PRICE
$185.00 + GST
DAY
Saturday
DATE
17th June
TIME
9:00am - 1:00pm
Cinzia Coassin started her career as a theatre/film and television actor before moving into behind the scenes roles. Spurred by a desire to challenge herself and develop ideas.
As a Casting Director at CCC, Cinzia works in many other areas of the entertainment industry including development, production and financing.
She brings a wealth of knowledge to the classroom covering many aspects of the industry - acting process, casting process, industry knowledge, production knowledge and more.
Recently, Cinzia has cast Occupation: Rainfall, AACTA Nominated Feature Unsound (For which Cinzia was nominated for Best Casting at the CGA Awards - the film which went on to win numerous awards),
recent TV series Suka, current feature film Hostage which will shoot later this year in QLD, and is in pre-production for 6 other projects - one of which is the TV Series adaptation of Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham.
Finally, she is in the initial stages of production for feature film Pontiac Diary, directed by Frank Lotito (Wog Boys Forever) which will be shooting in Melbourne later this year!
She has also worked on projects such as: Spartacus, Blood and Sand; Spartacus, Gods of the Arena; Spartacus, Vengeance, Cabin in the Woods, The Shannara Chronicles, The BFG, Wrinkle In Time and The Dressmaker.
Cinzia’s strength is helping actors find their confidence, charisma and energy, exploring unique and connected choices with actors on the floor, and offers a wealth of knowledge about the industry and the casting process.
In this workshop, Cinzia will workshop your scene with you multiple times, using different rehearsal techniques to get you to your final performance. Be prepared to work across a wide range of genres, formats and styles in this unique Casting Workshop!
A script will be sent 5 days before for actors to learn and be off-book by the time of the workshop.
AGE: 18+
About Cinzia:
Cinzia Coassin started her career as a theatre/film and television actor. Challenging herself to develop ideas has led her to expand in all areas of the entertainment Industry.
Nurturing cultural identity in family relationships on a universal scale has always been extremely present in her project choice previously leading her to work in association with The Multi-Cultural Arts Festival, Carnivale. Producing a short film festival - Ten to One, providing a platform for writers/producers/directors from culturally diverse backgrounds to showcase their stories/films.
During the two seasons of Ten to One Cinzia requested that the filmmakers donate a prop from their film to then be raffled off - donating the proceeds to The Children's Starlight Foundation.
Cinzia later found herself being nurtured in the Industry; by landing herself the role of Faith Martin’s Casting Assistant this allowed her to explore the film and television industry from another perspective, assisting on The Strip and Blood Brothers for the 9 Network, Spartacus, Blood and Sand; Spartacus, Gods of the Arena; Spartacus, Vegeance; Legend of the Seeker; K9 (children series), and the feature films 33 POSTCARDS; THE KING IS DEAD; SATELLITE BOY; EVIL DEAD (the re-make); CABIN IN THE WOODS ; four ABC USA pilot season. FOX, CBS, NBC.
As a seasoned Casting Associate and industry professional Cinzia went on to guest star and thrive at Christine King Casting, where she was involved in the casting process for THE KING'S DAUGHTER; THE DRESSMAKER; KILL ME THREE TIMES; Camp (NBC, USA); the 2014 CBS pilot season; The Code; and Hiding (ABC Australia). Also involved with the Australian search for the hit HBO series Game of Thrones; Hercules; The Shannara Chronicles; The Badlands; and THE BFG.
Cinzia's U.S searches thus far also include Disney's A WRINKLE IN TIME and UGLY a true story based on Super Model Stacey Mckenzie's life story.
In 2019 Cinzia was nominated for a Casting Guild Award for Best Casting in a Feature Film for her work on UNSOUND, an Australian Feature Film supporting disability and diversity. UNSOUND also received an AACTA nomination for Best Indie Feature Film in 2020.
As Casting Director on the Action Sci-Fi Feature OCCUPATION - Rainfall, Cinzia also took on the challenge of co-ordinating all the Background Artist/ Extras.
In addition Cinzia cast , Suka, a choose your own adventure action series shooting in Sydney and Weapons of Choice a TV series shooting in QLD, Australia . Cinzia has a very busy slate across 22/23 with many more Feature Film and TV projects that are in preliminary stages of production.
