Bob Krakower - Film and Television

Film and Television

After 6 years in Louisville, Krakower was offered a job in casting by ABC, who had noted his eye for young talent, and eager to get back home to New York on a permanent basis, he accepted. Over the next three years—at ABC, MTV, Paramount, and Tollin-Robbins Productions—he worked as a casting director on over 50 projects, including "NYPD Blue," "My So-Called Life," "Arli$$," "All That," and "Varsity Blues." Noting Bob's teaching background, director Brian Robbins also employed him as an acting coach on many projects, culminating in their work together on "The Perfect Score" (starring Scarlett Johansson, Erika Christensen, Chris Evans, Bryan Greenberg, and Darius Miles), and "Hardball" (starring Keanu Reeves). In the director’s commentary of the DVD for "Hardball," Robbins says, “Bob helped find a lot of the kids and more importantly --I knew I had my hands full with ten actors who never acted before -- he really gave them skills, and he really turned them into actors. Because when I got them on the set, they were ready. They knew the essence of a scene, they weren’t just saying words…they really had some chops built up and he just did a fantastic job with them.”

Krakower has gone on to coach actors on dozens of television shows and movies, frequently hired by the studios, networks, and production companies themselves. Whether he is working with kids ("Hardball," "All That"), stand-up comics (Louis C.K., Lewis Black, John Pinette, Jimmy Fallon, Greg Geraldo, Jim Norton, and others) or actors (Reba McEntire, Josh Duhamel, Eden Espinosa, Antonique Smith, Milena Govich, and many more), he does so with what Emmy Award Winning director Michael Lembeck has called "the most passionate, kindest, and brightest approach I've seen." He has had his own very successful acting studio in NYC since 1996, teaching on a regular basis there while maintaining a busy schedule coaching on set in Los Angeles.