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A weekly podcast featuring conversations with top casting directors, agents, managers, directors, producers…

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Tom Kiradhy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer whose projects have spanned Broadway, off-Broadway, the West End, and national and international tours. He most recently produced the Broadway production of the epic two-part play THE INHERITANCE (4 Tony Awards including Best Play), the smash-hit HADESTOWN (8 Tony Awards including Best Musical), the off-Broadway revival of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS starring Tammy Blanchard, Jonathan Groff, and Christian Borle (Drama Desk, Drama League and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Best Revival of a Musical), Terrence McNally’s FRANKIE & JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE starring Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon (2 Tony nominations including Best Revival of a Play), and the ANASTASIA national and international tours. Select Broadway credits: ANASTASIA, the box office record breaking IT'S ONLY A PLAY starring Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, THE VISIT starring Chita Rivera (5 Tony nominations). Select West End credits: THE INHERITANCE (4 Olivier Awards including Best New Play), THE JUNGLE, Edward Albee's THE GOAT, OR WHO IS SYLVIA? Select off-Broadway credits: THE WHITE CHIP (N.Y. Times Critic’s Pick), THE JUNGLE (N.Y. Times Critic’s Pick), WHITE RABBIT RED RABBIT (N.Y. Times Critic’s Pick). Additional Tony nominations: MOTHERS AND SONS, AFTER MIDNIGHT, RAGTIME, MASTER CLASS. Kirdahy serves on the Broadway League Board of Governors, the Board of Trustees of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Advisory Council for the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a founding director of the nonprofit Berwin Lee London New York Playwrights, Inc., which supports emerging playwrights. He is the 2019 recipient of the Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theater Producing. As an attorney, he spent nearly two decades providing free legal services to people living with HIV/AIDS and served for many years on the Executive Committee of the NYC LGBT Center.
Steven won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Spring Awakening. His other musicals include Alice by Heart produced at the National Theatre of London, MCC in New York and is also a novel from Penguin Random House, The Nightingale produced at La Jolla Playhouse; Prometheus Bound at A.R.T; and Some Lovers with music by Burt Bacharach at the Old Globe and the Adirondack Theatre Festival. His plays include Arms on Fire, New York Animals, and a reconceived musical version of Shakespeare’s Tempest. Additionally, Sater works as a poet, screenwriter, and a pop lyricist. He has created television projects for HBO, Showtime, FX, NBC, and is currently creating a musical TV series for Amazon.
Michael Benjamin Washington is currently filming the new NBC comedy, American Auto. Broadway: The Boys in the Band (also the Netflix adaptation); La Cage Aux Folles; Mamma Mia! (original company). Off Broadway: 2019 revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires In the Mirror at Signature Theatre (NY Outer Critics Circle Award; NY Drama League Award; Inaugural Antonyo Award for Best Solo Performance); and, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night at Second Stage. Television: Ratched and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix); 30 Rock; Glee; Law and Order; 100 Questions to name a few. He is an alumnus of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the National Young Arts Foundation. He is also a Presidential Scholars in the Arts. Mr. Washington currently serves on the 2020-2023 Tony Awards and Screen Actors Guild Nominating Committees.
Jack has won three Tony Awards and been nominated for seven more, and won five Drama Desk Awards. Select Broadway credits include All My Sons, Carousel, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Front Page, Its Only a Play, The Nance, Catch Me If You Can, A Catered Affair, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Coast of Utopia (TONY), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nom), Henry IV (TONY), Hairspray (TONY), the Invention of Love (Tony Nom), The Full Monty (Tony Nom), Damn Yankees, Porgy and Bess (Tony nom), Two Shakespeare Actors (Tony Nom) The Piano Lesson, The Most Happy Fella, The Little Foxes among many, many more. According to the Internet Broadway Data Base, Jack O’Brien has 52 Broadway credits to his name. Jack served as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California from 1981 to 2007Additional select credits include Il Trittico at the Metropolitan Opera; Guys and Dolls at Carnage Hall; and Much Ado About Nothing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. London credits include: Love Never Dies, Hairspray (Olivier Award nomination) and His Girl Friday at the National Theater. He has directed six movies for PBS's "American Playhouse." O’Brien has aslo directed the critically acclaimed national tour of The Sound of Music and the world premiere of the Jake Heggie/Terrence McNally opera Great Scott for The Dallas Opera. Jack was nominated for an Emmy Award for his documentary "Becoming Mike Nichols" (HBO). And if you have not read his book, Jack Be Nimble, please do yourself a favor and grab a copy.
