SYNOPSIS
The originality and creative vision of the casting director has given us memorable personages in a variety of diverse theatrical productions. Join us for an evening with award-winning casting directors whose projects have been celebrated by critics and fans alike. Come hear how they are diversifying the casting process in America, what inspires them, where they find talent, and more.
Panelists subject to change. Please be advised that NO HEADSHOTS, REELS, AND/OR BUSINESS CARDS WILL BE COLLECTED AT THIS EVENT.
PANELISTS
Abbie Brady-Dalton, CSA | Telsey + Company
Abbie Brady-Dalton is currently casting Hairspray Live for NBC. She recently completed casting on the ABC series, The Family. Other recent credits include: The Wiz Live for NBC and Broadway's Fiddler on the Roof.
In addition to casting pilots for NBC, ABC, CBS and Showtime, past projects include: The New York casting for CW’s Crazy Ex Girlfriend, DirectTvs Neil LaBute series, Billy & Billie, and The King and I Broadway Revival, for which she received an Artios Award. Other work: Peter Pan Live for NBC, The Bridges of Madison County Broadway, The Last Five Years Film, The Sound of Music Live for NBC, New York casting for HBO's Looking and New York casting for Showtime's Penny Dreadful and Masters of Sex. Three seasons of Showtime's TV series The Big C (Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Casting For A Comedy Series),the CBS TV series A Gifted Man.
David Caparelliotis, CSA | David Caparelliotis/MelCap Casting
In 2016, David Caparelliotis was nominated for three Artios Awards for his work on the following productions: Fish in the Dark (NY Broadway Theatre – Comedy); Arms and the Man (Regional Theatre West); and The Country House (LA Theatre). David Caparelliotis/MelCap Casting Recent Broadway: Lend Me a Tenor, Fences, Collected Stories, Everyday Rapture. For Manhattan Theatre Club: Doubt, Defiance, Rabbit Hole, Blackbird, Sight Unseen, Brooklyn Boy, Mauritius. Other: Modern Orthodox (Director - James Lapine), Lifegame, The Subject was Roses (Kennedy Center), Jonathan Larsen's tick, tick... BOOM! (Off-Broadway and National Tour companies), Shockheaded Peter, Altarboyz, The Great American Trailer Park Musical. MelCap also casts for: Arena Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Atlantic Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Ars Nova.
Lori Hammel | Actor, Moderator
Lori Hammel is a NYC based actress and writer who has performed on Broadway (Mamma Mia!) and Off Broadway as well as in National Tours including 9 to 5 and most recently as Ethel Mertz in in I Love Lucy Live. In 2015, she received an Excellence in Acting Award at the NY Fringe Festival in Gary Apple’s Hell is for Real.
Film work includes playing a morning show host in the Coen brother's feature Burn After Reading; An Invisible Sign; She's Lost Control (2014 Berlin Film Festival, SXSW) and playing the lead in Coney Island Queen (2014 Cannes Shorts Corner). TV includes The Following, 30 Rock, and The Colbert Report. As an improviser, Lori played recurring political pundit Leslie Hillerman on the Onion News Network series, In The Know and is the creator and star of the series Margo Rose Ferderer Reports.
Look for Lori in season two of HULU’s Difficult People with comedian Julie Klausner and in two upcoming indie features - Cheerleader and the thriller Rapid Eye Movement starring François Arnaud.
She is the 2014 recipient of the SAG-AFTRA Joseph C. Riley Service Award. Lori co-authored the critically acclaimed guidebook Minding the Edge – Strategies for a Fulfilling, Successful Career as an Actor (2012 Waveland Press) and is a contributing writer for Acting for the Stage (2017 Focal Press).
She is currently playing another iconic TV housewife as Mrs. Cunningham in Happy Days at Westchester Broadway. www.lorihammel.com
