Breakdown Services' CastingAbout Founders to be Featured Speakers in the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's Seminar to Help Actors Market Themselves

    LOS ANGELES, CA, April 25, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Blair Hickey and Brian Wold, founders of CastingAbout, will be part of a paneled seminar in one of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation's 2010 LifeRaft Live Stream series. The seminar, entitled Full Stream Ahead: Marketing Yourself, will help actors gather quick and critical tips on marketing themselves. Even though the event is full, those interested can still see it live online at http://www.sagfoundation.org/liferaft/livestream.

CastingAbout is an online service that is the actor's secret source for insider information on casting directors and their projects. Information is updated daily, including each project's complete casting staff and current mailing address. This easy-to-use website provides actors the best way to prepare mailings, research new shows, track casting director assignments, create target lists, or even just brush up on names before an audition.

CastingAbout is the brainchild of Blair Hickey. As an actor in Los Angeles he was constantly frustrated with out-of-date contact information from costly guidebooks and mailing labels. Hickey soon began to collect information about who was casting what and when on his own. The success he soon achieved from his personal database had friends and colleagues asking him to share his information. Hickey formed a partnership with Web Specialist and marketing expert Brian Wold to bring his information to the Internet. From those small beginnings CastingAbout was formed. In September of 2007 Breakdown Services, Ltd. purchased the company to add to its cache of actor services.

The SAG Foundation was founded in 1985 as an educational, humanitarian and philanthropic 501 (3) non-profit organization governed and funded independently of Screen Actors Guild. The LifeRaft Live Stream series was launched January 12th of this year, offering actors a chance to learn from seasoned industry professionals.

Breakdown Services (www.breakdownexpress.com) was established in 1971, creating the process that is used around the world to cast feature films, television shows, commercials, theater and other projects that require actors. Since its inception it has developed many other services for the industry, including the Virtual Channel Network (www.virtualchannelnetwork.com) that uses the power of the Internet to transmit original content developed specifically for members of the entertainment community. Actors use Breakdowns' Showfax service to obtain audition material at (www.showfax.com) as well as Actors Access (www.actorsaccess.com) that allows for actors to update their pictures, resume and demo reels to submit for specific roles posted at the request of casting directors, and CastingAbout (www.castingabout.com), an up-to-date source for real-time casting and production information in Los Angeles and New York. Other Breakdown Services companies include www.talentproplus.com, www.gobetween.com.

Headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, Breakdown Services operates through a global network of services in the U.S., England and Australia. More information is available on the company's web site located at www.breakdownexpress.com.

Contact:

Jenna Albrecht
Breakdown Services, Ltd.
Tel: 310/276-9166 ext. 413
Email: [email protected]

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