Irene Stockon, CSA, was raised in Washington DC and graduated from University of Maryland where she discovered her passion for acting and the theater. She soon moved to NYC, and studied with Uta Hagan, Charlie Laughton and award winner Irene Dailey, not knowing that years later she would cast her Off-Broadway. Among her fellow acting students were Al Pacino, and future Oscar nominee Frederick Forrest, whom she would go on to cast in the film RAIN WITHOUT THUNDER.  Irene performed in summer stock with Dustin Hoffman, Peter Fonda and Barbara Streisand and in many New York productions, receiving great notices for STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME also featuring Mark Margolis (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) written by James Leo Herlihy, who would later go on to write Midnight Cowboy. Irene began as a casting assistant to Susan Willet and Mary Jo Slater before heading out on her own, casting the original productions of I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE running Off-Broadway for twelve years, and OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS, by Tony  Award winner Joe Di Pietro and directed by