A three-class crash course on the nuts and bolts of commercial acting/auditioning. Subjects discussed will include theories of advertising, how to read and interpret copy, and a general sense of what casting directors are looking for in an audition.

DAVID CADY is currently a professor of commercial and musical theatre performance at AMDA, NYU and Pace University.

Prior, he was a casting director for  Donna DeSeta Casting for close to 30 years.

In addition to countless commercials, his casting credits include the original Dirty Dancing, Disney’s Enchanted, Michael John LaChiusa’s The Petrified Prince for the Public Theater and the world premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down the Wind, directed by Harold Prince.  He was an original cast member of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s Merrily We Roll Along, and can be seen in Lonny Price’s film about the experience, The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened.