James Calleri is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Co-Head of the Acting concentration. He is a well-known casting director and co-owner in Calleri Jensen Davis, where he and partners Paul Davis and Erica Jensen cast theater, television and film. Recent Broadway credits include revivals of The Piano Lesson, Topdog/ Underdog and For Colored Girls… He has cast the Tony-nominated Broadway productions of Burn This, Fool for Love, The Elephant Man, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, The Visit and A Raisin in the Sun. Calleri cast for Center Theatre Group, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick, The Flea, Williamstown and McCarter among others. Calleri began his career at Lincoln Center Theater and ABC Television and was the casting director for Playwrights Horizons for 10 seasons. TV casting credits include Love Life, Dickinson, Queens, The Path, Monk, Ed, Lipstick Jungle, to name a few. He is the co-author with Robert Cohen of Acting Professionally: Raw Facts About Careers in Acting, published by Macmillan. He has taught at the NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program and Syracuse University, as well as schools and colleges across the country and as far as the Shanghai Theater Institute. Calleri served on the board of the Casting Society of America. He holds a degree from Trinity University and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine.
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This Is Who We Are: Professor James Calleri
This Is Who We Are?is a series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making during a pandemic. Here, we talk with Associate Professor and Acting Co-Concentration Head,?James Calleri?about Calleri Studio, casting’s modified comeback, and the importance of staying true to one’s artistic path.?
Co-Concentration Head, Acting
Associate Professor of Professional Practice, Theatre
Contact Info
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