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1. Miranda Gooch
Focussing on Casting over the past decade, her first solo project ’TOOTH’, with a small budget, had a glorious cast attached, including Jim Broadbent, Harry Enfield, Sally Phillips, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Tim Dutton, Anna Wing, Jerry Hall and Vinnie Jones. Other projects include The Good Arrows (with Katie Brand) Dean Cavanagh and Irvine Welsh’s take on a dart player, which Irvine directed with Helen Grace. Gary Boulton-Brown’s True Story and feature film S.N.U.B. Miranda has worked with some of the industries best Casting Directors including Jina Jay and Nina Gold and was lucky enough to have been mentored by Phyllis Huffman (Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby etc) doing, amongst others, the Brit casting for The Blackwater Lightship. Miranda has recently diversified into the producer’s realm but continues to cast projects, drawing on her years of experience.
Current projects include Balzan’s Contract, filming in London and Malta at the end of October, with Gary Raymond and Keith Barron, two Canadian feature films The Wreck Of The Empress and Remembrance Man and of course, the ever enduring Magnificent Eleven, to be Directed by Irvine Welsh,who co-wrote with John and Peter Adams, of Angry Badger Pictures. Sean Bean, Dougrey Scott, Robert Vaughn and Paul Barber are attached.
2. Danielle Tarento
Danielle has years of experience in theatre, she was co-founder of the Menier Chocolate Factory and co-cast all of their shows between 2004 and 2006, including ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ which had a West End transfer. She then went on to be Casting Associate for Jayne Collins working on commercials, music videos and films. After which she went back to the theatre as Artistic Director of The Kings Head Theatre, again casting all the in-house productions and again receiving a West End transfer for one of them, ‘Naked Boys Singing’. Since 2009 Danielle has been freelance casting for The Union Theatre, Croyden Warehouse and The Jermyn Street Theatre, she has also cast a TV Pilot.
Since her last visit to Fuse Danielle has been a prolific producer and casting director for "Legacy Falls" Musical Charing Cross Theatre (Casting), "Parade" Southwark Playhouse, nominated for best musical Evening Standard Awards (producer & casting), "Canterbury Tales" Southwark Playhouse (casting) along with many others, she is currently producing "Pitchfork Disney" at the Arcola Theatre.
3. Hannah Birkett
Hannah Birkett has been casting film, television & commercials for 14 years. In 2003, aged just 23, Hannah won the British
Television Advertising Craft Award for ‘Best Casting’, the only award for casting of its kind in the UK, and won again in 2009, for a Cadbury’s commercial she cast (the kids with the eyebrows!).
Nowadays Hannah casts mainly commercials. Hannah has amassed great knowledge and experience which she enjoys
sharing with performers and students in career advice sessions and workshops. The workshops explore every aspect of selling an artist’s performing skills to potential employers in 2-hour sessions.
4.Matt Western
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1. Ginny Schiller
Ginny is an experienced freelance casting director and Casting Associate at the Rose Theatre, Kingston. She has previously worked as Casting Director for the Royal Shakespeare Company, Chichester Festival Theatre, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre and has cast shows for the West End as well as for companies such as Bath Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Frantic Assembly, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre, Belfast; Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, Shared Experience, the Young Vic and West Yorkshire Playhouse. She has also worked on many television, film and radio productions.
2. Wayne Waterson
Wayne works alongside Ian Sheppard and together they form the casting company ‘The Searchers’. Together they have cast many, many large commercial campaigns for both TV and cinema use and have worked for all the major brand names in the UK and abroad.
3. Jo Adamson
Jo Adamson-Parker is a Leeds based Casting Director with over 17 years experience casting for a range of projects including Theatre, Television and Feature and short film.
After leaving the West Yorkshire Playhouse for a freelance career she worked on projects for Rollem Productions, BBC and ITV before becoming part of the core casting team on ‘The Bill’ where she cast over 20 episodes before forming Northern Spirit Creative where she develops training programmes and initiatives to nurture and develop new talent.
