ADVANCED On-Camera Film/TV Intensive with James Calleri C.S.A., Calleri Casting

Thursday, May 19, 2011, 7pm ET / 4pm PT

Here's an incredible opportunity to meet and work with one of NY's TOP Casting Directors for film, TV and theater! Get ready to work as this intensive is structured to fine-tune your film/TV audition skill set and help you book that next role! For this event, James will provide you with a variety of scenes to choose from a few days before the intensive. You are to prepare one scene that you feel represents you. For the intensive, you'll start off with a Q&A, and then James will begin working with you with a reader, on-camera, in a group format. Be prepared for feedback and adjustments as James will coach and critique your work, tweak your material and share invaluable information. Currently, James is casting "Army Wives" for Lifetime TV and just finished work on the Army Wives spin-off. Upcoming for Broadway: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Venus in Fur, and Sleuth; Also CSC Rep, Rattle Stick, and Long Wharf. Upcoming Films include: That's What She Said and Jaime Marks is Dead. Past TV credits include: "Lipstick Jungle," "Z Rock" on IFC, "A Raisin in the Sun," "Ed," "Hope & Faith," and "Monk." His film credits include: Peter and Vandy (Sundance '09), Armless (Sundance 10), The City of Your Final Destination, Heights, The White Countess, Lisa Picard Is Famous, Ready? OK! and Trouble Every Day. Broadway credits include: 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, and The Dead. He cast 10 seasons for Playwrights Horizons as well as seasons for Long Wharf, Flea, CSC Rep, Soho Rep, Naked Angels, New Georges, and stageFARM. Currently, he casts for Fuerza Bruta (the new show from the creators of De La Guarda) and the upcoming Three Sisters with Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard. ***Your scene will be video taped as a digital file. Within one week after this intensive, you will receive an email with the file to watch and view your work.*** Please upload your headshot and create a resume in your online account upon registration. HURRY TO REGISTER as SPACE IS LIMITED.

IMPORTANT REMINDER: Do not be late for this event as James does will not see any actors who are tardy!

James Calleri

James Calleri along with his partners Paul Davis and Erica Jensen run Calleri Casting. They have been awarded 14 Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. James proudly serves on the Board of the Casting Society of America. He is an Associate Professor of Theater at Columbia University School of the Arts where he heads the MFA Graduate Acting program. He is the co-author with Robert Cohen of ACTING PROFESSIONALLY: RAW FACTS ABOUT CAREERS IN ACTING published by Palgrave MacMillan, in its eighth edition it is one of the leading books in the country for young actors. James resides in New York City and Saugerties, New York.

Broadway credits Include: Burn This with Adam Driver and Keri Russell (Upcoming), Fool for Love starring Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell and Hughie starring Forest Whitaker. Other Broadway credits include the Tony-winning revival Hedwig & The Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris and Lena Hall, the Tony-nominated revival of The Elephant Man starring Bradley Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Alessandro Nivola which also played London's West End and the hit revival Of Mice and Men with James Franco, Chris O'Dowd and Leighton Meester, Venus in Fur with Tony-winner Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, The Visit starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees, Renee Fleming in Living on Love, 33 Variations starring Jane Fonda, A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs, Audra MacDonald, Phylicia Rashad, Chicago with Usher, and James Joyce's The Dead starring Christopher Walken. He served as Casting Director for Playwrights Horizons for 10 seasons. Other Off Bway creds include the long-running Fuerza Bruta, Lobby Hero.

TV credits include: LOVE LIFE on HBO Max, QUEENS on Hulu, season 1 and 2 of DICKINSON on Apple TV+, THE PATH on Hulu, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Z Rock on IFC, the critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun on ABC, also the hit series Ed, Hope & Faith, and Monk.

Film credits include: Look Away, I Origins, Another Earth, Refuge, and Merchant Ivory's features The City of Your Final Destination, Heights, and The White Countess.

Follow this link to view his credits on IMDb.