Francene Selkirk

Francene Selkirk-Ackerman has been a Commercial Casting Director for 15 years, a Commercial Producer for 10 years and an actress throughout. In the last 5 years she has been casting half-hour Television Improvisational Comedies for Bravo, Fox, Oxygen and NBC while also casting a bazillion commercials. Francene loves acting, actors, the theatre and all aspects of Show Business. She was raised by two kooky parents in Astoria, Queens. With the blood from a Ukelele playing Vaudvillian father, and a Beauty pageant winning mother coursing through her veins, Francene was destined to be a punk rockin', leopard skin-wearing, ukelele-playing contestant on Chuck Barris' $1.98 Beauty Contest. Little did she know back then, that she would be working with award-winning directors, from both big & small screens, and on award-winning projects. Most recently, Francene has cast FOX's upcoming unscripted improv comedy, Free Ride, airing March 1st along with last years' sleeper hit, Significant Others, on Bravo. Always on the cutting edge, Francene has lent her talents to a variety of different projects from dramatic music videos to hard-hitting PSAs to interactive internet games. It's never a dull moment at Shooting From the Hip;you never know where Francene will end up next. Directing, perhaps.