Tammara Billik
Tammara Billik | |
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Born | Palo Alto, California, U.S. | June 21, 1962
Education | University of California, Los Angeles (BA)[1] Loyola Marymount University (JD)[1] |
Occupation | Casting director |
Tammara M. "Tammy" Billik
In 1997, she also cast "The Puppy Episode" of the ABC series Ellen which saw Laura Dern, Emma Thompson, Sean Penn and many others as part of Ellen DeGeneres' history-making, coming-out experience.
Career
Billik began her casting career working on movies including Raiders of the Lost Ark and E.T. As a casting assistant, she worked with top Casting Directors including Mike Fenton, Elisabeth Leustig, Mary Colquhoun and Judith Holstra/Marcia Ross. In 1987 she became the Casting Director of the Fox television series Married... with Children, and cast over 150 episodes of the series.
Billik received an Artios Award from the
Billik has also cast the long-running series,
Billik is an executive producer on the short feature Boutonniere which is an official selection for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and as associate producer on the Sony Digital-produced webseries "Star-ving" starring David Faustino. In 2008, she launched AreUaStar for aspiring actors to connect with Casting Directors.
Education
Billik is a 1983 graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles before she was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1992.
Activism
Billik has served on the board of directors of the largest national gay & lesbian organization, the Human Rights Campaign from 1998 to 2004. She has also been a longstanding member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center, which is the largest LGBT social services organization in the world. Billik has also served as a board member for the Casting Society of America.
Billik was honored with the Guardian of Justice award by Temple Kol Ami in 2000 and with an honorary Artios award from the Casting Society of America for her leadership in organizing Casting Directors into a collective bargaining unit – Teamsters Local 399.
References
- ^ a b LinkedIn Profile
- ^ a b California Birth Index
- ^ Tyler Maxwell (1997-05-02). "Ellen lead character comes out to viewers".
- ^ CSA (1997-06-04). "1997 Artios Award Winners".
External links
- http://www.areuastar.com Are You A Star
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082436/ Tammara Billik IMDB
- http://www.billikwoodcasting.com Billik/Wood Casting
- http://www.altladies.com/Notable_Womyn2.htm Notable Woman
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/13/fashion/13publicists.html?pagewanted=2 New York Times