Nominees for 2008 Artios Awards Announced

The nominees of the 2008 Casting Society of America Artios Awards have been announced. The awards will be presented nationwide on November 11th, 2008. The New York area awards will take place at Caroline's on Broadway.

Nominees are as follows:

Broadway Theater Casting - Drama
Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Jim Carnahan
Mauritius, David Caparelliotis
The Country Girl, Tara Rubin/Laura Schutzel, Eric Woodall/Merri Sugarman
The Homecoming, Bernard Telsey
Top Girls, Nancy Piccione

Broadway Theater Casting - Comedy
Boeing-Boeing, Jim Carnahan
Is He Dead? , Jay Binder/Jack Bowdan
November, Bernard Telsey/William Cantler
Pygmalion, Jim Carnahan
The 39 Steps, Jay Binder/Jack Bowdan

Broadway Theater Casting -Musical
A Catered Affair, Bernard Telsey/Bethany Knox
Gypsy, Jay Binder
In The Heights, Bernard Telsey/Bethany Knox
Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein, Tara Rubin/Eric Woodall, Merri Sugarman/Laura Schutzel
South Pacific, Bernard Telsey
Xanadu, Cindy Tolan

Off-Broadway Casting -Comedy/Drama/Musical
Crimes of the Heart, Tara Rubin/Laura Schutzel, Eric Woodall/Merri Sugarman
Dead Man's Cell Phone, Alain Alldaffer
From Up Here, David Caparelliotis
The Seagull, James Calleri
Things We Want, Judy Henderson

Regional Theater Casting (L.O.R.T.)
33 Variations, Will Cantler/Bernard Telsey
An American in Paris, Jay Binder
Dancing in the Dark aka Bandwagon, Jay Binder
Happy Days, A New Musical, Jay Binder
Streamers, Mele Nagler
The Glass Menagerie, Samantha Barrie

Los Angeles Theater
Damn Yankees, Michael Donovan
Hedda Gabler, Scott David
It's Just Sex, Patrick Baca
L'il Abner, Bruce H. Newberg
Secrets of the Trade, Jeff Greenberg
The History Boys, Erika Sellin

Special Honorees
Career Achievement Award
Craig Zadan & Neil Meron

Hoyt Boyers Award
Mali Finn

The New York Apple Award
Thomas Schumacher

The Casting Society of America is the premier organization of theatrical Casting Directors in film, television, and theatre. Although it is not a union, its members are a united professional society that consistently set the level of professionalism in casting on which the entertainment industry has come to rely. It's more than 350 members are represented not only in the United States, but also in Canada, England, Australia and Italy. For more information please visit www.castingsociety.com