| Ellen
Novack spent most of her career as a casting director, most recently casting Redemption, for CBS, The Response, a short film currently on the festival circuit, the feature The Northern Kingdom (Best Acting Ensemble at the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival), and her own short film, The Getaway. She cast independent films, Broadway, off-Broadway, regional theatre, TV pilots, NBC’s Another World and ABC’s One Life to Live, for which she won two Artios Awards for Best Soap Casting. Early in her casting career, she worked for Joseph Papp at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, casting over 25 major productions, including the Broadway premieres of David Hare's Plenty and The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes. She has cast for most of the major regional theatres in the country, including ACT in San Francisco, ART in Boston, The Goodman Theater, The Guthrie Theatre, Hartford Stage Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Rep and many more. Early in their careers, she cast David Strathairn, Anne Heche, Nathan Lane, Nathan Fillion, Ryan Phillippe (when he was 14) and Hayden Panettiere (when she was 4!). |
Ellen shares what she knows about successful auditioning by teaching film acting/auditioning at The Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, American Conservatory Theatre, The New School and privately. |
