Monday, February 27th & March 6th @ 5PM PT - 7:15PM PT (LA TIME)/ 8PM ET - 10:15PM ET (NY TIME)
Zoom (link shared upon registration)

As a Casting Director on projects spanning Film, Tv, Broadway, Off-Broadway, and London’s West End— I’ve been asking the question how Global Majority (BIPOC), and First-Generation, and Queer, and Trans Actors can best center who they are in their careers as they often build scaffolding to enter spaces where they may be the First the Second the Next “X” person to (insert credit here). This is a huge burden to lay at an Actor’s feet— to figure out how to build a career with tools that feel like they were not designed with them in mind— often with very little guidance of Industry Insiders who represent them at intersections of their identities.

While casting on a span of high level projects and teaching at NYU Tisch, I’ve developed a focus of best practices Actors can consider that can be unique to them. Here, I’ve focused my learnings into a 4.5 hour two-part-seminar where I will cover the following topics:

This 4.5 hour (2 hrs & 15 mins per day) seminar will cover the following topics:

• Engaging casting directors, with or without a representative;

• Designing & building your team;

• Maximizing your online presence so casting directors can find you with ease across multiple platforms;

• Positioning yourself to be cast outside the audition room, even without an audition;

• Streamlining your resume to tell your story;

• Stepping up your self-tape game for optimal success;

• Thriving in the audition room with tips and best practices;

• Analyzing field-wide data on diversity and institutional bias, and how it impacts you;

• Negotiating your value and maximizing your salary;

• Assessing where you want to work, how to get there, and what to do when you’re there;

• Navigating predominantly white spaces and best practices to keep you safe;

• Q&A session

Note: This casting seminar will cover casting for Tv, Film, and Theatre (Broadway, Off-Broadway).

Who and Why:

X Casting is invested in shifting systems of inequality in our field. To that end, this seminar is designed with people of the global majority in mind (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and aims to be a safe space for Queer and Trans actors. It is also open to allies who participate in upending systems of exclusion.

Pricing: 

For too long, casting workshops have been geared to the economically privileged, reinforcing systemic barriers to education and resource-sharing necessary for queer, trans, and artists of the global majority to thrive. In an effort to make this seminar inclusive, X Casting is reducing the cost of this seminar, which industry wide can range from $150-$800, to $65 total, this total price includes both sessions for a total of 4.5 hours of engagement. If you have further demonstrated need, please email Victor@xcastingnyc.com

ABOUT: VICTOR VAZQUEZ, CSA is the founder of X Casting. Upcoming Tv projects include: Associate Casting Director for ‘GENIUS: MLK/X’ a limited series by 20th Television, Nat Geo, Disney +, executive produced by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard for Imagine Television, Reggie Rock Bythewood (SWAGGER), Gina Prince-Bythewood (THE WOMAN KING) and Francie Calfo from Undisputed Cinema, with showrunners Raphael Jackson Jr. & Damione Macedon (POWER).

Film projects include: Casting Associate with Carla Hool on ‘LOS FRIKIS’ a forthcoming feature film produced by Lord Miller, Lucky Treehouse, and NewSlate Ventures directed by Tyler Nilson & Michael Shwartz (THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON).

Broadway projects include: Casting Director for ‘SLAVE PLAY’ (Broadway remount), written by Jeremy O. Harris, directed by Robert O’Hara; Casting Director for ‘SOUL TRAIN THE MUSICAL’ (forthcoming), written by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Kamilah Forbes, choreographed by Camille A. Brown, and produced by QuestLove; Casting Director for ‘REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES’ (forthcoming), directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, book by Lisa Loomer, music and lyrics by Joy Huerta and Ben Velez, produced by Barry & Fran Weissler and Jack Noseworthy.

New-play and new-musical projects include (Casting Director): The Royal Court Theatre in London’s West End, Center Theatre Group (CTG), Signature Theatre (NYC), Tectonic Theatre Project, Audible Theatre, The Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, A.R.T. Harvard, Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Dramatists Guild Foundation, WP Theatre, The Drama League, The Alliance Theater, The Play Company, and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Commercial video and photo campaigns include a collaboration with Timberland, Desus & Mero, and a video campaign narrated by Spike Lee.

Victor has served as an adjunct professor of acting for senior students in the Drama Department at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts within the New Studio on Broadway. He holds a master’s degree (with distinction) from the University of Oxford in the UK. He is the proud son of Mexican immigrants; Spanish is his first language. Victor is a member of the Casting Society of America, and a 2020 Theater Communications Group (TCG) Rising Leader of Color.

Instagram: @xcastingnyc

Per CSA guidelines: This workshop is a learning experience. It is not an audition or employment opportunity.