FEATURE FILM Audition Intensive with Adrienne Stern, CD, Adrienne Stern Casting - Casting for over ELEVEN Feature/Indie Films!

Friday, June 15, 2018, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

After a huge waitlist for her last intensive and GREAT feedback regarding the level of talent she has seen at AC, Adrienne has graciously agreed to come back! Adrienne just BOOKED two actors that she met at a recent intensive and is looking for more GREAT talent!

Currently, she is working on over ELEVEN SAG-AFTRA feature films.

With top agency and management relationships, Adrienne Stern is known for working closely with Directors and Producers to secure the types of casts that open doors to major film festivals and distribution packages. She is very DIRECT with her feedback in the room. Her films have premiered at Sundance, Toronto, Cannes, Tribeca, Berlin, South by Southwest, Seattle and many other prominent film festivals, many taking home prestigious awards.

Her current & recent projects include: AMISH WITCHES: THE TRUE STORY OF HOLMES COUNTY (Lifetime), TRUE CRIME STORIES (ID Discovery), I WITNESS (Discovery Channel ABC), KEEP THE CHANGE (winner of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival), DEMENTIA 13 (remake of Francis Ford Coppola's original film which will open nationwide distributed by Universal), YOUTH (CSA Artios Award for Best Short Film 2017), THE FIRST (The Mary Pickford Bio Pic), AWOL, EYES, SEVEN LOVERS, RUNNING OUT OF ANGELS, MOLLY (The Molly Pitcher Bio Pic), NESSUN DORMA, STAND UP FOR BASTARDS

Past films premiering at The Sundance Film Festival include BROKEN ENGLISH (directed by Zoe Cassavetes, starring Parker Posey and Drea de Matteo), ADRIFT IN MANHATTAN" (directed by Alfredo De Villa, starring Heather Graham, Victor Rasuk, William Baldwin, and Dominic Chianese), THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF LITTLE DIZZLE" (starring Natasha Lyonne, Marshall Allman, Tania Raymonde and Vince Vieluf), GIRLSTOWN (starring Lili Taylor), THE BELIEVER (starring Ryan Gosling), THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING" (starring Matthew McConaughey and John Turturro), WHATEVER, ONLINE, BLEACH, and THIS REVOLUTION.

ELEKTRIC CHILDREN starring Julia Garner, Rory Culkin, Liam Aiken, and John Patrick Amedori premiered at Berlin 2012 and SXSW 2012, AFM 2012, Hampton's and Woodstock 2012.  HAPPY NEW YEAR premiered at South by Southwest in 2010 and premiered at the 2011 Hamptons Film Festival. 2012 also included THE KILL HOLE starring Chadwick Boseman at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, HELLBENDERS premiere at TIFF, ELEKTRIC CHILDREN at Hamptons and Woodstock and ARCHEOLOGY OF A WOMAN at Woodstock. Films that have premiered at Tribeca include KEEP THE CHANGE, BURN COUNTRY starring Dominc Reins, Melissa Leo and James Franco, AWOL starring Lola Kirke and Breeda Wohl, and LUCKY THEM starring Toni Collette and Thomas Hayden Church.

Television credits include: the New York casting for THAT 70's SHOW, where she was responsible for casting Ashton Kutcher, WELCOME TO GREENPOINT for FX and COPSHOW running now on L/Studio (http://www.lstudio.com/cop-show). COPSHOW stars and is by Colin Quinn. She also recently cast two seasons the Cinemax series A GIRL'S GUIDE TO DEPRAVITY.

Ms. Stern has also worked on various commercials, including Five Dove Real Beauty Campaign, LaMer, Samsung, Philips Norelco, Amex, D'Angelo, Kool-aid and has cast well over 250 commercials to date.

Adrienne served as 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 is a member of BAFTA, IFP, CSA, Slated, New York Women in Film and Television and Ensemble Studio Theatre. And sits on the Board of The Greenwich International Film Festival, Chelsea Film Festival and The First Time Fest.

