July Schedule 2008
"My work is a game, a very serious game."
--M. C. Escher
 

CLASSES

Prime Time Television Class
Wednesdays, July 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th
Time: 7:00pm

Industry Guests will include:

James Calleri (Casting) James Calleri Casting
Wednesday July 30th
7:00pm
James is currently casting NBC’s Lipstick Jungle IN NEW YORK with Brooke Shields and Andrew McCarthy. In the past he has cast for Ed, Monk, Hope & Faith, and Angela’s Eyes. Upcoming Films include Upstate, Peter & Vandy, Ready, OK!, and Horton Foote’s The Widow Claire directed by James Ivory. In the past James cast Merchant Ivory’s Heights, The White Countess and The City of Your Final Destination, Lisa Picard is Famous, The Jimmy Show and Trouble Every Day. Theater: Fuerza Bruta (the new show from the creators of De La Guarda) and the Broadway bound show Angels. Past credits include: A Raisin in the Sun (B’way), Chicago (B’way and Nat’l Tour), The Dead (B’way and Nat’l Tour), Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons), Other credits include: CSC Rep, The Flea, Soho Rep, The Culture Project, Naked Angels, Long Wharf, New Georges, stageFARM, SPF (Summer Play Festival), Epic, Page 73, and NY Stage & Film Co. James has been awarded four Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. Member CSA.
Actors bring your own prepared sides.
**Only 2 1/2 pages please**

Fee: $300
Please make sure we have TWO of your headshots.
 

Classes must be canceled 72 hours before the start date.

INTENSIVES:

Amelia Rasche (Casting) Ellen Chenowith Casting
Thursday, July 17th
Time: 7:30
We are very excited to have Amelia Rasche as a guest at The Actor's Alliance. Amelia is eager to see new talent. She has worked on many films including Michael Clayton with George Clooney and Tilda Swinton, No Country For Old Men with Javier Bardem and Tommy Lee Jones, First Born with Elisabeth Shue, Diggers with Paul Rudd and Maura Tierney. On past films, she was Casting Director on the Speed of Life, Ratana and Forgiveness. Amelia will focus on dayplayer and U/5 roles.
Fee: $85
Prepared and cold sides.
**Please make sure we have one of your headshots in advance.

Katharina Eggmann (Casting) CBS
Monday, July 21st
Time: 7:30pm
It is our pleasure to have Katharina Eggmann back at The Actor's Alliance. She is the Director of Primetime Casting East Coast at CBS and works on all projects. She has been working on the CBS pilots - The Ex List, Worst Week, Eleventh Hour, Project Gary and The Mentalist. Other CBS series include: All CSI series, NCIS, Criminal Minds, How I Met Your Mother, Rules of Engagement, Cold Case, Ghost Whisperer, Two and a Half Men, Without A Trace and The Unit. Katharina's past projects include: Head Casting Director for both Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. She has also helped cast Queens Supreme and The Sopranos. Feature Films include Riding in Cars With Boys, The Emperor's Club, The Mothman Prophecies, Hysterical Blindness, Happy Accidents. She has cast the indie features Marconi Bros and Confess.
Fee: $85
Prepared and cold sides.
**Please make sure we have one of your headshots in advance.

Intensives must be canceled 72 hours before the start date.

FACE TO FACE

Marilynn Scott Murphy (Agent/Owner) Professional Artists
Tuesday, July 8th
7:00pm
Marilyn has been an agent for years and is very experienced in scouting for new talent. She has clients acting in All Law & Order series, All My Children, Guiding Light, As The World Turns, One Life To Live, many pilots. Films include The Happening, the new M. Night Shyamalan film with Mark Wahlberg, You Don't Mess With The Zohan with Adam Sandler and John Turturro, Goyband with Natasha Lyonne. Theater: Prairie with Melissa Gilbert, South Pacific, Gypsy, Ruined, To Be Or Not To Be.
Monologue.
Fee: $30

Michael Kirsten (Legit Agent) Harden-Curtis Associates
Monday, July 14th
6:30pm
Michael has actors acting in all Law & Order series, Lipstick Jungle, Mad Men, the AMC series, Sons of Anarchy the new FX series. Film: All Good Things with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst, The Rebound with Catherine Zeta-Jones, the new untitled Woody Allen film, Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep. Theater: 39 Steps, Billy Elliot, Godspell, Cry-Baby, Spamelot, Top Girls.
Monologue.
Fee: $30

Donna McKenna (Casting) Donna McKenna Casting
Thursday, July 24th
6:30pm
Donna has cast several Actors Alliance actors in the many films she has worked on. She is currently starting to cast 3 film projects: The Arrangement, Nameless and Deadly Rites. Recent film credits include: The Big Shot Caller, The Man from Shaolin and Priceless. Donna has cast so many films in the past that there are too many to list. She is always casting a film project and is always eager to scout out new talent for those flms.
Monologue
Fee: $30

Donna DeStefano (Manager) Siren Song Entertainment
Monday, July 28th
6:30pm
Donna’s a great friend of the Studio. She has many clients that are members here. Her recent client credits include Film: The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Cannes Film Festival Selection 2008 and The Informers due in theaters Fall 2008. Television: Gossip Girl, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, The Electric Company, CSI and As The World Turns. Theater: Hamlet at Shakespeare in the Park, The Play Company’s Rainbow Kiss at 59E59th Street Theater, Stomp & Shout with Babel Theater Production; Rich Boyfriend, The New Group Naked Series; Slavey at The Clubbed Thumb SUMMERWORKS 2008 and the upcoming Manhattan Theater Club production of Ruined.
Monologue.
Fee: $30

All cancellations for Face To Face must be made 48 hours before your appointment.

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  **No credit cards for Face To Face interviews. Cash or check only**
   
• ****Please be here 15 minutes before your audition time. This will keep you from being put into your audition without any preparation time.
  
  ****Please let us know if you have been called in or booked after meeting with any of our industry guests.

Cancellation Policy: 
All cancellations for Face To Face must be made 48 hours before your appointment.
Intensives and classes must be canceled 72 hours before the start date.