BY BELINDA BREMNER
It's a short month and that's a good thing. There will, wee promise, be more to come. But right now Chicago is more in audition mode than actual casting, scouting and signed deals.
Therefore the column is short and semi-sweet. So you can get back to the gym to offload the damage done by those Valentine’s soft centers before they are double whammied by the Guinness' of St. Patrick’s Day.
Claire Simon Casting booked Andrew Navarro for the Indiana Rep production of As You Like It, and Mikkieli Demone as Mario in The Game of Love and Chance at Madison Rep. They also booked Mary Beth Fisher as Flora in the Missouri Rep production of Indian Ink. Commercial bookings include Weston Pew, Jim Goss, Jaymes Ballard, John Sanders and Michelle Ann Mueller for McDonalds, and Jennifer Joan Taylor for Swifter. They booked Linda Kollmeyer in a half-hour infomercial for Stihl TV. They are doing a search for the new Disney film, Ladder 49, and casting a spot for Dreyer Medical Clinic.
And there are busy days too at Tenner Paskal Rudnicke. They are casting for the following pilots: "Miss Match," "Spellbound," "Hub," "Untitled Vegas Project," "Howie Mandel Project," "Homeland Security," "EDNY," "The Lyon’s Den," "Future Tense," and "Come to Papa." Commercial projects include spots for Centennial Wireless, McDonalds, Simplicity Lawnmower, Petsmart, and Meijers.
Lily’s checks in with word that there were commercial bookings in the last month for: Jean Paul Coffey, Jenna Ford Jackson, Tyree Mitchell, Claudia Anderson, Jeff Evans, Marri Gragnani, Babara Sultan, Lee Fuller, Greg Lacey, Roger Anderson, Darryl Moffet, Brooke Bulatek, Jim Goss, Carlos Bendfeldt, Jason Keenan, Josh Ryder and Shana Petrone. Voice-overs were booked by Babara Sultan, Loree Vick, Jay Disney, Claudia Anderson, Erika Winters, Barbara Williams, Lee Fuller, Joe Savino, Mark Forrest, Dona Williams, Jim Staples, Kirstyn Urban, Marty Peterson, Vince Civito, Kira Durbin, Lee Fuller, Christine Huddle, Juan Murillo, Dwight Sora and Valerie Glowinski. And Bob Guy, Andrew Hibbard, Mack Fox, Michael Bibbs, Bill Belongia, John Zinn, Dustin Hamilton, PJ Alvarez, Mike Kinnay, Tony Brown, Wesley Chu, Brandelyn Nelson, Maren Lindow, Laura Coleman, Peter Nicholas and Jack Rucker were all booked for independent films.
More to come soon. Peace.