In Person: FILM, TV and STREAMING Casting Directors Showcase

Thursday, June 29, 2023, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

Don't miss this in person showcase with THREE top Casting Directors who cast for Film, TV and/or the Streaming Networks.

This event will start with a informative Q & A, then scenes with a reader ON CAMERA for feedback.

You have the option to bring in your own 2-3 page Film/TV scene, or select one from our General Sides database (link located in your Actors Connection account upon registration).

Scheduled guests are:

- Julia Catalano, Gayle Keller Casting - FIRST TIME GUEST!

- Ashley-Lauren Elrod, Visionary Woman Productions

- Angela Mickey, Liz Lewis Casting

*Please note that Guests are subject to change!

This showcase is for adults and teens (13+).
 

Please note that this in person seminar will be at:

Pearl Studios NYC
519 8th Avenue, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10018

What to Prepare:

For this showcase, please bring in your own scene of choice (no more than 2 minutes in length) that you feel best showcases your strengths as an actor. If you do not have your own scene, you can select a scene from the General Sides database (link located in your Actors Connection account upon registration). IN ADDITION: Please bring TWO HARD COPIES of your scene - one highlighted FOR THE READER

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.**

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.

Angela Mickey

Angela Mickey is the most long-term member of the LLCP family. As Managing Director of Casting, Angela works across the board on commercial, voice over, film, TV and theater projects, supporting and guiding our staff to dig deeper and find fresh talent.

She enjoys working with veteran and up-and-coming creatives, helping to provide an individual plan to each casting process, as well as assistance with union regulations and talent payment guidelines. Angela has worked on hundreds of on camera commercial and voice over projects, as well as helped form the real people division.   

Her recent theatrical projects include the Filipino movie musical The Girl Who Left Home, A Year and Change, ReRUN, AppleTV+ Get Rolling With Otis, Hallmark’s One Royal Holiday, Lifetime's The Holiday Fix Up, and Stalker’s Prey III: A Predator Returns.

Always looking for the new, undiscovered talent, Angela can be found conducting audition classes with actors nationwide. Winner of the 2019 Heller Award for Best Northeast Commercial and VO Casting.

Follow this link to view Angela's credits on IMDB

Julia Catalano

 

Julia Catalano is a casting professional & theatre-maker based in Brooklyn, NY. 

She graduated from Syracuse University's Department of Drama with a B.S. in Theatre Management where she trained under the CSA apprenticeship program. 

Offices she worked with include Chrystie Street Casting (Not Okay, Rosaline, Janet Planet, Mo), McCarthy/Abellera (Awkwafina is Nora from Queens), and her home base: Gayle Keller Casting (Bros, The Big Door Prize, Life & Beth, English Teacher, Kinda Pregnant). 

She most recently was the Casting Associate for The Mastermind, starring Josh O’Connor and Alana Haim, directed by Kelly Reichardt. 

Additionally, she cast various community-based workshops and performances as a member of GrassRoots Art Collective.