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TVI in Australia with "24"Casting Director

October 22, 2009admin

One hundred plus actors and Queensland talent agents and casting directors converged at Bond University in Robina, Australia tonight to meet and hear two time Emmy Award winning casting Director Debi Manwiller speak about casting the Hit TV series “24” and about the casting process in Los Aneles.

Special guests that showed up included Lee Donehue from the popular industry newsletter “Quiet on Set“, former American Casting director Tom McSweeney who has been casting the past 12 years in Australia and John Stewart from TAFTA in the Gold Coast,TVI’s Alan S Nusbaum moderated the event this evening.

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TVI in Australia with "24" Casting Director

October 22, 2009admin

One hundred plus actor sand Queensland talent agents and casting directors converged at Bond University in Robina, Australia tonight to meet and hear two time Emmy Award winning casting Director Debi Manwiller speak about casting the Hit TV series “24” and about the casting process in Los Aneles.

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Acting School welcomes new Instructors

November 14, 2008East Coast editor

Last night TVI launched a new 4 week acting class series. Lead by instructors Russell Boast and Debi Manwiller, winner of 2 Primetime Emmys and another 16 nominations.

Both Debi and Russell work in partnership with Rick Pagano, in he firm Pagano / Manwiller.

In addition to casting the TV series “24″ Debi Manwiller has a magnificent amount of prominent film and TV credits. Russell Boast, besides casting features and TV, is a well recognized theatre director in Los Angleles, and has worked with actors such as Laurence Fishburne in “Tortured”, Angelina Jolie in Beyond Borders, and Dennis Farina in “Bottle Shock”

Their class is at TVI Actors Studio Los Angeles branch on Thursday evenings.

[pictured from L to R: Debi Manwiller, Russell Boast and Alan Nusbaum]