What's My Frame

Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by award-winning composer and sound designer Lindsay Jones. Lindsay's resume is extensive spanning mediums, genres and decades. He not only is a Tony nominee, a respected professor but an extremely passionate advocate for the arts and safe working conditions.  Lindsay's Broadway credits include Slave Play, The Nap, Bronx Bombers and A Time To Kil...

Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by NY casting director Laura Schutzel. In Laura's nearly 20 years at Tara Rubin Casting she's worked alongside the theatre-makers whose names are atop the marquees that matter. She's participated in thousands of auditions and knows what makes an audition great and what makes an actor memorable. With an evident and deep love for the arts &...

Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by casting director Byron Beane. Byron's career in the arts has given him a very unique point of view;  his resume includes talent management, producing and casting so in fact he's seen behind the curtain in all directions.  He began his career in entertainment studying as an actor in New York City. Byron shares a very relatable story from his fi...

Today on What's My Frame's 100th ep!! I'm joined by NY casting director Rikki Gimelstob! I put a lot of thought into what conversation should help us celebrate this milestone and y'all are in for a treat with this ep. Rikki is extremely generous with her insight, experiences and evident love for her work; I'm so proud of how the conversion turned out. Thank you to each and ever...

Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by Meg Swertlow. Meg a Los Angeles-born and raised screenwriter/director; today she shares her passion for creating female-driven stories. In the past three years, Meg has directed eight short films, seven of which she wrote. Her horror short, The Voiceless , is part of the feature-length anthology, Give Me an A , a response to the overturning of Roe v....

Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by UK Casting Director Shakyra Dowling. Shakyra knows the film and television industry inside out. Having trained and worked as an actor, she spent several years in production before establishing herself as a casting director. A fierce champion of new and emerging talent, Shakyra's office Shakyra Dowling Casting has carved out a niche specializing in...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by award winning filmmaker, West Eldredge. West shares his journey from LA to DC; the lessons he learned working in unscripted and the many other hats that have made him the versatile filmmaker he is today. West shares some enlightening and very encouraging insight into the indie casting process from the director's perspective. He walks us through s...

Today on What's My Frame I'm joined by Emmy & Artios nominated, NY-based casting director Sabrina Hyman. Sabrina's credits include the HBO limited series  The Night Of ,  Mrs. Fletcher ;  the Apple TV +  series  Invasion;  and the independent features  Blumenthal and The Illegal.    In addition to film and television casting, Sabrina has cast VR shorts ( Lincoln in the Bardo ), imm...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by lifestyle photographer and director Jeff Vallee. I'm so excited to have Jeff join me for our first photography focused conversation! I discovered Jeff's body of work via Cast Partners, went on my usual rabbit hole adventure of researching his work, creative process and luckily Jeff agreed to join me today to share some incredible stories and...

Welcome to Season 4 of What's My Frame!! We have an extra special conversation to kick off the season; today I'm joined by New York Casting Director, Maribeth Fox.  Maribeth has been a part of the Laura Rosenthal Casting office for over fifteen years; working alongside major talents like Todd Haynes, Paolo Sorrentino, Oren Moverman, Joachim Trier, Ed Burns, Mindy Kaling, Anton Corbijn, and...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting legend, John Frank Levey. John is a four-time Emmy Award-winning casting director. He's cast iconic shows like ER, The West Wing, Shameless, as well as countless other tv series, miniseries, TV movies, video games and features. John is also a five-time winner of the Casting Society of America's Artios Award and the recipient of its pr...

