Keep Dreaming ~ DreamWorks Animation
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- Published: Tuesday, 11 December 2018 13:54
FastForward Interviews Ania O’Hare, head of Casting & Talent
WRITERS/REPORTERS: Kylie Sebastian, Zadie Winthrop and Jackie Chin (Freshmen at San Domenico, Urban High of San Francisco and Convent Sacred Heart Preparatory schools)
‘Inspired, passionate, and family-oriented’
That’s how Ania O’Hare, head of television casting & talent relations for DreamWorks Television Animation, describes the workplace environment at her successful and forward-thinking company. A three-time Emmy® Award-winner, O’Hare has helped bring some of our favorite movie characters to life: the fierce yet adorable Puss in Boots, Poppy in Trolls: The Beat Goes On! and the roles of Boss Baby in The Boss Baby: Back in Business.
Managing the casting decisions of more than a dozen up-and-coming DreamWorks television series is no easy task; it’s O’Hare’s job to influence who will be the voices in DreamWorks’ She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, the next Blinky the troll in DreamWorks’ Tales of Arcadia: Trollhunters, and many other built-from-scratch characters. Matching a voice against the imaginations of millions isn’t in most job descriptions, and when O’Hare began her career, she had no idea she’d end up working in animation at all. Determined to venture into the unknown, she packed her bags and her accounting know-how and headed for Los Angeles, across the continent from the Boston where she grew up and half a world away from her native Poland.
