SYNOPSIS

This class will include a Q&A with Arizona based Casting Director Kelly Knox, 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

Kelly has worked with Oscar-nominated and award-winning directors and producers including David Fincher, Mark Burg, Damien Chazelle, Nate Parker, Chuck Russell and Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah. Kelly was head of casting at Brat TV casting all of their shows from 2017-2019 (over 20 million views), he was also head of casting at PureFlix from 2019 - 2022. Kelly's first film he cast was the Comedy 'Saturday At The Starlight' (Abigail Breslin, Denise Richards, Booboo Stewart, & Michael Madson) for BRAT TV. Just within the past few years Kelly has cast the film 'Gods Not Dead: We The People' (2021 Isaiah Washington, William Forsythe, Francesca Battistelli), Netflix’s docu series 'Voir' (2021) EP’d by David Fincher, the Drama feature film 'American Skin' (2020 Omari Hardwick, Theo Rossi, Beau Knapp, AnnaLynne McCord) Directed by Nate Parker, which won the Sconfini award for the best film at the Venice film festival 2019 and Kelly was nominated for best casting award for 'American Skin' as well. He also cast Nate Parker’s Drama series 'Baselines' (Malik Yoba, Felicia Pearson) in 2018. Kelly cast 2 seasons 2022-2023 of the comedy web series 'PBC' (Danny Trejo, Kate Flannery, Cheri Oteri, Emily Tosta). He also just finished casting the thriller/horror feature 'From Black' (2023 Anna Camp, John Ales). Kelly’s current projects he is working on is the feature 'Road To Yama' w/ producer Gareth Wiley a Golden Globe winner ('Vicky Cristina Barcelona', 'Match Point') and the true crime bio pic mini-series 'The Promise' (Felix Kammerer) w/ Myriad Pictures, being directed by Uta Briesewitz ('Stranger Things', 'The Old Man', 'Severance', 'The Wheel of Time'). Kelly is also casting Uta’s offbeat thriller feature 'American Sweatshop' (Lili Reinhart) w/ production Co. Baltimore Pictures (Barry Levinson). He just signed on to cast the feature 'Transcendents' produced by Brian Rogers ('Godzilla', 'Harry Potter') as well as the feature 'Remember Me?', w/ Radar Pictures ('Ted Fields'), based on the novel Remember Me? from internationally best-selling author Sophie Kinsella ('Confessions Of A Shopaholic') and Angel Studios ('The Chosen', 'Cabrini') next TV series 'The German King'. He as well just signed with Canticle Productions to do their next 3 features. Kelly has worked on films ranging from $100K - $30M. He is a proud member of the CSA, Casting Society of America.