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Calleri Jensen Davis casting, formally Calleri casting until very recently, have a casting partnership that spans over twenty years. Television credits include Dickinson, The Path, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Hope and Faith, Ed, Monk, and numerous pilots for Netflix, Fox the CW NBC ABC among many others, Films they have cast have been screened at Sundance, The Cannes Film Festival, and have won dozens of awards.

Broadway credits include the upcoming productions of Thoughts of a Colored Man, For Colored Girls who have considered suiside when the rainbow is enough, and Blue all opening on Broadway this year. Past Broadway credits include Burn This, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Elephant Man, Of Mice and Men, Fool For Love, Venus In Fur, 33 Variations, Chicago, A Raisin in the Sun, Hughie, James Joyce’s The Dead, and the Bright Star National Tour

Additional New York and Regional credits include Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick, The Flea, Keen Company, Williamstown Theater Festival, The Long Warf, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Actors Theater of Louisville, Hartford Stage, The Alliance, Center Theater Group, Humana, The Old Globe, Syracuse Stage, OSF, Alley Theater, Berkley Rep, McCarter Theater and dozens more.

Michael is an actor and two-time Tony-nominated director for his Broadway revivals of Spring Awakening and Once On This Island. Additional directing credits include A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mayes at the Geffen, Maybe Happy Ending at The Alliance Theater, The Pride and Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Anenberg, Joseph at Lincoln Center, The Connors on ABC, the upcoming film, the book of Ruth, starring Ruth Wilson, among others. Michael is also company member of The Forest of Arden, an immersive theater company—  premiering a new work, Alien/ Nation at Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. 

As an actor, Michaels Broadway credits include Big River, The Times They Are A’Changin, and King Lear. Additional theater credits include Bare A pop Opera off Broadway, Swimming in the Shallows at Second Stage, The Hunchback of Notre Dam at the La Jolla Playhouse and Papermill Playhouse, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Aspects of Love at the MErnier Choclate Factory in London among others. TV credits include Numbers, Grey's Anatomy, Bones, The Closer, The Good Wife, Nurse Jackie, Unforgettable, GCB, Royal Pains, every episode of Anger Management among many others. Michael is on Variety’s “Broadway Impact List” and has been awarded NAACP, Ovation, NAD, Outer Critic Circle, and Tony Honor Awards. 

BRIAN HUTCHISON has appeared on Broadway in The Boys in the Band (Tony Award- Best Revival), Man and Boy (with Frank Langella and Adam Driver)), Looped (opposite Valerie Harper), Exit the King (with Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon), Proof, andThe Invention of Love. Off-Broadway credits include How To Transcend a Happy Marriage ( opposite Marisa Tomei-Lincoln Center) Smokefall (opposite Zachary Quinto) Pocatello (with TR Knight) Regrets, Spirit Control, From Up Here, and Go Back to Where You Are among others, at such theaters as Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, and Manhattan Class Company. In addition to performing major roles all over the country, Brian’s film and television credits include the upcoming Apple TV series from Stephen King, Lisey’s Story, The Boys in the Band, Blue Bloods, The Sinner, FBI- Most Wanted, Jessica Jones, Godfather of Harlem, Instinct, Madam Secretary, Elementary,Vinyl, Show Me a Hero, Killing Kennedy,Vino Veritas, Winter's Tale, Love and Other Drugs, Do No Harm, Person of Interest ( recurring as FBI agent Moss), The Good Wife, Law & Order: SVU, and Criminal Intent. Brian has recorded hundreds of audiobooks, and is producing, writing and recording an original serial podcast I Still Think About You, available in 2021. He holds a BA from Lafayette College, and an MFA in Dramatic Arts from the Old Globe Theater/University of San Diego.

