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If you're interested in COMMERCIALS, don't miss these UPCOMING guests: 

DOUBLE COMMERCIAL GUESTS : MEGAN FOLEY & CHUCK MARRA
CCDA Casting Directors/Co-Owners of Foley-Marra Casting
Saturday, June 16, 2012 at 4:30 pm

ALL MONTHS are BIG TIMEs for AGENTS at RP! Here's the list of what's HAPPENING :

 AND here's just SOME of what's on our upcoming calendar 

J.C. CANTU, CSA CD/OWNER

Casting ELEVEN features

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm

OFFICE: Rising Phoenix Casting (J.C. is the owner)

OFFICE PROJECTS:
Red Line Rider (action-adventure film by Saturday Night Fever director & Emmy nominee John Badham)
Man With Gun (a detective-noir thriller produced by Emmy-winner Kip Konweiser and directed by Justin Corsbie)
Jesus Hates Zombies (about Jesus coming back to save humanity from zombies, with director Eric Balfour and producer Mali Elfman)
Invisible (a drama feature directed by Lance Larson)
Subterranea (an action thriller with director Jacqui Barcos and producer Benjamin Scott/Eclectic Picture)
Code Name Oracle (a drama adventure feature directed by Max Bartoli)
Gringos (a drama feature directed by Max Pachman)
Razor's Edge (a drama feature with director Eric Blakenley)
Kid Cannabis (a drama feature with director John Stockwell, based on the true story and the Rolling Stone article about Nate Norman who got rich off of marijuana)
Forget Me Not (a drama feature with director Michael Aloyan)
Aurora (a feature with Dan Bush)
** Waiting on several other picture deals to close. We'll keep you posted...!

NOTABLE PAST PROJECTS (office/guest): The Longest Week (starring Olivia Wilde and Jason Bateman); The Home (starring Ed Asner and Louise Fletcher); Bullet to the Head (starring Sylvester Stallone and Christian Slater); Gimme Shelter (starring James Earl Jones and Vanessa Hudgens); When Angels Sing (starring Harry Connick Jr.); Spy Kids all the time in the World in 4D (starring Jessica Alba and Jeremy Piven). 

PERSONAL INFO: J.C., formerly with Betty Mae Casting, has ventured off on his own specializing in features with partner CD Jennifer Levy IMDB.com.

$19 SPECIAL ** AGENT EVENT

THOMAS COOK (Sovereign Talent Group) -- New Guest!

Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7:30 pm

This is the best opportunity to EMPOWER YOURSELF as an artist and a business person in this industry! First, in the Q & A learn from our esteemed guests how they as agents really work with their clients, and what they feel their clients can do to facilitate their own careers. Then showcase the scene of YOUR choice -- the one that best suits your essence and type!

 GUEST:
Sovereign Talent Group (Thomas Cook - new to RP!): Thomas handles theatrical talent (TV/film) at Sovereign, which also has departments for commercials, voice-over, and print. With well-established names as well as up-and-coming talent, their client list includes actors who have recurred on 30 Rock, The Office, Alcatraz, Homeland, Castle, Greek, and Lab Rats, and appeared on How I Met Your Mother, Community, Parks & Recreation, Desperate Housewives, True Blood, Dexter, Once Upon a Time, United States of Tara, Harry's Law, Two and a Half Men, The Mentalist, Bones, and CSI:NY,  as well as in such films as Star Trek, Super 8, Easy A, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D and many, many more. IMDB.com
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SCENE INFO: Actors prepare the scene of their choice from these options:

1) PARTNERED SCENE with another enrolled actor -- 5-min. max. To find a partner first enroll, then view the class ROSTER in My Current Workshops.
2) 1-on-1 SCENE WITH READER OF YOUR CHOICE -- 3-min. max. Choose the class monitor or any other actor in class to be your off-stage reader. Just be sure to bring an extra copy of your scene with the reader's lines pre-highlighted in yellow.
3) MONOLOGUE -- 2-min. max.

** Since these are prepared scenes, there is no rehearsal time during class. If you need a reader, be sure to choose one before class starts.

