Castability: The Podcast

Cronin Cullen breaks down the 12 Jungian Archetypes, giving an overview of each archetype's characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses. He reveals why Castability breaks down scenes into archetypes, and how each character seen on TV and Film can fit into one of these 12 character types. Understanding which archetypes best showcase your acting skills helps you market yourself accurately to those around you, while being able to write for these archetypes allows writers to create well-developed characters and gives casting more specificity as they go into casting a role.

— What are Archetypes?

— Archetypes, Stereotypes, Stock Characters, and Typecasting

— The Lover (ex: Claire Danes as Juliet, "Romeo & Juliet")

— The Hero (ex: Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope")

— The Wizard (ex: Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix")

— The Rebel (ex: Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, "Scandal")

— The Explorer (ex: Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade")

— The Sage (ex: Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi, "Karate Kid")

— The Innocent (ex: Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump, "Forrest Gump")

— The Everyperson (ex: Quvenzhané Wallis as Annie, "Annie")

— The Caregiver (ex: Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark, "The Help")

— The Creator (ex: Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka, "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory")

— The Jester (ex: Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl")

— The Ruler (ex: Chadwick Boseman as T’Challa, "Black Panther")

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Lauren Neal is a working actor and director who has completed her Master's degree in Data Science in order to innovate ways to apply machine learning to filmmaking. Committed to using data to create actionable feedback for actors and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in casting, Lauren introduces the concept of Data Science in this episode. What is data science? What is big data? How is our data collected, and then used? Lauren answers all of this and more, and lets us all know what data we could be collecting today that could help us in our audition tomorrow.

— What is Data?

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You may remember Christina from her episode on Audrey Helps Actors, where she and Audrey explore Christina's journey from 18 months of consistent self-tape practice. After completing over a year of 16 self tapes a month, Christina has seen the positive effects from her longterm practice, setting intentions, and forming routines that help in the daily pursuit of this career. Sitting down with the Castability team, Christina takes us through her journey from deciding to pursue acting to booking a six episode series, getting a manager, and learning to let go of the pressure to the perfect and just show up.

— Self Tape May

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In this special 2 Part Episode, Amanda and Taylor sit down with Jessica Sherman, CSA, to talk all things acting. Jessica is an award-winning casting director, receiving the Casting Society of America's Artios Award as well as working on projects such as Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Trek Into Darkness, Super 8, CBS’ Person of Interest, A&E’s Bates Motel, FX’s The Strain, Tell Me Your Secrets, and Willow on Disney+. In Part 1, they discuss Jessica's reasons for starting A Cause For Entertainment, her career trajectory, and Castability's Cast Away Cancer Charity event. Later, in Part 2, Jessica returns to the podcast to discuss how this year's event went and her experience curating in our CAC Casting Panel.

— Jessica's Journey to Casting

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Joe Towne is a Los Angeles based performer, award-winning writer, director, and teacher. He is also the CEO of The Performer's Mindset and the creator/host of The Better Podcast. For 20 years, he's coached business professionals, athletes, and actors – some of whom are selling that product you just bought or starring in that movie you Netflixed last night. As an actor, Joe has worked with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Hillary Swank, Rebel Wilson, and he most recently starred as the lead in The Art of Christmas. Today, he joins the Castability Podcast to talk about how to understand your data, the ways we can avoid burnout, and how we can overcome perfectionism to allow ourselves to show up as the artists we are.

Email us for more information on coaching with Joe: [email protected]

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Castability Founder Jay Boyer opens up about the ways he hope to de-mystify and revolutionize the casting process by giving actors feedback based on objective data. We walk through what brought Taylor and Amanda onto the team, and what Jay's vision is for the future.

— Jay's Story and What Created Castability

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Welcome to Castability: The Podcast!

The Castability App is the first ever data app for actors, using data science to empower actors and demystify the casting process. Hosted by Amanda Lenker Doyle, CSA and the Castability staff (all actors ourselves), we discuss the ins and outs of the creative decision-making process. Join us as we host conversations on our industry and craft, and reveal all the data we uncover along the way!

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