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Jen Rudin recently reopened Jen Rudin Casting following her stints at ICM and IAG. Check out the Deadline announcement here. Jen also offers her fourth monthly FREE Zoom chat for actors on Monday, November 18 at 6:30 PM ET! Sign up here.
Jen is an award-winning casting director, author and audition coach who began her decades-long career in show business as a professional child actor at age eight. She is the proud author of Confessions of a Casting Director: Help Actors Land Any Role with Secrets From Inside the Audition Room (HarperCollins) and the host of the Confessions of a Casting Director popular podcast. Check out her USA Today op-ed piece about the victory for Casting Directors finally getting their own Oscar category. She has published essays in Newsweek, Kveller, Medium, and the Jewish Literary Journal and recently cast the new #GiftOfGiggles campaign for Sesame Street.
MEET JEN
“Jen Rudin is as good as it gets in the Casting department. She has a great eye for talent!”
As a casting executive at the Walt Disney Company from 2002 until 2009, Jen conducted talent searches across the United States, identifying and hiring actors who went on to star on Broadway in The Lion King, Mary Poppins, and The Little Mermaid and in beloved Disney movies like The Incredibles, The Princess and the Frog, Chicken Little, and Brother Bear. She is a two-time recipient of the prestigious Casting Society of America Artios award, receiving the award for Best Animation Feature casting for The Princess and the Frog (2010) and Chicken Little (2005.) As owner of Jen Rudin Casting from 2009 until 2020, Jen has cast numerous animated feature films, projects for Disney Channel and popular TV and radio campaigns for Charmin, Porsche, HomeGoods and the famous “Can You Hear Me, Now” campaign for Verizon.
In 2020, Jen joined ICM Partners to establish a formal Animation VO department. While at ICM, Rudin shepherded significant animated feature deals for such clients as Lucy Liu, Wanda Sykes, Samuel L. Jackson, Rachel Zegler, Alan Cumming, Catherine O’Hara, Nathan Lane, Lana Condor, Stephanie Beatriz, Jason Ritter, and Cathy Ang. In addition, Jen signed popular Peloton instructor Tunde Oyeneyin across the board. She was instrumental in closing Tunde’s book deal with Simon & Schuster and securing a branding partnership with Nike. In 2022, she joined APA (now IAG) to launch their VO department, bringing animation and VO opportunities to their client list.
Jen is a proud graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. She lives in New York City with her husband and spends her free time running in Central Park.
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