James Calleri
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CALLERI CASTING (James Calleri, Paul Davis, Erica Jensen)
Theater: Hedwig & The Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris , Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd and the upcoming The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson.
Past Broadway credits include: Venus in ...
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CALLERI CASTING (James Calleri, Paul Davis, Erica Jensen)Theater: Hedwig & The Angry Inch starring Neil Patrick Harris , Of Mice and Men with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd and the upcoming The Elephant Man with Bradley Cooper and Patricia Clarkson.
Past Broadway credits include: Venus in Fur with Tony-winner Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy, 33 Variations with Jane Fonda, A Raisin in the Sun with Sean Combs and Audra MacDonald, Chicago with Usher, James Joyce’s The Dead starring Christopher Walken.
Recent Off-Broadway hits Buyer & Cellar, Satchmo at the Waldorf, My Name is Asher Lev, Silence! The Musical, Ives’ revival of All in the Timing, the long-running Fuerza Bruta and The Revisionist with Vanessa Redgrave and Jesse Eisenberg.
Other past credits include: Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons) including such premieres as Betty’s Summer Vacation, Lobby Hero, Small Tragedy, Goodnight Children Everywhere, Violet to name a few.
Over 10 years with Classic Stage Company including Three Sisters, Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya with Maggie Gyllenhaal & Peter Sarsgaard and The Seagull with Dianne Wiest & Alan Cumming.
Proud Resident Casting Directors for CSC, Williamstown Theater Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Long Wharf, The Flea, Keen Company, and Playwrights Realm. Other: Berkeley Rep, Naked Angels, New Georges, stageFARM, Epic Theater Ensemble and many seasons of SPF (Summer Play Festival) and NY Stage & Film Company.
Some long running past productions include Lobby Hero, The Guys, Fully Committed, Dinah Was, and The Vagina Monologues Nat’l Tour.
TV: Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Z Rock on IFC, the critically acclaimed A Raisin in the Sun on ABC, also hit shows Ed, Hope & Faith, Monk.
Film: I Origins, Saint Janet, Another Earth, Refuge, Merchant Ivory’s The City of Your Final Destination, Heights, and The White Countess, Yearbook, Lisa Picard is Famous, The Jimmy Show, Ready? OK!, and Trouble Every Day, Peter & Vandy and Armless.
Calleri Casting has been awarded 12 Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. James, Paul, and Erica are proud members CSA.
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James Calleri News

by Little Known Facts w/ Ilana Levine - Nov 29, 2021
Today's episode features James Calleri, who, with his partners Paul Davis and Erica Jensen, owns Calleri Jensen Davis, a creative casting partnership. They have been awarded 16 Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting.

by - Nov 3, 2021
Special Offer - Applications are now open for Columbia University’s MFA in Theatre

by Stephi Wild - Apr 16, 2021
The 2021 Artios Awards were announced yesterday, honoring casting directors on stage and screen. Among the winners in the theatrical categories were Tina, Slave Play, and A Soldier's Play.

by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 23, 2021
James Calleri, Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis announced today that Calleri Casting is being renamed Calleri Jensen Davis, to better reflect the equal partnership that has been central to their 14-time Artios Award-winning company’s success over these past 15 years.

by Sarah Jae Leiber - Jan 14, 2021
This year's Artios Awards have honored Broadway plays and musicals like 'Jagged Little Pill,' 'Moulin Rouge!', 'The Inheritance,' 'Slave Play,' 'Tina: The Tina Turner Musical' with nominations.

by Nicole Rosky - Sep 24, 2019
Casting Society of America (CSA) today announced the television and theatre nominees for the 35th Artios Awards, which honor the contribution of Casting Directors to film, television and theatre. The winners will be revealed on Thursday, January 30, 2020 in ceremonies in Los Angeles, New York City and London. Comedian, actor and writer Ron Funches will serve as host for the Los Angeles event.

by A.A. Cristi - Sep 5, 2019
Roundabout Theatre Company and Columbia University School of the Arts have announced the winners of Columbia@Roundabout's 2019 New Play Reading Series. As part of the collaborative partnership between Roundabout Theatre Company and Columbia University, the reading series awards three playwrights from the current MFA program and recent alumni with a cash prize as well as a reading in Roundabout's Rehearsal Hall, followed by a post-reading reception. Five finalists have also received cash prizes in recognition of their exceptional work. No other collaborative partnership in the New York area brings together an esteemed Ivy League MFA program with a Tony Award-winning, not-for-profit theatre. The reading series is made possible by a grant from The Tow Foundation.

by A.A. Cristi - Jul 3, 2019
The Old Globe today announced the cast and creative team of a sparkling comedy in our summer season, The Underpants, by the Globe's second-most-popular playwright-in-residence, Steve Martin. Directed by multiple-award winner Walter Bobbie (Globe and Broadway's Bright Star, Broadway's Venus in Fur, Chicago) and adapted from Die Hose by Carl Sternheim, the play was originally commissioned by Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein when he ran New York's Classic Stage Company. This is the fourth Martin work in recent seasons at the Globe, from 2014's world premiere musical Bright Star, which went on to Broadway and five Tony Award nominations, to 2016's twice-extended, world-premiere comedy Meteor Shower, to 2017's smash-hit revival of Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

by A.A. Cristi - Feb 8, 2019
T. Fellowship, in association with Columbia University School of the Arts, announces the next T. Fellow is Rachel Sussman, the seventh fellow in the one year program designed to educate and empower new creative producers. The fellow will receive a stipend of $10,000 with a $20,000 budget for the development of a new theatrical production, and will have access to courses in Columbia's MFA Theatre Management & Producing Program.

by Julie Musbach - Nov 29, 2018
New York Theatre Workshop, in association with producer Brian Moreland, will present a private reading of Thoughts of a Colored Man, a new play written by Keenan Scott II, directed by Taye Diggs (Rent, Chicago, TV's 'All American'), and choreographed by Jenny Parsinen (Allegiance), on Friday, November 30 at 3 PM at NYTW's Fourth Street Theatre.
James Calleri Videos
by Stage Tube - Oct 11, 2016
As if she didn't already have her hands full playing both Yitzhak and the title role in Hedwig and the Angry Inch on tour, Tony Winner Lena Hall took time off from the stage to sing the national anthem for game 3 of the National League Championship Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Cubs. Check out the video below!
by Stage Tube - Sep 28, 2016
Lift up your hands! Darren Criss, Lena Hall, and Stephen Trask presented acoustic performances of 'Sugar Daddy' and 'Midnight Radio' from HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH at a Members-only In Conversation event at the SHN Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco this afternoon.
by Stage Tube - Aug 10, 2016
The road crew over at the national tour of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH have released a new video featuring the show's cast, director, and creator discussing the details of Hedwig's first outing on the national circuit.
by Stage Tube - Jul 27, 2015
The actor stops by USA TODAY's NYC studio to talk about the challenging role.
by BroadwayWorld TV - Sep 8, 2010
Judith Ivey, Gordon Edelstein and Michael Ritchie all share their thoughts on the classic play by Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie. See the breathtaking new production on stage now at The Mark Taper Forum, starring Patch Darragh, Judith Ivey, Keira Keeley and Ben McKenzie. Directed by Gordon Edelstein.