Casting: Film & Television
Adam Ellett
Junior at SCAD. Film and television major, casting minor. Co-Head of the SCAD Casting Office. 13 casting credits and counting.
Casting: Film & Television
Junior at SCAD. Film and television major, casting minor. Co-Head of the SCAD Casting Office. 13 casting credits and counting.
The SCAD Casting Office
Every senior and graduate level film and television major at the Savannah College of Art and Design must make a thesis film before they graduate. It is the job of the SCAD Casting Office to cast these films.
As co-head of the office, it is my job to lead our team of 22 highly motivated interns from the beginning of the audition process to the end. One intern can sometimes be working on as many as 3 thesis films at once.
In the 2025-2026 school year, we cast a whopping 56 films.
This number doesn't even include the passion projects that our interns cast outside of the office. Additionally, we collaborate with professional projects when they come to film in Savannah, Georgia if they'd like to audition our students.
About
I'm a junior at SCAD, studying film and television with a minor in casting, based in Savannah, Georgia. I'm drawn to casting because I like seeing the potential in people. Having a mother who works in psychology, I try to see past the nervous first impression that is so often present in an audition room. Finding the right people to tell stories with is the part of filmmaking that is only recently being recognized, and I want to be part of the generation that expands on that. After years spent collaborating with both actors and directors, next summer I'm ready to bring that experience into a professional casting office.
Casting credits
Selected work
Short film
This is the first short film I ever made. I wanted to be ambitious with it and attempt a mockumentary. Being director, writer, producer, and editor was a daunting task but it's one I'm glad I was able to take on.
Music video
Associate producer and background casting. Managed crew deal memos and production paperwork while coordinating all background talent.
View on Instagram →Sketch comedy
President of SCAD's sketch comedy club. I plan events, produce shows, teach people how to make quality sketches, and have helped grow the account to nearly 16,000 followers.
@afterdark_sketchcomedy →Chickasaw Nation, Multimedia Internship, Summer 2026
As a member of the Chickasaw Nation, I'm spending this summer as a Multimedia Intern in Ada, Oklahoma (my tribe's headquarters), producing both informative and entertaining content from development to editing. My twin Ainsley, who is also an intern, and I are producing two original projects: Himak Nitak (Chickasaw for "present day"), a podcast about growing up indigenous and what indigenous people are doing in the present, and a comedic Chickasaw News Segment made in collaboration with the Toksali SMART summer youth program. We are collaborating with them to give young Chickasaw students production experience on smaller scale sets so that when they graduate, they can succeed professionally in film.
In development
Currently developing How It Was (short film), Flower Girls (animated short), Ideal Candidate (short film), and Scare Tactics, a series in which I play a lead role and contribute as a writer. Casting, writing, and producing across several of these projects.
Camera operating on “The Daily Ritual,” a SCAD passion project
Operating a Fisher boom in SCAD's multicam studio
The monologue writers of Late Night Buzz, an original multicam talkshow. Ashley Andre, Adam Ellett, Raymie Hendry, and Ava Ristau
26.4 million views of original short film and comedy content
Resume
Download resume (PDF)Updated June 2026
Available for internships beginning summer 2027. Happy to meet for coffee, a call, or a quick email.
adam@adamellett.com