About this episode

A roundtable discussion with prominent casting directors about the current state of the industry and the challenges they face.

Casting Virtual Roundtable: CDs tell it like it is ~A conversation with 6 brilliant Casting Artists~ with (in alphabetical order) Juel Bestrop, Randi Hiller, Billy Hopkins, Hedi Levitt, Bernie Telsey, Mary Vernieu & Risa! ‍ We have wanted to do this for a while…to share what these, and most CDs, think and feel about the work, the Industry, self-tapes, all of it. To tell it like it is! So, I met on Zoom with this group of my favorite people/artists/Casting Directors to do just that. They are connected to each other in having established their careers working with me and my former casting partner, Billy Hopkins, decades ago. They are forever family. And they have become the most formidable Casting Artists in the world. We assembled. We reminisced about the good old days of Casting, when it felt like art, and told a couple of stories of how some iconic roles were cast. We complained (just for a bit) about the current state of the Industry, its radically changing financial structures, and the reliance on Zoom and self-tapes that have thoroughly changed how we work and disconnected us from our collaborators, especially from actors. We acknowledged what we miss, what we love, and…

People in this episode

Host: Risa Bramon Garcia

Guests: Juel Bestrop, Randi Hiller, Billy Hopkins, Hedi Levitt, Bernie Telsey, Mary Vernieu

Topics covered

• casting
• self-tapes
• film industry
• collaboration
• casting directors
• art in casting

Keywords

• casting directors
• self-tape auditions
• film casting
• industry challenges
• collaboration in casting
• artistic casting

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