Our Super Rad Crew:
ABIGAIL ESMENA - Studio Director/Owner
Abi Esmena is a professional actor with over a decade of experience, a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and serves as the current Executive Secretary and Co-President elect for Women In Film (Cincinnati). She attended the University of Kentucky on an Academic Scholarship, majoring in theatre & finished her degrees in theatre/electronic media & broadcasting at NKU.
You’ve probably been harassed by Abi in one of her 100+ commercial appearances, feature film roles, or flying into CVG airport; and if not, maybe you’ve auditioned for one of the projects she’s cast. In the last few years, projects we’ve cast have graced the airwaves, television sets, mobile screens, and made their world premieres at:
Tribeca Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
Deauville American Film Festival
Theaters Near you!
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The expertise of our team coupled with the decades of experience working in the entertainment industry here in the midwest has helped us grow into the mightiest boutique casting company this side of the Mississippi. We know the people. We know the place. We know how and where to help.
Let us cast for you. You won’t regret it. :)
Learn more about Abi at www.AbigailEsmena.com
TRACY BEDFORD - DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Tracy is a nutrition educator for The Ohio State University. She has held health and wellness programs for diverse audiences throughout the city of Cincinnati for over a decade. And It’s only in the past few years that she began taking acting classes in her free time as a way to meet new and interesting people and build important skills. Continuing her journey with the talented coaches here at our studio, Tracy takes what she has learned from the acting process into other areas of life, including passion projects like podcasting, writing and teaching. Her purpose here at Audition Room 513, as Director of Operations, is to not only support the students who are part of our growing acting community but the staff that puts everything together to make it all work.
To contact Tracy and the team, email Action@AuditionRoom513.com
JARED PETTIT - actor / writer / improv artist
Jared is an award-winning Screenwriter and Actor who hails from Cincinnati, OH, the birthplace of putting chili on your spaghetti.
He graduated with a Master’s degree from DePaul University in Screenwriting. As Jared was studying for his MFA, he also graduated from The Second City Training Center – Chicago and i.O. Chicago where he studied Improv, Acting and Sketch writing.
After Chicago, Jared took an internship in Los Angeles at Night and Day Pictures. In L.A., he played a 1970s Cop in Murder Book and was in the Rom-Com Accidental Engagement. Jared also performed, interned and took classes at Westside Comedy Theatre in Santa Monica.
Jared soon moved to New York City to pursue Acting. While there, Jared was accepted into The Barrow Group Acting Conservatory. Upon competition of the Barrow Group, Jared continued his study of Acting under Deena Levy. As a Founding Member of a sketch group The Salty Nuts, Jared continues to write, act and produce sketches. The Nuts perform regularly around NYC and were selected to perform in the “NYC Sketchfest”.
Jared acts, writes and produces his own content, many of which have gone onto place at festivals, like Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, the International Beverly Hills Film Festival, Intergalactic Film Festival, The Second City Seven Day Shorts Contest and many more.
You might recognize Jared from commercials such as Christ Hospital (Spine Patient), Louisville Zoo’s Boo at the Zoo, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child “The Dark Mark” Ad campaign or maybe his nose, chin and arm from episode eight of the hit MTV show Teen Wolf.
Outside of acting and writing, Jared enjoys long walks on the beach. If you want to know anything else about him, free feel to ask!
