Registration is now open
for the
Digital Actor Showcase
See Details Below
The showcase will open March 1st and will end at midnight on March 31st or when 250 submissions have been reached (whichever comes first). All actors will receive a minimum of 2 reviews from members of the panel (3 if they get into the top 50). All feedback will be given to all the actors, and the results will be delivered a maximum of 3 weeks after the close of the showcase. Go to the “Getting Started” page to learn more.
– Each casting director will be sent ALL the top 20 submissions.
– If you make it into the top 10, you will choose which casting director you want to
meet with individually.
– The top 20 actors looking for agents will have their submission sent to every agent in the city
in which you live.
– NEW: Those who place between 11th and 20th will receive a complimentary 30min
industry consult from Jessica Clement at Hamont Acting Studio. To learn about Jessica, click here.
Submission Guidelines:
– Pick one scene that tells a good story with an arc for your character showing your range. (no monologues please)
– Scenes should be between 2-3 mins in length, max.
– Scenes should be framed as a medium to medium close up (head and mid chest). Please do not leave too much head room (the space between the top of your head and the top of frame should be minimal). Eye-lines should be slightly off camera, to your reader. Have your reader positioned off camera just to the left or right of the lens.
– No cuts except for the slate at the end. Slate just your name and city you work out of.
Check out previous top 10 submissions for some ideas here.
To purchase a credit for this showcase, you first need to create a profile. You can then purchase a credit from your profile page, or if you are already signed in, you can purchase a credit by clicking here.
Optional Coaching from the Panel:
When you submit your scene you will be asked if you would like to have a one-on-one zoom coaching session with a panel member of your choice.
You will be able to choose between a 30min coaching session for $40, or a full hour session for $75.
How you choose to use this coaching is completely up to you.
– Choose to ask questions about the feedback you got in the showcase.
– Record a new version of the submission scene and find out how you integrated the notes you got from the panel into your performance.
– Use the time to shoot another scene or audition with the coach.
It is really up to you.
Casting Director Information:
We are really excited to have such a great line-up of casting directors taking part! Each of them comes to the table with a diverse set of projects and backgrounds but all of them agree that fostering emerging talent is crucial to the life of our industry!
Vancouver:
Errin Lally and Annalese Tilling:
Errin Lally : Imdb
Annalese Tilling : Imdb
Errin Lally and Annalese Tilling are Vancouver-based Casting Directors. Their recent credits include Sullivans Crossing, Longlegs and Holidazed. Past credits such as Jordan Peels’ reboot of The Twilight Zone, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Nancy Drew, and iZombie.
Both, Annalese and Errin, are passionate about film & television and thrive at the challenge of finding just the right performer to bring a character off the page and into life. As avid viewers of a wide range of genres, we do, of course, have our favorites. Errin particularly enjoys a good British cop drama with a little dry wit and Annalese likes to be fully immersed in worlds unlike our own, from period dramas to sci-fi and everything in between.
Toronto:
Lisa Parasyn
Jason Knight : Imdb
Lisa Parasyn is an Emmy-Award winning Casting Director who is best known for her work on Schitt’s Creek, Star Trek, Discovery, Outlander, Workin’ Moms, The Coroner, and Degrassi – the Reboot. With critical acclaim in both the US and Canada, she is no stranger to industry nominations and awards across her more than 200 professional credits to-date. A noted four-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Casting, Lisa won her first in 2014 for Bomb Girls, her second in 2018 for Cardinal, and two Canadian Screen Awards for Schitt’s Creek in 2020 and 2021. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded Lisa her first Emmy for Outstanding Casting in a Comedy Series for her work on Schitt’s Creek in 2020. With a career spanning 2 decades, Lisa remains one of the industry’s most in-demand Casting Directors and passionate producers. She demands a commitment to excellence with every project she takes on.
The Panel
Artist2Artist is thrilled to have assembled such a talented and generous group of industry professionals to give feedback to all the participants and to help determine the top 10 actors being sent to the casting Directors.
Montreal born Actor, Dean has been honing his craft for over 30 years in every medium this industry would let him. Best known for his recurring roles in Davinci’s Inquest and Stargate Atlantis, he has also had the privilege of recurring on Davinci’s City Hall, Intelligence, The 100, The Magicians and Superman and Lois playing the newly minted editor of the Daily Planet, Sam Foswell. Look for Dean in the upcoming Netflix series Sex/Life reccurring as Professor Sumner. Dean is a proud father of two rambunctious boys and is a laser eyed, diamond handed Hodler of Bitcoin. He encourages all to get on the lifeboat!
Melanie Nicholls-King is a Canadian/American actress with Trini roots, best known for playing Cheryl in the HBO series, The Wire; Officer Noelle Williams in the ABC series, Rookie Blue and recently, Hazel LaCroix, in the beloved Netflix series, Anne with an E. She can also be seen in three of the series in the Law & Order franchise, Orphan Black, The Week Of with Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, Star Trek: Discovery and Little Fires Everywhere to name a few. Upcoming, she can be seen in Showtime’s Your Honor with Bryan Cranston.
Amos Crawley Amos Crawley has been a professional actor since he was 4 years old. He has dozens of film, television and VO credits and has performed on stages across Canada as well as in New York and London. He has been an instructor and audition coach since 2010, teaching several age groups and levels.
