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Cindi has her own office, Cindi Rush Casting in New York. Broadway credits include Urinetown, Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Say Goodnight Gracie – Other New York Credits include Home Street Home, Disenchated, Jacques Brel, Friends, Shame of Thrones, Ruthless among many others. Regionally, Cindi frequently casts for Triad Stage, 5th Avenue, Hudson Stage, Penguin Rep, Pittsburg Public Theater, Charleston Stage Company, Virginia Stage Company, Cape Fear, and The Actors Theater of Louisville Humanafest. Apart from theatre, Cindi has also cast numerous well-known films including: Offspring, Made For Each Other, Home Movie, Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door, Funny Valentine, Master Class and Headspace. Cindi is a consultant for the National Alliance for Musical Theatre or NAMT as well as for the NYU Graduate Program for Musical Theatre Writing.

Geoff Josselson is a Casting Director and Partner at JZ Casting in New York City. In his 15 years as a casting director, his work includes a wide variety of plays and musicals, ranging from Broadway, off-Broadway and major New York and Regional Theatre companies. He is responsible for casting the Broadway production of The Velocity of Autumn starring Estelle Parsons (2014 Tony Nominee) and many other acclaimed New York productions, including Southern Comfort (Public Theatre), Yank! (York Theatre), Pretty Filthy (The Civilians), John and Jen (Keen Company), Enter Laughing (York Theatre), Himself and Nora (Minetta Lane), Altar Boyz (off-Broadway and tour), The Originalist (59E59) and National Tours for Disney, Nickelodeon and Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He regularly works with many award-winning companies including Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bucks County Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, City Springs Theatre Company, The Civilians, Cleveland Play House, Denver Center, Marriott Theatre, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh CLO, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Round House Theatre, San Francisco Symphony, and the York Theatre Company, among others. He is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and member of the Casting Society of America. For more information, please follow @jz.casting and visit: www.jz-casting.com.

Michael Rader is the Producing Artistic Director of The Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts. His diverse career in the arts has afforded him positions such as Artistic Director for Cirque du Soleil, a Broadway Liaison and Arts Education Consultant to the New York City Department of Education and Director of Entertainment of the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. Rader’s select highlights as a director, associate or resident director include: A Christmas Story (National Tour), Stalking The Bogeyman (NYTimes Critics Pick, Outer Critics Circle Nomination), Varekai (Cirque Du Soleil), The Testament of Mary, Scrooge: The Musical (National Tour), Mandela! with Norm Lewis, You are Not Alone with Betty Buckley and Lea DeLaria, and productions with Sacramento Music Circus, ACT, The ZACH Theatre, The York Theatre Company, The Actors Studio Repertory Theatre, The Human Race Theatre, The Dramatist Guild, The Huron Playhouse, The Forestburgh Playhouse, Joe’s Pub and the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway benefit production of William Finn’s Elegies: A Song Cycle. MichaelRader.com & @MrMichaelRader

Lauren Port has spent the last 11 years casting in NYC, the last 10 years at Caparelliotis Casting where she worked on a number of Goodman productions over the years, including Father Comes Home From The Wars, Parts 1, 2 and 3, Uncle Vanya, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Disgraced, Sweet Bird of Youth and Soups, Stews, and Casseroles, 1976.  Also In that time, she worked on the casting of countless Broadway/Off Broadway and other regional theatre productions.  Some Broadway highlights include: Junk, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Front Page, It’s Only a Play, Disgraced, Fish in the Dark, Holler If Ya Hear Me, The Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Death of a Salesman, Seminar, Stick Fly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Lend Me a Tenor, and Fences.  Lauren is a proud member of the Casting Society of America. @strawbryportcake 

Benton Whitley is a Casting Director and Partner at Stewart/Whitley. He co-founded the award winning New York City based casting office of Stewart/Whitley in 2011 with Duncan Stewart. Since then, his team has been responsible for casting the Tony Award winning Broadway productions of CHICAGO THE MUSICAL, LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, PIPPIN, ON THE TOWN, THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, THE LIGHTNING THIEF and last season’s HADESTOWN. In addition to theatre, Whitley’s office has cast tv & film for Netflix, NBC, Lionsgate, and The Disney Channel. His office also works on Broadway national and international tours, regional theatres, and the Broadway-branded entertainment for Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines worldwide. Benton is a native of Goldsboro, North Carolina, and a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the University of Michigan Musical Theatre Program. @ben_ley @stewartwhitley & stewartwhitley.com