详细介绍:Tom McSweeney, of Tom McSweeney Casting, Los Angeles moved with his family to the Gold Coast, Australia in 1999. With a career spanning fort…Tom McSweeney, of Tom McSweeney Casting, Los Angeles moved with his family to the Gold Coast, Australia in 1999. With a career spanning forty years, Tom McSweeney is an Emmy Award nominee as well as a four time Artios Award nominee for his work in casting for feature film and television. To date, he has cast over two hundred feature film, mini-series and episodic television productions internationally. In 1994, Tom was elected to the Board of Directors of the Casting Society of America, serving for four years in that position before moving to Australia in 1998. He is the only member of the organization in the southern hemisphere. Beginning as an actor at the age of eight, he spent several seasons as a company member at the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival in the 1970s working with such talent as Tom Hanks, Meredith Baxter, Hal Holbrook and Colm Meaney. He has also worked extensively in musical theatre and opera as both a performer and director. Recipient of an acting scholarship to Bowling Green State University, Tom obtained his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications in 1983. While still at University, he wrote, produced, directed and choreographed a series of late night cabaret revues. To date, Tom has directed over sixty stage productions and choreographed another fifteen musicals, revues and operettas. After graduating from university, Tom began teaching acting and performance, initially at the Kenneth C Beck Center for the Arts and then at the famed, Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where he was the Director of Children's Theatre. While at the Institute, his students included Oscar winner, Angelina Jolie as well as "The Brady Bunch Movie" and "Legally Blonde" co-star, Alanna Ubach. In 1989, Tom began teaching acting, script interpretation and audition technique throughout the US as well as in Canada. Since coming to Australia, Tom has continued teaching Master Classes in Audition Technique and Script Interpretation in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Darw详情