ERICA A. HART, CSA (Casting Professional / Producer) graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied film and television. She has been casting for over 10 years on many high profile projects. She started off in network and studio casting moving her way up to Casting Coordinator in the New York Office of ABC Primetime Casting. In 2014, Erica appeared in The Hollywood Reporter as a featured rising artist. She has cast projects that have screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, Outfest, Cinequest, and the Cannes Film Festival and are streaming on Netflix and Amazon. THE SURROGATE (a film she cast as well as associate produced) was in INDIEWIRE's Best Movies Eligible for a 2021 Oscar and was a VARIETY CRITICS PICK. She has cast commercials for high-end brands such as Maybelline, Gillette, Hasbro, and Delta, to name a few. She has also collaborated with The National Black Theatre and has cast a handful of their productions. Erica has been the Casting Associate for shows like “Ray Donovan”, “The Bold Type”, “Defending Jacob", and “Godfather of Harlem” (Epix). She has recently cast the UNT. MICHAEL CHE SKETCH SHOW for HBO MAX, BLACK DON'T CRACK for ABC and currently co casting LOVE LIFE Season 2 for HBO MAX. Outside of casting, she has received grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation, New York Television Festival and The Digital Bolex, in addition to developing new serieses for BET and WeTV.

JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint Theater Company since 1995, where he has unearthed and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays, many of which he has also directed. As Variety put it in 2007, “Bank is one of the few artistic directors for whom taking an old, obscure book off the shelf is an enterprise exciting enough to be addictive.”

Under Bank’s leadership the Mint has earned an international reputation as the source for high-quality revivals of forgotten works and has become, in the words of The New York Times’ Jason Zinoman, “the leading New York entrepreneur” of the neglected play business. In his review of Mint’s 2018 production of Conflict by Miles Malleson, Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal described Jonathan Bank as “one of a handful of theater artists in America whose name is an absolute guarantee of quality.”  

Recently for the Mint, Bank directed The Suitcase Under the Bed, Katie Roche, Temporal Powers and Wife to James Whelan—three plays by the neglected Irish playwright, Teresa Deevy. Bank spearheaded Mint’s ambitious three-year, three-play Teresa Deevy Project, dedicated to reclaiming the lost voice of “one of the most undeservedly neglected and significant Irish playwrights of the 20th century” (The Irish Times). In a feature article about the project in America Magazine, Andrew Garavel writes, “Thanks are due to Jonathan Bank and the Mint Theater for bringing such a distinctive voice from the past so satisfyingly into the present.”

Also for the Mint, Bank directed Yours Unfaithfully by Miles Malleson, The New Morality by Harold Chapin, Mary Broome by Allan Monkhouse, and Maurine Dallas Watkins’ So Help Me God! starring Emmy Award-winner Kristen Johnston. The production received four Drama Desk nominations, including Outstanding Revival and Outstanding Director. Other productions at the Mint include Lennox Robinson’s Is Life Worth Living?, the American Professional Premiere of The Fifth Column by Ernest Hemingway, The Return of the Prodigal by St. John Hankin and Susan and God by Rachel Crothers. 

Jonathan both adapted and directed Arthur Schnitzler’s Far and Wide and The Lonely Way which he also co-translated (with Margaret Schaefer).  These two plays were published in a volume entitled Arthur Schnitzler Reclaimed which Bank edited.  He is also the editor of four additional volumes in the “Reclaimed” series (Teresa Deevy vols. 1 & 2, Harley Granville Barker, and St. John Hankin) as well as Worthy But Neglected: Plays of the Mint Theater Company which includes his adaptations of Thomas Wolfe's Welcome to Our City and Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, both of which he directed, along with five other Mint rediscoveries.  

Other directing credits include critically acclaimed productions of Ivanov and Othello for the National Asian American Theater Company, John Brown's Body, The Double Bass and Three Days of Rain for the Miniature Theater of Chester and The Heiress, Hobson’s Choice, Candida and Mr. Pim Passes By for the Peterborough Players. He earned his M.F.A. from Case Western Reserve University in his hometown of Cleveland, OH. 

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Erika Henningsen was most recently seen as Cady Heron in the original Broadway Cast of MEAN GIRLS, for which she was nominated for an Outer Critics' Circle Award. She made her Broadway debut as Fantine in the recent revival of LES MISERABLES and can be seen as Kim Ravenal in the PBS Special of SHOW BOAT: Live from Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. She is slated to appear in Peacock's upcoming series GIRLS5EVA and Amazon's original comedy HARLEM. Graduate of the University Of Michigan BFA Musical Theater Program, Broadway.com Star of the Year 2019, founder of the First Time Voters' Club and proud dog mom to Lennox. Erika will be reopening Green Room 42 with her solo show late April, check out greenfignyc.com for tickets!

