Danielle Pretsfelder Demchick

(Casting Director) was a casting director for Nickelodeon for 14 years.  At Nickelodeon, she worked on projects such as Bubble Guppies, Dora the ExplorerWelcome to the Wayne and Wallykazam!, Shimmer and Shine, Blaze and the Monster Machines, The Myth of Robo Wonder Kid. Since her departure from Nickelodeon to open her own casting office in April 2022, she has cast American Girl: Corinne Tan, the first American Girl of the Year film, which tells the story of the first Chinese American Girl, for HBOMax and Marvista Entertainment, an episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and worked as the kids casting director/consultant on several films including You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah for Happy Madison Productions. She is also the co-VP of Advocacy for the Casting Society of America where her work elevating underrepresented communities has been barrier breaking. She has led open calls for Trans & Non-Binary Actors, Performers with Disabilities, MENASA (Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian), Veterans, Senior Actors, Native American and Indigenous Actors, Black Actors, and most recently, a global open call for Asian Actors (over 7,000 actors submitted.)