| Ellen
Novack spent most of her career as a casting director, most recently casting Redemption, a future CBS night time series. 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 more. |
She shares what she knows about successful auditioning by teaching acting/auditioning at The Yale School of Drama, The Juilliard School, American Conservatory Theatre, The New School and privately. |
