ON-CAMERA FILM/TV INTENSIVE with Jen Rudin CSA, Casting Director, Jen Rudin Casting
Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 7pm ET / 4pm PT
This event is in the past.
Actors Connection is thrilled to welcome Jen who is currently busy working on a handful of pilots for the 2014 Pilot Season as well as the Stephen King feature film The 10 O'Clock People starring Rachel Nichols and Jay Baruchel. This past pilot season she cast several TV pilots including "Locke and Key" and "Touch" starring Kiefer Sutherland for Fox.
Recent New York casting projects include the following films: Mama (Guillermo del Toro, producer), The Lorax (Universal Pictures/Illumination Entertainment), Welcome to People (DreamWorks SKG). Tim Burton's Frankenweenie (Walt Disney Pictures), The American Plan, Shake It Up, and Peter Bogdanovich's Squirrels to the Nuts.
Sides will be available via your Actors Connection account upon registration. The intensive starts 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.
Currently, Jen is interested in meeting talent of all types and ethnicities (18+) for current and future projects.
Jen Rudin is an Award-Winning Casting Director who grew up in New York City and began her professional acting career at age eight.
Jen has also cast hundreds of national television commercials; including the famous "Can you hear me now?" campaign for Verizon and currently casts the voices for the World of War Craft video game. Jen has held faculty positions at Pace University and taught Master Classes at NYU, Boston Conservatory, Northwestern University, Emerson College, Webster University, Baylor University, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, The New York Film Academy and University of the Arts.
It's VERY IMPORTANT to upload your HS/Resume to your Actors Connection online personal profile!!! PLEASE NOTE: Once scenes have been distributed by Jen, if you LATE cancel you will NOT be replaced!
Jen Rudin
Jen Rudin is an award-winning casting director, author and audition coach who began her decades-long career in show business as a professional child actor at age eight. She is the proud author of Confessions of a Casting Director: Help Actors Land Any Role with Secrets From Inside the Audition Room (HarperCollins) and the host of the Confessions of a Casting Director popular podcast. Check out her USA Today op-ed piece about the victory for Casting Directors finally getting their own Oscar category.
As a casting executive at the Walt Disney Company from 2002 until 2009, Jen conducted talent searches across the United States, identifying and hiring actors who went on to star on Broadway in The Lion King, Mary Poppins, and The Little Mermaid and in beloved Disney movies like The Incredibles, The Princess and the Frog, Chicken Little, and Brother Bear. She is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Casting Society of America Artios award, receiving the award for Best Animation Feature casting for The Princess and the Frog (2010) and Chicken Little (2005.) As owner of Jen Rudin Casting, Jen has cast numerous animated feature films, projects for Disney Channel and popular TV and radio campaigns for Charmin, Porsche, HomeGoods and the famous “Can You Hear Me, Now” campaign for Verizon.
In 2020, Jen joined ICM Partners to establish a formal Animation VO department. While at ICM, Rudin shepherded significant animated feature deals for such clients as Lucy Liu, Wanda Sykes, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Zegler, Alan Cumming, Catherine O’Hara, Nathan Lane, Lana Condor, Stephanie Beatriz, Jason Ritter, and Cathy Ang. In addition, Jen signed popular Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin across the board. She was instrumental in closing Tunde’s book deal with Simon & Schuster and securing a branding partnership with Nike. In 2022, she joined APA (now IAG) to launch their VO department, bringing animation and VO opportunities to their client list. In 2024, Jen decided to move back into casting.
Jen is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. She lives in New York City with her husband and spends her free time running in Central Park.
Meets
| Wednesday, February 19, 2014 | 7:00 pm |
The following disclaimer is provided specifically at the request of and in accordance with SAG/AFTRA: Seminars or classes are for educational purposes only and will not secure or provide opportunity for employment in the field or representation by an agent or casting director.
