Whitty Studios | Team
Heather Whitty
Founder | Acting Coach | Casting Director
Heather Whitty has over 15 years of experience as a Casting Director and Acting Coach in Boston, NYC and LA.
Heather’s recent casting credits have included: Casting Director for the 2025 SXSW Jury Winner - F*ckups Anonymous and the upcoming Fia Perera film Mermaid.
She also works at New England’s longest running and most award winning casting company CP CASTING. Prior to opening up Whitty Studios & joining CP Casting, her previous featured associate credits include: Sound of Metal, Free Guy, Honest Thief and TV series: Julia (HBO) and The Society (Netflix). Along with extras casting credits for the TV series: City on a Hill (Showtime), Hightown (Starz) and feature films: The Equalizer 2 and Brad’s Status.
Heather is also a frequent guest instructor/speaker at: Emerson College, Boston University, Sag-Aftra New England & Mass Production Collation - along with her involvement at various local film festivals - all of which keeps her deeply immersed in the New England acting community.
Heather privately coaches actors and offers classes & self tape services at Whitty Studios. A studio she created in 2021 to empower actors and bring the local creative community together.
Whitty is a graduate of The New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, where she studied under John Tyrrell, a student of Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Heather also has performed as a Stand-Up Comic in Boston/New York, she was a featured Comic in Boston Comedy Festival and the Women in Comedy Festival.
Actors who have worked with Heather have gone on to book major roles in TV/Film along with garnishing representation with top Agents and Managers in the Boston/NYC/LA markets.
Brett Duffy
Youth Acting Coach | Casting Director
Brett Duffy has worked as a Casting Director for the last several years in New England in TV & Film & Theater.
Prior to joining Whitty Studios, her Extras Casting Director credits include the work on films such as: Sorry, Baby, Salem’s Lot, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Good Burger 2, American Fiction, Blank Panther and the upcoming film Ella McCay. And TV Series: Dexter (New Blood), Hightown (Starz), Julia (HBO), Forever (Netflix) and The Perfect Couple (Netflix). Her principal casting associate credits include: Aftermath, Barron’s Cove, High Tide and upcoming film The Collaboration. Her past principal casting assistant film credits include: I Care Alot and Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody.
Brett also works in casting at The Huntington Theater. Her recent local casting credits include: Don’t Eat the Mangoes, The Hills of California and Fun Home.
In addition to all that, Brett teaches our Youth acting classes and provides self tape services and private coaching sessions here at Whitty Studios!