The Business Online: QA with CODA Casting Directors Deborah Aquila and Lisa Zagoria

A Q A with the casting team of CODA, Siân Heder s remarkable film about a seventeenyearold who is the sole hearing member of a deaf family a CODA, child of deaf adults. The panel features casting directors Deborah Aquila and Lisa Zagoria and moderated by Rochelle Rose, National Director of Performer s Programs of the SAGAFTRA Foundation. Interpreted by Jonathan Gleicher. PANELIST BIOS: Deborah Aquila Casting Director After graduating from NYU s Tisch School of the Arts and The Stella Adler Conservatory, Deborah Aquila worked on the first two seasons of Miami Vice and several feature films including Michael Mann s Man Hunter and The Pope of Greenwich Village, as an associate. Her independent casting director career began with Steven Soderbergh s Sex, Lies and Videotape and Uli Edel s The Last Exit To Brooklyn. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1993 to cast Frank Darabont s The Shawshank Redemption, Deborah had completed over 18 independent f