Casting Call for "Cutthroat Kitchen"

Dear SkillsUSA culinary advisors and students,

 

Yesterday, SkillsUSA received a phone call from Carter Palmer, casting producer for Food Network's Cutthroat Kitchen hosted by Alton Brown. Carter works for the casting company "Casting Duo" (http://castingduo.com/now-casting). 

 

Cutthroat Kitchen is doing a special episode for high school seniors who are graduating this spring and who love to cook. They must be at least 18 years old by the filming dates (tentatively July 18 and 19, 2016).

 

The casting process would involve a short, fun Skype interview with Carter Palmer, filling out an application and sending over some beautiful photos of food prepared by the student and a photo of the student. From there, they may be interviewed by Skype. If chosen for the show, the students would be flown to Los Angeles (air fare and hotel will be taken care of). 

To apply for the show, they ask interested students to sign up by going to:  https://cutthroatkitchen.castingcrane.com and Carter will make contact with them directly. Casting will finish up by May 20.

 

If you have questions or need additional information, contact Carter by telephone at 818-659-4052, ext. 6909 or by email to Carter.Palmer@gmail.com.

 

Here is some information about the show from Carter:

 

In each episode, four amazing chefs (in this case "high school seniors who love to cook") are each given $25,000 by the host, Alton Brown (Good Eats, Iron Chef America, etc.). The students would compete in three cooking challenges/rounds and are judged by a celebrity chef judge (regular judges are: Jet Tila, Simon Majumdar, and Antonia Lofaso).

 

*For each challenge/round, there’s an auction where you can purchase items to either benefit you in the challenge or items to sabotage other players! Sabotages might range from having to cook with different ingredients, cooking implements or methods, etc. Think of sabotages more like pranks, nothing mean-spirited!

 

(Examples of funny sabotages: cooking a steak dinner with nothing but vegetables, so you make the steak with your eggplant; making your entire meal in an easy-bake oven or on a camp stove; or making a Cuban sandwich using a cigar cutter.)

 

*After each challenge/round, a contestant is eliminated until there’s one contestant left standing who becomes the proud winner and takes home the money he or she has left! 

 

All the best,

Jane

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jane A. DeShong Short

Public Relations and Communications

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