Cathy Reinking

My name is CATHY REINING and I've been working as a Casting Director since the early '90s, working on Frasier, Arrested Development, According to Jim, and many other shows and pilots on NBC, CBS, ABC, The CW, Fox. I also served as NBC's Manager of Casting, overseeing many pilots including "The Office," and I hold a degree in theatre arts from UCLA, where I graduated magna cum laude. Besides all my Network TV experience, I have also cast films, web series, theater tours, industrials, commercials, and plays. I currently live in Atlanta, Georgia. In the Winter 2018, NBC hired me to search for talent in Atlanta/Southeast Area for their line up of new shows.

I've spent 25 years in the trenches of casting, meaning, I've directed and helped thousands of actors get work. I've worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars, including Jason Bateman, Steve Carell, Tessa Thompson, Tony Hale, Jon Hamm, Kelsey Grammer, Will Ferrell, James Earl Jones, David Alan Grier, Ann Dowd, Jenna Fischer, Jim Belushi, Marsha Mason, Jean Smart, Michael Keaton . . .I know what writer-producer-directors at the top echelons look for. I know first-hand the standards actors have to strive for in order to book paying jobs in TV, film, and streaming that pay enough money for you to be able to quit your day job. I also see and hear the stupid things actors say, do, email, post and shoot, that can do you harm in your first interactions with folks who have the potential to help you.

I'm also an acting coach, motivational speaker, writer, content producer, theater director, and all around creative person who has had the privilege of working in an industry I only dreamed of being a part of when I was a child. I have traveled the country sharing my wisdom with actors and creatives at universities and public workshops/classes.

"Bottom Line Up Front: Cathy Reinking Under Promises and Over Delivers. Cathy’s passion is helping others be their absolute best, and she is extremely effective at her life’s mission. Her WHY is simply to help clients SHINE. She probes, pries, picks, wheedles, and cajoles the clients in order to expose their best self, be it in front of a camera, on a podcast, on social media, or in the commercial marketplace. Here’s Cathy’s secret sauce—she knows how to translate her extensive media and commercial experience into clear directions that a layman can both understand and execute. I had the opportunity of working with Cathy when she served as my “Charisma Coach” for a video commercial. Not having extra dollars to spend, I was pretty skeptical of an expense by that title. However, I trusted the director who told me Cathy was the best. I do not exaggerate when I say that I knew within 30 seconds that Cathy was one of the best hiring moves I’d made. Our commercial was a huge success in part to Cathy and helping me to be my best in front of the camera. I was so impressed with her that I asked her to be my crowdsourcing consultant. One month and a successful Kickstarter campaign later, I’ll let the results speak for themselves."

Aaron Weiss, GruneStrasse

My three books currently avail on AMAZON are 1) Little Lucky Girl: Secrets of Superman - it's a true Holocaust related story seen through the prism of the 2nd generation (ME!), and 2) A True Hollywood Cancer Story - follows the harrowing journey of going through cancer and cancer treatment with no health insurance, and survived to tell the tale. I'm the only child of a Polish refugee (her dad, who died in 1972) and a Swiss immigrant, the first in her family going back all generations to even go to college let alone graduate magna cum laude from UCLA. After spending decades helping others tell their stories, I am now telling my own. They are about resilience, loss, despair, hope, optimism, reckless behavior, compassion, prayer, kindness, and a go-to attitude under adverse conditions. 3) How To Book Acting Jobs 3.0: Through the Eyes of a Casting Director, a critical primer on all things related to acting, creating, and staying sane doing so.