Tuesday, Oct. 13 | 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Join us for a Mock Audition with choreographer, Rachel Dolan and Jason Styers with The Casting Collab. Dancers will spend time learning an audition combination, then presenting in small groups to then receive direct feedback from Rachel and Jason. Please bring in your headshot and resume to give to casting.

Classes are held at Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Ave. NYC, NY.

Rachel Leigh Dolan (she/her) is a highly sought-after choreographer, director, and educator known for her bold musicality, emotional depth, and collaborative spirit. With over two decades of experience, she has choreographed numerous professional productions across stage, screen, and live events earning multiple industry awards, including two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Choreography. A few of her favorite credits include BYE BYE BIRDIE at the Kennedy Center, STAGE MOTHER (A new musical), Dance Lab New York, and working alongside some of the best dancers and creatives in the industry on various labs, workshops, and collaborations.

Rachel has been teaching for more than 20 years and is widely recognized as an inspiring and impactful mentor to the next generation of performers. She’s as passionate in the classroom as she is in the rehearsal studio, bringing a balance of precision, artistry, and heart to every space she leads.

She is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, as well as an adjunct faculty member at Pace University’s Sands College of Performing Arts.
Follow her journey: @therizdiz

Jason is an award-winning casting director whose work is currently globally represented, covering every facet of the industry: theatre, film, television, commercials, live events, dance, company consultation, and more. He is the founder and creative director of the Casting Collaborative, as well as the founder of the Caucus for Independent Casting.

He and his colleagues place an emphasis on creating an environment for teams, producers, and performers to effectively put together exemplary groups of collaborative artists in order for a project to align its mission with its vision. All the while never sacrificing the humanity of the process.

He cast such projects as the Tony Award Best Musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder (Broadway, 1st National Tour, and 2nd National Tour), the hit Off-Broadway comedy Puffs, Or: Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic & Magic, the national tours of Anastasia, Fiddler on the Roof and The King & I, Josh Prince’s breakthrough Dance Lab NY (FKA, Broadway Dance Lab), the recent STC productions of Frankenstein (directed and adapted by Emily Burns) and The Lehman Trilogy (directed by Arin Arbus), the international tour of West Side Story, Magic Mike Live in both Las Vegas and London (alongside Channing Tatum & Alison Faulk), Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella (National Tour), Dames at Sea (Broadway), The Lion King (Broadway & National Tour), Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (National Tour), Trip of Love (Off-Broadway), Nice Work If You Can Get It (Broadway), and for over 15 different productions for the prestigious New York City Center Encores! series., from Merrily We Roll Along (starring Lin Manuel Miranda, 2012) to Cabin in the Sky (his first foray into stage collaboration with Camille A. Brown, 2016). He has worked with such directors and choreographers as Darko Tresnjak, Camille A. Brown, Josh Prince, Warren Carlyle, Josh Bergasse, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Marc Bruni, Casey Nicholaw, Kathleen Marshall, Josh Rhodes, John Doyle, Randy Skinner, and James Lapine — amongst many, many others. Other credits include Hartford Stage, New York Philharmonic, the York Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Houston Broadway Theatre, San Francisco Symphony, Theatre Under the Stars (TUTS), TUTS Underground, Queensbury Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, and various other theatres.

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