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BOB KALE, CSA (Casting Director, Teacher, Coach)

602 TENTH AVENUE S UIT E 4 NEW YORK, NY 10036 -3027 PH O NE : 917 -653 -9078 EMAIL: [email protected] WEBSITE: www.bobkaleonline.com

Bob has been an Assistant, an Associate and a Casting Director at Hughes Moss Casting/Barry Moss Casting since 1996. He initially worked with both Barry Moss and Julie Hughes and, beginning in 2000, almost solely with Barry. In 2010 Bob became a partner, along with Barry and John Anastasi, in MKA Casting (Moss Kale Anastasi Casting) until Barry’s passing in 2014. He is a member of the Casting Society of America. A partial list of the projects he has worked on during that time would include:

Theater

Broadway A Tale of Two Cities (2008) (“Name” credit—Playbill, advertising) Little Women—The Musical* (2005) (“Name” credit—Playbill, advertising) Souvenir (2005) (“Name” credit—Playbill, advertising) King Hedley II (2001) An Inspector Calls* (1996) The Who’s Tommy* (1996) How to Succeed . . .* (1995) Titanic—The Musical* (1997) The Life (1997) Jekyll & Hyde* (1997) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1997) Dream (1997) Footloose* (1999) A Christmas Carol (Madison Square Garden) (1996 to 2002) The Wizard of Oz* (Madison Square Garden) (1997)

* Designates National Tour as well

Film

Jack and Jill (additional NY Casting; Roger Mussenden and Jeremy Rich, LA CDs) (2011) You Don’t Mess With The Zohan (additional NY casting; Finn-Hiller, LA CDs) (2008) I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (additional NY casting; Roger Mussenden, LA CD) (2007) Beavis and Butthead Do America (NY Voice Casting) (1996) The Quest for Camelot (NY Voice Casting) (1998)

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Big Daddy (NY Casting; Roger Mussenden, LA CD) (1999) Little Nicky (NY Casting; Roger Mussenden, LA CD) (2000).

Television

As The World Turns (1996) F/X (1998) Ed (Pilot) (2000) Lifetime’s Sex and Mrs. X (2000) HBO’s Scarred City (2000) Due South (1996) Elmo's World: Happy Holidays! (2002) Victoria’s Secret 2005 Anniversary Special (Dancers) (2005) Old Navy “Drawstring” commercial (Dancers) (1998) PBS Sesame Street (1999) Sally Hemmings (NY Casting) (2000)

Theatre—Continued

Off-Broadway—Bedbugs!!The Musical (ATA and Arclight), Frank McGuinness’ Gates Of Gold (2011), Rounding Third, Dracula (2011), Dietrich & Chevalier (2011), Over the River and Through the Woods, Noel Coward in Two Keys, Avow, I Forgive You Ronald Reagan, Tails, The Deep Throat Sex Scandal (2011), Lone Star Love, Tap Dogs, How To Build A Better Tulip, Worm Day, Chasing Jack (Summerfest), the Melting Pot Theatre production of Tintypes. Theatre Workshops and/or Readings—Astronaut Love Show (Kraine Theatre), The Moon In The Sea (Sommerfeld Foundation), Night of the Hunter, Freudian Slips, Dearest Cousin, Blackwater Angel (by Jim Nolan, playwright in residence at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre), The Cuban and The Redhead (NAMT), The Gay-No-More Telethon Musical (Fringe Festival), Sorority Queen In A Mobile Home (Fringe Festival), Time After Time (Sommerfeld Foundation), The Member Of The Wedding (Peccadillo Theater Company). National Tours—The Best Little Whorehouse in starring Ann-Margret, Barry Manilow’s Copacabana, Nunsense (25th Anniversary Tour), Bring in da Noise, Bring in da Funk starring Savion Glover. Concert Tours: Three Mo’ Tenors and Three Mo’ Divas. Barry and Bob cast the Review of songs written by women called Her Song at Birdland and For Lovers Only at New World Stages. Barry and Bob have also cast for Atlanta Theater Of The Stars (2001 to 2011), Goodspeed Musicals (East Haddam, CT), Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Coconut Grove Playhouse, 5th Avenue Theatre (Seattle, WA), North Shore Music Theatre, Summer Musicals, and Ford’s Theatre (Washington D.C.)

Teaching

Bob teaches—or has taught—Musical Theatre Audition Technique and Musical Theatre History at the Professional Conservatory of Musical Theatre at the New York Film Academy. In addition, he teaches On-Camera Audition Technique, Self-Taping, and The Business of Acting at the New York Film Academy as well.

Theatrical/Show Business Biography Pre-1996

Bob began working in the theatre in 1967 in his hometown of Toledo, . At age 11 he was studying with Broadway and Touring Company Actress and Musical Theatre AEA professional, Lillian Hanham, who instilled in him an extraordinary sense of devotion and professionalism. He was chosen for college- level acting classes as well as appearing in productions at the University of Toledo at the age of 14. In

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addition to doing the usual high school plays and such, Bob did plays at the Toledo Repertory Theatre under the direction of Roy Fluhrer, a Northwestern University student of Alvina Krause. Very fortunate to be exposed to genuine professionals so early in life. Her also apprenticed at Toledo Summer Star Theatre (which was on the Kinley circuit) and the Westgate Dinner Theatre for several years.

After coming to NYC, Bob trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and The Juilliard Drama Division. At Neighborhood Playhouse he was taught acting by William Esper, William Alderson, Phillip Gushee, Ed Moor . . . and he first came into direct contact with Sanford Meisner, who became his mentor. He studied with Sandy during his two years at the Playhouse and in Sandy’s professional class for three years. He also had the honor of serving as an associate and assistant to Sandy during the third year. He has carried the sincerity, simplicity and specificity he learned from this exceptional man with him into all aspects of his life.

Additional training included Lehman Engel (Musical Theatre), Dorothy Loudon (Musical Audition), Tenor, Felix Knight (Singing), Zoe Caldwell (Shakespeare), Elizabeth Smith and Robert Neff-Williams (Juilliard -- voice for theatre), Edith Skinner (Speech), Ballet (Barbara Cole), Martha Graham technique (Dorothy Villiard), Jazz (Gary Gendell), and many others.

On-Camera experience included All My Children, One Life To Live, Kate & Allie, Ryan’s Hope, The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Pete ‘N Pete, The Equalizer and others. Played Off- and Off-Off Broadway at the Theatre dy Lys, West End Theatre, Town Hall, Classic Theatre, St. Clements, Fifth Avenue Theatre Company, Working Theatre and others. Stock: Colgate Repertory Company (NY), Cortland Repertory Theatre (NY), Pantheon Theatre Company (OH), Centre Street Theatre (PA), Croswell Opera House (MI), Tibbits Opera House (MI), Sugar Maples Stages (NY), Rivoli Repertory (PA) and others. Representative theatrical styles’ experience: Harpagon in The Miser, Sid in Waiting for Lefty, Orin in Mourning Becomes Electra, Allan in Play It Again, Sam, Lord High Chancellor in Iolanthe, Nicodemus/Lady Enid/Alcazar in The Mystery of Irma Vep, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing . . ., and General St. Pé in Waltz of the Toreadors.

NON-SHOW BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT

SEPTEMBER 1994 - JANUARY 1995

Brilliant Image Business Graphics Service Center New York, NY [ Business Graphics Supervisor]  Created business graphics for 35-mm slides, color overheads, color hardcopy, desktop publishing using both PC (Freelance, Power Point, Persuasion) and MAC (Persuasion, Pagemaker, Freehand, Illustrator)

1988 - 1994

Towers Perrin New York Consulting Office New York, NY Business Graphics Specialist  Created business graphics for 35-mm slides, color overheads, color hardcopy, desktop publishing using both PC and MAC compatible software: Freelance, Graphwriter, GEM (PC), Persuasion, Freehand, Illustrator (MAC). Responsible for monitoring Seiko ColorPoint14 and Tektronix Phase IIIi printers, Lasergraphics LXR slide maker.

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 Designed reports, forms, in-house announcements using Ventura (PC) and PageMaker (MAC) softwares. Import and incorpoate graphics created through VideoShow graphics system and text created in WordPerfect.  Division supervisor for extended periods of time.

1985 - 1988

Towers Perrin New York Consulting Office New York, NY Business Graphics Senior Assistant  Extensive work with VideoShow presentation graphics system (Lotus Freelance and PictureIt softwares).  Responsible for maintaining all hardwares (VideoShow equipment, Photometric SlideMaker, Calcomp Color Master Printer) and ordering supplies.  Worked with Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software.

1981 - 1985

Towers Perrin New York Consulting Office New York, NY Computer Room Supervisor  Responsible for monitoring computer equipment; high-speed printers, 1050 Hewlett-Packard plotter, and Local Area Network for eight floors of offices.  Distributed printouts  Responsible for maintenance of over fifty CRT computer units, including troubleshooting and placing service calls.

BUSINESS TRAINING

Formal classes in: Microsoft Word, Lotus Freelance, Lotus WordPro, Ventura, WordPerfect (PC); and Pagemaker, Persuasion, Freehand, Adobe Illustrator (MAC).

Also Self-taught in: VideoShow graphics systems (PictureIt, Freelance), Graphwriter II, GEM.

Other occupations included: phone solicitor, surplus store salesman (paint, housewares, work clothes, concrete, tarps, tools, etc.), puppeteer, Capezio salesman, corporate mailroom, waited tables at Tavern on the Green, Maxwell’s Plum, Le Club and . . . Red Lobster!