Jen Rudin

Jen Rudin is an award-winning casting director and author of Confessions of a Casting Director, published by HarperCollins. She began her career as a professional child actor in New York City and spent seven years as casting executive at The Walt Disney Company, casting such beloved animated feature films as The Incredibles, Chicken Little, The Princess, and the Frog, and overseeing the Broadway casting and domestic tours for The Lion King, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid and High School Musical.

A recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant, she wrote and executive produced the short film Lucy in the Sky, starring Whoopi Goldberg. Her essays and articles have been published in USA Today, Newsweek, New York Daily News, The Forward and Kveller. MFA: Dramatic Writing from NYU. For more info, visit www.jenrudin.com.