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RAWLEIGH E. MORELAND
DIRECTOR / CASTING DIRECTOR/FILM,TV, THEATRE
Rawleigh Moreland has over 25 years of experience directing as well as casting
for theater, independent and industrial films and television. Perhaps recently
best known for his association with Stark Naked Productions a New York based
Casting Agency, he has also been recognized as an educator in some of the
more prestigious schools in the country.
Currently directing, Rawleigh is in production for the SAG experimental movie
Another Time by award winning writer Ralph Pape. Independently, Mr. Moreland
produced and co-directed the SAG feature film, The DJ starring John Fleming
and Claudette Sutherland for Suncrest Films. He has served as on line producer
/ casting director on numerous other films and industrials, working with producers
such as Shepard Associates (CA) and Richard Shankman.
Recent theatrical casting in conjunction with Stark Naked /Elsie Stark includes
the Broadway hit Latinologues as well as the Off Broadway hit musical, Four
Guys Named Jose...and a Mujer Named Maria.
Mr. Moreland worked for many years in New York developmental theatre. At
The Writers Theater (Linda Laundra, Artistic Director) and The Open Eye: NEW
STAGINGS (Joseph Campbell / Jean Erdman, Founders) he developed,
directed, cast and produced numerous projects. During this time he was
privileged to collaborate with such artists as Bruce Paltrow; Blythe Danner; Josie
DeGuzman; Don Chastain; Walter Bobbie; John Whitesell; Richard Hughes and
Charlie Segal to name a few.
Mr. Moreland has cast hundreds of commercials, voice overs and industrials for
the American and Hispanic markets. In his casting work, he works with actors,
professional adults, children and models and interfaces daily with creative
executives from major New York advertising agencies including 2004 Academy
Award winning director Errol Morris. Television clients in conjunction with Stark
Naked Productions have included Disney TV; MTV, VH-1 and Nickelodeon .
Film casting credits include: The Final Patient with Bill Cobbs , Jan Egleson’s
acclaimed film, The Blue Diner; Primary casting for the TV series Breaking
Vegas, Discovery Channel’s The Red Badge of Courage, Americas Most
Wanted; and All Night Bodega by French director Felix Oliver. Mr. Moreland
has also collaborated in the primary casting of up-and-coming independent film
makers for The Nuyorican Poets Cafe Fifth Night series and The New York
Women In Film script development series.
Mr. Moreland holds an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Cincinnati, and
B.F.A. in Theater / Television from Valdosta State University. A member of the
AEA AFTRA, and The Screen Actors Guild, he also freelances as an actor in
film, commercials and industrials. As an actor, he received additional
performance training with Robert Moss at Playwrights Horizons Theater School
and The School for Film and Television, where he is now a Chair/Senior faculty
member.
RAWLEIGH MORELAND
DIRECTING /THEATRE
(917)923-6452
NEW YORK THEATRE (NYC)
THE HOLE
Double Image Theatre Festival(Hal Easton Artistic Director)
THE RAVEN
Theatre Of The Open EYENEWSTAGINGS
(AmyBrockway Artistic Director)
DRACULA
Fordham University Mimes & Mummers
Moonlight and Valentino
Hofstra University
Whats Next? (New York Showcase)
Hofstra University
Manha ttan Arts (Theatre Row) NYC
THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE
THE LOVELIEST AFTERNOON OF THE YEAR
CONVERSATION AT NIGHT WITH
A DESPISED CHARACTER
FOUR A.M.
BIRDBATH
( Robert Mooney, Frank Gautier, Artistic Directors0
The Writers Theatre/NYC
COWBOYS #2
A POE WORKSHOP
SMILING AT WINFIELD
THE INTERVIEW
NOMAD
(Linda Laundra, Tom Fontana, John Whitesell, Artistic Directors)
AMERICAN MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ACADEMY/NYC
Numerous Student projects (stage and Film)Works: Shepard, Guare, Ralph
Pape, Thomas Babe, Elmer Rice, Eugene Oniel, Lillian Helman, Neil
Simon,Tennessee Williams, Lanford Wilson to name a few......Plus original
works)
REGIONAL
EQUUS
(UNC Summer Workshop with Joe Layton)
University of Cincinnati
TOM PAINE
HOME FREE
METAPHYSICS CAN BE FUN
Original Improvisation (By Dan Oneil)
THE ELEPHANT CALF
(Brecht Society,Cincinnati)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WANDA JUNE
(South Ga. Rep.)
YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN
(Valdosta State University)
ASSISTANT DIRECTING
BETWEEN TIME AND TIMBUCTU
Seven Stages (Atlanta)Del Hamilton
MAC AND MABLE
Showboat Majestic(Cincinnati)DavidHolgrieve
FOLLIES
Showboat MajesticPaul Rutledge
SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS Shakespeare Fest. of CincinnatiRick Kulhman
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Shakespeare Fest. of Cincinnati
THE SHADOW BOX
University of Cincinnati Larry Meyers
Production and
Management
Theatres
New York Shakespeare Festival (Joe Pap), Japan Society, Theatre For A New
Audience, The Writers Theatre, Lincoln Center Festivals