FILM INTENSIVE with David Vaccari, Casting Director, Telsey + Co.

Monday, February 28, 2011, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Here's your opportunity to work with a casting director from one of the most prominent casting offices in town! David casts primarily film, TV and commercials for this MAJOR casting office. A cool and laid-back CD known for calling in people directly, he recently worked on the features RESTLESS for Gus Van Sant, HOWL with James Franco, MAIN STREET by Horton Foote with Orlando Bloom and JONAH HEX with Josh Brolin. David will select sides based on your HS/resume submission which you will receive and prepare in advance. The intensive starts off with an informative Q & A followed by your presentation of the scene with a reader ON-CAMERA in a group. This is a wonderful opportunity to be coached by an expert in film! David's other recent and past projects include: Film (Sex and the City 2, A Kiss for Jed Wood, Rent, I Love You Philip Morris); TV (Hope Against Hope for HBO, Whoopi ON NBC, and many pilots including Ugly Betty); Commercials (both on-camera and voice-over) and Theater (Wicked, Spiderman, South Pacific, In the Heights, Race). ***Your scene will be video taped as a digital file. Within one week after this intensive, you will receive an email with the file to watch and view your work.*** Please upload your headshot and create a resume in your online account upon registration.

David Vaccari

David Vaccari’s new venture is as an independent casting director working on commercials, film, and television. Having previously worked for 27 years with Telsey and Company he is excited to start his own company.

His film projects include casting for “ Respect” with Jennifer Hudson “The Intern” with Robert DeNiro, “Focus” with Will Smith, “The Kitchen" with Melissa McCarthy, “Friends With Kids”, “Howl”, “Jonah Hex” and in addition, three films with Gus Van Sant, including “Restless”, “Paranoid Park” and “Finding Forrester” with Sean Connery .Other films include “Rachel Getting Married”,“Then She Found Me”, “Across the Universe”, “Ira and Abby”,“Keane”, “The Bone Collector” with Denzel Washington, and “Pieces of April”, which boasts an Oscar nomination for Patricia Clarkson. Over the years he contributed to casting for many TV pilots including “This Is Us” for NBC and other TV projects include “I’m Dying Up Here,”,“Penny Dreadful”, “Nightcap”, “A Gifted Man”, "House of Cards” & NOS4A2.

He has cast over 1500 commercials including multiple projects for directors such as Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson, Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Christopher Guest, Martin Granger, Roman Coppola, Steve Miller, Frank Todaro, Mark Pellington, Fred Savage ,Phil Morrison, Tom Noakes, Will Speck & Josh Gordon and The Perlorian Brothers to name a few.

His work in theater includes, the innovative original productions of “Rent”, “The Capeman” with Paul Simon, “Hedwig”,“Martin Short- Fame Becomes Me” and “Hairspray” .In terms of plays, he worked on casting with David Mamet for “GlenGarry GlenRoss” and “The Cryptogram” as well as Eric Bogosian for “Humpty Dumpty” and “Talk Radio”and with Woody Allen for “A Second Hand Memory” and “Writer’ s Block”.
 

David teaches audition technique and acting classes at Brown University/ Trinity Rep as well as at New York University’s film and television program. He is a member of the Casting Society of America and was nominated twice for their Artios award for excellence in casting.

Follow this link for all of David's credits