Marcello Rollando talks with Casting Director turned DIRECTOR Erica Arvold

Erica Arvold is the founder of arvold., a casting, production, and education company based in Charlottesville, VA and Atlanta, GA. She most recently developed story for the feature script Shoeless Wonders. Erica & team cast the indie feature Teacher’s Pet, Permanent, served as location casting for Jeff Nichols’ feature film Loving, the AMC series Turn: Washington’s Spies and three seasons of Netflix’s House of Cards. She produced and cast the indie film Josephine, served as associate producer and casting director on Coming Through the Rye, Wish You Well, Texas Rein, helped cast feature films Ithaca and Badge of Faith, National Geographic’s Killing Kennedy as well as helmed the casting for Ridley & Tony Scott’s Killing Lincoln and Hallmark Movie Channel’s Lake Effects. 

Over the past 28 years, Erica has contributed to and participated in the making of over 130 films, 80 television projects and numerous short form and commercial projects. In 2012, she was inducted into the First Lady of Virginia’s Opportunity Hall of Fame for her contribution to the economic growth in the state. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She travels across the country to speak, co-teach and lead master classes for creative artists as well as business professionals, utilizing her training from The Theatre School, DePaul University (formerly The Goodman School of Drama). Erica is grateful to the many writers, filmmakers, actors and professionals who have entrusted her & her company to collaborate over the years.