SYNOPSIS

This class will include a Q&A with LA based Casting Director Claire Koonce, 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

CLAIRE KOONCE is an experienced casting director, acting teacher and co-founder of CL|CK Casting. Driven by a desire to create cutting edge work, she takes pride in finding fresh faces and voices for the screen, and unlocking the potential of every actor she meets. Selected casting director credits include the Marvel/Freeform pilot Cloak & Dagger, AMC/IFC Sherman’s Showcase, and Universal 1440’s Blade of the 47 Ronin. Her previous casting department work includes a wide range of projects, with several credits in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Legendary’s Godzilla and Skull Island, Disney’s The Jungle Book, Starz’s American Gods and CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery, to indies like Chef, The Little Prince, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Her independent feature film Women Is Losers premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival and closed out the 2021 LALIFF. With her partner Charlene Lee, CL|CK Casting is dedicated to quality, authenticity, inclusivity and positivity, and their work recently garnered an Emmy win for Outstanding Casting for a Limited or Anthology Series for the first season of the A24 series Beef, currently available on Netflix.