All Day THEATER INTENSIVE with Alaine Alldaffer, Head Casting Director, Playwrights Horizons

Saturday, February 22, 2020, 10am ET / 7am PT

Don't miss this fast paced and fun day working with this top casting director on storytelling and character development. Alaine's focus will be on strengthening your acting skills by using well written theater text.

In your morning session, the emphasis will be on process; Making choices that tells the best story for the character while simultaneously serving the story overall. After a lunch break, you'll spend the afternoon working on new contrasting scenes. These scenes will be assigned prior to the lunch break. The goal is to take what you've learned from the morning session and bring the work to next level in the afternoon session.

This is a creative workout for brain and the spirit in a supportive and judgment free environment.

For this all day intensive, Alaine will select sides for you to prepare based on your headshot and fully completed MY INFO section in your AC account. 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.

Assignments will be emailed 1-3 days in advance from sides@actorsconnection.com. Please bring in TWO copies of your sides - 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 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.**

Alaine Alldaffer

Alaine is the proud owner of Alldaffer & Donadio Casting (NY Casting) Alaine Alldaffer CSA and Lisa Donadio CSA. 

BROADWAY: Stereophonic, A Strange Loop, Grey Gardens, and Clybourne Park. 

OFF-BROADWAY: Playwrights Horizons, 27 years on staff. Stereophonic, A Strange Loop, Grey Gardens, Clybourne Park, Circle Mirror Transformation (Drama Desk and Obie Awards for Best Ensemble), The Flick; Barrow Street Theater:The Flick; Classic Stage Company and The Tent Theater.

DC AREA: Studio Theatre, Signature Theater, Arlington

REGIONAL: Hartford Stage, TheaterWorks Hartford, Huntington Theatre, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Old Globe, Berkeley Rep.

TV: ABC: “The Knights of Prosperity” (aka “Let’s Rob Mick Jagger”); NBC: “Ed;” USA Network: “Monk.”

PODCASTS: Marvel, Audible, Fresh Produce. 

AWARDS:16 Artios nominations and 4 wins for casting. The 2025 Signal award for casting of The podcast “Lead, How This Story Ends Is Up To Us”