Casting Director Focus Session #8 with Chris Game

2:30-3:30pm -- 9th Floor, Room #C951
Don't miss this excellent opportunity to learn from a Casting Director with 15 Years of experience Casting Feature Films and Major Commercials.

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

Speaker

-- Chris Game, Casting Director

SPEAKER BIO

Chris Game
Chances are you have encountered Chris Game's work many a time. With 15 years of experience in the industry, Game has cast national commercial campaigns for Harley-Davidson, Swiffer, Shell, Burger King, Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Wells Fargo, Beck's, Lego, Oscar Mayer, Kellogg's, PlayStation, Pepsi, Taco Bell, Sears, Mercedes-Benz, Mercury, and many more.

His independent film credits include "The Good Humor Man," featuring Kelsey Grammer, Jason Segel, and Jorge Garcia; "The Uninvited," featuring Colin Hay; "Donner Pass"; and the upcoming feature "Scary or Die," starring Corbin Bleu. He has also cast various music videos, including St. Vincent's "Actor out of Work" and Placebo's "Trigger Happy Hands."

A co-founder and member of the Elephant Theatre Company, Game has been a director, actor, and sound designer for the last 15 years. Among his notable projects are "One Fell Swoop" by Robert Litz, "Serenading Louie" by Lanford Wilson, "Hotline" by Elaine May, "Red Cross" by Sam Shepard, "365 Days/365 Plays" by Suzan-Lori Parks, "Halfway There" by Christopher Game and Michael J. Vaez, "Muppet Maiden" by Alexandra Hoover, "The Princess and the Peon" by Jimmie D. Hudson, "My Only Hopeless," "The Gremlin," "Jerry Tylor's Little Wedding," and Christopher Durang's plays "Beyond Therapy," "The Actor's Nightmare," "Desire, Desire, Desire," and "1-900-Desperate."

As an actor, Game's theater credits include "Search and Destroy" by Howard Korder, "Serenading Louie" by Lanford Wilson, "Never Tell," "Seven Redneck Cheerleaders," "Dear Boys' War," and "The World of Mirth."

He has also done theatrical sound design for more than 50 productions in Los Angeles over the last decade. Game has worked closely with Paul Mazursky and Harold Becker as a sound designer, and he recently worked with Phillip Seymour Hoffman as a casting director for a theatrical project.

Although Game may be found teaching at places such as The Actor's Key, Elizabeth Mestnik Acting Studio, and Actors Creative Workshop, he is in the midst of opening his own acting school. This last year alone, Game has cast 30 of his students in commercials. Back Stage readers voted his workshop a runner-up for favorite in 2009 and 2010.