Home » Event Details

An Evening with Casting Directors

Event Type:LifeRaft
Title:An Evening with Casting Directors
Learn inside tips on auditioning from some of the industry's best casting directors.
Date:Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Time:6-8pm PACIFIC TIME (Check-in 5:00-5:45pm)
Location:

SAG Foundation Actors Center

5757 Wilshire Blvd.-Mezzanine Level

(Parking Validation Available)

 

This event will also be live stream broadcast on the internet for SAG Members!  Join the discussion online!  No RSVP required for online guests.  Simply visit the website below and enter the show password at the scheduled time.

http://www.sagfoundation.org/node/416

Show password:  liferaft07

GARY ZUCKERBROD HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE CASTING COMMUNITY FOR 25 YEARS.
BEGINNING IN NEW YORK AS AN ASSOCIATE TO BONNIE TIMMERMANN, GARY PARTICIPATED IN THE CASTING OF TRADING PLACES, THE POPE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE AND THE PILOT AND SERIES OF MIAMI VICE.
BROUGHT OUT TO LOS ANGELES BY WILLLIAM FRIEDKIN TO WORK ON TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA, GARY THEN STARTED CASTING THE NEW TWILIGHT ZONE SERIES FOR CBS,.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE THE FEATURE FILMS A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, BEVERLY HILLS NINJA AND PULP FICTION FOR WHICH HE RECEIVED THE CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERCA’S ARTIOS AWARD.
TELEVISION CREDITS INCLUDE TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL (PILOT), THE TITANIC (MINI-SERIES), HBO’S WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTION (ARTIOS AND CASTING EMMY NOMINATIONS) BELLA MAFIA (MINI-SERIES), THE RON CLARK STORY AND THE PILOT OF THE HIT CBS SERIES COLD CASE .   CURRENTLY GARY IS PROUD TO BE CASTING THE CBS SERIES, WITHOUT A TRACE FOR WHICH HE WAS HONORED WITH THE 2004 ARTIOS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CASTING OF A ONE HOUR EPISODIC DRAMA SERIES.
GARY SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA FROM JANUARY 2002 TILL JANUARY 2004 AND CHAIRMAN OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE FOR UNIONIZATION OF THE CASTING DIRECTORS AND ASSOCIATES.  SINCE ACHIEVING THE GOAL OF UNION RECOGNITION, GARY SERVES AS THE UNION SHOP STEWARD FOR TELEVISION CASTING DIRECTORS AND IS CURRENTLY THE PRESIDENT OF THE CASTING SOCIETY OF AMERICA.

RICK PAGANO 

Rick received his B.A. from Middlebury College and completed his doctoral studies (A.B.D.) in literature at Columbia University in New York.
Rick is President/CEO of Pagano/Manwiller Casting, has cast over seventy feature films along with dozens of television projects and virtually hundreds of theatre productions across the United States. He has worked with such producers, writers and directors as Cameron Crowe, Oliver Stone, James Cameron, Jerry Bruckheimer, Joel Silver, Gus van Sant, Matthew Vaughn, Terry George, Jon Avnet, and Paula Wagner. His feature film casting credits include HOTEL RWANDA, X/MEN 3, STARDUST, DRUGSTORE COWBOY, STRANGE DAYS, POINT BREAK, SAY ANYTHING, GAS FOOD LODGING, EXTREMITIES with television credits including the smash hit “24”, “Uprising,” “Chicago Hope,” “Picket Fences,” “Wild Palms,” and “The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader Murdering Mom.”
Mr. Pagano also served as West Coast Casting Consultant for the Sundance Film Institute from 1994 through 2001.
Rick has received critical acclaim for productions of his plays, which he also directs: GOOSE AMID THE REVOLT, MY ITALIAN CAFÉ, YBGD?, TEN TRICKS, ELDON CORVET’S KARAOKE AND CAREER COUNSELING WEEKEND RETREAT, HANGING ALICE, SEX AND WORK, OLD ACTORS’ FIGHT! and WOMEN WITH DOGS.  Rick also wrote and directed the film adaptation of his play, TEN TRICKS.  Another three of his scripts are under development with production companies in Los Angeles; and he is currently collaborating with French photographer Karine Simon on a photo/essay book inspired by WOMEN WITH DOGS.

 

MATT HUFFMAN (Casting Credits Include:  Rails and Ties, Letters From Iwo Jima, and several casting associate credits under Phyllis Huffman at Malpaso Films.)  Matt is also an experienced actor and director.  He currently directs at and is the intern coordinator at The Actors' Gang Theatre in Culver City. 

DONNA MORONG  (Casting Credits Include:  Gone Baby Gone, The Princess Diaries, The Princess Diaries 2:  Royal Engagement, Best in Show, and more)