Your Best Picture and Résumé

1:00–2:00 P.M. – 4th Floor, Class C
Meet a Top Casting Director, Manager, and Photographer. Get Invited to More Auditions by Improving Your Resume. Your headshot and résumé are your calling cards. A top-shelf photographer, manager, and casting director offer advice on getting the right shot and putting together the perfect résumé. Bring your current headshots and résumé for evaluation by these experts.

Speakers
-- Elena Berger, Manager and Partner, JLC Entertainment Group
-- Sig De Miguel, Casting Director, S2 Entertainment
-- Jinsey Dauk, Photographer

SPEAKER BIOS

Elena Berger, Manager and Partner, JLC Entertainment Group
Elena Berger began her career in the industry 20 years ago, soon after which she became an agent at ICM. Since then, she's held positions in casting, personal management, and theatrical representation.

Currently, she is a partner at JLC Entertainment Group LLC, managing a select group of clients. She also runs a successful career consulting business for actors. Elena is a respected instructor in the field as well.

For the last nine years, she's been teaching at the Juilliard School, requested by its Drama Division to develop and teach a curriculum in the business of acting, voiceover, and on-camera commercial technique. In that time, she's also offered her workshop at Stonestreet Studios, One on One Productions, and SUNY Purchase, among other places. 

Sig De Miguel, Casting Director, S2 Entertainment
Sig De Miguel and Stephen Vincent partnered in January 2006 with the mission to cast and produce high-quality independent films. Over the past five and a half years, the duo has served as casting directors on over 40 feature films.

Sig and Steve are currently casting the feature films "The Invitation," for director Karyn Kusama; "The Séance," for director Nancy Savoca; "Great Neck," for director Kevin Asch; and "Something in the Water," for director Enid Zentelis, starring Melissa Leo. Recent releases include "Rabbit Hole," starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart, directed by John Cameron Mitchell; "Gun Hill Road," for director Rashaad Ernesto Green, starring Esai Morales and Judy Reyes (Sundance 2011); "The Imperialists Are Still Alive!" (Sundance 2010), starring Elodie Bouchez; and TIFF Audience Award winner "Stake Land," starring Connor Paolo, Kelly McGillis, Danielle Harris, and Michael Cerveris, directed by Jim Mickle.

Sig worked for Amanda Mackey and Cathy Sandrich Gelfond for six years; they cast such feature films as the award-winning "United 93," directed by Paul Greengrass; "The Good Shepherd," Robert De Niro's epic film starring Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie; "The Lost City," starring and directed by Andy Garcia; "The Cooler," starring William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin, and Maria Bello; "A Love Song for Bobby Long," starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson; "The Matador," starring Pierce Brosnan, Greg Kinnear, and Hope Davis; "The Man," starring Samuel L. Jackson; and "P.S.," starring Laura Linney and Topher Grace; among others.

With Mackey/Sandrich, he also cast "Chapter 27," starring Jared Leto and Lindsay Lohan; "Fierce People," starring Diane Lane and Donald Sutherland; and "Brooklyn Rules," starring Alec Baldwin and Freddie Prinze Jr. Sig's other films include "Where God Left His Shoes," starring John Leguizamo and Leonor Varela; "A Crime," starring Harvey Keitel and Emmanuelle Béart; and "Premium," starring Zoe Saldana and Dorian Missick.

Jinsey Dauk, Photographer
Jinsey Dauk has been a headshot photographer in NYC for 25 years. An actor and a former Ford model, she studied and then taught photography at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.

She collaborated with designer Vera Wang on the book "Vera Wang on Weddings," and her work has been featured in Modern Bride; Playbill; Back Stage; New Canaan, Darien & Rowayton Magazine; and Photo District News, as well as in galleries and private collections around the world.

She has modeled in Paris, Milan, London, Hamburg, and Munich and appeared in more than 60 commercials, including Coca-Cola, Nestlé’s Quik, Red Lobster, Aquafresh, Dimetapp, Easy-Off, and Palmolive.

She believes in using natural light rather than flash in order to put actors at their ease and relies on up-to-date feedback from the casting directors and managers who recommend her.