SOLD OUT: Casting Director Focus Session #4 with April Webster

11:30 am-12:30pm -- 9th Floor, Room #C951
Learn from the incredible Emmy-Winning Casting Director of "Lost," Fringe," "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III."

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

Speaker

-- April Webster, Casting Director

SPEAKER BIO

April Webster
April Webster began her professional career in New York more than 25 years ago. She worked in all aspects of the theater: stage manager, performer, mask maker, carpenter, prop/wardrobe master, and house manager. She also has directed various plays on both coasts.

In the late 1970s, April moved to Los Angeles, where she worked at the Mark Taper Forum as an assistant director and later became a stage manager and a casting associate with Gordon Hunt and Frank Bayer. One of her most memorable assignments was to help cast "Children of a Lesser God" and work with the Deaf Audience Theater Encounter.

April then switched her focus to film and television, working at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope Studios on such projects as "Shoot the Moon" and for Ross Brown and Hank McCann on projects such as the TV miniseries "The Day After."

Her next endeavor was a staff position at Universal Television, where she cast several pilots and series. She worked with Michael McLean & Associates on several films and television movies and eventually opened her own offices.

April enjoys working on an eclectic mix of projects. Her film credits include "2012," "Star Trek," "Mission: Impossible III," "The Day After Tomorrow," and "The Patriot." She received an Emmy nomination for HBO's "Grand Avenue."

April casts television shows including "Fringe," "Criminal Minds," "Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior," "Leverage," and "Dark Blue." Her credits include "Lost," "Alias," and the recent pilot for the NBC series "Undercovers."

She won an Emmy for casting "Lost" and the Hoyt Bowers Award for Excellence in Casting from the CSA, as well as Artios Awards for "Star Trek" and the pilot casting of "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" and "Lost," two Media Access Awards for casting, and the first Dramalogue Award for casting for her work on Ezra Pound's "Elektra."