Refine your audition skills with a casting professional! Sign up for a private coaching session with Nicole Arbusto.

Upgrade your audition skills with a working Casting Director. Bring your sides & breakdown and I will work your audition with you, give you real direct feedback and get you where you need to be to do your best work every time you get in the room.

Auditioning is a specific skill -- this is not an acting class -- this is learning how to put your best foot forward so that you can let your work shine and not get tripped up by the audition process.

Nicole is one half of the Dickson/Arbusto Casting team who, over the last 10 years, have had seven films at Sundance, cast TV pilots for Fox, NBC, the WB and UPN, and done Los Angeles casting for Seattle Rep, Kansas City Rep, The Huntington, The Cleveland Playhouse, and Portland Center Stage. They have also cast locally for The Pasadena Playhouse, the Mark Taper Forum, and The Ahmanson.

Before partnering with Joy Dickson, Nicole was casting associate to Howard Feuer and worked with him on "Fearless" (directed by Peter Weir), "Philadelphia" (directed by Jonathan Demme), "Groundhog Day" (directed by Harold Ramis), and "Little Buddha" (director Bernardo Bertolucci ) among others. She originally trained with Wally Nicita. While working with her, Ms. Nicita cast "The Accidental Tourist" (director Lawrence Kasdan), "Let It Ride" (director Joe Pytka), "Old Gringo" (director Luis Puenzo) and "Quarter Life" (quarterlife.com, director Marshall Hershkovitz).

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"Stephanie Daley" - starring Tilda Swinton, Amber Tamblyn, and Timothy Hutton Sundance 2006 Waldo Salt Screenwriting Prize , Locarno Film Festival, Best Actress Prize to Amber Tamblyn

"Interview with the Assassin" - Spirit Award nomination Best First Feature, Avignon Film Festival Prix Tournage

"The Business of Strangers" - Sundance 2001, San Francisco International Film Festival Skyy Prize, Paris Film Festival Special Jury Prize

"The Tao of Steve" - Sundance 2001 Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Donal Logue

"Treasure Island" - Sundance 1999 Special Jury Prize for Distinctive Vision in Filmmaking,

"Perdita Durango" - director Alex de la Iglesia's only English language film starring Javier Bardem, Rosie Perez, and James Gandolfini.

"The Independent" - starring Janeane Garofalo, Jerry Stiller, Max Perlich Montreal Comedy Festival Best Actress Prize to Janeane Garofalo

"Jitney" - by August Wilson Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Ensemble Los Angeles Casting for Huntington Theatre & Centerstage

"King Hedley II" - by August Wilson world premiere Los Angeles casting for Pittsburgh Playhouse & Seattle Rep.

"Good Thing" - by Jessica Goldberg for 2001 Ovation Award for Best Ensemble Taper Too

"The Sisters Matsumoto" - by Philip Kan Gotanda world premiere LA Casting for Seattle Rep

"Restoration Comedy" - by Amy Freed world premiere LA Casting for Seattle Rep

"Untitled Hickey/Hower Project" - Imagine/FBC

"Untitled Camryn Manheim Project" - Warner Bros./WB

"The Men's Room" - NBC Studios/NBC

"The Mullets" - Warner Bros. TV/The Tannenbaum Co/UPN

"Off Centre" - Warner Bros. TV / Dreamworks TV/ WB