Audition Technique for Animation with Casting Director Dawn Hershey-Lopes
Dawn Hershey-Lopes began her casting career at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. She worked her way up through the ranks from Casting Assistant, Casting Coordinator, Casting Supervisor, and finally to Casting Director, joining the Casting Society of America (CSA) in 1999.
From Nickelodeon Dawn moved on to Icebox.com where she was hired as the Executive Director of Casting, to cast and record over 50 animated shorts for the internet. From Icebox she went on to co-found Blindlight in 2001 (A production services company for the videogame industry) and for 7 years oversaw all of the voice-over production which included titles such as “Halo 2” and “Oblivion”.
While holding down full time jobs at each of these companies, she continued to build her freelance career in Television and Feature film animation on the side. (She cast 5 seasons of the Adult Swim Show “Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law” as well the “TMNT” animated movie in 2006).
Her current clients include Warner Bros., Renegade Animation, Amazon Studios, Unicorn Studios and MARZA Animation Planet.
Current projects include “The New Looney Tunes Show”, “The New Tom and Jerry Show” and an animated feature that has just been announced called “RoboDog”.