PREVIEW: I Want To Meet New Actors - With TV & Film Casting Director Paushali Banik!
Mar 13, 2026*Act On This members get access to the FULL 2 HOUR recording of this feature, in BOTH video and audio-only formats. CLICK HERE to grab your PREMIUM membership NOW!
Paushali Banik has spent over a decade embedded inside the UK’s leading TV casting offices, working as both an assistant and associate to some of the industry’s most respected casting directors, including Dixie Chassay, Theo Park, Andy Brierley, Victor Jenkins and Jina Jay.
Her casting credits include BBC dramas Unforgotten, Silent Witness and Sherwood, ITV’s The Long Shadow, upcoming Nicole Kidman & Sandra Bullock movie Practical Magic 2 - plus major projects for Netflix, Apple TV & Paramount.
In this 2 HOUR, member-only mastermind, we dive deep into Paushali’s casting process, explain how YOU can get on her casting radar for upcoming projects, unpack Paushali's most effective self-tape and in-person audition techniques - and members of Act On This jump on camera for some 1-2-1 coaching too!
During the broadcast, we discuss:
- What truly separates the actors who consistently land auditions from those who don’t.
- Why every second of your showreel must make you proud - and what to cut immediately if it doesn’t.
- How Paushali broke into the industry - and why she chose casting over every other path.
- Her biggest casting credits - and the hard lessons they taught her.
- Casting ‘Practical Magic 2’ alongside Jina Jay - and what that level of production demands from actors.
- Inside Jina Jay’s casting process - and how new talent is really discovered.
- Working alongside major casting directors including Dixie Chassay, Theo Park, Victor Jenkins, Andy Brierley & Susanne Scheel - and what she learned from each.
- General auditions - what they’re really for and how to secure one with Paushali.
- Making the leap from casting associate to full casting director - and what changed.
- Where Paushali is actively discovering fresh talent right now.
- The right way to email Paushali your Spotlight - including her direct outreach details.
- How to elevate your self-tapes for the 2026/ 2027 industry.
- What truly impresses Paushali in the room at an in-person casting.
- If she were an actor, exactly how she’d land an audition with herself.
- How to make a one-line audition impossible to ignore.
- Which agents Paushali sends her casting briefs to - and what that means for you.
- The ONE thing Paushali wants EVERY actor to know.
- And MUCH MUCH more!
Want to land an audition with Paushali ASAP?
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