CLASS FORMAT

This class is for young performers under the age of 18 only.  No performers over the age of 18 will be admitted.  

Parents/guardians are invited to join for a 30-45 minute Q&A at the top of the class, where Tineka will deep dive into the business of the business.  

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.