SPF and Mayor's Office Third Career Panel Set for Oct. 2

The Living Room for Artists Inc / Summer Play Festival (SPF) and The Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, and Broadcasting (MOFTB) will present its third panel in a series of four addressing careers in theatre management, theatrical production and support, and acting. This panel will examine how the casting process works, and what actors need to know about that process. The target audience is actors and aspiring actors. Panelists will include: Tara Rubin (Tara Rubin Casting), Kevin Kennison (Summer Play Festival) and Rebecca Atwood (Calleri Casting).

The panel will take place at the Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row, at 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues) on October 21 from 10:00am-11:30am. 

Guests should RSVP to message@film.nyc.gov by October 18.

The first two panels in the series examined "Careers in Theatre Management," and "Careers Backstage." Previous panelists included: David Auster (101 Productions), Steve Winton (Live Nation), Harold Wolpert, (Roundabout Theatre Company), Michael Hurst (The Public Theater), Amy Jacobs (Nina Lannan Associates), Gene O'Donovan, (Aurora Productions Inc.), and William Russo (Playwrights Horizons).  

"Under founder Arielle Tepper Madover (a producer of Broadway's Monty Python's Spamalot, The Pillowman, A Raisin in The Sun, and Freak), The non-profit organization The Living Room for Artists Inc./Summer Play Festival provides emerging writers, directors, designers and producers an opportunity to work on their material and their craft in a protected environment, guided by established professionals at no cost to them. The festival takes place throughout the month of July at Theatre Row on 42nd Street." Tickets to all SPF shows are $10 each.

For more information please visit SPF's website www.spfnyc.com or contact Michael Gravison at 212-279-4040 or Michael@spfnyc.com.