Brittany Willacy is an actor, musician, photographer and audition coach originally from friendly Winnipeg! Currently moonlighting in the country band “Chase Coulee,” Brittany also actively auditions and runs Greens Department Studio in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver. Some life highlights include working as a reader and camera operator for Vancouver casting directors Sean Cossey and JJ Ogilvy, touring coast to coast in the rock band Head of the Herd, and landing a recurring guest star for 3 seasons of Hallmark’s “Chesapeake Shores.”
Based in Vancouver, Geoff Gustafson has been featured in numerous commercial campaigns including Busch Beer, BMO, Volkswagen, Weisers and Visa. Geoff has played Norman Dorman on Hallmark’s Signed Sealed Delivered for the past 8 years. His work has garnered him three Leo nominations. He most recently appeared in “The 27 Hour Day” along side Autumn Reeser and Andrew Walker for Hallmark. Gustafson had a recurring arc on “Rogue” as well as “Once Upon a Time” and has guest starred on episodes of “Emily Owens M.D.,” “Psych,” “Package Deal” and “Bates Motel.” In addition, Gustafson worked as a series regular on “Primeval: New World” for SyFy. When not onset Geoff is an acting instructor and is responsible for developing curriculum and managing the full time acting programs at Vancouver Acting School as the Director of Performing Arts.
Anna Jane (AJ) Edmonds is producer, director, actor and creator working in Toronto and Los Angeles. With a focus on stories with an edge, she is developing a keen interest and insight into lives lived and is always looking to find ways to communicate these experiences with her own touch and finesse.
With over 15 years of experience in the entertainment and film industry AJ is credited as a Producer and Associate Producer on features such as THE DROWNSMAN, THE HERETICS, SCARECROWS and the Best Canadian Feature award winning film POOR AGNES. She has produced 70+ commercials and short films and appeared in a handful as well.
AJ is also the co-founder of Pocket Film School, an online film school that breaks down all the major elements of producing a film and makes it, well, pocket sized! She thrives off passing knowledge onto others and is a keen supporter of anyone who seeks to leave a positive impact on the world!
Link to her produced material: https://vimeo.com/user56493224
Hiro Kanagawa is a Vancouver-based actor and writer. His most recent play Indian Arm received the 2017 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Drama. Other distinctions include Jessie Richardson Awards for both acting and playwriting, an Asians on Film Award, and an MFA from Simon Fraser University. He is perhaps best known for his recurring roles and guest appearances on popular American television series such as Altered Carbon, The X-Files, iZombie and Smallville and comedic turns in Best in Show and the legendary Supernatural episode Changing Channels. A sought-after script doctor and consultant, he was story editor on the critically-acclaimed Canadian series Da Vinci’s Inquest, Da Vinci’s City Hall, Intelligence, and Blackstone.
Hailing from Timmins, Ontario, Natalie Brown is a Canadian actress best known for her Gemini-nominated starring role in CBC/ABC Family’s “Sophie” as well as her work in Guillermo Del Toro’s “The Strain” on FX Networks for which she won a “Golden Maple Award” for Best Performance in a Series Broadcast in the US.
Her film credits range from her first feature “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days” to “XX”- the first all-female horror anthology which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival- to her double bill at the 2019 Whistler Film Festival where she costarred in the new cult hit “Canadian Strain” and starred in Nicolas Treeshin’s Best Debut Feature-Nominated supernatural thriller, “Thunderbird.”
Natalie has been featured in a myriad of SYFY series such as “Being Human”, “Bitten”, “Dark Matter”, and “Channel Zero: Candle Cove”. She has also appeared in the streaming hits “The Expanse” and “Jack Ryan” on Amazon Prime and CBC/Netflix’s hit comedy “Schitt’s Creek”. In addition, she has guest starring arcs on ABC’s “The Crossing”, CBS’s “Ransom”, and one of her darkest turns yet in the chilling “Silence of the Lamb’s” spinoff, “Clarice.”
Kimberly Huie an is an award winning actor, writer and producer. Recent and memorable screen credits include SELF MADE for Netflix with Octavia Spencer and PRIVATE EYES (Ion/GlobalTV) with Jason Priestly. Kimberly’s career has spanned across Canada and the US with an extensive list of television credits. Highlights include Grey’s Anatomy, The Blacklist, Rookie Blue, CSI Miami and Andromeda. Kimberly is a graduate of the Second City Toronto Improvisation program and trained at Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC. A love of language and laughter inspired her short film, the intervention. It has shown in Film Festivals across North America and the Caribbean and won multiple awards. Born in Jamaica, raised in Canada, Kimberly Huie came of age in France. She speaks both French and English fluently and divides her time between Toronto and New York.
Kurt has appeared in over 100 film and television roles over the years including reoccurring roles in iZOMBIE, SUPERNATURAL, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, ROGUE, LEVEL UP, SANCTUARY and EXE’S and OH’s and has been nominated for a LEO for Best Male Guest star twice for his work in MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE and TIES THAT BIND. Kurt has also appeared on stage across western Canada and is a voice actor, writer, director and teacher. It is a highlight of his career to bring Artist2Artist to life!