Allison Twardziak is a New York based Casting Director. She recently cast Tim Sutton’s Funny Face with Johnny Lee Miller which will premiere at The Berlin International Film Festival this Feb 2020. Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ feature film Swallow starring Haley Bennett who won the award for Best Actress at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Oculus Emmy Award Winning VR Short Film Henry, the SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner Fort Tilden, The Berlinale, New Directors/New Films feature, She's Lost Control, the Sundance features Appropriate Behavior, and My Best Day, The Slamdance features Lost Holiday, Faith Love and Whiskey, The Woodstock feature Bastards of Young, OutFest's Lyle starring Gaby Hoffman, the web series F to 7th, The Impossibilities and Be Here Nowish as well as the feature Black Dog Red Dog starring James Franco, Chloe Sevigny, Whoopi Goldberg, Logan Marshall-Green and Olivia Wilde. Recent features include Fits and Starts with Wyatt Cenac and Greta Lee which premiered at SXSW, March 2017. Lemon and The Foster Portfolio premiered at Tribeca Films. She cast MGM & Eko's Interactive Series WarGames, today's version of the 80's classic. She currently has five feature films in post and one in pre production, I Was In Your Blood, Plagiarist, Hungry Saints, The Sleepless, Funny Face and Catch The Fair One. And has cast over 40 shorts which have premiered at Cannes, Sundance, SXSW and The Clermont Film Festival.
Allison regularly casts commercials (On camera, VO and real people) inlcluding spots for Nike, Google, Maybelline, Coca Cola, Samsung, Motorola, Sony Music, Pyer Moss, Movado, L’Oreal, Lancome, IT Cosmetics, Fila, MD Lotto, Tide, Nickelodeon, Moet, Mello Yellow, First Aid Beauty, Frida Mom, Tabasco, Kiehls, Uniqlo, Stella Artois, Burger King, Nickelodeon, Visa, Siggi's, Tabasco, FILA, Carol's Daughter, Dark and Lovely and Matrix . She cast the award winning play, I Was Tom Cruise and holds a B.F.A. from New York University, studying with The Atlantic Theater Company.