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

Monday, October 26, 2020, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

For this one night online intensive, Adrienne would like you to select a scene from her 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 in a group. Be prepared to take feedback and adjustments.

What to Prepare:

For this intensive, please prepare a scene from ADRIENNE STERN'S library of sides that you feel best showcases your strengths as an actor. The will be link located in your Actors Connection account upon registration.

Please email jess@actorsconnection.com your scene choice AS AN ATTACHMENT (file should be labeled YourName_CHARACTER) by 5pm (EST) the DAY BEFORE the event.

Please follow the procedures listed below:

• Please update your headshot and fill out the MY INFO section of your AC account upon registration.

• Arrive at least 10 MINUTES before your event is slated to start. Your host will give important information about the event at this time.

• Instructions and the ZOOM link for access to this online event will be emailed to you in advance. If you have not received the link by 12pm (EST) the day-of the event, please reach out to registration@actorsconnection.com at least one hour PRIOR to the start of class.

**Actors Connection classes and programming are for ADULTS (18+). With permission, some teens (14+) are allowed to take adult programming. To inquire about getting permission, please send an email to: info@actorsconnection.com**

**No recording of any kind is permitted by participants during class.**

**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.**

 

 

 

 

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.