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21 Jun 2006
NZ Actors Equity, Wellington is chatting up, arguably this country's finest casting director, Diana Rowan, in this month's Cameo@Paramount. Diana Rowan was 2004's Industry Champion of every…

NZ Actors Equity, Wellington is chatting up, arguably this country's finest casting director, Diana Rowan, in this month's Cameo@Paramount.
Diana Rowan was 2004's Industry Champion of every possible industry award and she joins us on Tuesday 27th June in an intimate discussion to talk about the casting process, performance in general, setting out on a new path as a feature film director...

Image: Diana Rowan discoverer of great kiwi talent including Anna Pacquin (right), Keisha Castle-Hughes, Lucy Lawless and others....NZ Actors Equity, Wellington is chatting up, arguably this country's finest casting director, Diana Rowan, in this month's Cameo@Paramount.
Diana Rowan was 2004's Industry Champion of every possible industry award and she joins us on Tuesday 27th June in an intimate discussion to talk about the casting process, performance in general, setting out on a new path as a feature film director...

Image: Diana Rowan discoverer of great kiwi talent including Anna Pacquin (right), Keisha Castle-Hughes, Lucy Lawless and others....and leading Women In Film & Television, Auckland to new and greater heights.
Her film credits as a casting director include such luminous films as The Piano, Whale Rider, In My Father's Den, The World's Fastest Indian, Number 2, Hercules & Xena, Vertical Limit, The Navigator, and Rain. And has discovered many of our leading national and international actors Anna Pacquin, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Lucy Lawless, Emily Barclay, Cliff Curtis and Temuera Morrison.

The interview, followed by an audience Q & A begins at 6pm Tuesday 27th June at The Bergman Theatre, Paramount. Tickets are available at Paramount for $10 for Equity or Industry Guild card holders and $20 for general public.

For further information please contact Barbara Woods on (027) 548 7053 or msbarbarella@hotmail.com Photographers are welcome to cover the event.

Cameo@Paramount, in association with The Bolton Hotel and Wellington City Council, is an initiative started by NZ Actor's Equity as a collaboration between the actor's union and Paramount to encourage, inform and inspire particularly Wellington performers along with other creative professionals by interviewing leading New Zealand actors, directors and casting directors.