Matthew Ciernia

Assistant to Hosting/Alternative Programming Agent & Personal Appearance Agent • Work with Agents, Managers, Promoters and Producers in the negotiations for clients contracts. • Draft and perfect client packages to submit to casting services, production companies, and Executives. • Mandate daily operations by coordinating auditions, scheduling conference calls, and aligning multiple schedules. • Compile domestic and international travel; including airfare, ground transportation, hotel, and ensuring completion of client’s full itinerary.

• In Charge of filing bookings, organizing pay-stubs, and inputting audition breakdowns. • Correspond with casting directors, production offices, and clients about their auditions. • Provide professional phone etiquette for rolling calls.

Drive Cargo and Passenger vans. Shuttle Crew to and from base camp. Set Runs. Help Crafty.

• Negotiated 12 month development contract for unscripted TV show with production company. • Created episodic content; helped produce the sizzle reel; drafted and produced production packet. • Researched, compiled, and analyzed unscripted TV trends.

• Production Assistant to Camera and Lighting department; Driver for equipment cube truck; responsible for rental checkouts, pickups/drop-offs and loading/unloading. • Responsible for hanging window fixtures, pictures, and moving set pieces. • Assisted Gaffer with running electric, setting up lights, and production runs.

Created preliminary budget. Drafted crew contracts. Hired crew. Drafted expense reports and kept film on budget.

In charge of filing and obtaining proper permits for location. Organized and filed expenses for accounting. Maintained schedule.

Organization and effective communication to line up, count, and guide thousands of audience members. Assisted inside theater, moving audience members to fill in spots for background atmosphere. Worked with multiple departments to ensure ease if workflow.