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SYNOPSIS
This class will include a Q&A and a prepared reading session with an experienced casting professional.
Please prepare a monologue or scene from film or theatre. Material should be no more than two minutes in length or less.
A reader will be available on ZOOM during the class.
All actors will need to email a PDF of their chosen scene to castingaccess@sagaftra.foundation for the reader by 5pm EST/2pm PST on Sunday, April 2nd. The subject needs to be Casting Access - Ilene Starger. The body of the email MUST include the role that the reader will be reading if you are doing a scene.
RSVP'd Actors will receive a ZOOM Invitation to participate on the morning of the class.
CASTING DIRECTOR BIO
ILENE STARGER
Film credits include: Custody (as Casting Director and Associate Producer), Good Friday, The Rewrite, Music & Lyrics, Two Weeks Notice, Night at the Museum (Artios Award), School of Rock (Artios Award), Sleepy Hollow, The Pink Panther, Pink Panther 2, A Simple Plan, It’s All About Love, The Parent Trap, Twilight, Shaft, First Wives Club, Marvin’s Room, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Three Men and a Little Lady, No Way Out.
Television credits include: Witness to the Mob, The Great Gatsby, Earthly Possessions, Amy and Isabelle.
Theater credits include: London/West End: Venus in Fur (as Casting Director and Executive Producer) at Theatre Royal Haymarket; The Libertine (as Casting Director and Executive Producer) at Theatre Royal Bath and Theatre Royal Haymarket; Breakfast at Tiffany’s (as U.S. Casting Director for 2009 TRH production, and for 2016 UK tour.) Broadway theater credits include Waiting for Godot, No Man’s Land, Breakfast at Tiffany’s (as Casting Director & Associate Producer), Marlene, The Elephant Man, Dance of Death, The Diary of Anne Frank, Dirty Blonde, Closer (Artios Award.) Off Broadway theatre credits include: Wink, Passion Play, Much Ado About Nothing (Cheek by Jowl at BAM; U.S. Casting), Psychopathia Sexualis.
Ilene is a former Vice President of Casting for Walt Disney and Touchstone Pictures. She is a member of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
REQUIREMENTS
You must have completed a Casting Access Application prior to registering for this class.
Please note that the 90-day frequency restriction applies to this class. Your last frequency-restricted class must have taken place no less than 90 (ninety) days prior to this event to be eligible to register.
NO LATE ARRIVALS and NO WALK-INS are admitted. Only those participants who have received a telephoned or e-mailed confirmation message from staff will be admitted to the session. Waitlisted individuals who have not received such confirmation will not be admitted at the door. Please do not show up if you have not been explicitly confirmed as RSVPed.
