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PB'S CINDI DAVIS-ANDRESS TO SERVE ON LIVE PANEL!PAGE PARKES TALENT & WIFT HOUSTON Present:
ASK THE AGENTS, MANAGERS, & CASTING DIRECTORS - FRIDAY, MAY 14 - RENAISSANCE HOTEL
You won't want to miss hearing what these outstanding and informed speakers have to say.
Very brief bios are included below. Seating is limited. You can buy tickets online at www.wift-houston.org (PayPal) or at the door. Registration begins at 6:00 PM. The Program will begin promptly at 7PM, at the Renaissance Hotel, Bluebonnet Room. Need more details?
See the Calendar at www.wift-houston.org. To RSVP, email wift.houston.edu@gmail.com. SEATING IS LIMITED.
BRING A FRIEND that you know should join WIFT Houston. For ONE NIGHT ONLY NEW MEMBERS can join for only $75 (or anytime now through Friday evening) through PAYPAL from www.wift-houston.org Site front page). We haven't made an offer like this in over five years. Forward this to anyone who should be there! Non-member price: $40, WIFT Members $25.
You may bring a headshot to leave with the panel, AND
You may submit pre-screened quetions to PageParkesHDM@aol.com. Be sure to put "WIFT" in the subject line.
PANELISTS
DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD...
RICKI MASLAR
Ricki is a successful casting director and producer with over thirty years experience in the entertainment industry. She has held a variety of positions as an agent, casting director, manager, teacher, and producer. As a casting director Maslar has had the opportunity to work on studio and independent features with credits that include Twister, Tuskegee Airmen, Brother to Brother, The Line and Dahmer.
ANGELA STRANGE
Angela is Vice President of Operations and the Head of Adult Commercials at Osbrink Talent Agency in Universal City, CA. She has been nominated by the Talent Managers Association for Adult Commercial Agent of the Year in 2007 and 2008, and the winner of this award in 2009. Osbrink Talent Agency is respected as one of the most professional and productive Youth and Young Adult talent agencies in the country. The company has grown into a busy mid-size agency with their talented kids and ingénue young adults, heading film, television, print, voice over and commercial projects.
PATRICK BACA, CSA
Patrick cast the Warner Bros. thrillers Believers (Johnny Messner), Sublime (Tom Cavanagh), Rest Stop (Joey Lawrence) and Rest Stop 2: Don’t Look Back. Other features include Mercenary of Justice (Steven Seagal), Halloween: Resurrection (Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks) and indies Hard Pill, Tweek City, Defying Gravity and Just Can't Get Enough. TV movies include L.A. Law: The Movie starring Bruce Davison (NBC) and Hallmark’s Gentle Ben starring Dean Cain. TV series include Patrick’s collaboration with Jean Scoccimarro on the My Network TV serial dramas Desire and Fashion House starring Bo Derek and Morgan Fairchild. Other “pilots to series” include Comedy Central’s Strip Mall starring Julie Brown, AMC's acclaimed series The Lot, and UPN's Reunited with Julie Hagerty.
PAUL TRUSIK
Paul currently serves as President of the TMA/Talent Managers Association, a national trade group of Personal Managers. His clients have appeared on CSI: NY, True Blood, Criminal Minds, Heroes, Entourage, Two and A Half Men, House, The Mentalist and Mad Men, to name a few. Feature film credits include Dreamwork’s The Soloist, Paramount ’s GI Joe, Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua and ‘Pineapple Express’.
BENJAMIN SCANTLIN
Benjamin manages a core group of clients—actors, singers, dancers, writers, and directors from his Burbank office. His talented roster of individuals has appeared on network and cable television shows, motion pictures, and national commercials. Ben is currently producing 3 webseries and a slate of 5 feature films.
AND FROM HOUSTON, our very own...
PAGE PARKES-EVELETH
Page is co-owner of the largest modeling and acting agency group in the Southwestern United States. Page Parkes Talent is world renown for the development and placement of its New Faces models and actors including Brooke Burns, Alexis Bledel, Channing Tatum, and many others. Past and Present models have graced the covers of Seventeen, YM, Elle, Vogue, Teen Vogue, Men's Health, Brides Magazine and Sassy, as well as landed many prestigious campaigns such as Ralph Lauren, Miss Sixty, Gap, Abercrombie and Fitch, Adidas, Target and L'Oreal. Page Parkes Talent actors have worked in productions for TV shows and films such as Step Up, The Sisterhood of Traveling Pants 1 & 2, Shallow Hal, She’s the Man, Gilmore Girls and productions for Hasbro, Disney, Nickelodeon, among many others. Page Parkes Talent is the underwriter for the event benefiting WIFT Houston.
CINDI DAVIS-ANDRESS
Cindi is VP of Operations at Pastorini-Bosby Talent in Houston. The agency roster is now comprised of Film, Television, Commercial and Corporate actors and spokespersons; Radio and TV voice actors; Narrators, Trade Show and Convention Hosts & Hostesses; Print Models and Media Personalities and Makeup Artists. Cindi is a native Houstonian and a 1997 graduate of Houston's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) theatre program. She graduated from U of H with a degree in Communications in 2002, while also working at Pastorini-Bosby Talent. She is an active member of the American Marketing Association (AMA) and the Texas Motion Picture Alliance (TXMPA).*
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