How Central Casting’s Partnerships Benefit Production

When you work with Central Casting, you get professional, trusted, and tested services you can rely on for all your background casting and payroll needs.

In addition to our industry experts and dedicated Casting Directors, hiring Central Casting comes with a host of benefits, including working within one comprehensive Entertainment Partners digital ecosystem. SmartVoucher, Central Casting's digital voucher platform, is fully integrated with our casting platform and EP Payroll, ensuring a smooth workflow from hiring Background Actors, to tracking them throughout the workday, to sending their payment. SmartVoucher is also connected to SmartID, which streamlines workflows by allowing your team to access SmartVoucher, SmartTime, SmartAccounting, and EP's many digital production tools with the same username and password.

We also offer direct deposit on projects where Central Casting provides combined casting and payroll services, simplifying the payroll process for production and accounting teams. And through myEP, Background Actors can easily sign up for direct deposit, track their pay, and review pay history. This makes getting paid easy and efficient for our Background Actors.

For more than 20 years, we have partnered with the Directors Guild of America by leading seminars in Los Angeles, New York, and Atlanta to provide trainees with an overview on SAG-AFTRA Schedule X I and II contracts, local labor laws in regard to Background Actors, and much more.

We understand how important compliance is for your production. That's why our experts are constantly in contact with the unions and reviewing union guidelines to protect our production partners and Background Actors. We are diligent about tracking and implementing contractual changes in our technology and workflows and ensuring our staff are always up to date and knowledgeable around any changes to the hiring and payment of Background Actors.

If you have any questions about Central Casting's premier background casting and payroll services, please contact us at clients@centralcasting.com. We look forward to partnering with your production!