DianaRowan
- Casting director
- Director
If the measure of success for a casting director is the future success of the actors they pluck from the crowd, then Diana Rowan has certainly done time at the top of her field. She is the casting director who helped Anna Paquin, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Cliff Curtis and Lucy Lawless on their way to international careers, while developing her own talents as a writer and director of short films.
Screenography
Biography
Diana Rowan arrived in New Zealand as an actor, but soon became an expert at identifying the next big thing, be it Keisha Castle-Hughes or Cliff Curtis. Rowan has discovered some of the country's most renowned screen actors, but a key to her success as a casting director is maintaining distance between herself and the hype surrounding success. Some of her most famous discoveries were found in the classroom.
Awards
2007 WIFT NZ Awards (Women in Film and Television New Zealand)
Outstanding Contribution to the New Zealand Screen Industry
2004 SPADA Screen Industry Awards (Screen Production and Development Association, New Zealand)
SPADA/OnFilm Industry Champion of the Year
“In a way, she is a sort of fortune-teller... although she always takes care to tell those auditioning that the process is akin to buying a lotto ticket, she saw in an 11-year-old girl with no acting aspirations, something that would lead her to that walk up the red carpet.”
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