New York casting Director Jerry Kallarakal with DDO Agency talks about some “must haves” for actors. Watch below!

This week, Sada Thompson and Arthur Laurents died. Click here to read the New York Times obituary for Laurents, writer of Gypsy, West Side Story and The Way We Were. Click here to read remembrances by Patti Lupone, Harvey Fierstein and Jack Viertel, artistic director of City Center Encores! on Playbill.com. He was 93. Tony […]

If you want to be cast on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, the best place to start is by talking to a New York casting director. The easiest way to do that is to take an all-day class at Actors Connection with Kevin Kuffa, head casting director. Coincidentally, there’s an all-day New York acting seminar […]

Roz Coleman, who will be teaching “inTreatment,” an on-camera New York City acting class, beginning April 26, recently offered some observations on “A-listers” she has worked with in film, stage and television. Here is one observation that she shared about the stars: Another thing about the stars, they are in much better shape than the […]

Now You Can Always be a LOCAL! by Tony Nation As a working actor performing in NYC, it’s important that agents and New York casting directors ALWAYS recognize your contact phone number as a local number.  You don’t want to lose work because the industry thinks you’re either out of town or too far away […]