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21 Meetings Granted to 21 Lucky Actors

*Enter the giveaway in 3 easy steps.  
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Prizes

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21 Winners: General Meeting with a Seasoned Casting Director

21 randomly selected winners will get a General Meeting with one of the following industry professionals: Erica Jensen, Jessica McLaughlin, Mike Page, or Laura Aughton.

General Meeting with a Seasoned Talent Agent

21 Winners: General Meeting with a Seasoned Talent Agent or Manager

21 randomly selected winners will get a General Meeting with one of the following industry professionals: Arise Artists Agency’s Ashley Partington, People Store’s Jacqueline Wheeler or Calliope West Artist Management’s Jacob Gallagher.

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Just for participating, you can receive a $50 Gift Certificate toward Career ACTivate’s Get Rich In Your Niche: Your Money-Making Brand & Killer Marketing Materials. Credit must be used by Novemer 30, 2024. To activate this prize, register today and follow the email instructions to share a graphic on Instagram.

Now, before you decide that you probably won’t win anyway, know this… 

92% of the actors who joined our last Giveaway didn’t complete all three steps. (Even though they take less than 21 seconds to do).

Which means that you’ve got a 10% chance of winning a one-on-one meeting with an awesome casting director from a random raffle, it doesn’t get any easier than that!

 

What’s the Catch?? 

There’s no catch. We know that opportunities count and we want to give you as many opportunities as possible.  We love growing our community here at Career ACTivate and one way to do that is by hosting cool-ass giveaways like this

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Meet the Casting Directors

Meet the Casting Directors

Win a One-on-One Virtual General Meeting with a Casting Director

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Laura Aughton

Laura Aughton, CSA, is an Artios-nominated associate casting director, as well as a proud member of both the Teamsters 399 and the Television Academy. A Detroit native, Laura brings over a decade of experience as a casting professional to the table, built upon a lifelong love of stories and the people who tell them. Notable feature film credits include Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, The Way Back, and Studio 666. Notable television credits include: FXX’s Dave, Netflix’s American Vandal, Paramount Plus’ Players, and FXX’s You’re The Worst. Outside of work, Laura can be reliably found playing board games, watching spooky movies, or cuddling with her precious pup, Percy (sometimes, all three at once!).

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Mike Page

Originally from Boulder, CO, Mike has been working in Hollywood since 2004. Casting credits include working on hit shows such as Weeds, Community, Arrow, Raising Hope, My Name is Earl, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, The Defenders, The Ex List, Alcatraz & Fringe. He has also worked on several short films and independent productions that have gone on to win numerous awards at various film festivals. From January 2014 thru January 2020, he oversaw casting at TNT & TBS and later for TruTV and HBO Max as Director of Casting, working on pilots & series such as Animal Kingdom, Claws, Wrecked, Angie Tribeca, Love Life, Station Eleven, Search Party, and more. In January 2020, Mike partnered with fellow casting director Arlie Day to form Day & Page Casting. Since partnering they have cast numerous projects including the feature films Paulie Go!, The Man in the White Van, Bromates & The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry amongst numerous others. They are currently casting multiple independent films including I Want Your Sex from director Gregg Araki and starring Olivia Wilde.

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Erica Jensen

Erica Jensen is co-owner and a casting director at Calleri Jensen Davis. Her 20-year plus career spans film, television, regional, Off-Broadway and Broadway theatre. Broadway credits For Colored Girls… (2022), Topdog/Underdog and The Piano Lesson, A Raisin In The Sun, Of Mice and Men, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

TV credits include Queens, Love Life, Dickinson, Lipstick Jungle, and The Path.

In addition to casting, Erica is the Program Director and Professor of Practice at the Tepper Semester, a study abroad professional theater program in New York City as well as the co-founder of She-Collective.

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Jess McLaughlin

Jessica’s casting experience encompasses work on TV within the DC Universe (Constantine), studio projects (Keeping Up With The Joneses, Gifted), and independent films like the recent Doggone.

Armed with a BFA in Film & TV from NYU and an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College, she approaches casting from an emotional and storytelling perspective with a prioritization of inclusivity. Passionate about stories centering on women and queer characters, she strongly believes in supporting and showcasing under-represented voices in all aspects of the film industry.

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