Cody Renard Richard is an advocate, educator and professional Stage Manager with a career that spans many genres including Broadway, Television, Cirque Du Soleil and Opera. On Broadway, he has worked as a full time and substitute Stage Manager on 12 productions, most recently serving as the Production Stage Manager for Freestyle Love Supreme. Other Broadway: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The Lion King, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, Kinky Boots, If/Then, After Midnight, Motown the Musical, Ghost the Musical, Cyrano de Bergerac and Lysistrata Jones. TV: 2019 Tony Awards, 2020 & 2019 MTV VMAs, Jesus Christ Superstar Live!, Hairspray Live!, The Wiz Live!. Cirque du Soleil: OVO, Wintuk. Off Broadway/NY: Porgy and Bess (Metropolitan Opera – Assistant Stage Director), Candide at Carnegie Hall, 5 productions with NY City Center Encores!, The Public Theatre, Atlantic Theatre Company, 2nd Stage, Transport Group, Pearl Theatre Company. Selected Regional: Lempicka at Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Kennedy Center, The Muny, TUTS, Stages STL, Kansas City Rep, Alley Theatre, Repertory Theatre of STL. In addition to his production credits, he has served as adjunct faculty at New York University, Columbia University and Fordham University. As an advocate for change and equity, Cody has appeared live on CNN and has been interviewed on WNBC. Cody has been featured by Variety Magazine as one of their 2020 Broadway Players to Watch, Out Magazine as a 2020 OUT100 honoree and in Forbes. He launched The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program in partnership with Broadway Advocacy Coalition in Sept of 2020 and holds a BFA in Stage Management from Webster Conservatory. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Directors Guild of America. www.codyrenard.com @codyrenard
040. Actor: Gavin Creel

040. Actor: Gavin Creel

2021-06-2901:23:13

Gavin Creel received a Tony Award for his performance as “Cornelius Hackl” in Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. Gavin made his Broadway debut originating the role of “Jimmy Smith” in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which he received his first Tony Award nomination. He has since created such memorable performances on Broadway as “Claude” in Hair, which earned him a second Tony Award nomination, “Jean-Michel” in La Cage Aux Folles, and “Stephen Kodaly" in the Roundabout Theater Company’s production of She Loves Me, which was filmed live and is available on BroadwayHD. No stranger to London audiences, Gavin most notably originated the role of “Elder Price” in the West End production of The Book of Mormon, for which he received the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He also starred as “Bert” in Disney’s Mary Poppins and reprised his performance as “Claude” in Hair. Other stage credits include starring opposite Sara Bareilles in the Broadway and West End productions of Waitress, The Book of Mormon (on Broadway and originating the First National Tour), as well as the world premieres of Stephen Sondheim’s Bounce (at The Goodman Theatre and The Kennedy Center) and Prometheus Bound at A.R.T. On television, Gavin co-starred alongside Julie Andrews in ABC’s Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime. He has released three original albums GoodTimeNation, Quiet (which landed on “Billboard’s Top Heat Seekers”) and Get Out, and his single “Noise” raised money and awareness for marriage equality. Creel was a co-founder of Broadway Impact, the first and only grassroots organization to mobilize the nationwide theater community in support of marriage equality. A native of Findlay, Ohio, he is a proud graduate of University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance. 
