Harvardwood Seminar Series presents: Adventures in Casting with Craig Campobasso

After casting for more than two decades, Craig Campobasso has got a lot of stories to share!  Join us as Craig discusses the beginning of his career working on Frank Herbert's DUNE for writer/director David Lynch, and the subsequent two and a half decades of his experience as a casting director.  He will also talk about his current casting projects and his new book, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL SAGA: I AM THYRON, with FOREWORD by Sylvia Browne, New York Times best-selling author and psychic. Book is fully illustrated.  Craig will have Hard Covers ($29 cash) and Soft Covers ($20 cash) available to purchase, and he will autograph them for you!

BIO

Fresh out of high school, California native Craig Campobasso found himself working behind the scenes for four years on Frank Herbert’s Dune.  The father and daughter producing team, Dino and Raffaella De Laurentiis, and director David Lynch, were Craig’s mentors into the business of filmmaking.  Raffaella later hired him on the popular Christmas movie Prancer, starring Sam Elliott, as a casting director after he apprenticed as a casting associate on Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. Craig has been casting for more than two decades and was nominated for an Emmy for casting David E. Kelly’s Picket Fences. He is also an acting coach in the Los Angeles area.