TRACI GODFREY is the Chair of the Screen Actors Guild LGBT Committee in New York, as well as a National Director of the Screen Actors Guild Board of Directors. She is an actress and voice over artist who has performed extensively on the New York and London stage. Television credits include guest appearances on Sopranos, Law And Order, All My Children, and One Life To Live and recurring roles as Dr. Elaine Schiller on As The World Turns and Detective Farley on Law And Order Criminal Intent. Traci lives with her partner and children in East Hampton and Montclair, NJ.
KIM MOAREFI has a varied career in casting and production for films, television and theater. Select feature and TV casting credits include: HBO movies Grey Gardens, starring Jessica Lange and Drew Barrymore; Doris and Bernard, starring Susan Sarandon and Ralph Fiennes; and Polio Water, starring Misha Barton and Cherry Jones. Select theater casting credits include: Macbeth and Julius Caesar for Shakespeare on the Sound and The Exonerated, starring Richard Dreyfuss, Mia Farrow, Jeff Goldblum, and Aidan Quinn, which played Off Broadway. She was also a casting director for the NBC daytime series Passions. She is a member of the Casting Society of America.
GARY RIOTTO (left) splits his time between Los Angeles and New York City. His acting work includes roles in features such as The Heartbreak Kid with Ben Stiller, recurring work on ER, hosting segments on America’s Next Top Model and Off Broadway Theatre. Most recently, he shot an ABC pilot, How To Be A Better American, an episode of Parenthood and is currently in a workshop production of The Minotaur for the Fire Dept. theatre company in NYC.
Since 2005, panel moderator ADAM MOORE (right) has served as Associate National Director of Affirmative Action & Diversity for Screen Actors Guild and leads the department’s New York office to develop and implement a national diversity plan of action to achieve accurate representation of those groups historically excluded from the entertainment media. He is currently liaison to the New York City Task Force on Diversity in Film, Television and Commercial Production, curriculum advisor to the New York City Department of Education and is proud to have served on President Obama’s Disability Policy Committee during the 2008 Presidential Election. Adam has spent the past nine years in New York City and currently lives with his wife and dog in Brooklyn.
CARYN WEST (left), actress/acting coach/director, is the only teacher selected on both coasts as one of “The Best Audition Coaches” by Back Stage West and East 2009 polls. She actually auditions just like her clients and works hard to keep up in a fast changing industry. Her credits include: three Broadway shows, leads in top regional theaters and roles in film and television. She will be teaching her film and television “Audition Intensive” at Michael Howard Studios in July, 2010.
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