Casting Director, Acting Teacher and Career Counselor for Actors.

Starting her new company off with a big bang, Erica Palgon completed casting for the indie feature BLISSESTRASSE. The film, which was shot in Berlin, was directed by Paul Donovan and stars an amazing group of unknown actors. On the commercial end, Erica has cast several T-Mobile commercials, including one consisting of 30 roles for director Matt Aselton, several Wii ads, a campaign for Lovaza directed by Ian Gabriel, Lendingtree, . She also continues to cast for voiceovers, including a Virgin Mobile voice over in Spanish and English and the voice for a National Biore commercial. She also recently worked on the casting for Heineken and multiple character voices for Chevy Chase Bank.

Erica’s passion and eye for discovering new talent stands out in many of the previous projects she has cast. The wildly, comedic feature film DUMPING LISA, produced and written by Rich Doherty and directed by Emmy award winning director John Oliver, focused on searches for creative comedic and improv talent. An intensive search for a range of kids to portray inner city youth in Brooklyn was among the many diverse roles required to fill for the film THE PROJECT. Directed by Ryan Piotrowicz and produced by Renart Films, THE PROJECT stars Michael Stahl David, Matt Servitto and rapper Juelz Santana. It premiered at 2008 Slamdance International Film Festival in the Narrative Competition and won the AUDIENCE AWARD for Best Narrative Film. Another feature Erica cast, GREAT WORLD OF SOUND, a comedy, directed by Craig Zobel, premiered at 2007 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Films in September 2007. In 2006 she attended Tribeca Film Festival with the film JUST LIKE THE SON, which she cast for director Morgan J. Freeman. The cast includes Mark Webber, Rosie Perez, Brendan Sexton III, and a gifted young actor, Antonio Ortiz, who was discovered through an extensive casting search conducted by Erica. Erica also explored another side to filmmaking, working on real people casting for a documentary about Eugenics, WAR AGAINST THE WEAK, winner of BEST DOCUMENTARY at 2009 DELRAY BEACH FILM FESTIVAL and BEST FEATURE FILM at 2009 BEVERLY HILLS FILM FESTIVAL. That same year, the short film she cast, SIRI OKO FO made its debut at CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2008.

In addition, Erica Palgon attended Sundance Film Festival 2001 representing 5 films cast with Susan Shopmaker Casting. She also worked on the casting for: NY casting for XMEN 3, FANTASTIC FOUR, ERAGON, REXXX THE FIREHOUSE WONDER DOG, & AQUAMARINE, James Gartner’s GLORY ROAD produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, MEAN GIRLS, Nancy Meyers’ SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE, & THE HOLIDAY, Robert Altman’s TANNER ON TANNER, John Cameron Mitchell’s HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH & John’s 2nd film, SHORTBUS, Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato’s PARTY MONSTER, Amos Kollek’s HAPPY END starring Audrey Tautou, Jim Fall’s TRICK, Morgan J. Freeman’s DESERT BLUE, Tom Dicillo’s DOUBLE WHAMMY, Dan Minahan’s SERIES 7, Chris Chan Lee’s UNDOING, Michael Kang’s THE MOTEL, David Munro’s FULL GROWN MEN, Rosemary Rodriguez’s ACTS OF WORSHIP, Eugene Martin’s DIARY OF A CITY PRIEST , Matt Allen’s WALK THE TALK; & the horror film TRAPPED ASHES directed by Sean C. Cunningham, John Gaeta, Monte Hellman & Ken Russell.

Erica has watched many directors over the years and has taken notes on different styles of directing. This combined with the many casting directors she has worked with (most notably Susan Shopmaker, Jerry Beaver, Liz Lewis and Judy Henderson) have allowed her to develop her own natural techniques in directing, inventive casting ideas and teaching methods. Actors find her energy contagious. Her lightness and sense of humor allows for all “parties” to have fun and be creative.

ERICA PALGON COMMERCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

Erica Palgon’s commercial credits include work with directors: Matt Aselton, Russell Bates, Tom DiCillo, Ray Dillman, David Gordon Green, Alison Maclean, Phil Morrison, Doug Nichol, Dewey Nicks, Mark Pellington, Jesse Peretz, Maurice Marable, Jeff Preiss, Frank Samuel, Malik Sayeed, Mike Bigelow, Fredrik Bond, Jackie Oudney, Baker Smith, Pam Thomas, Mikon Van Gastel, Mark Tiedemann, Kinka Usher, and Stacy Wall.

Erica has worked on a variety of creative commercials, including the Sobe ad that aired during the 2009 Superbowl, America’s Bid for 2016 Olympics in Chicago with director Janusz Kaminski, Estee Lauder, Claritin, Ford, Bud Light, Levi’s/Logo Channel, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Walmart, Wheat Thins, Target, Tide, Nestea, Playstation, Spiriva, Time Warner, Toyota, TLC, Truvia, Swiffer, Stride, Wendy’s and promos for 30 Rock and Comedy Central. In addition, the talent she cast in MSG Network’s “50 Greatest Days” campaign won a NY Emmy in 2009.

On the voice-over end she has cast the voices for Jeep, Chrysler, Stouffers, Samsung, Victoria’s Secret, and Vytorin. Erica’s recent radio work includes Citibank, Wendy’s, French’s Mustard, Malibu Rum, Target, Rhapsody, Comcast, Clearasil, Home Goods, Panasonic, and Mohegan Sun