Susan Paley Abramson and Justine Hempe have partnered on a new casting venture, Back Stage has learned.Paley Abramson was the casting director for HBO comedy "Entourage," which ended its eighth and final season in September. She started on the show as an assistant in its first season, working for casting directors Sheila Jaffe and Georgianne Walken. She was promoted to associate for the second season, and to director when Walken left in 2008. She also continued to rack up associate credits on Jaffe's film projects, including "Secretariat" and "Rambo."After Entourage wrapped it's final season, she stayed with Jaffe to cast "40," an HBO pilot project from "Entourage" writer/executive producer Doug Ellin.Hempe was a longtime associate in the office of Margery Simkin. Most recently, she worked with Simkin on Warner Bros.' sci-fi epic "Pacific Rim," which is currently in-production. In recent years she's also worked on bird-watching comedy "The Big Year,...
- 2/10/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Pete Keeley)
- backstage.com
The following is a list of the top 25 Power Casting Directors in film and television (including Casting Director of the Year, Debra Zane; see page 9). We began with more than 100 candidates. In some cases, collaborations were so closely tied that we considered multiple people as one entity. Several drafts later, all 25 spots were cast.Notably omitted from the list are in-house casting executives at studios and networks, the inclusion of whom would have ballooned our list to 50 or more. But read about them online at www.backstage.com/spotlight. Focusing on independent casting directors leveled the playing field and highlighted people whose puissance is not affected by one scale-tipping affiliation. Now, on to the top 25!Kerry BardenCan you imagine Monster's Ball starring Erykah Badu, or American Psycho starring Leonardo DiCaprio? Kerry Barden can, because he saw them read the parts. "There are so many great actors that sometimes it's a...
- 4/2/2009
- backstage.com
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