IMPROV COMEDY WORKSHOPS

Q&A with Emmy Winning Casting Director AJ Links
Saturday, May 17th, 12pm to 3pm.  Cost: $30

This Q&A will be a chance for you to ask questions about the acting industry (in Chicago and beyond) regarding  TV, feature films, and commercials. AJ will be happy to answer your questions and help clarify and dispel what Casting Directors want in the room and from the talent they are seeing.

AJ LINKS, CSA (she/her) is a two-time Emmy Winning Casting Director for the Chicago Casting of FX’s THE BEAR and the owner of AJ Links Casting. She is a three-time Artios Award Winner for her work on THE BEAR, HBO’s LOVECRAFT COUNTRY and Aaron Sorkin’s THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7. Before AJ Links Casting, she spent almost 11 years at Paskal Rudnicke Casting, working her way up from intern to CD. AJ casts films (both big budget studio features and Chicago indies), television, commercials, industrials, music videos and live theater. Her select television credits include: FX’s THE BEAR (2 Primetime Emmys) and the fourth installment of FARGO, HBO’s STATION ELEVEN, SOUTH SIDE, and LOVECRAFT COUNTRY (Artios Award), Showtime’s SHAMELESS and WORK IN PROGRESS,  AppleTV+ series THE SHINING GIRLS, Comedy Central’s JOE PERA TALKS WITH YOU and the upcoming Marvel series IRONHEART. Select film credits:  Aaron Sorkin’s THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Artios winner ‘20), Steve McQueen’s WIDOWS (Artios nomination), Michael Bay’s TRANSFORMERS 4, Austin Vesely’s SLICE, Kris Rey’s I USED TO GO HERE, Elizabeth Chomko’s WHAT THEY HAD, Stephen Cone’s HENRY GAMBLE’S BIRTHDAY PARTY and  PRINCESS CYD, Kelly O’Sullivan + Alex Thompson’s GHOSTLIGHT and SAINT FRANCES, Jennifer Reeder’s SIGNATURE MOVE, KNIVES AND SKIN, NIGHTS END, and PERPETRATOR. Several independent films and projects have premiered at legendary festivals around the world, including: TIFF, Sundance, Tribeca, Berlinale, SXSW, Frameline. She is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University and is a proud member of The Casting Society of America.