SYNOPSIS
This class will include a Q&A and a PREPARED READING SESSION with an experienced casting director. This class will have a heavy business focus and will likely be 3.5 hours. DO NOT sign-up for this class if you are not prepared to stay for the entire class time.
Actors will choose a 1-2 minute monologue or 1-2 minute scene that most appropriately represents them from Film/Television. If you choose to perform a scene, A PDF. of your scene MUST be sent to castingaccess@sagaftra.foundation by 12:00pm Wednesday June 24th. The body of the email MUST include the role(s) the reader will be reading. Failure to send the scenes by this day and time may result in non-entry to the class.
CASTING DIRECTOR BIO
Tineka Becker is an independent casting director, based in Los Angeles. Formerly the Manager of Feature Casting at Paramount Pictures, she has also worked with some of the top casting offices in LA. Credits with those offices include (select list): Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man, Doug Liman’s Fair Game, Twilight: New Moon, X-Men: Apocalypse, Moneyball, Little Fockers, A Better Life (Oscar nom for Demian Bichir), Heaven is for Real, Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol w/ Jim Carrey, The Conners on ABC, as well as the FX series Trust, directed by Danny Boyle. Since going out on her own, her projects have premiered at Sundance, LA Film Festival, Marché du Film @ Cannes, Palm Springs International Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Le Femme International Film Festival, Cinequest, and many others. She has cast projects for Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Amazon, MTV, YouTube Red, Voltage Pictures, the Weitz brothers' Depth of Field, Steve Carell’s Carousel Television, Michael Eisner’s Tornante Company, Gerber Pictures, ITV, Scythia Films, Water’s End Productions, Yellow TV & Film, and many more. Tineka was born in The Netherlands, reared in the States, and is a graduate of Northwestern University’s theater program.
REQUIREMENTS
You must have completed a Casting Access Application prior to registering for this class.
Participants MUST be able to stay for the entire class. This class focuses on the business and will likely be 3.5 hours.
Only those participants who have received a telephoned or e-mailed confirmation message from staff will receive a link inviting them to the session. Waitlisted individuals who have not received such confirmation will not be sent the link to join the class.