** We offer a wonderful array of material in our Library of Sides, but you're welcome to use any scene you'd like!
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This is a fantastic opportunity to prepare your scene/monologue before class with amazing coach Peter Holden (Executive Producer/CEO of the film company Rat Bastard Productions, 30-year actor/coach). To take advantage of this great deal, CONTACT PETER DIRECTLY @ 626-354-4732 to schedule your workout session. (Please don't enroll in the workout from the calendar; we'll take care of the details once you've had your session with Pete!)

$33 SPECIAL ** MANNY FERNANDEZ, CD ASSOCIATE

1-on-1 reads

Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 7:30 pm

OFFICE: Slater/Brooksbank Casting

OFFICE PROJECTS:
Mistresses (new series based on the British hit about the lives and loves of four female friends) 
Perception (new crime-drama series created and written by Kenneth Biller & Mike Sussman, starring Eric McCormack)  
 
NOTABLE PAST PROJECTS (office/guest): Starter Wife; The Tudors; Traffic; One Life to Live; 12 Angry Men; The Starter Wife; The Lost Room; Flight 93; Elvis; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; Poltergeist: The Legacy; Eureka; Babylon 5; The Outer limits;  Defying Gravity; Dirty Sexy Money; The Tudors; Six Degrees; Family Law.

SPECIAL INFO: Manny is the only person from this office doing workshops.

SCENE NOTES: Choose the class monitor or any actor in class to be your reader.

Manny Fernandez: "Reel PROs always treats me with style and class and I always get a warm welcome...which makes me want to come back!"

SHOWCASE w/ HELEN GEIER, CSA CD ASSOCIATE

Office with ELEVEN major projects ** 1-on-1 PREPARED reads - choose your scene!

Saturday, May 19, 2012 at 1:15 pm

OFFICE: HUGE, PROMINENT, and EXTREMELY BUSY two-time Artios-winning and Emmy nominated office -- one of the last mega-offices in town, casting a whopping ELEVEN MAJOR PROJECTS, including several Emmy nominated series'!

SPECIAL INFO: Helen is one of only a few guests to do workshops from this office. And while, due to their company policy, she's unable to specifically discuss his office and projects during class, she is looking forward to sharing his experiences and knowledge with you.

PERSONAL INFO: Helen also works for CD Veronica Rooney Collins in Once Upon A Time in the fall as well.

SCENE NOTES: In this uniquely empowering workshop, actors have the opportunity to showcase their very best work by selecting any scene of their choice from our LIBRARY OF SIDES (or from another source, but must be 3-minutes max) to prepare for class and perform 1-on-1 with the class monitor. (Please bring an extra copy of your scene, with the reader's lines already hi-lighted in yellow and give to the class monitor upon arrival.) 
This format allows each actor total control over their material and their work, and gives Helen the benefit of focusing all her attention on the performing actor!
Note: There will be NO rehearsal time during class. Be sure to come fully prepared and ready to play!

Helen Geier: "Reel Pros is very professional, and the actors are well prepared and just know what they're doing."

$33 SPECIAL ** JOSH ROPIEQUET - (SEE SPECIAL INFO)

Office w/ HIT NEW SERIES from Exec Prod/Creator of Heroes

Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 10:00 am

OFFICE: La Padura/Hart Casting

OFFICE PROJECTS:
Touch (new FOX series created by Tim Kring of Heroes, starring Kiefer Sutherland & Danny Glover about an autistic mute son who predicts events)
Elizabeth & Richard (Lifetime movie from Exec Producer Larry Thompson)
Daybreak (a webseries created by Tim Kring, Exec. Producer of Heros and Touch;  directed by Emmy-winner Jon Cassar; and produced by RSA Films, Ridley & Tony Scott's Company)

**this office is waiting to hear which new shows they'll pick up, plus they cast TV Movies and Miniseries throughout the year!

NOTABLE PAST PROJECTS (office/guest): High School Musical 1; American Dreams; Heroes; Shake Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story; Crossing Jordan; High School Musical 2 & 3.

SPECIAL INFO: Josh has replaced Skip Robins (who recently left the business). He currently holds the title of Casting Assistant, but does the work of an Associate and is involved in ALL their projects.  He is the only person currently from this office doing workshops.

