Having previously cast her first series “Antidote 15” on Backstage, Amy Suto had some experience to help her with assembling the large cast on her USC miniseries, “Con.” Inspired by a computer hacking class that Suto and her co-showrunner Jen Enfield-Kane took at USC, “Con” stars Nicole Dambro as Iris, a reckless con artist, and Joey Livingston as Jonah, the idealistic architect. The six fifteen-minute episodes follow the two con artists teaming up to pull off their respective long cons. She notes Jonah was a little difficult to cast because they wanted to get the right dynamic with Iris. “[Dambro and Livingston] had this great chemistry and were able to play off of each other so well, and they brought the scene to life.”
“One of the key lessons I’ve learned in terms of casting is to find actors who are not only talented, but who will also work well with their fellow cast and the crew on set. Casting is about putting a team together who will support and nurture the project, take the story seriously, and be dependable — there’s nothing worse than having an actor drop out mid-season, especially on a serialized project such as this.” The cast she selected
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