Episode 03 - Donna Morong

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Today we get a chance to chat with Donna Morong at her Aquila Morong Studio in Hollywood. Donna was part of the team at Disney that cast the first films of a lot of faces you are going to recognize, including the Oscar Winning and nominated cast of Gone Baby Gone, Anne Hathaway from Princess Diaries, or how about Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon Levitt and Julia Styles in 10 Things I Hate about You? She also was casting director on Annapolis, The Hot Chick, and so many more, and has a lot of great stories about her work. So tune in, sit back and enjoy!

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Show Notes:

Donna Morong

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414708/

Bleecker Street

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleecker_Street

Circle in the Square

http://circlesquare.org/

Martha Graham

http://www.marthagraham.org/

Carol Channing

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151919/

Bette Midler

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000541/

Bernadette Peters

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001613/

Gloria Foster

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0287825/

Mother Courage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Courage_and_Her_Children

Richard Schechner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Schechner

Joan Macintosh

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0532851/

University of Michigan

https://umich.edu/

William Esper

https://esperstudio.com/

Meg Simon

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800296/

Fran Kumin

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0474973/

Neil Simon

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0800319/

William Hurt

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000458/

Christopher Walken

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/

Harvey Keitel

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000172/

Jerry Stiller

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005467/

Judith Ivey

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412382/

Sigourney Weaver

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000244/

Cynthia Nixon

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0633223/

Barnet Kellman

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446060/

Heart of Midnight

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095286/

Jennifer Jason Leigh

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000492/

Johanna Ray

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0712874/

Matthew Chapman

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0152466/

Dino de Laurentiis

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0209569/

Steve Buscemi

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000114/

The Blob

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/

Douglas Aible

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0014428/

Five Corners

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093029/

Rachel McAdams

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1046097/

Heath Ledger

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005132/

Chris Pine

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1517976/

The Hot Chick

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0302640/

Marcia Ross

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0743638/

Samuel L. Jackson

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000168/

Spike Lee

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000490/

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093951/

Shanghai Knights

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300471/

Priscilla John

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424219/

The Princess Diaries

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0247638/

Gail Goldberg

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0325202/

Anne Hathaway

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004266/

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigalo

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0205000/

Amy Poehler

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688132/

Rob Schneider

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001705/

Gone Baby Gone

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0452623/

Ben Affleck

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000255/

Casey Affleck

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000729/

Amy Ryan

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752407/

Dick Cook

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1693424/

Michelle Monaghan

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1157358/

Morgan Freeman

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000151/

Ed Harris

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000438/

Titus Welliver

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920038/

Morgan Saylor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2838320/

McCaul Lombardi

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6543383/

We the Coyotes (formerly titled ‘Just a Little Bit Longer’)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6898162/

Annapolis

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417433/

James Franco

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290556/

Tyrese Gibson

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0879085/

Rubber

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1612774/

Roger Corman

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000339/

Samuel Beckett

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065716/

Quentin Dupieux

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1189197/

Wrong

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1901040/

Wrong Cops

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2166616/

Reality

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392672/

Marilyn Manson

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001504/

Josef Lieck

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1062552/

Aquila Morong Studio

http://aquilamorongstudio.com/

Deborah Aquila

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0032597/

Stella Adler

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0012245/

Leo Ramsey

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6609016/

Scott Hornbacher

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0394954

Brad Barnes

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1240575/

Ilene Starger

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0823096/

Mr. Magoo

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119718/

Mila Kunis

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005109/

Marco La Via

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6235837/

Hanna Ladoul

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5752736/

Pretty Orphans

https://www.facebook.com/Orphans-reasons-to-be-pretty-1896214714027740/

Risa Bramon Garcia

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0305405/

Colaborator

https://colaborator.com/

Casting Society of America

www.castingsociety.com

Intro and Outro Music

"Backbay Lounge" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/