Panel C: Trends In Casting / Discussion with CSA Casting Directors

Wilshire Screening Room
Wilshire Screening Room
Beverly Hills, California 90211
United States
Saturday, September 27th at 4:45pm
Wilshire Screening Room
Alexa Pereira, CSA
An Emmy Nominee and Artios Award winner, Alexa has been in casting for over a decade. As well as independently casting her own projects, she is also working with the wonderful casting office of Greenstein/Daniel Casting. Past credits include "New Girl" (Fox), "Home Economics" (ABC), "Dollface" (Hulu), "On Becoming a God in Central Florida" (SHO), Feature Film "The Fire Inside" and most recently "Nobody Wants This" (Netflix). Also an audition coach, Alexa loves helping actors with their audition technique and building confidence in making stronger choices.
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Tineka Becker is a Casting Director with over 20 yrs experience casting Film and TV, with a background as a classically trained actor. Her projects have premiered at prestige festivals including Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, Santa Barbara, and Palm Springs, to name a few. Formerly the Manager of Feature Casting at Paramount, she has also been on the casting teams for X-Men: Apocalypse, Little Fockers, Twilight: New Moon, The Lovely Bones, A Christmas Carol w/ Jim Carrey, Heaven Is For Real, Tom Ford’s directorial debut A Single Man, and so many more. Some of her projects currently available to stream include the Amazon series Reacher, The Artist’s Wife starring Lena Olin & BruceDern, The 11th Green (NYT Critic’s pick), Breaking Fast (GLAAD award nominee), theNetflix docu-series Heist, the indie western Badland, and the family drama The Big Bend, for which she was nominated for Best Feature Casting Director at the Santa Fe Film Festival.
Meg Morman is an award-winning casting director and a partner at Morman Boling Casting. Previously a manager of casting in the Feature Film Department at 20th Century Fox, she also spent four years as an associate and then casting director at Walken/Jaffe Casting.
In 2004, Meg cast the acclaimed films Me and You and Everyone We Know (Sundance & Cannes 2005) and Steal Me(Sundance 2005), and soon after, she launched her company with partner Sunday Boling Kennedy. Since then, she has cast over 100 films, including Omaha (Sundance 2025), Green and Gold, Waitress, Hello, My Name is Doris, Aporia, The Ballad of Lefty Brown and Suze.
Her television and streaming credits include The Baxters, Sneakerheads, Ish Hashuv Meod, The Dead Girls Detective Agency, In the Vault, and Relationship Status. She has also worked extensively in narrative podcast casting, with notable projects such as Star Trek: Khan, DC High: Volume Batman, Blackout, Ad Lucem, 13 Days of Halloween (Seasons 2 & 3), Last Known Position, and Narcissa.
Meg has been nominated for 11 Artios Awards for excellence in casting and has won twice. Currently the VP of Governance for the Casting Society, has also served as an advisor for Film Independent’s Directing Lab and the Global Media Makers project.