The Business Online: Q&A with CODA Casting Directors Deborah Aquila and Lisa Zagoria

A Q&A with the casting team of CODA, Siân Heder’s remarkable film about a seventeen-year-old who is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a CODA, child of deaf adults. The panel features casting directors Deborah Aquila and Lisa Zagoria and moderated by Rochelle Rose, National Director of Performer’s Programs of the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. Interpreted by Jonathan Gleicher. PANELIST BIOS: Deborah Aquila - Casting Director After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and The Stella Adler Conservatory, Deborah Aquila worked on the first two seasons of Miami Vice and several feature films including Michael Mann’s Man Hunter and The Pope of Greenwich Village, as an associate. Her independent casting director career began with Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies and Videotape and Uli Edel’s The Last Exit To Brooklyn. Before moving to Los Angeles in 1993 to cast Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption, Deborah had completed over 18 independent f