Advanced Casting Class with Shayna Markowitz

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Los Angeles

Advanced Casting Class with Shayna Markowitz

Shayna Markowitz

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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SYNOPSIS

In this Advanced Casting Class, casting director Shayna Markowitz ('Is This On?') will be working with selected actors in a live and observed work session. This will be preceded by a brief conversation on her career and will be followed by an audience Q&A. 

These reservations are for Q&A participation and observation only. 

Bio: 

Shayna Markowitz is an award-winning Casting Director best known for her work on Bradley Cooper's Maestro and Todd Phillips' Joker.  She began her casting career over 18 years ago, working with Casting Director Debra Zane with whom she co-cast Ocean's 8, Bloodline and The Best of Enemies as well as her work on films including The Hunger Games and The Planet of the Apes franchises.

 In 2018, she created Shayna Markowitz Casting.  Shayna received the inaugural BAFTA for Best Casting for Joker in 2019.   She also cast the television series' Dash & Lily and others.  Most recently, Shayna reunited with Bradley Cooper for his upcoming film Is This Thing On? which premieres later this year. She just completed casting The Devil Wears Prada 2 (with co-Casting Director Ellen Lewis), currently in production. 

Shayna is a member of the Casting Society of America and has been nominated for four Artios Awards (winning one for her work on Bloodline).  She also received a Daytime Emmy nomination for her work on Dash & Lily. 

Shayna is a graduate of The University of Michigan.  

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