JACESON MANN, CD ASSOCIATE -- NEW GUEST TO RP2/PL

MAJOR features office (cast Black Swan, The Wrestler, Crazy Heart) - 15 PROJECTS

Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 4:30 pm

OFFICE: Betty Mae Casting (Mary Vernieu is the owner)

OFFICE PROJECTS:
Don Jon's Addiction (a comedy feature with Scarlett Johansson, Julianne More & Joseph Gordon-Levitt, about a contemporary Don Juan-type who's trying to become less selfish)
Tupac Shakur Project (a feature about the rise and fall of the famous rapper)
Jobs (a biography feature about Steve Jobs)
Shack (a comedy feature about five friends who spend 60 hours in a shack together experimenting with drugs, sex and the limits of what it takes to become a man)
Best of All Possible Worlds (a feature about high school friends who reunite for the funeral of a fellow classmate)
Holy Takedown! (a feature about a high school wrestler who's determined to improve his abilities with the help of his new coach and girlfriend)
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Peter (a feature with Jennifer Hudson about two small boys trying to survive on the streets after their drug-addicted mother abandons them)
Probability (a feature about a Malibu couple who host a bourgeoisie dinner party and exposes all the secrets of the couples attending)
Trust Me (a feature with Felicity Huffman about a children's talent agent fearing that one of her clients may be being molested by the father)
Wildwood Inn (a feature about two young couples who are dissatisfied with their marriages and learn about each others relationships via a mountain cabin's welcome journal)
The Home (a thriller feature about a young man who is nearly killed during an accident that leaves him physically and emotionally scarred)
The Pretty One (a comedy feature about a woman who assumes her identical, prettier, twin sister's identity when her sister dies)
Manhattan Undying (a drama feature about a vampire who seeks out an artist to paint her portrait so she can see her image for the first time)
Will Gardner (a feature about an Iraq war veteran who takes a motorcycle trip across America trying to pick up the pieces of the life he lost since combat)
Black Box TV (a series of horror web movies from Emmy nominated writer of CSI, Anthony E. Zuiker)

NOTABLE PAST PROJECTS (office/guest): Black Swan; Crazy Heart; The Wrestler; The Thing; Requiem for a Dream; Live Free or Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis;  Sin City; Brooklyn's Finest; The Losers; Spy Kids 4; Cartel, starring Sean Penn; Killer Inside Me; Riot Act; Keep Coming Back; Coming and Going; Motherdeath; Grindhouse; The Fountain, starring Hugh Jackman; Yours, Mine and Ours; I Heart Huckabees.

SPECIAL INFO: Jaceson currently is the only CD Associate in this office, and the only representative conducting workshops at this time.

PAUL WEBER, CSA CD/PRODUCER

NINE projects, including THREE SERIES

Monday, May 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm

OFFICE: Paul Weber Casting

OFFICE PROJECTS:
Spartacus (Starz series)
Noir (Starz series)
The LA Complex (CW series)
Blowing Vegas Off The Map (SyFy movie)
Haunter (a reverse ghost story feature, about a teenage girl ghost and her dead family helping a living teenager girl to avoid a sinister fate)
Beulah (feature starring Dakota Fanning)
The Stupidest Angel (a comedy fantasy feature about a small town inhabited by misfits who save the town from their dead friends and relatives who have been mistakenly resurrected by Heaven's Stupidest Angel)
League of Monster Slayers (a fantasy feature about two orphaned children who live in a castle and fight the forces of evil with their new nanny )
A Mother's Nightmare (Lifetime TV movie, based on a true story about a true story about a beautiful but sociopathic young girl with a dark history, who who makes a vulnerable teenage boy the victim of her murderous obsession)
** Paul always has Miniseries and Features coming down the pipeline.

NOTABLE PAST PROJECTS (office/guest): Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods; Table for Three; Legally Blondes; an awarding winning film from Toronto Film Festival; The Outer Limits.

SPECIAL INFO: Paul is the In-house Casting Director and Features Consultant for MGM Television.

Paul Weber"Reel PROs is the best workshop in town."

$33 SPECIAL ** JOSH EINSOHN, CD ASSOCIATE

From MAJOR film and television office

Monday, May 21, 2012 at 7:30 pm

OFFICE: MAJOR award-winning TV & Features Casting Office, responsible for the mega hit feature The Hangover. IMDB.com

OFFICE PROJECTS:
NBC Comedy Series (quirky mix of all-age students attending a local college)
TWO Untitled Kari Lizer Series' (with Emmy nominated directors Craig Zisk & Scott Ellis); waiting to see if they are greenlit
New Comedy Series (wacky coming-of-age show)

NOTABLE PAST PROJECTS (office/guest): Hangover; Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me; I Robot; Anchorman (with Will Ferrell); Winchell; Door to Door.