Patrick Goodwin, CSA

Pat began his career in casting in 2006 after graduating from Drew University with a double major in Theatre Arts and Political Science. He has cast countless film, television and theatre projects over his nearly 15 years in the industry. Recent Broadway casting credits include Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Cher Show, Waitress, Kinky Boots, SpongeBob Squarepants, Finding Neverland, Chaplin and Annie. Film credits include The Greatest Showman and Sex and the City 1 & 2. He was recently nominated for an Emmy Award for Excellence in Casting for the NBC television production of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert and has won several Artios Awards for Excellence in Casting. Upcoming casting projects include The Wanderer, Fly, Row and the musical stage adaptation of The Notebook by Ingrid Michaelson and Bekah Brunstetter. Pat is a proud member of the Casting Society of America, The Television Academy, and Teamsters Local 817. 

Director Kevin Berlandi’s style as well as his contagious enthusiasm for film, were fostered by his childhood love of summer blockbusters. It’s only fitting that Kevin would grow up to AD on movie franchises like Transformers, Avengers and The Bourne Legacy. Before that, he earned a degree in Marketing Advertising with a concentration in Film Production from Emerson College. After graduating, he traveled the world while working on numerous credited features. Some of his most memorable sets, including Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise, Mike Nichols’ Charlie Wilson’s War, and a David Fincher television project. 

 His short film Hana Sasaki's Tail, adapted from the book Three Scenarios, premiered at the 2016 Festival de Cannes. Kevin has also participated in the Director's Guild of America's Director Development Initiative, Sony's Television Directing program (2016) and CBS's directing program (2017-2018). He has directed multiple episodes of Bull and an episode of Criminal Minds on CBS. Then went on to help create and shape the Guild's effort to increase diversity within the directing ranks of episodic televisions a former Co-Chair of the Asian American Committee at the Director's Guild of America. 

His career as a commercial director has flourished with Brands like Audi, Burger King, Nissan,Toyota, Kia, Buick, and GMC which lead him to more narrative and personal work.

In Kevin's free time he plays lacrosse on a nationally ranked men's lacrosse team and searches for sublime coffee experiences.

Karlee Fomalont, CSA, is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where her acting training made for a seamless transition into the world of casting. She began her career at CBS Primetime NY and ABC Primetime NY, where she cut her teeth working on numerous pilots. She then transitioned into independent casting, working on projects such as "The Get Down," Baz Luhrmann's ambitious Netflix series, and Steven Spielberg's acclaimed drama "The Post," for which her team was nominated for an Artios Award for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. In NY independent casting, she has worked with a number of top casting directors in the city, and is currently the Associate at Rori Bergman Casting where she has been for 6 years, working on major studio feature films, independent films, cable and multiple streaming TV shows. Karlee also casts short films and features independently, most recently including Amazon Studios' feature film "I'm Your Woman" starring Rachel Brosnahan, and partnered with Rori on "Yearly Departed," the Amazon end of year comedy special.

David Caparelliotis/Caparelliotis Casting - Current television: “New Amsterdam” (series casting, NBC). Recent and select Broadway: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Minutes, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Jitney, The Little Foxes, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Front Page, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Fish in the Dark, Disgraced, Fences. Other theatre: Manhattan Theatre Club, Signature Theatre NYC season casting, Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2 season casting, Old Globe season casting, Ars Nova, Goodman, Berkeley Rep, McCarter, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, among others. Additional film and television credits include "Boys in the Band" (Netflix,) “American Odyssey” (series casting, NBC), “How to Get Away with Murder” (pilot, ABC), “Ironside” (NBC), and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime). David is a proud member of the Casting Society of America, an active member of CSA's Diversity and Inclusion Committee and a recent recipient of the Media Access Award for his work on “New Amsterdam.”