The Breakdown with Robbie

The Breakdown with Robbie

A weekly podcast featuring conversations with top casting directors, agents, managers, directors, producers…

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May 2, 2022 54 mins

Tom Kiradhy is a Tony and Olivier Award-winning producer whose projects have spanned Broadway, off-Broadway, the West End, and national and international tours. He most recently produced the Broadway production of the epic two-part play THE INHERITANCE (4 Tony Awards including Best Play), the smash-hit HADESTOWN (8 Tony Awards including Best Musical), the off-Broadway revival of LITTLE SHOP...

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Steven won Tony Awards for Best Book and Best Score, the Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album, as well as the Olivier Award for Best New Musical for Spring Awakening. His other musicals include Alice by Heart produced at the National Theatre of London, MCC in New York and is also a novel from Penguin Random House, The Nightingale produced at La Jolla Playhouse; Prometheus Bound at A.R.T...

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August 16, 2021 52 mins

Michael Benjamin Washington is currently filming the new NBC comedy, American Auto. Broadway: The Boys in the Band (also the Netflix adaptation); La Cage Aux Folles; Mamma Mia! (original company). Off Broadway: 2019 revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires In the Mirror at Signature Theatre (NY Outer Critics Circle Award; NY Drama League Award; Inaugural Antonyo Award for Best Solo Performance...

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July 26, 2021 48 mins

Jack has won three Tony Awards and been nominated for seven more, and won five Drama Desk Awards. Select Broadway credits include All My Sons, Carousel, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, The Front Page, Its Only a Play, The Nance, Catch Me If You Can, A Catered Affair, How The Grinch Stole Christmas, The Coast of Utopia (TONY), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony nom), Henry IV (TONY), Hairspray...

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Cody Renard Richard is an advocate, educator and professional Stage Manager with a career that spans many genres including Broadway, Television, Cirque Du Soleil and Opera. On Broadway, he has worked as a full time and substitute Stage Manager on 12 productions, most recently serving as the Production Stage Manager for Freestyle Love Supreme. Other Broadway: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, The ...

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June 29, 2021 83 mins

Gavin Creel received a Tony Award for his performance as “Cornelius Hackl” in Hello, Dolly! starring Bette Midler and David Hyde Pierce. Gavin made his Broadway debut originating the role of “Jimmy Smith” in Thoroughly Modern Millie, for which he received his first Tony Award nomination. He has since created such memorable performances on Broadway as “Claude” in Hair, which earned him a sec...

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June 14, 2021 75 mins

Pre-pandemic, Alison was in back-to-back show bliss with David Staller’s adaptation of Heartbreak House (for which she received the Callaway Award for best actress in a classical play), Enter Laughing at the York, and a divine trifecta under the aegis of Marcia Milgrom Dodge: Steel Magnolias at the Jupiter Maltz, Cinderella at the MUNY, and Deathtrap at the Cape Playhouse. Just prior to the...

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June 9, 2021 56 mins

MICHAEL GODDARD is one of the named partners of CGF TALENT, a ten year old boutique agency in New York. They handle all legit (theatre, television and film) projects being cast out of New York, and nation wide. Michael has been an agent for fifteen years representing actors who are series regulars, guest stars and co-stars on television shows, featured cast in movies and many principals on ...

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May 23, 2021 58 mins

STEPHEN BRACKETT (Director). Broadway: The Lightning Thief (Longacre Theater), Be More Chill (Lyceum Theater). Off-Broadway: A Strange Loop 

(Playwrights Horizons/Page 73, Drama Desk and Obie awards), Be More Chill (Signature and Two River Theaters), The Lightning Thief (Theaterworks USA/National Tour), Jonathan Tolins’&...