On this episode of What's My Frame? I'm joined by director & executive producer Mike Caron. Mike is one of the busiest and most innovative multicam Directors intown. He's truly become the multicam expert; with over 450 episodes of television on his resume. Mike recently Executive Produced and Directed the pilot of THE FAIRLY ODD PARENTS with Paramount +. Mike is also currently the...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting director, Angela Boehm. Angela has been working in theater and film for over 25 years. Starting as an assistant, and using each experience to hone her craft and grow in her field, she successfully built her resume and career into one of the most sought after casting directors in Ohio. Angela has worked on feature films such as White Noise, Ju...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting associate, Missy Finnell of Donna Belajac Casting. Missy is truly a delight with an unmatched heart for actors; this episode could have easily turned into two or three parts! I've auditioned for Missy & Donna a number of times and always felt so empowered and also connected to the office in the virtual audition world because of the la...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting director Christy Dooley. I'm thrilled to have Christy join me for our first look behind the scenes of daytime. Christy shares her journey from graduation to Northern, CA theatre that ultimately led her to LA, where in '87 she started work on a brand new show, The Bold and The Beautiful.  To date Christy has cast over eight thousand ep...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting director Rachel Reiss from Liz Lewis Casting. Rachel works in the world of Film, TV, Commercials, Animation and VO. Rachel’s career started primarily in TV where she cast shows for numerous networks including the Food Network, Bravo, Oxygen, HGTV, and Discovery.  At Liz Lewis Casting, she's focused more on scripted projects. Her recent cr...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by composer Matt Bowen. Matt is an ASCAP award-winning composer based in Los Angeles. A classically trained violinist from the age of three, we have a good laugh about suzuki lessons. He went on to play various instruments in poorly-named rock bands; his sense of  humor made this such a fun episode. Matt ultimately shifted to working behind-the-scenes...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by Madeline Di Nonno, president & CEO of the Genna Davis Institute on Gender in Media. The Geena Davis Institute is the leading research based non-profit working within the entertainment and media industry to achieve gender equity in family media and entertainment. Madeline leads the Institute's strategic direction, advocacy, programs and research. I'm so t...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting director Hunter McHugh of On The Hunt Casting. Hunter is based out of beautiful New Orleans, Louisiana. Today he shares his road to casting and how his background as an actor including his time with the Moscow Art Theater shaped and educated him to become the casting director he is today. I've had the joy of auditing for Hunter and his office a numbe...

Today on What's My Frame? back by popular demand I'm joined by casting director and coach Jeremy Gordon. Since Jeremy's last conversation ( ep.42 ) with us he's become quite the social media personality helping actors daily through his humorous and helpful posts! Jeremy also expanded his business with Jeremy Gordon Coaching; today we get a behind the scenes of what working with Jer...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by Poker Face hair department head, Marcel Dagenais. I had the absolute joy of meeting Marcel last year on the set of Rain Johnson's new series Poker Face. In the week leading up to joining the show I was blown away by Marcel and his team's attention to detail and pre planing. It dawned on me so many actors don't know what to expect after the offer email. We sp...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by Weeble Mountain founder and head casting director Rachel Mossey. I'm constantly working to connect with creatives actively working to move the needle in our industry along with illuminating their work. As soon as I found Weeble Mountains' site and began to read their mission statement and how representation matters to them, I knew Rachel's voice was one I wa...

To kick off Season 3 we're flipping the mic! Today host and What's My Frame? founder Laura Linda Bradley is in the guest seat. Laura shares her journey into the arts and why building an inclusive and accessible creative community was so important to her. Laura also opens up and shares some painful lessons from her career, how closed doors can be a blessing you can't see at the time and how learnin...

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting director Lisa Ystrom. You've likely heard the phrase "comedy is a serious business", today Lisa breaks down some of our biggest questions surrounding not only comedy auditions but virtual auditions in general. Lisa has worked on some of our most beloved comedies like Suburgatory, Young & Hungry, A to Z and My Big Fat Greek Wedding....

Today on What's My Frame? I'm joined by casting director, coach and social media maven Brette Goldstein. Brette's resume includes TV, more than 50 independent films, 200+ commercials and theatre from her ten seasons as the resident casting director at Washington, DC’s Folger Elizabethan Theatre. Films Brette has cast have won awards and been official selections at most of the major film festivals,...