039. Actor: Alison Fraser

039. Actor: Alison Fraser

2021-06-1401:15:52

Pre-pandemic, Alison was in back-to-back show bliss with David Staller’s adaptation of Heartbreak House (for which she received the Callaway Award for best actress in a classical play), Enter Laughing at the York, and a divine trifecta under the aegis of Marcia Milgrom Dodge: Steel Magnolias at the Jupiter Maltz, Cinderella at the MUNY, and Deathtrap at the Cape Playhouse. Just prior to theatre shut down she was, oddly enough, in a show (co-starring Robbie Simpson) called Paradise Lost which (actually happened a week after we closed-paradise was indeed lost... )She originated the role of Sharon in Aaron Mark’s “Squeamish” (Off Broadway, Outer Critic’s Circle Awards nominee). She was Nancy Reagan and Betty Ford in MichaelJohn LaChiusa’s First Daughter Suite (Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk nominee) at the Public Theater, Mommy in The Sandbox and The Landlady in Funnyhouse of a Negro at The Signature Theatre (director Lilia Neugebauer). She is a two- time Tony Award nominee for The Secret Garden (Drama Desk nominee also) and Romance/Romance. Other Broadway roles includes Dorine in Tartuffe; Born Again, Helena in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Tessie Tura in Arthur Laurents’ production of Gypsy starring Patti LuPone. Roles she has created Off-Broadway include Arsinoé in David Ives’ The School For Lies, Charles Busch’s The Divine Sister, Jessie in Terrence McNally’s Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams (opposite Marion Seldes and Nathan Lane),Trina in March of the Falsettos and In Trousers ( vocal arrangement credits) Miss Drumgoole in Todd Rundgren’s Up Against It, Connie, Brenda and Petula in Beehive, and The Matron in the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’ In Masks Outrageous and Austere (opposite Shirley Knight). Film and TV credits include Gotham, Happy! High Maintenance, Law & Order: SVU,Happyish, Smash, It Could Be Worse, Blowtorch, Socks and Bonds,Understudies, Jack in A Box, The Thing About My Folks (opposite Peter Falk and Paul Reiser) and the upcoming The Sound of Silence (opposite Peter Saarsgard). She has be heard on thousands of radio and television commercials, Grand Theft Auto 3 and 5, innumerable audiobooks, and many albums, including three solo efforts A New York Romance, Men In My Life, and Tennessee Williams:Words and Music. She recently received the Earphones Award from Audiophile for her narration of “Fierce Poise” for Penguin Random House, and soon will be heard on the podcast “The Laundronauts” starring Ed Asner and John Cameron Mitchell.
MICHAEL GODDARD is one of the named partners of CGF TALENT, a ten year old boutique agency in New York. They handle all legit (theatre, television and film) projects being cast out of New York, and nation wide. Michael has been an agent for fifteen years representing actors who are series regulars, guest stars and co-stars on television shows, featured cast in movies and many principals on Broadway as well as tours and regional theatre. Prior to becoming an agent, Michael was an actor for 16 years, working on Broadway, off-Broadway, Tours, and regionally across the country.Click HERE to check out Robbie’s recent interview on Someone’s Thunder Podcast.Click HERE to check out Robbie’s recent interview on Backstage with B.
STEPHEN BRACKETT (Director). Broadway: The Lightning Thief (Longacre Theater), Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater). Off-Broadway: A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons/Page 73, Drama Desk and Obie awards), Be More Chill (Signature and Two River Theaters), The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar (Rattlestick and Barrow Street Theaters/National Tour), Kerrigan-Lowdermilk’s The Mad Ones (Prospect Theater), Caroline McGraw’s Ultimate Beauty Bible (Page 73), Jacob Yandura and Rebekah Greer Melocik’s Wringer (NYCCT), Lucas Kavner’s Carnival Kids (Lesser America), Ken Urban’s The Correspondent (Rattlestick), Chad Beckim’s After (Partial Comfort), Dan Fishback’s The Material World (Dixon Place), Bekah Brunstetter’s Be A Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), and The Tenant (Woodshed Collective). Regional: Fall Spings (Barrington Stage), Joshua Harmon’s Significant Other (Geffen Playhouse), Tasha Gordon-Solmon’s I Now Pronounce (Humana Festival), Philip Dawkins’ Le Switch (About Face), David West Read’s The Great Pretender (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley). London: Be More Chill (The Other Palace) and Buyer & Cellar (Menier Chocolate Factory)
Hannah Shankman: Broadway: Wicked, Les Miserables, Side Show (Original Broadway Revival), Hair. National Tours: The Band's Visit, Rent, 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Miserables. West End: Hair, Homemade Fusion In Concert. Hannah has worked regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Williamstown, Syracuse Stage, Casa Manana, Arrow Rock Lyceum in roles including Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Rizzo in Grease, Maureen in Rent, Sally Simpson in Tommy, Rosaline in The Last Goodbye and so many more. TV/Film: "The Last Five Years" and singing with the "Les Miserables" movie at the 86th Annual Academy Awards. She has been featured on numerous recordings by Liz Swados. BFA University of Michigan.
