Union Casting Director Focus Session #5 with Russell Boast

4:00pm-5:00pm -- 9th Floor, Room #C985
Take Your Acting Career to the Next Level with Advice from a Top Casting Director, Director, and Producer whose credits include the hit show "Franklin and Bash."

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

Attendees in this room need to be a member of SAG, AFTRA, or Actors' Equity. (Be prepared to show union ID.)

Speaker

-- Russell Boast, Casting Director, Pagano/Manwiller Casting

SPEAKER BIO

Russell Boast
South Africa–born Russell Boast is a film and TV casting director. Alongside Rick Pagano ("X-Men," "Alien," "Hotel Rwanda") and Debi Manwiller (TV's "24"), he works at Pagano/Manwiller Casting, currently casting the hit show "Franklin and Bash."

He is also a founding partner with Pagano of Rocket Propelled Ltd., a resource company for artists and entertainers. In L.A., Boast has been involved in staging more than 30 theater productions and producing and directing a cabaret troupe, the first of its kind in L.A., called GravityWorks.

Boast graduated with honors with a B.A. in English and communications from the University of South Africa, with a technical degree in film and television. At age 21, he won the prestigious Nelson Mandela Artists Award for his contributions to theater in South Africa.

Boast produced and directed numerous stage shows and corporate videos before working as a casting assistant for European television commercials.