MAURA FAY CASTING. NOT-FOR-PROFIT SCREEN-TEST INTENSIVE

SCREEN-TEST INTENSIVE with LOU MITCHELL, SENIOR CASTING DIRECTOR AT MAURA FAY CASTING, ONE OF AUSTRALIA’S MOST ENDURING AND RESPECTED CASTING HOUSES.

An Intensive 2-hour Screen-Test Session. On-Camera. In-Studio. Direction & Feedback. Including Q&A. SIDES provided. 

Saturday 28th of November, 2026
$79.00 (GST inc)

This is a not-for-profit initiative presented in association with our Industry Mentorship & Training Program. Tuition is set solely to cover the costs of delivering the session, with FTSI receiving no profit from the program.

It is part of our ongoing commitment to supporting, developing and giving back to Melbourne’s acting community.

Join Lou Mitchell, Casting Director at Maura Fay Casting for over 30 years, for a focused 2-hour screen-test intensive in our Melbourne studio.

On-Camera. In-Studio. Industry Direction.

This small-group session gives actors the opportunity to work directly with a leading Casting Director, experience the screen-test process in a professional studio environment, and receive individual direction and feedback on their performance.

The session includes:

• Individual screen-test with Lou Mitchell (Maura Fay Casting)
• On-camera direction and feedback
• First-hand insight into the casting process
• Q&A with Lou Mitchell
• Choice of scenes provided in advance
• Professional reader provided
• Recorded performance to take home
• A great opportunity to get in front of the camera, in a professional studio, and work directly with a working Casting Director, with your screen-test recording to take home.

ABOUT MAURA FAY CASTING

Operating for nearly four decades, Maura Fay Casting is one of Australia’s most enduring casting houses.

Founded in 1987 by the legendary Maura Fay, the company established its reputation on Maura’s exceptional instinct for talent and her ability to connect actors with leading producers, networks and studios. Through her work and industry relationships, including connections forged in the United States throughout the 1990s, Maura helped bring Australian actors to international audiences.

Expanding into Melbourne and Queensland in 1989, the company developed a presence across Australia’s major east coast production hubs, including Fox Studios Sydney, Docklands Studios Melbourne and Warner Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast. Maura’s legacy is one of integrity, passion and an enduring commitment to the craft of casting.

Today, her sister Ann Fay, alongside Lou Mitchell, Marianne Jade and Leigh Pickford, continues that legacy, casting across film and television while maintaining longstanding industry relationships in Los Angeles, New York and London.

Over the years, Maura Fay Casting has worked across an extensive range of Australian and international productions, earning a reputation for recognising emerging talent and bringing together the right actors, roles and creative teams. The company remains committed to the actors and filmmakers it works with, upholding the values on which it was founded and continuing its contribution to the Australian screen industry.

Maura Fay Castings extensive and high-profile casting credits include:

The Only One; The Room Below; Gnomes; Chasing Millions; Fall 2: Deadpoint; Echoes in Time; Beast; Moonbird; Sunny Nights; Ghosts: Australia; Moni; Good Cop/Bad Cop; Invisible Boys; Penny Lane Is Dead; Carmen and Bolude; Optics; NCIS: Sydney; Return to Paradise; RFDS; White Fever; Four Years Later; In Vitro; Paper Dolls; Scrublands; Gold Diggers; Crazy Fun Park; Last King of the Cross; The Tourist; Ten Pound Poms; CAUGH*T; While the Men Are Away; In Limbo; The Secret Kingdom; Wellmania; Erotic Stories; Mercy Road; North Shore; Late Night with the Devil; The Artful Dodger; The Longest Weekend; Wog Boys Forever; Christmas Ransom;Barons; Sissy; Wakefield; Hungry Ghosts; The Gloaming; The Hunting; Secret City; No Activity; The Doctor Blake Mysteries; Janet King; Packed to the Rafters; McLeod’s Daughters; Home and Away; All Saints; Underbelly Files: Infiltration; Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here; The Wrong Girl; Wonderland; Anzac Girls; Crownies; The Secret River; The Dressmaker; Predestination; The Whistleblower; Killer Elite; The Great Mint Swindle; The Postcard Bandit; December Boys; The Cup; BoyTown; The Castle; Muriel’s Wedding; The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; Chopper; Romper Stomper; The Dish; Lantana; Animal Kingdom; Two Hands; Strictly Ballroom; The Babadook; The Sapphires; The Dry; The Railway Man; Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith; Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones; Mission: Impossible, and many more…

Australian and International actors who have appeared in Maura Fay Casting projects include: Simon Baker, Benjamin Bratt, Bryan Brown, Rose Byrne, Helena Bonham Carter, Russell Crowe, Judy Davis, Michael Douglas, Robert de Niro, Joseph Fiennes, Isla Fisher, Kick Gurry, Martin Henderson, Paul Hogan, Stephanie Jacobsen, Hugh Jackman, William Hurt, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Lambert, Heath Ledger, Rob Lowe, David Lyons, William H. Macy, John Malkovich, Julian McMahon, Debra Messing, Poppy Montgomery, Olivia Newton-John, Frances O’Connor, Alex O’Loughlin, Miranda Otto, Teresa Palmer, Guy Pearce, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Roberts, Richard Roxburgh, Brooke Shields, Greta Scacchi, Yvonne Strahovski, Donald Sutherland, Magda Szubanski, Rachael Taylor, Anna Torv, Jack Thompson, Naomi Watts, Michael Weatherly, Andy Whitfield, Sam Worthington, Ethan Hawke, Aden Young, Billy Zane, Clive Owen, Brendan Gleeson, Jason Statham, Clive Owen, Richard E Grant, Rachel Griffiths, Charles Dance, to name but a few.

Whether you’re emerging or established, this is a fantastic opportunity to the get in the room and work directly with a top-tier casting professional, practice and sharpen your audition skills, get constructive feedback on your work and take your scene home with you.

📌 Strictly limited places.