SPECIAL INFO: Josh is very happy to be back and, while this Emmy winning office's policy is to not publish their office and their current projects, he is looking forward to a rewarding workshop.Their office will be in full swing in June, so he's looking forward to forming new relationships for their new season.


* $35 SPECIAL - ACTOR KICK-ASS WORKOUT

NO BULL SCENE STUDY for MEMBERS and NON-MEMBERS

In this tightly focused, no bull scene study workout, instructor PETER HOLDEN (Executive Producer/CEO of the film company Rat Bastard Productions, 30-year actor/coach ( IMDB.com) gets down to the nitty-gritty of honest acting, helping actors develop the skills required for personal and professional success: In-depth script analysis; making active, specific choices; character development; and finding the truth in each moment of their work.

Each actor will have the opportunity to work their scene multiple times with the goal of tapping into the connection between the actor's craft-driven and artistic parts of the mind. Peter believes that acting is inherently an “athletic” experience. As such, if everyone is doing their job, the actor should leave the class with the feeling of having put their artistic muscles through the “kick-ass workout” the name implies. >> Actors may bring their own material, or material will be provided them. If you'd like to find a partner, see ROSTER in My Current Workshops after you register.

FEEDBACK FROM RP MEMBER MATTHEW C: In a single workshop with Peter, I felt I learned more about myself as an actor and took home something spectacular. Certainly Peter's scene direction manages to significantly change the dynamics and intensity of the scene. People can spend ridiculous amounts of money on acting classes that may not even give them the tools they need in a cold auditioning environment. Not at all the case here.

**** NON-MEMBERS: TO REGISTER or for further info:
1. Call Peter Holden at 626-354-4732.
2. Leave your name and phone number.
3. Peter will call you back to discuss your needs and schedule a date. 
4. Please bring a check or money order made out to Reel PROs.

* PERSONAL COACHING: GIVE AUDITIONS & PERFORMANCES YOUR BEST SHOT ***

For Members and Non-Members

$50/hour - Your Choice of Time and Day

Do you have an audition you're not quite sure how to handle? An upcoming shoot or theatrical performance that needs work? Specific issues to solve privately? And are you having a hard time finding a coach at the last minute? Then RP can help! We now offer PERSONAL COACHING Monday through Friday from 10am to 5pm in hour-long blocks, at just $50 an hour and your choice of date/time (see below for registration info).

The coaching will be done by RP’s very popular “Kick-Ass Workout” instructor Peter Holden (IMDB.COM). Peter has been an actor for 30+ years, a top coach for over a decade and Producer/Co-Owner of the film production company Rat Bastard Productions. As an actor he has worked in over 30 films, 40 TV episodes and 40 plays in top theatres across the world. As a teacher and coach he has worked with all experience levels and developed a style of teaching that takes the best of Stanislofsky, Hagen and Chekov and applies it to a specific piece/audition with character being the base, and the core questions of scene development - RISE (Relationship, Intention, Stakes and Environment) - as the building blocks.

FEEDBACK BY PETER'S STUDENTS:
Cutter Garcia "Having had the chance to work with Pete Holden in personal coaching sessions, I can't praise him enough. He gets to the point quickly, doesn't waste any time and helps you find the character yourself (as opposed to dictating one to you). His efforts are well worth the time and money spent and this service is a great one."
Phillipe Simon "If actors didn't need directions there would be no directors on set. To have had the opportunity to work with Peter, preparing for an audition or a shoot, has been a very beneficial experience. And his knowledge of the production side of things helps him guide me toward achieving my goal and getting the job. I highly recommend him."

Members and Non-Members, TO REGISTER or for further info:
1. Call Peter Holden at 626-354-4732.
2. Leave your name and phone number.
3. Peter will call you back to discuss your needs and schedule a date.
4. MEMBERS: Either bring a check or money order made out to RP (please no cash), or tell Peter you want your credit card on file with RP to be charged instead.
5. NON-MEMBERS: Please bring a check or money order made out to Reel PROs.