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Andra Reeve-Rabb

Dean, School of Film and Acting

Education

  • B.F.A., acting and directing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  • A.A., art, Peace College

Credentials

  • Dean of the School of Film and Acting, 2022–present
    Dean of the School of Entertainment Arts, 2016–2022
    Chair of performing arts and Director of Casting, 2015–16
    Professor of performing arts and Director of Casting, 2009–15, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Oversees performing arts Department
    Responsible for creating and running the casting office. Contributed to casting on the WGN series Underground, Amazon series Z, The Little Mermaid, Dirty Grandpa, Christine, Gifted, The Do-Over, Birth of a Nation, Magic Mike XXL, Royal Pains, The Detour, The Ring III, and Martin Scorsese's Vinyl. Workshop and panel creation and moderation for SCAD Savannah Film Festival and SCAD TVfest. Casting all senior thesis and graduate thesis films. Casting voice-over actors for Animation, Game Design, and Advertising. Run internship placement between CBS-TV and SCAD casting students.
    Teach Audition Techniques and Materials, Acting for the Camera 1 and 2. Audition for Film and TV, Casting, Comedy Pilot, and Senior Showcase.
  • Director of Primetime Casting – New York, 1997–2007, CBS Television, New York
    Responsible for East Coast Casting on all CBS Primetime projects, including pilots, series, mini-series, and movies of the week. Projects included The Big Bang Theory, CSI, CSI Miami, CSI NY, Without a Trace, Cold Case, Criminal Minds, Numbers, How I Met Your Mother, Two and a Half Men, Old Christine, King of Queens, Everybody Loves Raymond, et al. Also responsible for hiring all interns for CBS Primetime and Daytime Television.
  • Tepper Semester Professor of Advanced Acting for the Camera, 2007–10, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
    Taught 15-week course in on-camera acting technique, audition process for pilots and episodic television, audition process for film, insights to the business (i.e., getting an agent in New York and L.A., keeping up with current trends in pictures and résumés), and navigating casting offices in New York and L.A. Also helped actors to transition from the academic world to the professional world.
  • Seminar director, 2002–10, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
  • Casting director, 1999, 30 Days, Arrow Pictures, New York
  • Associate casting director, 1996–97, The Practice, ABC Television, Los Angeles
  • Associate casting director, 1996, Crisis Center (NBC Television), The L Word (NBC Television), Extreme Measures (Castle Rock), Los Angeles
  • Associate casting director, 1995, Harriet the Spy (Paramount Pictures), New York
  • Casting talent scout, 1995, Striptease (Castle Rock), Whistle Down the Wind (Castle Rock), New York
  • Casting talent scout, 1994, Universal Talent Search, New York
  • Assistant casting director, 1994, Home for the Holidays (Egg Pictures), Bad With Numbers (Universal Pictures), Bushwacked (20th Century Fox), New York
  • Casting director, 1994, Developing (Short Film), New York
  • Casting intern, 1993, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, New York

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Variety magazine Top 10 Entertainment Educators in the World, 2018

Publications and presentations

  • Backstage Magazine, 2015
  • Indiewire, 2015
  • Do Savannah, 2015
  • The Art of the Audition by Rob Decina, 2010
  • Self Magazine, 2009