The Other Side of the Table: What Auditions Look Like to the People Who Do the Casting
Friday 04/10/26, doors open at 5:00pm ET, interview starts at 5:30. Come early so we can meet you!
Community Gathering on Zoom - register with the bright red reservation box to receive the Zoom link. These gatherings are a service for the theater community and are offered free for TRU members; we ask that non-members help keep us running by buying a ticket, making a donation or joining as a member.
In the room: Robin Carus, casting director; Jonathan Cerullo, director-choreographer (Broadway: Anna Karenina; off-Bway Mr. Puppy, The Musical!, Yes, A Cat Named Marty Cohen, The Boys From Syracuse, Bubbling Brown Sugar(50th Anniversary Production Benefit Concert); Helene Galek, casting director; Jim Kierstead, producer (Dog Day Afternoon, The Fear of 13, Buena Vista Social Club, Titanique; Tonys for Hadestown, Pippin revival, Kinky Boots, The Inheritance); and Tamra Pica, casting director and indie producer. Many actors are terrified of auditions, others love the process. Not all of them understand it from a casting person's perspective. We've invited 2 casting directors, a producer/casting director, a Broadway producer and a director-choreographer – the main voices in the process – to share their experiences, both live and virtual, and how they differ. Who does what, best practices for running a professional session, what they each look for and what they each wish every actor would know when they come into the room. Part of the TRU Audition Conference for Theater (ACT).