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May 10, 2021 52 mins

Hannah Shankman: Broadway: Wicked, Les Miserables, Side Show (Original Broadway Revival), Hair. National Tours: The Band's Visit, Rent, 25th Anniversary Tour of Les Miserables. West End: Hair, Homemade Fusion In Concert. Hannah has worked regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Williamstown, Syracuse Stage, Casa Manana, Arrow Rock Lyceum in roles including Fanny Brice in Funny...

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Calleri Jensen Davis casting, formally Calleri casting until very recently, have a casting partnership that spans over twenty years. Television credits include Dickinson, The Path, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Hope and Faith, Ed, Monk, and numerous pilots for Netflix, Fox the CW NBC ABC among many others, Films they have cast have been screened at Sundance, The Cannes Film Festival, and hav...

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April 26, 2021 48 mins

Michael is an actor and two-time Tony-nominated director for his Broadway revivals of Spring Awakening and Once On This Island. Additional directing credits include A Christmas Carol starring Jefferson Mayes at the Geffen, Maybe Happy Ending at The Alliance Theater, The Pride and Merrily We Roll Along at the Wallis Anenberg, Joseph at Lincoln Center, The Connors on ABC, the u...

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April 19, 2021 54 mins

BRIAN HUTCHISON has appeared on Broadway in The Boys in the Band (Tony Award- Best Revival), Man and Boy (with Frank Langella and Adam Driver)), Looped (opposite Valerie Harper), Exit the King (with Geoffrey Rush and Susan Sarandon), Proof, andThe Invention of Love. Off-Broadway credits include How To Transcend a Happy Marriage ( opposite Marisa Tomei-Lincoln Center) Smokefall (opposite Zac...

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April 12, 2021 43 mins

ERICA A. HART, CSA (Casting Professional / Producer) graduated from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied film and television. She has been casting for over 10 years on many high profile projects. She started off in network and studio casting moving her way up to Casting Coordinator in the New York Office of ABC Primetime Casting. In 2014, Erica appeared in The Hollywood Reporte...

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April 5, 2021 42 mins

JONATHAN BANK (Producing Artistic Director) has been the artistic director of Mint Theater Company since 1995, where he has unearthed and produced dozens of lost or neglected plays, many of which he has also directed. As Variety put it in 2007, “Bank is one of the few artistic directors for whom taking an old, obscure book off the shelf is an enterprise exciting enough to be addictive.”

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March 29, 2021 62 mins

Erika Henningsen was most recently seen as Cady Heron in the original Broadway Cast of MEAN GIRLS, for which she was nominated for an Outer Critics' Circle Award. She made her Broadway debut as Fantine in the recent revival of LES MISERABLES and can be seen as Kim Ravenal in the PBS Special of SHOW BOAT: Live from Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic. She is slated to appear in Pea...

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March 15, 2021 44 mins

Patrick Goodwin, CSA

Pat began his career in casting in 2006 after graduating from Drew University with a double major in Theatre Arts and Political Science. He has cast countless film, television and theatre projects over his nearly 15 years in the industry. Recent Broadway casting credits include Tina: The Tina Turner Musical, The Cher Show, W...

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March 1, 2021 41 mins

Director Kevin Berlandi’s style as well as his contagious enthusiasm for film, were fostered by his childhood love of summer blockbusters. It’s only fitting that Kevin would grow up to AD on movie franchises like Transformers, Avengers and The Bourne Legacy. Before that, he earned a degree in Marketing Advertising with a concentration in Film Production from Emerson College. After graduatin...

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February 15, 2021 50 mins

Karlee Fomalont, CSA, is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where her acting training made for a seamless transition into the world of casting. She began her career at CBS Primetime NY and ABC Primetime NY, where she cut her teeth working on numerous pilots. She then transitioned into independent casting, working on projects such as "The Get Down," Baz Luhrmann's ambitious Netflix ...

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February 9, 2021 56 mins

David Caparelliotis/Caparelliotis Casting - Current television: “New Amsterdam” (series casting, NBC). Recent and select Broadway: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Minutes, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Jitney, The Little Foxes, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Front Page, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Fish in the ...

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