Hole, Dracula, Girl's Night, Regrets Only, Hats!, The Shape of Things, Flight of the Lawnchair Man, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, and I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change. Her television casting includes Peg + Cat, The Wonder Pets, Hi-5, and pilots for The Moodsters and Finky's Kitchen. Past film credits include the feature film A Very Serious Person directed by Charles Busch and The Guru (dance sequences). Carol has been casting for 31 years.

She's interested in meeting actors of all types-all ethnicities (18+) and has called in and booked many AC actors from past seminars.

After a Q&A she'll see Monologues/Songs ONE on ONE

Carol Hanzel

Carol’s professional background as a musical theatre performer includes the original Broadway productions of Sherry, Cabaret and Promises, Promises as well as the Lincoln Center revivals of West Side Story and Show Boat..  Her performing career also included numerous commercials, television, regional theater and voice overs. She has danced with such renowned artists as Gene Kelly, Chita Rivera, Joel Grey and Donna McKecknie, and played opposite Ann Miller in Mame. Fun facts:  She was on a bowling team with Sammy Davis, Jr., appeared on the same stage as Mr. Jiggs, the roller-skating chimpanzee on the Ed Sullivan Show and danced alongside Morgan Freeman at the World's Fair.

Following a successful career on the stage, Carol spent 5 years as a talent agent, representing new and established clients culminating in working for Writers and Artists Agency. Carol entered casting in 1984 when she was asked to join the prestigious advertising agency, Ogilvy and Mather, as an on-staff casting director where she worked until 1988, when she opened her own company. She continued her commercial casting and expanded her office to include casting for theatre, her first love, as well as television and film.

Wearing a number of different hats in diverse areas of the “business” has enabled Carol to possess a distinctive overview of the casting process, and a comprehensive knowledge of the many components that make for a successful finished product. Add to that Carol's passion for her work, love of collaboration and respect for the creative process and it adds up to make CHC a unique asset, guaranteed to make every project, no matter the size or the ambition, reach its ultimate goal.

The following disclaimer is provided specifically at the request of and in accordance with SAG/AFTRA: Seminars or classes are for educational purposes only and will not secure or provide opportunity for employment in the field or representation by an agent or casting director.