Casting director Rick Millikan joins the podcast to talk about what a casting director does and shares stories from his career casting hundreds of episodes of Television (X-Files, Bones, Married With Children, Shark, Melissa & Joey). We dive inside the casting room and he gives advice to aspiring actors, directors and producers.
SERIES CREDITS
“The X-Files” 2016 (6 eps) 20th TV/FBC
“Bones” (12 seasons) 20th TV/FBC
“Backstrom” 20thTV/FBC
“Melissa & Joey” (4 seasons) ABC Family
“The Finder” 20thTV/FBC
“Shark” 20th TV/CBS
“Quintuplets” 20th TV/Imagine TV/FBC
“The Guardian” Columbia-Tri-Star/CBS
“CSI: Miami” CBSP/Alliance/Bruckheimer/CBS
*"The X-Files" (9 seasons) 20th Century Fox/1013 Prods/FBC
"Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" (7 seasons) Viacom/ABC
"Married...With Children" Columbia-Tri Star/FBC
"Raising Caines" Tri-Star/NBC
"Route 66" Columbia-Propaganda/NBC
"In The Heat of the Night" MGM TV/NBC
"The Young Riders" MGM TV/ABC
"Valley of the Dolls" New World/SYN
PILOTS
“Guilt” (2016) LA Casting Lionsgate/Freeform
“Backstrom” (2014) 20thTV/FBC
“Rogue” (2012) 20thTV/FBC
“Awake” (2011) 20thTV/NBC
“The Finder” (2011) 20thTV/FBC
“Pleading Guilty” (2010) 20thTV/FBC
“Shark” (2006) 20thTV/Imagine TV/CBS
“Fertile Ground” (2005) 20th TV/Imagine TV/FBC
“Sweden, Ohio” (2004) WBTV/FBC
“Courtship of Eddie’s Father” (2003) WBTV/Pariah/WB
“Strange Frequency” Viacom/VH1
“Life’s Too Short” 20th Century Fox TV/WB
"The Hanleys" Brillstein-Grey/ABC
"Skip Chasers" 20th Century Fox TV/CBS
"Kindred: The Embraced" Spelling TV/FBC
"Route 66" Columbia-Propaganda/NBC
"New Year" Columbia TV/ABC
"Against The Mob" MGM TV/NBC