Most recently she has cast ‘The Last of The Dragons’ & ‘The Selfish Giant’ for Manhattan Children’s Theatre, ‘Loot’ for Hull Truck Theatre and Pilot Theatre Company’s productions of ‘The Fever Chart’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’. ‘Mini Ha Ha’s’ a comedy for the BBC directed by Matt Bloom and ‘Mam’ the directorial debut of Hugo Spear,
She is currently developing two feature films and a theatre production to spotlight new and emerging talent.
4. Kirsty Kinnear
Kirsty has worked in casting for the past eight years. Prior to setting up on her own this year I worked as a Casting Associate to Susie Figgis
for four years, working on films including; Alice in Wonderland, Prince of Persia - Sands of Time, The Young Victoria, and before that
she worked with Kate Dowd as her Casting Associate on films including; The Kite Runner, Rendition and The Kingdom.
Independently Kirsty has cast projects including: Dubplate Drama 3 for Channel 4/MTV, Rupert Goold's
production of Rough Crossings at the Lyric Hammersmith. Kirsty is currently in pre-production on a film.
5. Stuart Burt
West End credits include The Misanthrope (dir Thea Sharrock), The Last Cigarette (dir Richard Eyre), Sunset Boulevard (dir Craig Revel-Horwood), Riflemind (dir Philip Seymour Hoffman), Fat Pig (dir Neil La Bute) and The Lover/The Collection (dir Jamie Lloyd). Regional work includes South Pacific (also Barbican, dir Bartlett Sher), Legally Blonde (dir Jerry Mitchell), Rocky Horror Show and Spamalot (dir Chris Luscombe), West Side Story (dir Joey McNeely) and Noises Off (dir David Gilmore). Current projects include casting for the inaugural season of ‘Brighton Theatre Royal Productions’ under the Artistic Directorship of Chris Luscombe and a new West End project to be directed by Jamie Lloyd.
6. Miranda Gooch
Focussing on Casting over the past decade, her first solo project,’ TOOTH’ with a small budget, had a glorious cast attached, including Jim Broadbent, Harry Enfield, Sally Phillips, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Tim Dutton, Anna Wing, Jerry Hall and Vinnie Jones. Other projects include The Good Arrows (with Katie Brand) Dean Cavanagh and Irvine Welsh’s take on a dart player, which Irvine directed with Helen Grace. Gary Boulton-Brown’s True Story and feature film S.N.U.B. Miranda has worked with some of the industries best Casting Directors including Jina Jay and Nina Gold and was lucky enough to have been mentored by Phyllis Huffman (Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby etc) doing, amongst others, the Brit casting for The Blackwater Lightship. Miranda has recently diversified into the producer’s realm but continues to cast projects, drawing on her years of experience.
Current projects include Balzan’s Contract, filming in London and Malta at the end of October, with Gary Raymond and Keith Barron, two Canadian feature films The Wreck Of The Empress and Remembrance Man and of course, the ever enduring Magnificent Eleven, to be Directed by Irvine Welsh,who co-wrote with John and Peter Adams, of Angry Badger Pictures. Sean Bean, Dougrey Scott, Robert Vaughn and Paul Barber are attached.
1. Sarah Leung
Sarah Leung has a wealth of casting experience both in her own right and working with other established casting directors. Recent Casting Director Theatre credits include 'Corrie' (Phil Mcintyre & ITV Ltd at The Lowry, original cast) Film credits include: Big Cats, Sofa, Rekindle, 'K', Dog Run, Life Lottery and Beanbag. Sarah has also assisted works within various other casting teams. Credits include: Law & Order UK (Kudos), Waking The Dead (BBC) and Luther (BBC) amongst others. Inside Men (BBC), Hope Springs (BBC), Waterloo Road (BBC), Ninja Assassin (Warner Bros), Children of Men (Universal), Life on Mars (BBC), The Tempest and Much ado About Nothing (Regents Park), The Hypochondriac (Liverpool Playhouse), Winslow Boy (Rose Theatre Kingston), Waiting for Godot, Private Lives and Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Manchester Library Theatre).
