ROBIN CARUS, Casting Director, Robin Carus Casting

Q&A/Monologues/Songs ONE on ONE

Monday, April 11, 2016, 6:30pm ET / 3:30pm PT

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Robin Carus has been casting for 17 years. She was Head of Casting for TheatreworksUSA for nine years. While there, she auditioned thousands of actors and cast over 200 national tours and countless off-Broadway shows created by emerging playwrights and directors. Since then, she has cast countless Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway shows, regional theater, festivals, and films.

Current projects include: the national tour of the new dance musical The Bench; the musicals: Far From The Madding Crowd and The Tiny Mustache; the plays: 2015 Planet Connections Playwrights For A Cause featuring world premier plays by Erik Ehn, Halley Feiffer, and Israel Horowitz; Pentonville for Manhattan Rep. Her credits include: National Tours: Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Family Life Theatre, Theatreworks USA Regional: The State Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company International: Sunfish (dir. Will Pomerantz, Daegu International Theatre Festival, Korea), Sarah, Plain and Tall (Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference)

Off-Broadway/Off-Off Broadway: Culture Shock 1911-1922! (dir. Rafael De Mussa/Horizon Theater Rep), Woman at the Funerals (IATI Theatre), Pete the Girl (The Living Theatre), Aesop's Fables (dir. Theodore Mann/Circle in the Square), The Last Castrato, Like You Like It (dir.Igor Goldin/Gallery Players), The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, Seussical (dir. Marcia Milgrom Dodge), Max & Ruby, Henry and Mudge (dir. Peter Flynn), Cam Jansen (dir. Gordon Greenberg), Walk Two Moons (dir: Melissa Kievman); Summer of the Swans, Junie B. Jones (dir. Peter Flynn), Sarah, Plain and Tall (dir. Joe Calarco), Romeo and Juliet.

Workshops & Readings: Far From The Madding Crowd (dir. Giovanna Sardelli), Bridges (Ken Cerniglia in coordination with Berkeley Playhouse), Valentino's Tango (dir: Chet Walker), Folk City (Theater for the New City), Art (dir. Dan Cordle), Caught (dir. Nick DeGruccio), Dani Girl (dir. Scott Schwartz)

Concerts/Special Events: The Tiny Mustache (dir. Ben Tostado), Like You Like It (54 Below), 2014 Planet Connections Gala: One Acts For A Cause (starring Melissa Leo, Mary Beth Hurt, & Caissie Levy), 2014 JFest (Resident Casting Director), 2013 One Acts For A Cause: An Evening of New One Acts by Neil LaBute, John Patrick Shanley, and Winter Miller: a benefit for Safe Horizon (Signature Theatre, NYC), FX's "Archer Live" (Irving Plaza, NYC & Theatre of the Living Arts, PA), I Stand Before You Naked (Gerald Lynch Theatre), Speargrove Presents (Julia Miles Theatre), 2009 Marathon Festival (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Strange News From Another Planet (dir. Michael Alltop/Fringe), City of Dreams (dir. Michael Alltop/MITF), Roadicide (HERE/Lincoln Center American Living Room Festival), Like You Like It (dir.Jen Bender/NYMF, Musical Mondays Theatre Lab)

Film Casting includes: Killing the Fiddler on the Roof, Love True, Weathering, Running With Sharks (dir. Suha Araj), The King's Pawn (directed by Jonah Bleicher), Disgrace, Elvis (dir. by Nicolas Santana), ROVER: Or Beyond Human – The Venusian Future and the Return of the Next Level (dir. by Tony Blahd), No Vagrancy (dir. by Ernest Leif Boyd), Skook (Additional Casting), A Breath Away, Breaking the Chain (produced by Shrihari Sathe), Tiger, and Underwear (winner Best Short Savannah Film Festival).

Television and Commercials include: "Whistler and the Case For Beauty" (PBS), the iconic couple Lee and Morty Kaufman, stars of the ever-popular Swiffer campaign and voiceovers for Samsung.

Robin has brought in many of our AC actors for a wide variety of projects and booked them.

After a Q&A she'll see Monologues/Songs ONE on ONE

Robin Carus

Robin Carus (Casting Director) has cast everything from iconic commercials to groundbreaking theatre to independent film and television.

Select Regional & Off-Broadway: Beau (Upcoming), Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (Upcoming), Macbeth (The Curtain Theatre), Romeo & Juliet (The Curtain Theatre), Windows (Town Hall), Pay the Writer (Signature Theatre), This is Not a Time for Peace (Theatre Row),  Two Jews, Talking (starring Josh Mostel and Richard Masur at Theatre at St. Clement's), The Remarkable Mister Holmes (North Coast Rep)

Select Film: Elijah Able 1879 Docu-Series (Pre-Production), Urban Ed, The Thursday Night Club, Green Flake. Webby, Hermes, Davey and Telly Award winner for Project Sing Out! 

For almost 10 years she was the Casting Director for TheatreworksUSA, where she cast over 200 national tours and countless works in development, as well as, their Off-Broadway series at the Lucille Lortel Theatre - including the revival of Seussical. Adjunct Theatre Professor at The City College of New York. Weekly panelist on Casting Confidential found wherever podcasts can be listened to. Member of the Casting Society of America.

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.