MUSICAL THEATER Audition Master Class with Jason Styres CSA, Casting Director

Thursday, June 15, 2017, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Actors Connection is honored to have Jason teaching this ONE NIGHT ONLY Musical Theater Audition Master Class.

For this Master Class, please prepare 2 contrasting songs and bring your book as Jason may want to hear something additional. The evening will start off with a Q & A, and then each actor will perform for Jason using your prepared material in a group format. He will coach, give direction and offer possible recommendations of material to "check out" if what you are currently using doesn't "work".

JASON STYRES, CSA cast such shows as the Tony Award Best Musical A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder (Broadway, 1st National Tour, and 2nd National Tour), Dames at Sea (Broadway), The Lion King (Broadway & National Tour), the Off-Broadway hit Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic, Irving Berlin's White Christmas (National Tour), The War Boys (Off-Broadway), Trip of Love (OffBroadway), and Nice Work If You Can Get It (Broadway), and for over 15 different productions for the highly prestigious New York City Center Encores! series.

He has worked with such directors and choreographers as Darko Tresnjak, Josh Prince, Camille A. Brown, Randy Skinner, Warren Carlyle, Josh Bergasse, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Marc Bruni, Casey Nicholaw, Kathleen Marshall, Josh Rhodes, John Doyle, and James Lapine, amongst many others. Other credits include Hartford Stage, New York Philharmonic, Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), San Francisco Symphony, Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), TUTS Underground, North Shore Music Theatre, Infinity Theatre Company, and various other theatres.

He also served as casting director for the three-time Emmy nominated production of Carousel (NY Philharmonic/PBS), the smash hit television show So You Think You Can Dance, and the highly praised HBO documentary Six by Sondheim. Some recent favorite projects include Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Prancing Elites Project, and How You Look At It - a brand new dance short by Wendy Seyb starring Emmy Award-winner Peter Scolari, which recently gathered awards in various film festivals across the world. His current/upcoming projects include a new Off-Broadway production of Money Talks, the new musical Missed Connections: A Craigslist Musical, the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of F****d Up..., a new Wendy Seyb project entitled Rye, and proudly serves as the Resident Casting Director for Josh Prince's groundbreaking Broadway Dance Lab.

Outside of his normal work in casting, he is a proud supporter/friend of the Cancer Support Community, serving as their casting consultant for their galas and benefits, serves as guest faculty for Broadway Dance Center and the Quest Intensive, and teaches as a guest artist at numerous universities, colleges, and programs across the nation. He is a seven-time Artios Award nominee, and a member of the Casting Society of America.

PLEASE NOTE: This class is limited to 12 ADVANCED Musical Theater actors.

Jason Styres