INDIE FEATURE Audition Intensive with Adrienne Stern, CD, Adrienne Stern Casting

Monday, March 9, 2020, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

This event is in the past.

For this one night intensive, Adrienne would like you to select a scene from their variety of sides that you feel best showcases your strengths as an actor. The event will start off with an informative Q&A, followed by your presentation of the scene with a reader on-camera in a group. Be prepared to take feedback and adjustments.

Please select one scene from the INSTRUCTOR SIDES database (link located in your Actors Connection account upon registration). Please bring in TWO copies of your chosen scene - one for you, and one for your reader (with the reader's lines highlighted). 

Always bring a hardcopy of your headshot/resume to class for feedback purposes. 

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

Scenes will be recorded on-camera and made available to you within one week. An email notification will be sent from videos@actorsconnection.com when the clips are available to view and download from your AC account. Videos are for educational purposes only and are NOT to be posted on YouTube, Facebook, or any other public viewing site. Please note: Occasionally technical issues do occur, as a result video clips are a courtesy, not a guarantee. 

**Please keep in mind that all programs at Actors Connection are for educational and professional development purposes. Participating in any class or event is not a promise of employment.**

Register soon as space will go fast!

 

 

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.

Meets

Monday, March 9, 20206:30 pm

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.