Marketing Tools for Actors
You've taken acting classes, but do you know how to get a job? Learn from a working casting director how to market yourself locally for film and television work. Course covers training, headshots, resumes, agents, scams, getting on-camera experience, questions to ask (and never ask) a casting director, and more.
This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions.
The Casting Scoop http://castingscoop.blogspot.com
A place for actors to get the inside scoop from a working casting director. Featuring anecdotes, audition tips, casting nightmares and acting resources. Find out what it's like on the other side of the audition table! Got casting questions? Ask away!
Biography Lana Veenker Casting is the Pacific Northwest's top principal casting company, with spacious, fully-equipped studios located in the NW Production Center. Although based in Portland, Oregon, Lana's credits span the globe:
She began her career in London as a casting assistant, helping to cast European leads on features and mini-series for several major networks and studios.
In the Northwest, Lana Veenker's casting team is behind hundreds of film, video and voice-over projects. Undertakings include Gus Van Sant's "Paranoid Park," Lakeshore Entertainment's "Feast of Love" and "Untraceable," and Hallmark Hall of Fame's "The Valley of Light" for CBS. She has also overseen castings in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Orlando, Miami, Seattle and Vancouver BC.
Her commercial division has cast countless award-winning spots, including several of the cult-phenomenon "Trunk Monkey" spots and has provided services to clients as far away as Santiago, Chile on major international campaigns.
Marketing Tools for Actors, her online course on the business of acting, is offered in over 1300 colleges and universities worldwide.
Lana trained as an actor-director in the SF Bay Area, Cambridge and Paris and holds a BA (Magna cum Laude) in Performing Arts. Her understanding of the craft of acting and close alliance with the Northwest talent pool put her company in a class by itself.
Services
We offer full-service principal casting of on-camera and voice-over talent for film, television, radio, web, animated, print and multi-media projects. We've also been known to lend a hand to live events, fundraisers and theatre companies.
With a dedicated and highly organized full-time staff and a host of subcontractors, freelancers and interns, we're able to handle just about anything the industry throws at us, both in our facilities and on location.
Our multilingual staff has contacts around the globe and can oversee casting just about anywhere in North America, Europe and beyond - just ask!
We tailor our services to your needs, utilizing our expertise and relationships to identify and secure the best talent for your project.
We can burn to DVD in real time during on-camera sessions in our facilities, or capture and edit digital video, if a DVD cutdown or web posting is required.
Voice casting sessions take place in our soundproof recording booth, and are captured and edited using MBox and ProTools for output to MP3, WAV or CD.
Who I'd like to meet: Actors, Educators, Acting Coaches, Casting Directors.
NOTE TO ACTORS: We love you dearly, but please: We are a casting company, not a talent agency. We do not represent actors; we are hired by producers to find talent THROUGH talent agencies for their projects. We do not "sign" anyone.
If you are a trained and/or professional actor based in Oregon or Washington, you can still snail mail us a hard copy headshot and resume for our files at 2580 NW Upshur, Portland, OR 97210 (no email submissions accepted). If you have solid experience or training, we may someday call you for something, but most of the time we hire actors through talent agencies. :)
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