HOSTING AUDITION INTENSIVE with Lisa Fischoff, Casting Director, Broadcasters

Saturday, October 17, 2015, 11am ET / 8am PT

2pm. Interested in being a TV Host? Here's a great way to start learning about the process of auditioning for on-camera Hosting.

In today's intensive, Top NY Casting Director Lisa Fischoff will cover getting started and auditioning by using host copy from some of her recent projects. She'll give you specific feedback on your performance and do playbacks of your reads. Lisa will review what needs to be improved, as well as the positive traits that would help you fit into this exciting market. Cue cards will also be provided in this session to help you focus your on-camera hosting technique.

Lisa Fischoff is the co-founder of Broadcasters, one of the busiest commercial casting offices in NYC. After working at Liz Lewis Casting Partners for many years, Lisa left to start Broadcasters in 2005. Since then, Broadcasters has grown to incorporate the world of hosting into their casting business. She has cast for hosts for clients such as Prada, People magazine (People.com), Sports Illustrated (Sports Illustrated.com), Host for the Heisman Trophy Big Ten Tour and for the new spokesperson for Newtons (formerly Fig Newtons), just to name a few.

Lisa, who for many years is known in the commercial world as one of the top voice over and on camera casting directors, has embraced the hosting world. She has studied the craft of finding what makes a good host and how the audition process for this medium differs from other styles of auditioning.

Limited to 10 actors.

***Your work 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.***

"Hi Lisa! I wanted to thank you so much for your masterclass on Saturday! I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in the hosting world. Your specific feedback was so helpful and said in a way that I would be able to actively apply it to my work. I loved that you questioned our stories and our strengths - I have been thinking even more about my personality strengths and how to best use them in hosting! As I continue learning and building in the hosting business, I hope our paths will cross again soon! Thank you so much again!" -Meg Maley

'Thank you for the Hosting Audition Intensive experience at Actors Connection. I appreciate your ability to give us constructive feedback while highlighting our strengths. You were very considerate and patient with us." -YaKima Davis

Make the most of your auditions with time in our local Manhattan rehearsal space!

Lisa Fischoff

Lisa Fischoff is co-founder and co-owner of one of the busiest voice over casting offices in NYC, Broadcasters LLC.  She began her commercial casting career at Liz Lewis Casting Partners in the late 90’s.  After several years as a casting director at LLCP, she left in 2005 with another alum of LLCP, Stacy Seidel Tea to open Broadcasters.  20 years later they have garnered a reputation for being one of the best casting offices to audition for in NYC.

Lisa casts for on camera commercials, hosts, print and industrial projects.  She has tremendous knowledge with regard to commercial talent here in NYC and loves meeting new talent.

Broadcasters is always looking for new talent in both the Union and Non Union pool of actors in New York and Los Angeles.  They also cast foreign language voice over projects in every language imaginable and utilize Actors Access and Breakdown Express often to find these rare and very specific talent.

Lisa and the Broadcasters team have embraced the remote casting process seamlessly.  It has afforded them the opportunity to meet new VO talent from all over the country for projects that are booking from home studios.  This enhances Lisa and Broadcasters’ ability to meet and stay connected with new talent.

Some of the well known campaigns/commercial brands Lisa has cast for are: TJ Maxx, Prudential, Trodelvy, Humira, Hershey’s, Sonic, American Express, Netflix, JP Morgan Chase, Grey Goose, Lincoln, Budweiser, Wheat Thins, Skittles, Direct TV, AT&T, Rinvoq, Seamless, Birchbox, Panera, Sherwin Williams, Benjamin Moore, Shea Moisture, Humira, Band-Aid, FDA and PSA spots and thousands more.

In addition, Lisa heads the hosting department at Broadcasters.  She has cast for such clients as People.com, QVC, Sports Illustrated.com, Disney, Giorgio Armani, and Newtons just to name a few. 

Lisa Fischoff is asked to speak/meet new talent by several commercial acting schools around the country for both on camera and voice over instruction/advice.  She runs an intensive on voice over instruction and works with talent looking to find out more about the voice over process.  She has been teaching and coaching for over 20 years helping those who need guidance with the voice over process, current trends, and technical instruction.