Chuck and Stacey bring you the respected Casting Director of animation,

video games, film and television, Ivy Isenberg of Ivy Isenberg Casting.

She is a USC Film School graduate who went on to work at MGM Studios on

Stargate and Stargate Atlantis, the Species movies with Natasha

Henstridge and now on projects like Comedy Central’s Jeff and Some

Aliens, Trip Tank, Robot Chicken and Call of Duty.

Ivy discusses

her process for casting Performance Capture for video games and

animation and why she goes overboard with submissions to make sure there

are plenty of choices which includes giving deserving new talent an

opportunity. She answers what she needs to hear in voiceover auditions

to garner a callback and why she saves every audition for future

consideration. Ivy mentions the kinds of actors she won’t hire and

challenges actors to train and educate themselves, be dedicated and

proactive with their careers.

Striving to be the best at

everything she does, Ivy discusses the importance of why talent needs to

balance both art and commerce to be successful and that finding

talented actors who are reliable and deserving are actually in the

minority. She explains that she casts through agents and managers and

will consider people outside Los Angeles for projects if they are

actively working. While talent can’t do much to get on her bad side, she

has zero tolerance for actors who do boring auditions, have a bad work

ethic, lack commitment and are unprepared.

She attends

showcases and monologue festivals to scout new talent and listens to

demos when casting to find a person’s range, accents, tone, comedic

timing and cadence. Ivy offers insights on what “natural, not cartoony”

means in audition specs from interpreting it with engaging, emotional

connection based on what it’s for, the platform, network and time slot.

Follow on Twitter @IvyIsenberg

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