Calleri Jensen Davis casting, formally Calleri casting until very recently, have a casting partnership that spans over twenty years. Television credits include Dickinson, The Path, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Hope and Faith, Ed, Monk, and numerous pilots for Netflix, Fox the CW NBC ABC among many others, Films they have cast have been screened at Sundance, The Cannes Film Festival, and have won dozens of awards.Broadway credits include the upcoming productions of Thoughts of a Colored Man, For Colored Girls who have considered suiside when the rainbow is enough, and Blue all opening on Broadway this year. Past Broadway credits include Burn This, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Elephant Man, Of Mice and Men, Fool For Love, Venus In Fur, 33 Variations, Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun, Hughie, James Joyce’s The Dead, and the Bright Star National TourAdditional New York and Regional credits include Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick, The Flea, Keen Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Long Warf, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Actors Theater of Louisville, Hartford Stage, The Alliance, Center Theater Group, Humana, The Old Globe, Syracuse Stage, OSF, Alley Theater, Berkley Rep, McCarter Theater and dozens more.
Michael is an actor and two-time Tony-nominated director for his Broadway revivals of Spring Awakening and Once On This Island. Additional directing credits include A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mayes at the Geffen, Maybe Happy Ending at The Alliance Theater, The Pride and Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Anenberg, Joseph at Lincoln Center, The Connors on ABC, the upcoming film, the book of Ruth, starring Ruth Wilson, among others. Michael is also company member of The Forest of Arden, an immersive theater company—  premiering a new work, Alien/ Nation at Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. As an actor, Michaels Broadway credits include Big River, The Times They Are A’Changin, and King Lear. Additional theater credits include Bare A pop Opera off Broadway, Swimming in the Shallows at Second Stage, The Hunchback of Notre Dam at the La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love at the MErnier Choclate Factory in London among others. TV credits include Numbers, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, The Closer, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Unforgettable, GCB, Royal Pains, every episode of Anger Management among many others. Michael is on Variety’s “Broadway Impact List” and has been awarded NAACP, Ovation, NAD, Outer Critic Circle, and Tony Honor Awards. 
BRIAN HUTCHISON has appeared on Broadway in The Boys in the Band (Tony Award- Best Revival), Man and Boy (with Frank Langella and Adam Driver)), Looped (opposite Valerie Harper), Exit the King (with Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon), Proof, andThe Invention of Love. Off-Broadway credits include How To Transcend a Happy Marriage ( opposite Marisa Tomei-Lincoln Center) Smokefall (opposite Zachary Quinto) Pocatello (with TR Knight) Regrets, Spirit Control, From Up Here, and Go Back to Where You Are among others, at such theaters as Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, and Manhattan Class Company. In addition to performing major roles all over the country, Brian’s film and television credits include the upcoming Apple TV series from Stephen King, Lisey’s Story, The Boys in the Band, Blue Bloods, The Sinner, FBI- Most Wanted, Jessica Jones, Godfather of Harlem, Instinct, Madam Secretary, Elementary,Vinyl, Show Me a Hero, Killing Kennedy,Vino Veritas, Winter's Tale, Love and Other Drugs, Do No Harm, Person of Interest ( recurring as FBI agent Moss), The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, and Criminal Intent. Brian has recorded hundreds of audiobooks, and is producing, writing and recording an original serial podcast I Still Think About You, available in 2021. He holds a BA from Lafayette College, and an MFA in Dramatic Arts from the Old Globe Theater/University of San Diego.
