This class will include a Q&A with LA based Casting Director Danny Gordon, followed by a prepared work session. 

Participating actors will choose, prepare and perform sides from film or television.  

Additional preparation details will be sent upon RSVP confirmation.

BIO

Danny is a television and film casting director, teacher and theatre director based in Los Angeles.  Recent casting associate work includes: Beef (Emmy and Artios Award for Outstanding Casting for a Limited Series), K-POPS! (directed by Anderson .Paak) and Mr. Throwback (starring Steph Curry) Originally from NY, Danny attended Syracuse University where he received a BFA in Drama with an emphasis in directing.  He went on to assist numerous theatre directors in NY including avant-garde theatre legend Richard Foreman.  He directed and executive produced Kate Pazakis Unzipped: Live at the Zipper at the late Zipper Factory in NYC.  The recording of the show was preserved by PS Classics and featured additional material by composer Jason Robert Brown.  In LA he re-conceived and directed a staged reading of I Am My Own Wife with an ensemble cast of transgender and non-binary actors with the support of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Doug Wright.  For his work on reimagining this play, Danny received the Transgender Arts Initiative Grant through the city of West Hollywood.  He also adapted and directed Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King starring Drew Droege at the Mimoda Studio as a benefit for the ACLU.  Danny is the co-founder of The Artist’s Space, a studio for actors and writers, where he teaches weekly classes.  He has also been a guest instructor for BFA and MFA acting programs as well as studios and theatre companies from LA to NY.  Danny is a member of the Casting Society of America