February 12th, 2015
Actor/Model Mickeay Wil Burns cast for a Paramount Pictures production in Los Angeles
About Mickeay Wil Burns:
Mickeay first started his career in acting through print modeling & was inspired to further his career when Tim Allen visited his hometown to film “For Richer & Poorer”.
Film/TV:
He auditioning for John Casablancas, in Philadelphia, PA for advanced acting; graduating in 2003 & auditioning for various roles in states that include Richmond, VA; Orlando, FL; New York City, NY; & Corpus Christi, TX. Mickeay landed his first debut in a Michael Herb’s production called “Made to be Broken” filmed out of Fort Lauderdale, FL, which is featured on Lifetime channel. Most recent he has been called to attend an audition for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” out of New York, NY FOX Network.
Modeling:
His print modeling career took him to JCPenny in their Quicksilver modeling attire. Later down the road led to Kohls, Helix, and American Eagle LTD for web based advertisements.
Music:
He was the lead singer in “Mickeays Mistake” which gathered the attention of Allen Parsons from Santa Barbara, CA, who was the audio engineer for the Beatles & Pink Floyd, their Dark Side of the Moon album & behind the Allen Parsons Project; that landed him on stage with Rev Theory and Shinedown in two separate events. He is currently in the group Obnoxious Kingdom.
About Casting Director Helen McCready:
Helen McCready, C.S.A.a Canadian citizen, began working as an actor in 1985 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She started out as an extra on the hit TV show “21 Jump street” as well as assisted in extra casting at the Denise Love Talent Agency. She moved to Arizona in 1994 where she continued her career working as a casting director assistant. In 1999, Helen launched Helen Wheels Productions, LLC in Arizona. Since then, her company has successfully been expanding into other states and Canada. Now residing in Burbank, Los Angeles,California Helen’s success as a casting director has continued with Director Sam Mendes “Away We Go” and being in charge of the additional casting in Meryl Streep’s and Alec Balwdwin’s 2009 “It’s Complicated”
In 2010 Helen McCready has already cast a number of movies including the soon to be hit “Zombie drugs” as head Casting Director and “Suspicion” a Thriller/Drama. As well as working on big budget and independent films Helen has seen the potential and new talent that comes through in low budget exciting productions for the internet known as a “webseries” she is casting two “webisodes” one extremely popular and disturbingly interesting “The Resolve” and a brand new project “Writers Block”. Also new for 2010 a few potential big hit movies have landed on the desk at “Helen Wheel Productions”