02/21/2025
🎬 Industry Icon Alert!
This week, Stonestreet Studios had the honor of welcoming Avy Kaufman (), one of the most accomplished casting directors in the industry for our weekly Stonestreet Industry Talkback!
Her kind, caring, inquisitive, instinctual and humble presence was an inspiration to everyone from Stonestreet’s staff, directors, producers, writers and Screen Acting & Production Residency actors hyphenates from and professional residency. Thank you, Avy, for your sustained casting gifts on screen and off!!!
AVY is the powerhouse behind the casting of ‘Brokeback Mountain’, ‘The Sixth Sense’, ‘Lincoln’, ‘Life of Pi’, ‘King Richard’, ‘Tár’, ‘Zathura’, and ‘Suspiria’, among 150+ film & TV productions. Avy has worked with legends like Steven Spielberg, Ang Lee, and Wes Craven and has been instrumental in casting seven Best Picture Oscar-nominated films.
Her television work is just as iconic—she won Primetime Emmy Awards () for and ‘Damages’ and has been nominated 18 times for the prestigious Artios Awards, winning three.
Most recently, she cast the upcoming series on , starring , , , and — a must-watch!
We’re so grateful to Avy for sharing her insight with us! 🎥
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