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.
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.
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Carolyn Pickman CSA
Carolyn is the founder of CP Casting, and consults on all projects as she has the past 30 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.
Carolyn’s expertise in teaching comes from years of designing practical, learnable, techniques that enable actors to understand the audition process and make significant choices for cinematic acting. Her “Getting Started in the Business of Acting” workshop was the first in Boston to inform new actors on how the business works. This popular seminar has motivated over a thousand people to take a first step towards an exciting new path.
As a student at Emerson, she began her acting career at the Theatre Company of Boston. Later she started teaching as a founding member of the Theatre Company’s School Touring Company. This bi-racial company was created during the anti-busing years to relieve racial tension and introduce Arts in Education into the then turbulent Boston Public High School system.
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 in Boston). 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.
In Television, Bates was probably best known for his recurring role as the hapless, ne’er-do-well brother-in-law for three seasons on Showtime’s “Brotherhood”. But Recent TV appearances include, Sins of the Preacher, The Spirit of Christmas, and Long Lost Michelle. And he will soon be seen in Showtime’s The Wrong Mans which completed filming this past fall.
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!
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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.
