Casting Director Focus Session #7 with Craig Campobasso

2:30-3:30pm -- 9th Floor, Room #C919
Learn from the Emmy-Nominated Casting Director of "Picket Fences," "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow,"  "The Perfect Host," and the upcoming "Cyber Planet." 

A casting director leads a one-hour workshop and discusses how he/she auditions actors, audition advice, and takes questions.

Speaker

-- Craig Campobasso, Casting Director

SPEAKER BIO

Craig Campobasso
Fresh out of high school, California native Craig Campobasso found himself working behind the scenes for four years on Frank Herbert's "Dune."

The father-daughter producing team Dino and Raffaella De Laurentiis and director David Lynch were Campobasso's mentors in the business of filmmaking. Raffaella hired him as a casting director on the popular Christmas movie "Prancer," starring Sam Elliott, after he apprenticed as a casting associate on Steven Spielberg's "Amazing Stories."

Campobasso has been casting for more than two decades and was nominated for an Emmy for casting David E. Kelly's "Picket Fences." Some of his credits include "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" (additional casting), starring Jude Law and Angelina Jolie; "The Godson," starring Dom DeLuise; "Screw Loose," starring Mel Brooks; "Redline," starring Eddie Griffin; "Tremors 3," starring Michael Gross; and most recently "The Perfect Host," starring David Hyde Pierce, and "Hell and Mr. Fudge," starring Mackenzie Astin and Keri Lynn Pratt.

Campobasso is casting "Buffalo Bill," a drama about his life; "In Love and Death" a drama; and "Cyber Planet," a kids' "Tron"-like movie. You can learn more about Craig Campobasso at www.CraigCampobasso.com or www.imdb.com/name/nm0004128/.