2. Jim Arnold
Jim has recently left the Royal Shakespeare Company after nearly 4 years to become a freelance Casting Director. During his career, he has worked alongside several casting directors including Janie Frazer, Ginny Schiller, Lucy Jenkins, Hannah Miller and Helena Palmer and has worked in theatre, TV and film casting. He has just finished working with Sam Jones on several projects including two television series for the BBC and ITV1 as well as several theatre projects for Kneehigh, Sonia Friedman Productions and National Theatre Wales amongst others. Jim is the casting director for Cherub Theatre Company, for whom last year he cast "Lingua Franca" (Peter Nichol's follow-up to "Privates on Parade") at the Finborough Theatre in London, which later transferred to the Brits off Broadway season at 59East59 Theatres in New York. He also worked on the casting of “Matilda, a Musical” for the RSC, based on the children’s book by Roald Dahl, and most recently he cast 'Pericles: Re-imagined' at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. He is currently working on a new adaptation of Frederico Garcia Lorca's 'Yerma' at The Gate Theatre in Notting Hill.
3. Daniel Edwards
Daniel was an actor for over 25 years before moving into casting in 2005.
Since then he has worked in both an assistant or associate capacity for Marilyn Johnson, Sue Jones, Amanda Tabak, Gary Davy, Jayne Collins and has been working with Suzanne Smith for over a year. At The Bill he worked for Angela Grosvenor, Anji Caroll, Laura Scott, Simone Reynolds, Urvashi Chand,Victor Jenkins and Lisa Harris. He has worked on televison dramas and serials inc A Very British sex Scandal, Last Flight to Kuwait, MI High, Dustbin Baby , Clone, Caught in a Trap, Paradise Cafe and a huge amount of commercials. and currently working with Suzanne on Missing for abc with Ashley Judd & Sean Bean
Feature films include, She A Chinese, Congregation of Ghosts, Rekill, The Task, The Three Mustketeers, Horrid Henry (Kids casting) and Lost Christmas
As a Casting Director, Daniel cast shorts Deafblind (Maxine Peake), Man in Fear (Luke Treadaway & Tim Healy), One last Drink & Colin Brumby. Robbery on The Champs Elysees and jiust completed The Alchemist (Al Weaver, Tom Riley & Lily James) and the Feature films The Glass House & Hollow.
He is currently casting two features Passengers for Ratio:Film and The Forgotten for Stickyback Pictures
4. Annelie Powell
Annelie has been working in casting for 5 years. Recent theatre credits include; "Girl with the Iron Claws" (Edinburgh, Underbelly) "Hundreds and thousands" (Ett/Buckle for Dust/Soho) and "Little Eyolf " (Jermyn street). She is currently working on "The River Line" for Jermyn Street. She has also worked as Casting Assistant for many productions at Regents Park Theatre including; The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelth Night and Gigi.
She is currently working on a feature film, and some short films, and was previously the Resident Casting Assistant at Holby City.
Shes very passionate about discovering new talent and runs workshops of her own. In the workshop she will aim to push you out of the ordinary.
www.powellcasting.com
5. Jeremy Zimmerman
A huge amounts of credits in feature film and TV all listed on...
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6. Stephen Moore
Stephen has worked in casting since 2001. He is currently based at the BBC where he is Casting Director of DOCTORS and EASTENDERS. He has also cast 3 series of LAND GIRLS for BBC 1.
TV credits as Casting Assistant include: ROME (HBO/BBC), LONGFORD (HBO/C4), THE VIRGIN QUEEN (BBC 1), HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT (BBC 1), BYRON (BBC 2) and THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES (BBC 1).
Film: As Casting Associate/Assistant, credits include STARTER FOR TEN, AMAZING GRACE, BROTHERS OF THE HEAD, HOT FUZZ, FLIGHTPLAN,
SAHARA, I CAPTURE THE CASTLE and BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM.
Theatre: ORDINARY DREAMS (Trafalgar Studios), SOME WHITE CHICK by Neil LaBute (Southwark Playhouse), MIDNIGHT COWBOY (Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh) and THE EXONERATED directed by Bob Balaban (Riverside Studios)
1. John Conner
John casts alot of TV comedy and has worked on; 'Black Books', 'Coupling', 'The Vicar of Dibley' & 'After You've Gone'. Recently working on John Culshaw's 'Impressions show' and 'My Family'.
