AUDITION TECHNIQUE INTENSIVE

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This is the 2026 version of our annual Audition Technique intensive. Taken it before? Forget what you know — this isn't that class. The industry doesn't stand still, so neither do we: this course gets rebuilt every single year to match it. What's changed, what's working, what's dead on arrival — we're bringing you the real, current intel straight from what we're seeing in the industry right now. What to do. What to avoid. And the edge you need to actively stay marketable in a business that won't wait for you to catch up.

MEET YOUR TEAM

Tara Haight - The “Anchor” for this year’s intensive….is an alum and continuing student at ATC. A reader for casting directors, agents, and managers with Actors Connection and active auditioner herself, she’s in near constant communication with casting directors for a front row seat to the current industry trends, needs and conversations. She is also an audition coach and reader whose clients have received callbacks and booked roles in multiple mediums. 

An actor of film, stage and voiceover, Tara is represented by AMP Talent Group and The Talent Express Management. Tara most recently filmed DICTATRIX and Last Shot At Redemption, voiced Ethenia in the award winning Visionaries Audio Drama and collaborated with 3 friends to write and star as Olivia in the play F*CK, MARRY, KILL (2024 Screencraft SPWC Finalist & NYTF). Other favorite roles include Kate Monster (Avenue Q), and Mother (Ragtime). 

She moonlights as an entertaining & lovable P.I.C. to her husband, Michael, playful cat mom to her little old lady, Lyric, diehard warm weather fiend and a fabulous bartender. 

Elisa Tornow Producer, Production Manager, Casting Coordinator

Currently working with Sound Imagination / Imagination Video, Elisa works on commercial, corporate, industrial, documentary, and branded video projects. Her work includes production planning, casting coordination, scheduling, client communication, on-set producing, and creative development. With a BFA concentration in Technical Theater and a background that bridges performance, production, and storytelling, Elisa brings a practical, real-world perspective to the casting process. She is especially interested in helping actors understand how their materials, profiles, submissions, and professional choices affect how they are seen by producers and casting teams before the audition ever begins.

Robert Cunniff, Independent Film Producer, Casting Director, Writer, Actor

Pamela Kramer, Casting Director/ Producer/Intuitive Acting Coach.

In the business for over 25 years, Pamela Kramer, (Casting Director and owner of Bradley Baron) casts for film and TV, independent features, as well as hundreds of commercials, industrials, and voice-overs. Some of Pamela's commercial clients include: Clairol, Microsoft, Nokia, Merck, Sanofi, ADP, Pfizer, Pepsi, Kraft, Genentech, Pet Smart, Prudential, Verizon, AT&T, Citibank, American Express, Master Card, Panasonic, Samsung,, etc.. In addition, she's cast several TV pilot's for VH1, MTV, History Channel, an integrated print and commercial campaign for Chubb, numerous national and regional commercials as well as 30 episodes of Comedy Central's hit TV series "Strangers with Candy.

Films in which Pamela has placed talent include several horror, sci-fi features and shorts, as well as: The Last Request w/Danny Aiello, Beneath, The Family Way w/ Catherine Corcoran, Beauty School, Blood Bullets and Buffoons, Animal Room w/Neil Patrick Harris, BPM (Beats per Minute), Clean Break, Devouring Venus, and Sticks.

Pamela teaches a Horror/ Dying for the camera intensive--the only class of its kind in the country. Her students have gone on to land roles on television and films such as; Orange is the New Black, White Collar, Gotham, Blue Bloods, The Purge and many more.