• Who are they?
• What do they do?
• How do they find actors?
• What do they expect from actors?

Rebecca and Padma of ActorsNW ask Jodi, What does a Casting Director do?

JR: A Casting Director is responsible for culling from the many actors; the few that work for a specific role based on the information that's being generated to the CD from the director or the studio, whoever is generating the project. So, in other words, if it's a film then usually the director would give us the director's vision. They would generate a breakdown of the age, type, the ethnicity, the gender of the character.

Then we would go through the many actors that we know of through agents or freelancing or just through basically people that we know through theater. Then we audition people for those roles. From the auditions we pick the people that we are going to present to the director from whom he or she chooses the person for the role.

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