INDUSTRY RESOURCE

Media Strategies, Inc. Business Communications Management Consultants.….Richard ("Dick") Van Deusen is Managing Director of this consulting practice, the preeminent resource for research and information regarding trends and best practices in the business media communications industry. MSI creates value for its clients by uncovering, recommending and helping to implement tactics and strategies to facilitate the creation, delivery and utilization of business communications media through benchmarking, surveys and organization audits.

If you have questions about the past, present or future of the industry Dick is the one to contact.
www.media-strategies.com

AUDITION FACILITIES

Endeavor Studios……My audition studio of choice. David Donovan and his staff are so accommodating, and helpful. The equipment is state-of-the-art. And they know the meaning of customer service. They also serve great coffee!
www.endeavorstudios.info

Shetler Studios…midtown location for auditioning & rehearsing. Ron Shelter maintains a lovely comforting space. There are rooms of all sizes as well as spaces to perform. Ron himself is a well known singing teacher and faculty member at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as a coach to many prominent musical performers in New York City.
www.shetlerstudios.com

TRANSLATION COMPANIES

Euronet Language Services, Inc.….Eleonore Speckens the President of Euronet was born in Holland and speaks 7 languages. She started Euronet around the same time I started Selective Casting. She is wonderful for European translations. She has been my “ear” for many foreign castings. And started and continues to publish “De Nieuwe Amsterdammer” for the Dutch speaking community in the United States.
www.euronet-languages.com

INTERNET VOICE TALENT ACCESS
InterNation Inc.…Eric Derkatsch is president of Internation, a multi language translation company. Eric has created a foreign language data base, a marvelous tool for producers needing foreign language voices. Click voiceovers once you are on the home page.
www.internationinc.com

VoiceBank…Allows you to put your casting session on line so that your clients can hear the choices via the internet.
www.voicebank.com

SIGNATORY AND TALENT PAYMENT COMPANIES
Unlike commercials, an industrial only needs one signatory, and talent payment companies can act as the signatory. This allows production companies and corporations to use union actors.

Spotpay
www.spotpay.net

Entertainment Partners
www.entertainmentpartners.com

Talent Partners
www.talentpartners.com

CrewStar
www.crewstar.com

THEATRICAL UNIONS

Screen Actors Guild (SAG)
www.SAG.org

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
www.aftra.org

Actors Equity Association (AEA)
www.actorsequity.org

Industrials that are filmed or taped can be either SAG or AFTRA.
AEA is for mostly used for live business theatre.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

NYWIFT…New York Women in Film and Television.(NYWIFT) is a non profit membership organization dedicated to helping women reach the highest levels of achievement in film, television, and other moving-image media industries.
There are such organizations all over the world. I belong to the NY Chapter
www.nywift.org

MCA-I Media Communications Association International (formerly International Television Association or ITVA) The MCA-I is a new name for an older association that is a community of professionals devoted to the business and the art of visual communication. As is true of NYWIFT, MCA-I has chapters around the country and the world. I am a member and have been Vice President of ITVANY
www.itvany.org

American Academy Of Dramatic Arts. Began in 1884 and is the oldest acting training conservatory in the country. It is located in both New York and Hollywood. I’m a Trustee of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
www.aada.org

Web Designer D. Bruce Stevens is the artist behind DBS Design Group.. Bruce designed this website with love, care and boundless creativity. I call him my “genius.”
http://www.dbstevens.com

Marketing Mentor: Ilise Benun is one of the most clever, insightful and talented people I know for people interested in marketing their company.
www.artofselfpromotion.com