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David Cady

David Cady is presently a commercial casting director at Donna DeSeta Casting, which he joined in 1991.  There he has cast hundreds of television commercials for clients that include Disney, Pepsi, Burger King, Target, NY Lottery and many, many others.  Commercial directors for whom he has cast include Joe Pytka, Spike Lee, Barry Levinson and Joel Schumacher.

David has over twenty years of experience in several areas of show business, beginning his professional career as an actor in the 1981 Broadway company of the Stephen Sondheim musical "Merrily We Roll Along," directed by Harold Prince.  In 1986, David left acting to pursue a career in casting, working first with casting director Bonnie Timmermann on such films as "Dirty Dancing," "Ironweed," and "Beverly Hills Cop II" and the television series "Miami Vice and "Crime Story."  Most recently, David cast the Central Park dance sequence in Disney’s “Enchanted.”

At DeSeta Casting, David was co-casting director for the world premieres of Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Whistle Down the Wind" in Washington D.C. and Michael John LaCuisa's "The Petrified Prince" for the NY Shakespeare Festival.  Harold Prince directed both productions.

A graduate of NYU with a BFA in acting, David currently teaches a six-week course in commercial performance, information on which can be accessed at www.davidcady.com.

Brian O'Neil

Brian O'Neil is a former agent and personal manager and the author of New York's #1 selling performing arts book, Acting As a Business: Strategies for Success, currently in its Fourth Edition and 30th printing and published by Random House. Acting As a Business is now considered such a vital resource that it recently won a spot on Entertainment Weekly Magazine's exclusive list of Top Ten "Show-Biz Industry Bibles." Brian is also the author of the book Actors Take Action: A Career Guide for the Competitive Actor.
Brian created the advice column "Actor's Cues and A's" for Back Stage, and his books are required or recommended reading in many conservatory training programs, including Yale and Juilliard. Brian is the country's foremost lecturer on self-marketing techniques for actors.  He lives in New York City and works with actors at all stages of their careers.  Since 2010 alone, actors who have worked with Brian have become the stars of major motion pictures (Robin Hood and Stargate) been the recipients of an Emmy and Golden Globe award (The Big Bang Theory) and have become the stars of such television series as: Stargate Universe, Gravity, Outsourced and HBO's True Blood.  Also in the recent past, Brian's clients have landed starring roles in such Broadway productions as American Idiot, Enron and Next Fall.
Brian is also a guest speaker/guest faculty member at every top drama school across the nation (including The Yale University School of Drama, The Juilliard School, The Graduate Acting Program at New York University, The University of California, San Diego/LaJolla Playhouse, Brown University/Trinity Rep Consortium, Harvard University/ART, Syracuse University, Temple University, The University of San Diego/Old Globe Theatre Professional Actor Training Program, George Washington University/Shakespeare Theatre, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, The University of Delaware, and The National Theatre Conservatory at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts).

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Paul J. Michael

Paul J. Michael is a veteran stage director whose work includes numerous productions in New York City.  He was an original company member of Broadway's Beauty and the Beast and has worked at many Off-Broadway theatres, including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Circle Rep and The Actor's Playhouse. Directing credits include Jan Buttram's An Island to Themselves (starring Kathleen Chalfant),  Harley Adams' 233 (winner of the OOB Samuel French Festival), Eugene Grygo's Graduation (Strawberry Festival semi-finalist), and Minus Some Buttons (a currently published Samuel French play).

Paul has also written and directed numerous cabaret acts for many Broadway performers at established NYC cabaret venues including Don't Tell Mama, Eighty Eights, The Duplex and Rose's Turn.  Regional credits include Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God, The Mousetrap, What The Butler Saw, Geography Of A Horse Dreamer and Blithe Spirit. Paul is also Co-founder and Artistic Director of Olympia Theatre Company, which has produced numerous plays over the past decade.

 Paul holds a Master's degree in Directing from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.  Other training includes the MFA program at Mankato State University in Minnesota, CW Post University on Long Island, Daemen College, and at Circle Rep under Michael Warren Powell and extensively as a television director at Video Associates under Gordon Rigsby.