Casting director, producer, director, actor & teacher, Jeffery Passero has a  successful feature film casting career of over 60 movies, including “Poison  Ivy” with Drew Barrymore, Nick Cage’s “Sonny” with James Franco,  “Flypaper” with Lucy Liu (which he co-produced) and “The Sasquatch  Gang” with Justin Long for Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Films. Passero  also produced “Power 98” with Eric Roberts (HBO Movie) and “Debating  Robert Lee” with Kaley Cuoco and Beau Bridges. He began his acting  career at New York’s Roundabout Theatre (“Pins and Needles”, “You  Never Can Tell”) before taking over the casting there for two seasons,  casting actors such as Danny Glover, Kelsey Grammer & Malcolm  McDowell. Passero trained as an actor with Terry Schreiber and Larry  Moss, studied at HB Studios (Uta Hagen, Ed Moorhouse). He began his  undergraduate studies in Speech & Drama at Catholic University and  received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and Journalism  at The University of Connecticut. He and his wife, Elizabeth were co producers of “It Shoulda Been You”, on Broadway, directed by David Hyde  Pierce (with Tyne Daly). The Passero’s are also producing the new Lonny  Price musical KIKI BABY (NY Musical Theatre Festival-Fall 2011 and  winner of the New American Musical Award). Mr. Passero directed a  production of CABARET at Malibu Playhouse, produced by Dick Van Dyke  and Simon Gray’s MOLLY at The Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, CA. 
Mr. Passero is currently casting and producing, “Gabriel’s Horn” written by  Oley Sassone and shooting in New Orleans next year. He is also casting  the indie feature, “The Last Tandem in Paris,” filming this spring. Passero  also wrote (and performs in) CASTING ASPERSIONS, his play about his  life as a casting director.