| What You Don't Know About Casting (But Need To) with Casting Director Shay Bentley-Griffin |
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What You Don't Know About Casting (But Need To) Insider Tips from Casting Director Shay Bentley-Griffin 1 Session Price: Thru December 31: $99 General, $79 ATL365 Members (Member Number Required) SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED Meet, Shay Bentley-Griffin, Atlanta’s premier casting director in a no-holds-barred forum about casting and how you can crack into the industry. This is your chance to ask questions and get straight answers in an informal, candid, environment. Shay will share stories and anecdotes about working with legends like Clint Eastwood, Robert Altman and Sam Raimi, while offering invaluable tips, “do’s and don’ts” and cautionary tales from her vast experience in the industry. As an actor, you will never have a better opportunity to get YOUR questions answered and learn what it takes to make it as a professional actor in this resurgent market. Location: TBA Registration Links: ATL365 Member Registration - $119 In her distinguished career, Bentley-Griffin has cast over 225 television and feature film projects, including eight seasons of In the Heat of the Night and the Peabody Award-winning I'll Fly Away. She has worked with Robert Altman (The Gingerbread Man), Clint Eastwood (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil), Christopher Reeve (Brooke Ellison Story) Sam Raimi (The Gift), Wes Craven (Scream 2), Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) and Edward Zwick (Glory). Bentley-Griffin also cast the feature films Remember the Titans (Bruckheimer Films/ Disney) Road Trip (Dreamworks SKG), Sweet Home Alabama (Disney), Drum Line (20th Century Fox), and The Fighting Temptations (Paramount). Additional credits include Tyler Perry’s The Diary of a Mad Black Woman, its sequel Madea’s Family Reunion, and HBO’s Warm Springs, and the CBS mini-series Elvis as well as Warner Brothers’ We Are Marshall and the Sony features Stomp the Yard. She went on to cast Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls and his sitcom Meet the Browns. Recently Bentley-Griffin cast the upcoming series Past Life, as well as upcoming features Life as we Know It, The Killers, as well as the pilot for Delta Blues. 
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