Matt Bouldry CSA
Casting Director Matt Bouldry; President of CP Casting, Matt has been an integral part CP Casting since 1993. He has coordinated hundreds of auditions and cast hundreds of actors in feature films, episodic television, commercial advertisements, corporate films, and whatever else came along that needed some good, local talent.
A distiguished member of the Casting Society of America, Matt has been nominated and won many awards for Casting, including winning Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting for “The Tender Bar”, “Don’t Look Up”, “Manchester by the Sea”, “Moonrise Kingdom”, and more, and a Primetime Emmy Award for Casting for a Limited Series for “Olive Kitteridge”
Matt oversees and manages CP Casting's day-to-day business operations and is responsible for making sure everything is on schedule and on point. Matt is also the registrar of the Acting Studio at CP Casting and coordinates the acting training program.
Heather Whitty
Casting Director Heather Whitty has over 15 years of casting experience in Boston, NYC and LA. Her focus is on casting primarily for TV and Film.
She's a graduate of The New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, where she studied under John Tyrell, a student of Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. A former stand up comic (Boston Comedy Festival, Women in Comedy Festival (NYC). She has taught casting director workshops at: Boston University, Northeastern University, local Film Festivals, and at SAG AFTRA New England.
She is also the owner of Whitty Studios in Rockland, MA where she privately coaches and offers self tape services. Actors who have worked with Heather have gone on to book major roles in TV/Film along with garnishing representation with top Agents and Managers in the Boston/NYC/LA.
Heather is beyond thrilled to be a part of the CP Casting team!
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Carolyn Pickman CSA
Casting Director Carolyn Pickman is the founder of CP Casting, and consults on all projects as she has the past 40 years. She is a member of Screen Actors Guild & The Casting Society of America. Carolyn has won numerous casting awards for feature films, including The Departed, Gone, Baby, Gone, Shutter Island, Mystic River, Good Will Hunting, The Crucible, and Mystic Pizza.
She has performed professionally in plays, soap operas, TV, and films; and since the late 70’s has taught professional and nonprofessional adults and teens, acting and auditioning skills. Along with the work she does at The Studio, she is currently an Adjunct Professor at Suffolk University working with Media and Theater Department students. This class, On Camera Acting, has been a successful addition to the TA curriculum at Suffolk for 5 years.
She’s often invited to teach workshops throughout the New England area at performing arts schools, centers and universities. A partial list of these workshops and seminars includes: Boston University, Boston College, Trinity Conservatory, R.I Film Collaborative, Bridgewater State, Brandeis University, Boston Arts Academy, Dorchester Youth Collaborative, Emerson College, Woods Hole and Provincetown Film Festivals and the ART Conservatory.
Bates Wilder
Actor in film, television and stage. Bates has been a professional actor for over 35 years now. He’s worked in Boston, New York, the Midwest, and Hollywood as a film, television actor, and also an award winning artist of the stage. (IRNE awards for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor). On stage he’s appeared in the critically acclaimed, Waiting for Godot at the New Rep Theatre. He has also starred in A Streetcar named Desire, Shear Madness, Frozen, and Blackbird among many others. In film Bates has appeared in many films. Joy, Detroit, Dust of War, Stronger, Over There, and the award winning Tater Tot and Patton.
Rounding off Bates accomplishments in the acting business, he has appeared in countless local and national commercials playing a wide range of characters from the goofy and obscure, to the poignant and dramatic, and many others in-between.
As a teacher, Bates has been with CP for over 25 years, advised the Scituate Public School Drama departments for some 10 years, an instructor at Emerson College since 1998 and an adjunct at BU 2008-2010. Bates loves the creative art of acting and does not pull his punches as an instructor. He coaches privately one on one. And most important, please understand that he will let you know how he feels and will nurture your abilities and work to get the best out of his students!
Dennis Staroselsky
Dennis has appeared in the feature films Rubberneck, We Don’t Belong Here, Detroit (Directed by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow), American Woman, Love, Weddings and Other Disasters, and the upcoming About Fate. His TV credits include recurring roles on The Loudest Voice in the Room, The Deuce, Julia, Madame Secretary, and guest stars on Nurse Jackie, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Castle Rock, and Law & Order among others.
Theater credits include the world premiere of An Early History of Fire, at The New Group NYC, as well as appearances at regional theatres such as the A.R.T. The Huntington Theatre Co., Geva Theatre Center, Dallas Theater Center, The Paper Mill Playhouse. As a playwright his first full length play Just About Cured was produced by the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York City in the fall of 2014.
Mr. Staroselsky holds a BFA in acting from Boston University and an MA in theater education from NYU. He currently teaches acting at both Northeastern and Lesley University.
