West Coast Casting Highlights - 3/31/10

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WEST COAST:

Below are a few highlights from this week's West Coast notices, compiled by West Coast Casting Editor Cassie Carpenter:

• Headquarters Casting is casting SAG background talent for Transformers 3.

• Brette Goldstein Casting is casting a commercial for USA Network and VW.

• Upswing Media is casting New News Show, an exciting new entertainment news television format, and is doing an one-day in-studio shoot that will require a host.

• E-Prime Entertainment is casting Deep is Calling.

• MillBeck Productions is casting Evil Dead: The Musical.

• Habla Blah Blah is casting a live concert series that is fun, goofy, theatrical 'edutainment' for children.

• Sean Ross (prod./photographer/art dir.) is casting Hip Revolutionary Students, a commercial photo campaign for a national company.

• JB Casting Networks is holding a casting workshop with Head CD Jennifer Lare of Cami Patton Casting. 'Lare currently casts NBC's Parenthood, Showtime's The United States of Tara, the new FOX show Past Life, and an HBO pilot starring Laura Dern called Enlightened.

• Berkeley Repertory Theatre is casting Ruined, written by Lynn Nottage. A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Huntington Theatre in Boston.

• San Jose Repertory Theatre is casting for their 2010-11 Season.

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-- Luke Crowe, National Casting Editor, Back Stage