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South Shore Casting was founded by Jodi Purdy-Quinlan, a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1986 and a director at Diane Purdy's Children's Theatre Workshop, Inc. since 1980. Jodi has been working in the field of 'casting' since 1980 and has personally introduced 1000's of talented children and adults to New England, New York and Los Angeles Casting Directors.
As a freelance casting director and casting assistant, Jodi has been behind the scenes working as the 'go to' casting gal for CP Casting, Boston Casting, Billy Dowd Casting, LDI Casting and Grant Wilfley Casting. Her credits include casting 10,000 extra roles in the feature film "The Game Plan" starring "The Rock"; casting 1,500 extra roles in the feature film "The Pink Panther 2" starring Steve Martin; casting 1,500 extra roles in the feature film "The Maiden Heist" starring Christopher Walken; casting 1,300 extra roles in the feature film "What Doesn't Kill You" starring Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo and casting 1,700 extra roles in the feature film "Bride Wars" starring Kate Hudson and Anne Hathaway.
Her credits also include casting 16 girls between the ages of 11 and 13 as an "Angel Choir" in the Academy Award Winning feature film "The Departed" directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Jack Nicholson, Martin Sheen, Alec Baldwin, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Wahlberg and Robert Wahlberg. Jodi also cast an additional 25 kids between the ages of 4 and 18 in the film and 150 men and women.
In 2002, Jodi held auditions for boys and girls of various ages to appear in a variety of roles in the Academy Award Winning Warner Bros. feature film "Mystic River" directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Sean Penn (Best Actor), Tim Robbins (Best Supporting Actor), Kevin Bacon, Lawrence Fishburne, Laura Linney and Marsha Gay Harding. Jodi introduced then 14-year old Andrew Mackin of Weymouth to the Boston and New York casting directors and they introduced him (via videotape) to Clint Eastwood and he was cast as one of the killer's "John O'Shay" in the film. In addition, Jodi cast 30 six to seven year old boys and girls as the "First Holy Communion Recipients" in the film, as well as 4 altar boys and an additional 100 men, women and children for the scene.
In her 29 year career working in the casting industry, Jodi has given 1,000's of children and adults opportunities to audition and perform in print ads, television commercials, feature films, television programs, industrial films, educational videos and professional theatre productions.
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Jodi Purdy-Quinlan
Casting Director
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Susan Shields Darian
Director of Marketing
Talent Recruiter
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Nancy O'Brien
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Cheryl Hawe
Casting Associate
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