Our Stories
Danny Gordon
Danny is an award-winning casting director, theatre director and educator. As a casting director, films to premiere this year include Noam Argov's Verse at the Tribeca Film Festival and San Diego's Comic-Con as well as Andrew Chappelle's I'm Gonna Kill You at the Inside Out Festival and Provincetown International Film Festival. Additional recent casting includes the acclaimed A24/Netflix series Beef (Emmy and Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting) and the film All That We Love (Tribeca Film Festival). His artistic journey began in New York City assisting avant-garde theatre auteur Richard Foreman at the Ontological-Hysteric Theatre. His time in the downtown art scene ignited a passion for actors and how a performer's unique authenticity can strengthen the stories we tell. As a theatre director, Amy Herzog's Mary Jane for an ensemble of actresses with disabilities and Doug Wright's I Am My Own Wife (Transgender Arts Initiative Grant) for an ensemble of transgender and non-binary performers. His adaptation was called "Singularly powerful and important" by the play's Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. As an educator, Danny is an adjunct professor in the MFA Acting program at Columbia University where he teaches his course You & the Camera. He has also recently been a guest instructor for NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, Syracuse University's Aaron Sorkin Intensive and numerous studios and theatre companies from NY to LA. He is a member of the Casting Society of America and the National Alliance of Acting Teachers.
Terra Mackintosh
Terra is an award-winning actress, producer, writer, and acting coach. Whether on-tape, on-set, or in class, Terra’s coaching is rooted in collaboration, creativity and respect. She has extensive experience working with actors with disabilities, most recently as the on-set acting coach for breakout star Anna Sargent in Liz Sargent’s feature film Take Me Home. The film will make its world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. She co-wrote, produced, cast, and was the on-set acting coach for ‘Best Summer Ever,’ the “unprecedented” (Variety) and “unlike anything you’ve seen before” (Forbes) feature made with a fully integrated cast and crew of people with and without disabilities, for which she was awarded the SXSW 2020 Final Draft Screenwriters Award. The film was named a NYTimes Critics’ Pick, a SXSW 2020 World Premiere Selection, a SXSW 2021 Spotlight Selection, and received raves from The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Forbes, USAToday, and Indiewire. She returned to SXSW in 2022 for the world premiere of Delta Spirit’s music video “What’s Done is Done,” the first music video to star actors with down syndrome, which she produced. As an actor, she has originated multiple roles in new plays in NYC and regionally, garnering her praise and awards. She can be seen on television (Amazon, Apple TV+, Netflix, HBO, NBC, CBS, Paramount+) and in multiple independent films. As a writer, her feature film screenplay, Serotinous, was named a Second Rounder in the 2025 Austin Film Festival Script Competition, a 2024 Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Semifinalist, and a 2024 Finalist in The Palm Springs International Screenplay Awards Contest. www.terramackintosh.com