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Robert J Ulrich

Robert J. Ulrich

Producer

Robert J. Ulrich is an American casting director and producer active since the 1980s and best known for casting television shows including Glee, The Boys, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, CSI, Diagnosis: Murder and Matlock. He has also cast most Ryan Murphy productions since Popular in 1999. He has been nominated for eight Emmy Awards, winning a Primetime Emmy Award for casting Glee. He has been nominated for the Artios Awards 22 times and won twice, for casting Glee and Nip/Tuck. Robert J. Ulrich began his career as a stage actor, but realized he would not be successful. He moved into casting and says he learned more about acting his first time behind the table than in his previous career. Known for casting musical television series, Ulrich told The Hollywood Reporter that "it's so much more fun when you're doing a musical, because people are singing and your day's suddenly better". He developed this musical casting process for the show Rhapsody, which did not get greenlit. Initially, he would have auditionees sing a cappella or with a backing track, but insisted on bringing a live pianist for the callbacks, saying in 2020 that "great singers are better with a piano and less trained singers are much better with a piano". He has also said that having live piano sets actors at ease. The pianist he found for the Rhapsody callbacks was Brad Ellis, whom he would use for subsequent musical auditions as well as integrating into shows like Glee. Ulrich's musical casting process has not changed since Rhapsody, and he encourages actors to showcase themselves. He has also opined that for television, he considers acting ability above singing and that actors from the stage "should bring it down for the screen".Sometimes for auditions later in a show a pianist will not be used. Ulrich became involved with Glee through his business partner Eric Dawson, who had worked with creator Ryan Murphy on multiple occasions; Dawson suggested Ulrich should be involved due to his musical background.While working on the show he helped develop the reality series The Glee Project, which he described as an extension of the comedy-musical's casting process. In 2021, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Ulrich does not find musical casting challenging, as he has many connections with triple threat performers; for Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist he cast several actors he had seen for prior auditions, including Jane Levy, who had previously auditioned for him for The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, and Michael Thomas Grant and Alex Newell who had been contestants on The Glee Project. He is affiliated with professional guilds The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Casting Society of America, the Producers Guild of America, and Teamsters Local 399. He was also a producer of Billy Boy, a 2017 film written by and starring Glee performers Melissa Benoist and Blake Jenner

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Robert J. Ulrich  Movies & TV Credits

Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
Movie
6.2
ProductionCasting1993
Movie
4.6
ProductionProducer2018
Movie
5.8
ProductionCasting Associate1990
Movie
4.3
ProductionCasting1993
Movie
3.9
ProductionCasting1992
Movie
5.2
ProductionCasting Assistant1988
Movie
6.9
ProductionCasting2020
Movie
ProductionProducer2025
TV Show
6.6
ProductionCasting
1 Episode
2003-2006
TV Show
7.8
ProductionCasting
1 Episode
2000-2015
TV Show
6.7
ProductionCasting
3 Episodes
2002-2012
TV Show
7.6
ProductionCasting
42 Episodes
2000-2002
TV Show
7.3
ProductionCasting
52 Episodes
2009-2014
TV Show
8
ProductionCasting
9 Episodes
1991-1992
TV Show
6.9
ProductionCasting
121 Episodes
2009-2015
TV Show
7.8
ProductionCasting
1 Episode
2005
TV Show
6.5
ProductionCasting, Original Casting
1 Episode
2015-2018
TV Show
7.8
ProductionCasting
2 Episodes
2010-2016
TV Show
8.2
ProductionCasting
327 Episodes
2005-2020
TV Show
8.4
ProductionCasting
33 Episodes
2019
TV Show
7.4
ProductionCasting
67 Episodes
2002-2007
TV Show
7.9
ProductionCasting
98 Episodes
2018
TV Show
4.4
ProductionCasting
1 Episode
1998-2002
TV Show
7.6
ProductionCasting
23 Episodes
2013-2014
TV Show
6.9
ProductionCasting
37 Episodes
2019-2023
TV Show
7.9
ProductionCasting
25 Episodes
2020-2021
TV Show
7.7
ProductionCasting
10 Episodes
2011
TV Show
5.3
ProductionCasting
22 Episodes
2022-2023
TV Show
7.6
ProductionCasting
8 Episodes
2023
Movie
6.6
ProductionCasting1994
Movie
6.3
ProductionCasting1995
Movie
6.7
ProductionCasting1994
Movie
6.4
ProductionCasting1993
Movie
7.7
ProductionCasting2007
Movie
3.4
ProductionCasting2005
Movie
4.6
ProductionCasting1996
Movie
6.8
ProductionCasting1991
Movie
6.7
ProductionCasting1992
Movie
6.6
ProductionCasting1992
Movie
7.1
ProductionCasting1993
Movie
6.7
ProductionCasting1991
Movie
6.8
ProductionCasting1991
Movie
6.7
ProductionCasting1993
Movie
2.6
ProductionCasting1999
Movie
4.4
ProductionCasting2016
Movie
3.9
ProductionCasting2006
Movie
8.1
ProductionCasting2012
Movie
5.3
DirectingCasting Director1994
Movie
5.6
ProductionCasting1998
Movie
7.7
DirectingCasting Director2018
Limited Series
6.6
ProductionCasting
6 Episodes
2024-2024
Limited Series
8
ProductionCasting
10 Episodes
2022-2022
Title Rating Job Role(s) Year
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