ERICA A. HART, CSA (Casting Professional / Producer) graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied film and television. She has been casting for over 10 years on many high profile projects. She started off in network and studio casting moving her way up to Casting Coordinator in the New York Office of ABC Primetime Casting. In 2014, Erica appeared in The Hollywood Reporter as a featured rising artist. She has cast projects that have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, Outfest, Cinequest, and the Cannes Film Festival and are streaming on Netflix and Amazon. THE SURROGATE (a film she cast as well as associate produced) was in INDIEWIRE's Best Movies Eligible for a 2021 Oscar and was a VARIETY CRITICS PICK. She has cast commercials for high-end brands such as Maybelline, Gillette, Hasbro, and Delta, to name a few. She has also collaborated with The National Black Theatre and has cast a handful of their productions. Erica has been the Casting Associate for shows like “Ray Donovan”, “The Bold Type”, “Defending Jacob", and “Godfather of Harlem” (Epix). She has recently cast the UNT. MICHAEL CHE SKETCH SHOW for HBO MAX, BLACK DON'T CRACK for ABC and currently co casting LOVE LIFE Season 2 for HBO MAX. Outside of casting, she has received grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation, New York Television Festival and The Digital Bolex, in addition to developing new serieses for BET and WeTV.
JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint Theater Company since 1995, where he has unearthed and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays, many of which he has also directed. As Variety put it in 2007, “Bank is one of the few artistic directors for whom taking an old, obscure book off the shelf is an enterprise exciting enough to be addictive.”Under Bank’s leadership the Mint has earned an international reputation as the source for high-quality revivals of forgotten works and has become, in the words of The New York Times’ Jason Zinoman, “the leading New York entrepreneur” of the neglected play business. In his review of Mint’s 2018 production of Conflict by Miles Malleson, Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal described Jonathan Bank as “one of a handful of theater artists in America whose name is an absolute guarantee of quality.”  Recently for the Mint, Bank directed The Suitcase Under the Bed, Katie Roche, Temporal Powers and Wife to James Whelan—three plays by the neglected Irish playwright, Teresa Deevy. Bank spearheaded Mint’s ambitious three-year, three-play Teresa Deevy Project, dedicated to reclaiming the lost voice of “one of the most undeservedly neglected and significant Irish playwrights of the 20th century” (The Irish Times). In a feature article about the project in America Magazine, Andrew Garavel writes, “Thanks are due to Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater for bringing such a distinctive voice from the past so satisfyingly into the present.”Also for the Mint, Bank directed Yours Unfaithfully by Miles Malleson, The New Morality by Harold Chapin, Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse, and Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! starring Emmy Award-winner Kristen Johnston. The production received four Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director. Other productions at the Mint include Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?, the American Professional Premiere of The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway, The Return of the Prodigal by St. John Hankin and Susan and God by Rachel Crothers. Jonathan both adapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-translated (with Margaret Schaefer).  These two plays were published in a volume entitled Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank edited.  He is also the editor of four additional volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Teresa Deevy vols. 1 & 2, Harley Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company which includes his adaptations of Thomas Wolfe's Welcome to Our City and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, both of which he directed, along with five other Mint rediscoveries.  Other directing credits include critically acclaimed productions of Ivanov and Othello for the National Asian American Theater Company, John Brown's Body, The Double Bass and Three Days of Rain for the Miniature Theater of Chester and The Heiress, Hobson’s Choice, Candida and Mr. Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players. He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in his hometown of Cleveland, OH. This episode is brought to you in part by TSMA Consulting, the entertainment industry’s leading social media firm. Use offer code BREAKDOWN20 for $20 off any growth package from TSMA at TSMAgrowth.com
Erika Henningsen was most recently seen as Cady Heron in the original Broadway Cast of MEAN GIRLS, for which she was nominated for an Outer Critics' Circle Award. She made her Broadway debut as Fantine in the recent revival of LES MISERABLES and can be seen as Kim Ravenal in the PBS Special of SHOW BOAT: Live from Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. She is slated to appear in Peacock's upcoming series GIRLS5EVA and Amazon's original comedy HARLEM. Graduate of the University Of Michigan BFA Musical Theater Program, Broadway.com Star of the Year 2019, founder of the First Time Voters' Club and proud dog mom to Lennox. Erika will be reopening Green Room 42 with her solo show late April, check out greenfignyc.com for tickets!
