Helen McCready, C.S.A.a Canadian citizen, began working as an actor in
1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She started out as an extra on the
hit TV show "21 Jump street" as well as assisted in extra casting at
the Denise Love Talent Agency. She moved to Arizona in 1994 where she
continued her career working as a casting director assistant. In 1999,
Helen launched Helen Wheels Productions, LLC in Arizona. Since then,
her company has successfully been expanding into other states and
Canada. Now residing in Burbank, Los Angeles,California Helen's success
as a casting director has continued with Director Sam Mendes "Away We
Go" and being in charge of the additional casting in Meryl Streep's and
Alec Balwdwin's 2009 "It's Complicated".
In 2010 Helen McCready has already cast a number of movies including
the soon to be hit "Zombie drugs" as head Casting Director and
"Suspicion" a Thriller/Drama. As well as working on big budget and
independent films Helen has seen the potential and new talent that
comes through in low budget exciting productions for the internet known
as a "webseries" she is casting two "webisodes" one extremely popular
and disturbingly interesting "The Resolve" and a brand new project
"Writers Block". Also new for 2010 a few potential big hit movies have
landed on the desk at "Helen Wheel Productions" and are in the early
stages of production where Helen will take charge as head of casting
department in "Unrest" a Horror movie with massive potential and is
already attracting "A-lister" movie stars. As well as an accomplished
C.S.A Casting Director Helen has explored the world of writing and has
done a few projects where she has writer's credits. A short film that
Helen did called "The Honeymoon Is Over" where Helen had written and
helped produce it and raised funds for a 3 day film festival where
Helen was the executive director in 2007 was a huge success. More
recently Helen has just completed her screenplay "Racetrack" and it is
now in the pre- production stage, "Racetrack" is loosely based on real
life events written by her father over twenty years ago that actually
happen around the track Helen grew up by, she has put these facts
together in a fictional story and is due to start shooting in 2011.
Helen is now venturing into the world of reality TV and is producing an
original concept never been done before with actors in a pilot show
called "callback", it is a reality television comedic based show
consisting of actors and actresses competing for a supporting role in a
feature film. Episodes will involve various challenges and scenarios
that professional actors and actresses are confronted with every day.
Pulling no punches, pushing their abilities to the limit each episode
will become more demanding as the actors advance. This project is being
shot and will be pitched to some of the biggest cable and network
channels. Being someone who is not afraid of change Helen has embraced
the internet generation and social networking sites with open arms and
taken full advantage of sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and the
remarkable way to communicate and get to a wider variety of actors than
ever before, and with email it makes the whole casting process much
shorter and a whole lot simpler.
