Amanda Richards

Currently teaching a course in "The Fundamentals of Casting" to undergraduate students.

• Executive Casting Assistant to Dawn Steinberg (EVP of Talent and Casting) • Schedules for the entire department (including all studio and network tests and all studio and network casting calls) • Manages and runs the studio testing tape room (including scheduling all screen tests and maintaining equipment) • Runs every Sony studio test (including editing presentations using Final Cut Pro, IMovie, Cast It, & MPEG Stream Clip) • Leads associates through the studio casting process, coordinates communication with casting offices and Cast It • Tapes all live studio tests, coordinates travel for all testing actors, puts through paperwork for test deals and firm offers • Communicates with every department including development, current, BA, publicity, marketing, and the presidents’ office • Constantly communicates with casting directors, producers, production offices, and writers offices • Attends showcases, graduate school leagues, comedy shows, musicals, and theatre throughout Los Angeles • Teaches master classes, speaks on panels, teaches workshops • Maintains all databases/lists for the department (actors, casting directors, and students we have met) • Head of the internship program for the department, trains every intern, handles intern evaluations • Processes invoices, and maintains budget reporting. Responsible for accounts payable communications between vendor and finance. • Responsible for setting up new employees (interns and casting consultants) Supplies them with computers, log in, phones, supplies etc.) • Provides technical support to executives • Oversees all guest passes, maintains office, handles all facilities and media services requests • Provides overall departmental organization (filing, DVD library, expense files, scripts etc.) • Reconciles and processes monthly expense report, manages all travel authorizations for executives • Maintains casting contact lists, executive contact lists, network and studio contact lists and show bible

- Senior Executive Assistant to owner and president. - Assistant to four agents in TV/Film, Commercials, Youth and Legit Theater Departments - Handle all actor appointments, callbacks and avails/pins. - Communicate with casting directors in both LA and NYC. - Track all holding fees and payments to the agency. - Document all booking information, create billing sheets and invoices for all projects. - Constantly communicating with payment companies, ad agencies and production offices. - Logged all incoming/outgoing checks and all auditions, book outs, and pins. - Monitor actors schedules - Manage three agents calenders. - Utilize LA casting, Breakdowns Services, Casting Frontier and the People Network - Schedule and hold all actor's contract signing meetings - Fill out contracts, create client folders, handle all files. -Coordinator of the internship program. Office duties include: High Volume Calls, Handling all talent's contracts, Responsible for daily deposit, monthly supply order and logging all incoming and outgoing checks.

- Executive Assistant to the owner of the company. - Handled all auditions, callbacks and avails. - Managed actor's calendars. - Tracked holding fee's, late fees and other payments to the agency. - Updated and logged all commercials on conflict sheet. - Communicated with LA Commercial casting directors, ad agencies, and payment companies. - High Volume calls. - At times responsible for cleaning out for boss's inbox and printing out all breakdowns/preparing the office for boss to submit. - Scheduled all meetings with actors. - Learned how to submit. Utilized LA Casting, Breakdown Express and Casting Frontier and Filemaker. - Responsible for all supplies in the office and the monthly "Staples" run.

- Intern in casting. - Helped run audition, and callback sessions. - Handled high volume calls, greeted guests, made copies, helped scan. - Created audition schedules, called actors with audition information, communicated with agents. - Observed auditions and the casting process.

Studied Theatre and Marketing.

- Helped with submissions - Assisted Agents, - Answered Phones

-Contacted actors with audition appointments -Handled busy phones -Collaborated with other interns about marketing strategies -Assisted casting directors with sessions.