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In the performing arts, such as Theater,  casting is a pre-performance process to select a certain actor, singer, or dancer for a certain role, in a Play. That is the role of a Casting Director. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZgL7SzfXAM

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Although the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics does not provide information specific to the field of casting direction, they did a estimation that producers and directors will have a 9% increase employment rate from 2014 to 2024. #goodjoboutlook

The average salary of a Casting Director is about $103,277 per year, but this can range base on your renown and skill. #makingthatcash

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Casting Directors organize and facilitate the casting of actors for all the roles in a show, usually the Casting Director has close working relationship with both the director and producer, so that they can get the ideal actors that they wanted.

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Some pros that come along with the job would be

1. You can become famous in this line of work
2. You can turn people into stars
3.  The average pay starts at about  $32
4. You get to work in one of the most coveted industries
5.  You get a good amount of power of how to run things.

#overallnotbad

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Although the pros sound pretty good, everything has some cons too.

1. You will have to deal with inflated egos and stubborn people
2. the work hours can sometimes be 20 hours a day
3. Your payment is based on how known you are in the industry
4. Sometimes you might have to crush someones dreams
5. Sometimes the directors are looking for certain characteristics in a actor which can take away some of your power

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From what i can tell, there are only two real ways for becoming a casting director.

1. You can try to become a intern at a casting agency which is the better option because its a quicker way up the ladder of fame, but that is usually the route most inspiring actors go, even though most agencies don't accept actors in that role (pun included)

2. The 2nd option, is kinda a crappy one but its the most realistic one, and it is starting at the very bottom, like a low-paid job that works with the casting director  like getting them coffee, put maybe if you are lucky you can start a little higher and work with a casting director as a casting director assistant, that is still pretty low on the spectrum but it'll get you there just a little faster.

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Bernard Telsey is a known casting director from the 1980s, now today he still doing casting work but he is much more busy, being the co-founder of the MCC Theater. Bernard was once a assistant at Simon and Kumin Casting and moved on to a bigger name and a bigger role of becoming a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting. Some known names of shows and movies that Telsey directed would be Margin Call, Rent (the movie unfortunately), Sex in the city, The Doors, and Legally Blonde

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Possibly the most well known Casting Director in Theater, David Grindrod is probably the right hand man for Andrew Lloyd Webber, and the essential man to find all the powerful singers for almost all of his musicals. He is known for the strong cast of Mamma Mia!, Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, West Side Story, and Saturday Night Fever

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Oh boy, if you thought i was excited about talking about Nina Gold, watch out Because here comes Susie Figgis. Despite not being known like Nina and Bernard, Susie Figgis has a fantastic collection of movies that she directed the casting for. (and personally some of the most legit best movies of all time) Some of these Shows are Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone, Sweeny Todd (like the best musical ever, i suggest we do a school play) Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Sleepy Hollow, Dark Shadows, Byzantium, to name a few of the great movies she worked with.

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A Casting director, that did the casting work for one of my favorite movies and TV show , Nina Gold is Very talented Casting Directors with many known works under her belt. Besides turning complete nobodies into A-list stars on the hit HBO show, Game of Thrones, Nine Gold has a large sum of movies that did extremely well, such as Les Misérables (you know the good one with Eddie Redmayne in it), Hot Fuzz, A Christmas Carol, Vera Drake, Bright Star, Leap Year, Beowulf, The Chronicles of Narnia, and a bunch of boring Star wars movies.  Gold also had many awards to her name mainly because of Game of Thrones, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series win in 2015 and 2016 and Emmy nominations for the first six seasons.

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"You are a phenomenon – your energy and passion are second to none in our industry"

This Quote is to state, how a casting director is to not only somewhat encourage a actor, but also to show some of the qualities that they should be looking for. #strengthsofthecast

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William Morris Endeavor (WME) Creative Artists Agency (CAA) International Creative Management (ICM)
United Talent Agency (UTA)Paradigm Talent Agency.

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There is no Education Requirements but it does help if your have a bachelor's degree in some related field. The only other real requirement is more of a option depending on who your trying to work for and that is some kind of experience

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The biggest question is, Would all this work be worth it?

Just because the job doesn't take any degree or any real qualifications doesn't mean it'll be a easy job to get into, you'll start at a very low point and work pretty much minimum wage for about 4 years of your life, just trying to get to that point where you will start to rise into the industry, and even then your a few good years from becoming a actual Casting director, everything that you have been working on to get that far is like a constant amount of on the job training. Now let's say you finally made it the casting director position, after 8 to 10 years, and its for a very cheap and cheesy show nothing major, or in a big theater, a small fish gig, the pay might not be much better than where you were in the beginning and you gotta ask yourself are you  really making any kind of impact? To those who dream big enough, yes this process is worth it but you will need major thick skin to make it.

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My First thought about the job when i selected it was that It sounded like a awesome thing to research, but after working on this project, I've come to  understand that its a pain to get all this info, but at the same time, this job sounds like something i'd love to do as a career or even a side career, because the pay, the experience and the whole idea of the job suits me well.