Patrick Goodwin, CSAPat began his career in casting in 2006 after graduating from Drew University with a double major in Theatre Arts and Political Science. He has cast countless film, television and theatre projects over his nearly 15 years in the industry. Recent Broadway casting credits include Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Cher Show, Waitress, Kinky Boots, SpongeBob Squarepants, Finding Neverland, Chaplin and Annie. Film credits include The Greatest Showman and Sex and the City 1 & 2. He was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for Excellence in Casting for the NBC television production of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert and has won several Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting. Upcoming casting projects include The Wanderer, Fly, Row and the musical stage adaptation of The Notebook by Ingrid Michaelson and Bekah Brunstetter. Pat is a proud member of the Casting Society of America, The Television Academy, and Teamsters Local 817. 
Director Kevin Berlandi’s style as well as his contagious enthusiasm for film, were fostered by his childhood love of summer blockbusters. It’s only fitting that Kevin would grow up to AD on movie franchises like Transformers, Avengers and The Bourne Legacy. Before that, he earned a degree in Marketing Advertising with a concentration in Film Production from Emerson College. After graduating, he traveled the world while working on numerous credited features. Some of his most memorable sets, including Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise, Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War, and a David Fincher television project.  His short film Hana Sasaki's Tail, adapted from the book Three Scenarios, premiered at the 2016 Festival de Cannes. Kevin has also participated in the Director's Guild of America's Director Development Initiative, Sony's Television Directing program (2016) and CBS's directing program (2017-2018). He has directed multiple episodes of Bull and an episode of Criminal Minds on CBS. Then went on to help create and shape the Guild's effort to increase diversity within the directing ranks of episodic televisions a former Co-Chair of the Asian American Committee at the Director's Guild of America.  His career as a commercial director has flourished with Brands like Audi, Burger King, Nissan,Toyota, Kia, Buick, and GMC which lead him to more narrative and personal work.In Kevin's free time he plays lacrosse on a nationally ranked men's lacrosse team and searches for sublime coffee experiences.
Karlee Fomalont, CSA, is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where her acting training made for a seamless transition into the world of casting. She began her career at CBS Primetime NY and ABC Primetime NY, where she cut her teeth working on numerous pilots. She then transitioned into independent casting, working on projects such as "The Get Down," Baz Luhrmann's ambitious Netflix series, and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed drama "The Post," for which her team was nominated for an Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. In NY independent casting, she has worked with a number of top casting directors in the city, and is currently the Associate at Rori Bergman Casting where she has been for 6 years, working on major studio feature films, independent films, cable and multiple streaming TV shows. Karlee also casts short films and features independently, most recently including Amazon Studios' feature film "I'm Your Woman" starring Rachel Brosnahan, and partnered with Rori on "Yearly Departed," the Amazon end of year comedy special.
David Caparelliotis/Caparelliotis Casting - Current television: “New Amsterdam” (series casting, NBC). Recent and select Broadway: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Minutes, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Jitney, The Little Foxes, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Front Page, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Fish in the Dark, Disgraced, Fences. Other theatre: Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre NYC season casting, Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2 season casting, Old Globe season casting, Ars Nova, Goodman, Berkeley Rep, McCarter, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, among others. Additional film and television credits include "Boys in the Band" (Netflix,) “American Odyssey” (series casting, NBC), “How to Get Away with Murder” (pilot, ABC), “Ironside” (NBC), and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime). David is a proud member of the Casting Society of America, an active member of CSA's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and a recent recipient of the Media Access Award for his work on “New Amsterdam.”
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