7/11 ATW Panel Focuses on 'Work of a Casting Director'

"The Work of a Casting Director" will be the focus of the next panel of The American Theatre Wing's Theatre Intern Group. The meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 11th at 6:30 PM, at the Manhattan Theatre Club Studios, 311 West 43rd Street – 8th Floor.

Panelists for the discussion will be: Megan Larche of Binder Casting, Mele Nagler of Roundabout Theatre and Sara Schatz of Dave Clemmons Casting. The meeting will explore the Casting Director's roll in the creative process, and their collaboration with producers, directors, authors and agents.  

Larche is currently working on various projects, including the upcoming Broadway revival of A Chorus Line, Twyla Tharp's The Times They Are A-Changin' and regional productions of Irving Berlin's White Christmas.  Nagler recently cast Pig Farm, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Mr. Marmalade, A Naked Girl…, and The Constant Wife, among others. Schatz has served as an associate casting director on multiple Broadway shows including Ring of Fire, In My Life, The Boy From Oz, Brooklyn, and Dracula.  

The American Theatre Wing's Theatre Intern Group creates social and professional development opportunities for young people who work in theatrical offices; enabling them to build contacts with their peers immediately upon starting work in the theatrical community. Monthly panel discussions on the many facets of the theatrical field offer opportunities for the interns to learn from professionals with 5 to 10 years of experience – long enough to be immersed in the profession, but not so far removed from the experiences of the interns themselves. Membership is open to all interns working in a theatrical office and annual dues are $10.

The American Theatre Wing is a not–for–profit service organization dedicated to education and excellence in the theatre. In addition to creating and awarding the Antoinette Perry Tony Awards®, ATW's programs include the long–running "Working in the Theatre" seminars, broadcast in New York on CUNY-TV; a grants and scholarship program, awarding more than 50 grants annually to New York not-for-profit theatre companies and theatre students; "Downstage Center," a weekly theatrical interview show on XM Satellite Radio; and SpringboardNYC, a two-week, college-to-career arts "boot camp". All of ATW's seminars and interviews are available, for free, from the company's website — www.americantheatrewing.org .

Current members, and those wishing to join the group, can RSVP for the event by emailing Theatreinterngroup@americantheatrewing.org, or by calling Stephen Abrams, Program Manager, at 212-765-0606 x311.