Alison Franck (CSA) is a casting professional with over 20 years of Broadway, Off-Broadway, Touring, Regional Theatre, TV, Film, Commercial and Voice Over Casting experience. For a decade, she was the Casting Director for the prestigious regional theatre Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey, where she cast over 50 productions with some of the theatre community's finest talent. Notable credits at Paper Mill include the Broadway transfer of I’m Not Rappaport starring Judd Hirsch and Ben Vereen, Anything Goes starring Chita Rivera, The Baker’s Wife starring Alice Ripley, The Chosen starring Theodore Bikel and John Lloyd Young, Baby starring La Chanze, Norm Lewis, Carolee Carmello, Michael Rupert and Chad Kimball, The Full Monty with Elaine Stritch, The Importance of Being Earnest with Lynn Redgrave, and was the original Casting Director behind the Broadway transfer of Godspell, which included Telly Leung and Uzo Aduba.
“My many years as a Casting Director in Theatre, Film, Television, Commercials, Reality TV and Voice Overs have taught me so many different ways to find talent for each project and I never stop expanding that 'search.' The real secret to my process is to approach each project with a new perspective based on ever-changing technology, and recent casting experiences in all genres that continue to force my working knowledge to constantly grow, and make me think outside of the box…”
Alison got her start as an assistant-turned-associate at the legendary casting office Johnson-Liff, working on casting for the Broadway productions of Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera, Cats, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard, Victor/Victoria (starring Julie Andrews), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (starring Nathan Lane, followed by Whoopi Goldberg, and then David Alan Grier), and the original productions of Side Show, Steel Pier and Big, the Musical!
In addition to her theatre credits. Alison has worked in film and television. Her TV credits include New York pilot casting for the critically acclaimed Freaks and Geeks, which won an Emmy for casting. She's also worked on episodic casting for Lateline (starring Al Franken), Soul Man (starring Dan Aykroyd), and Talk to Me (starring Kyra Sedgewick), as well as casting for the independent film Broke Even (starring Kevin Corrigan and Elizabeth Berridge).
For 3 years, Alison joined the team at Liz Lewis Casting Partners where she worked on numerous commercials, voice overs and reality projects. She also cast the original voices for the television series Peter Rabbit.
Off-Broadway Projects include It’s Just Sex and the original replacement casting for The Donkey Show (directed by Diane Paulus).
Alison has also cast national tours of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Guys and Dolls, Hello, Dolly! (starring Sally Struthers), Man of La Mancha, Damn Yankees, My Fair Lady, Hair, Ain’t Misbehavin’ (starring Ruben Studdard and Frenchie Davis), Dreamgirls, the annual tour of Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and recently the tour of A Christmas Story, the Musical! and another tour of Guys and Dolls. In addition to her years at Paper Mill Playhouse, Alison's other regional casting work includes Goodspeed Opera House, North Shore Music Theatre, the Asolo, Coconut Grove Playhouse, The Human Race Theatre Company, Theatre Under the Stars and Theatre of the Stars.