For tonight's intensive, Adrienne will provide you with a variety of scenes to choose from a few days before the intensive online via your AC account. You are to prepare one scene that you feel represents you. You'll start off the night with a Q&A taking in the pearls of wisdom and information this veteran CD has to offer and then Adrienne will begin working with you ON CAMERA with a reader in a group format so that you'll have the chance to get coaching and observe how this constantly in-demand CD works with others. Be prepared for feedback and direction for adjustments which will surely impact your next audition!

***For this intensive, please print out TWO copies of your scene-one for you and one for the reader.***

Register soon as space will go fast!

*** Scenes 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.***

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

"That was a great, great intensive that I had last night. Adrienne is one of the best guests I've worked with at Actors Connection. Unbelievable! Keep up the good work! One of the best wealth of information that I've experienced at AC!" -Armen Garo

Adrienne Stern

With top agency and management relationships, Adrienne Stern is known for working closely with Directors and Producers to secure the types of casts that open doors to major film festivals and distribution packages. She is very DIRECT with her feedback in the room. Her films have premiered at Sundance, Toronto, Cannes, Tribeca, Berlin, South by Southwest, Seattle and many other prominent film festivals, many taking home prestigious awards.

Adrienne is actively auditioning and meeting talent for several 2019 projects. She just wrapped feature films Bars and Martin Eden, in addition to St. Clement's production of The Bigot now running Off-Broadway. She is currently casting five features, plus a new series entitled Coyote Runway (based on the film Stealing Chanel).

Recent projects include: Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (PBS) starring Adam Driver, Liev Schreiber, Rachel Brosnahan, Hugh Dancy, Lauren Ambrose, Sebastian Stan, Tim Blake Nelson and Billy Magnussen, 16 Bars starring Jamie Hector, Vyse, Bre-Z, Stormi Maya, Bad Art starring Tania Raymonde, Sarah Wynter, Mark L. Young, Josh Stamberg, Geza Rohrig, and Vincent Pastore, About a Teacher starring Dov Tiefenbach and Tibor Feldman, Magic Hour starring Miriam Shor Austin Pendelton and Josh Stamberg, Aleppo starring Laëtitia Eïdo and Walles Hamonde, Ex-Disposer starring Jack DiFalco, Safe Inside starring Tom Ainsley, Andrea Tivadar and Steven Brand, Porno starring Robbie Tann, Katelyn Pierce, and Jillian Mueller, Silent Night: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas 2018 Music Video starring Kevin Sorbo. For The Church of Latter-Day Saints.

Past Projects include: Lifetime TV movie Amish Witches: The True Story of Holmes County (Lifetime), Dementia 13 (NBC Chiller Films), Village of the Damned (Investigation Discovery) and I Witness (ABC). Other films include Why Not Choose Love: A Mary Pickford Manifesto starring Sophie Kennedy Clark, Luke Arnold, Balthazar Getty and Cary Elwes, The Swerve Starring Azura Skye, Ashley Bell and Bryce Pinkham, Soul Sessions starring Brooke Langton and Adam Senn, Bully starring Danny Trejo, Ron Canada, Vincent Pastore and Tucker Albrizzi, 1 Angry Black Man, Rosie Rose, Public Speaking, and Thump.

Television credits include: the New York casting for That 70’s Show (responsible for casting Ashton Kutcher), Welcome to Greenpoint for FX and Cop Show (starring and written by Colin Quinn, running now on L/Studio (http://www.lstudio.com/cop-show).

Adrienne has also worked on various commercials, including the Dove Real Beauty Campaign, LaMer, Samsung, Philips Norelco, American Express, D'Angelo, Kool-aid Zola Wedding, Samsung, Lola, 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 is a member of BAFTA, IFP, CSA, New York Women in Film and Television and Ensemble Studio Theatre. She also sits on the Board of The Greenwich International Film Festival and The First Time Fest.