Complaint Review: CENTRAL CASTING

Central Casting retaliates, blacklists and is vicious overall.

We’d like this illegal action to stop. There are many actors who’ve worked very hard, are professional, yet others in the workplace have told stories that do not warrant being unemployed.

Most who are working are concerned about using their name or other’s names with the fear of also being blacklisted or retaliated against which is why we need to broadcast Central Casting’s illegal behavior.

Central Casting does not check to see if situations against the actors they hire are true, though the actors have had an impeccable work history across the board. Instead, they ruin whatever work possibilities may come the actor’s way.

There have been instances of Central Casting making mistakes, ie, claiming to call talent or inform talent of their start time when in fact they never called, but barred the talent from all future work from them or other Casting Directors.

Another instance involves production assistants abusing actors on set by yelling at them or violating union rules, then reporting that actor(s) for noncompliance though the actor(s) have always been professional while working.

There are also examples of Melissa Leisure, Central Casting Los Angeles, claiming to call talent just to speak, but in fact it’s to blacklist. These examples are posted on ripoff.com-search Central Casting.

Central Casting’s parent company is TPG Financial which also owns Entertainment Partners, the most used payroll company in the industry, Pop Casting and Casting Networks-the most used site for obtaining and posting work. Clearly a monopoly. If you are blacklisted by Central Casting, Casting Networks has been known to not submit you for work though you’ve paid them to do so. They refuse to talk to you, but will send an email stating there’s no issue and to continue to submit for work, all for their monthly fee which seems to keep escalating.

Please help us stop the injustices by exposing this illegal behavior.

Thank you.