Casting Society of America to Investigate Pay-to-Play Workshops

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Casting Society of America has acknowledged the issue of potentially illegal workshops and will establish a committee to investigate this problem. In late March, The Hollywood Reporter launched an investigation into the problem of pay-to-play workshops, and the issue has since come into the public eye.

The new workshop committee includes President Richard Hicks, Amanda Lenker Doyle (Black-ish), and Marci Liroff (Mean Girls) and it will "seek to preserve and enhance the educational value of casting workshops."

Hicks provided the following statement:

"CSA Casting Directors and Associates are among the industry's foremost authorities on the alchemic aspects of casting and acting," he said. "It's an expertise which they generously share in various educational settings. This newly established Workshop Committee intends to ensure that all CSA members fully understand and abide by the Casting Workshop Guidelines [of the Krekorian Act] wherever they happen to teach. We have begun to explore the creation of new, officially-sanctioned CSA programs to broaden access to casting education, while upholding the highest standards of integrity and professionalism."

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