Insider Tips: LA Edition- FREE ZOOM PANEL

Sunday, May 15, 2022, 8pm ET / 5pm PT

Needing to learn more about the LA Acting Market?  Join this FREE zoom event to hear about today's most powerful tips!

Actors Connection, Up-To-Date Actor, and Ted Brunetti Studios have proudly teamed up to present Actor Insider Tips: LA Edition, a free Zoom panel where top-level industry experts provide practical guidance for actors looking to build their careers in the Los Angeles market. (Live on Sunday, May 15 at 5pm PT / 8pm ET.)

Featured panelist Jamie Castro (acclaimed casting director for SCANDAL, GREY'S ANATOMY, STATION 19, INVENTING ANNA) will be joined by agent Elmer Blanco (Avalon Artists Agency), producer Ashley-Lauren Elrod, and award-winning writer, entertainment journalist, and publicist Steven Shehori.

Actors attending the live virtual event will receive constructive, hands-on industry tips and advice from the veteran panelists, whose topics of discussion will include “Gaining Visibility in Your Chosen Market” and “Strengthening Individuality in Your Career.” The panel will conclude with a Q&A.

Please note that by registering for this event, you will start receiving information/email marketing from Actors Connection, Up-To-Date Actor, and Ted Brunetti Studios.

Workshop attendees new to the Up-To-Date Actor will receive a discount code for a 1-month Full Access Free Trial and 20% off a paid subscription.

The Actor Insider Tips: LA Edition seminar is a collaboration between Actors Connection, Up-To-Date Actor, and Ted Brunetti Studios:  Actors Connection (ActorsConnection.com) is an online professional development company for actors looking to strengthen skillsets while building connections with notable and currently working entertainment professionals.  Up-To-Date Actor (Uptodateactor.com) is a 24/7 personal assistant that gives artists the tools to be the CEO of their careers with daily updated project announcements, news, industry contacts, and other tools. Ted Brunetti Studios (TedBrunettistudio.com) is a private, boutique acting studio, offering virtual and in-person on-camera classes for actors in all markets in a safe, all-inclusive environment.

Jamie Castro Rausch

Jamie started her career in casting as an intern for the 2006 Pete Berg directed film "The Kingdom".

From her first day, she knew she wanted to build her career in casting.

Since then, she's worked with the industry's top casting directors before finally going out on her own. Jamie has worked in both film & television, most recently for the Shondaland shows SCANDAL, GREY'S ANATOMY, STATION 19 and INVENTING ANNA for Netflix.

Follow this link to view her credits on IMDB

Elmer Blanco

Elmer is a theatrical agent at Avalon Artists Group, a full-service talent agency representing actors across the United States with offices located in Los Angeles and New York and representatives in Chicago, Atlanta, and Miami. They offer representation in Film, TV, Theatre, Commercials, Voice-Over, Print, Industrials and Hosting.

Established in 2005, Avalon Artists Group prides itself on offering hands-on, personalized attention and guidance to all of our clients. They bring compassion, care and dedication to each and every one of our actors’ careers. Our goal is to make each actor feel as if they are the only client we represent.

Ashley-Lauren Elrod

As a Casting Director, Ashley is highly experienced in several areas of entertainment, arts, and media; ranging from acting, music, and dance to casting, directing, costuming, makeup artistry, and production design. Ashley possesses the unique and strong resume in which she began her journey over ten years ago at Columbia College Chicago, studying technical theater and acting which quickly led to her being paid for her talents while studying. All the while, interning for Chicago’s biggest talent agency, LTA Chicago in which she was also a signed talent. She’s worked alongside some of Hollywood’s most established as a performer, casting director, and production designer with the likes of Paul Haggis of ‘Crash’ and ‘Million Dollar Baby’, Kevin Pollack, Vince Vaughn, Kevin James, and David Dastmalchian, as well on productions for Shameless, The Mob Doctor, MTV’S ‘Underemployed’, Revlon, Clorox, Buzzfeed, Rover, The Chicago Code, and much more.

Visionary Woman has been very busy in regards to all things production! Casting commercials for Dove, First Inspires, Realtor.com and more, along with newly award winning film 'Appa Appa Appa' which will be showing at the Bushwick Film Festival on October 23rd in which Ashley production designed, film 'Perfume' which will be showing at the New York No Limits Film Festival in which she cast, and her first ever feature film that she had the pleasure of designing and assistant directing has been nominated for Best Thriller for The New York Film Awards. 

Coming down the pipeline, she's happy to be producing her first ever feature film 'Boys Don't Cry' which is set to film in Atlanta in 2022 along with casting the for the upcoming feature NIK, while currently directing upcoming promotional campaigns for new clients, IPSY and Noom. 

Ashley lives by the motto of Proverbs 29:18 in which states “where there’s no vision, the people perish” in which has helped her to create her own small production company to empower talent and productions that strive for diversity, inclusion, and change through the arts. To help empower those with big vision and aid it’s fruition. Her biggest goal is and will always be to empower others and their unique stories.

Ashley is also a proud board member, survivor speaker, and non-profit leader at the Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center, utilizing her talents and her personal story to help raise awareness, funding, and resources for fellow survivors to heal and thrive holistically, creatively, and entrepreneurially.

Steven Shehori

Since 2002, multiple award-winning writer, entertainment journalist, and producer Steven Shehori has served as a publicist for actors, comedians, musicians, feature films, TV & theater productions, businesses, charities, and live events across the U.S. and Canada.

Past and present clients include The Second City Toronto (7 years as their official publicist), The Live SCTV Reunion (set to be a feature-length documentary directed by Martin Scorcese), Paula Poundstone, Macaulay Culkin’s Bunny Ears podcast and comedy site, Dark Horse Comics, Devil’s Due Comics, 30 Rock’s Judah Friedlander, Evil Dead: The Musical, The 2018 Burbank Comedy Festival, The 2018, 2019, and 2020 Toronto Screenwriting Conference, The Red Cross Tsunami Relief Fund, and several WWE Hall of Famers.