2. Carol Dudley
Carol is a member of Casting Director’s Guild of GB & Casting Society of America, she has many years experience casting in the US, has cast for HBO, the UK and Europe and works across film, theatre and TV.
Theatre includes;
MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION – tour and West End Dir: Michael Rudman
BERLIN - HANOVER EXPRESS – Hampstead Theatre. Dir: Michael Rudman – World premiere
SUNDAY FATHER - Hampstead Theatre. Dir: Rupert Goold – UK premiere
U.S. AND THEM - Hampstead Theatre. Dir: Jennie Darnell – World premiere
WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR – West End Dir: John Caird – UK premiere
Television Includes;
DARK RIDE Prod: Action Factory Dir: Axel Sands
LASKO Prod: Herman Joha / Action Concept, Dir: Diethard Kuster
KINGDOM IN TWILIGHT Prod: Konstantin Thoeren / Tandem Dir: Uli Edel
PRINCE WILLIAM - MOW - ABC/TV. Prod: Bonnie Raskin Dir: Michael Watkins
ENTRUSTED - Miniseries - Le Sabre (France), Grosvernor Park (GB) Dir: Giacomo Battiato
THE LOST BATTALION - A&E MOW - Prod: David Gerber. Dir Russell Mulcahy.
IN HIS LIFE - NBC MOW/ NBC Productions. Prod: Michael O’Hara. Dir: David Carson
THE LINDA MCCARTNEY STORY - Columbia Pictures/CBS MOW
MONKEY KING - Hallmark/NBC. Prod: Robert Halmi, Dir: Peter Macdonald
MONTICELLO: MEMOIRS OF SALLY HEMINGS. CBS mini-series.Prod. Craig Anderson.
TERROR IN THE MALL. (Fox Broadcasting MOW). UFA/Warner Bros. Int'l. Prods.
3. Chloe Stephens
Chloe studied BA Drama and Theatre Arts at Goldsmiths College, graduating in 2007. She also trained in Clown at The Actors Space, Barcelona. She has worked at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre as Casting and Theatre Assistant for two seasons, assisting Casting Associate Charlotte Bevan. Chloe also teaches Audition Technique and Devising Theatre workshops at the Brit School. Outside of the Globe she runs the site-specific performance company SKIPtheatre, directing devised work outside of conventional theatre spaces. With SKIPtheatre directing includes: Arts Council funded production of The Mermaid's Curse (Villages of Porlock and East Prawle), So...? (Charity shop, Leytonstone), Decadence and Descendants (Empty mansion house, Mayfair), Departure: 3 (Union Theatre & Shunt), 35 Albury Street (Empty house, Deptford), Fill Up Full Stop (Camden People's Theatre) and LENGTHS (Glastonbury Festival).
4. Tree Petts
Tree Petts has been in casting for over 10 years and specialises in commercials, promos and virals, she and has also taken on a number of drama projects, such as ‘Washdays’, winner of Best Short Film at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009. Recent work includes the award winning T Mobile ‘Singalong’ commercial shot in Trafalgar Square, other commercials include work for; Diet Coke, Nokia, John Lewis, Sony and many more. Recent music videos for Take That ‘Up All Night’ and Lily Allen’s ‘22’. Tree has also cast virals for big names such as Sky, Virgin Media and the Discovery Channel.
5. Naomi Jalil
Naomi currently works with Shaheen Baig and has worked as a Casting Associate on;
Cracks, Womb, Freefall, Unmade Beds, The Unloved, Kingsland, Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging and The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, Shameless, The Visit, Bodies, and Lilies to name a few.
Recently working on Brighton Rock, I am Slave and The Impossible.
Casting Director Brendan McNamara has worked in casting since 1998. Starting as a runner at Hubbard Casting, Brendan was privileged to gain experience at one of the world¹s premier casting companies. He returned to Ireland to complete a degree in Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin.
After finishing his studies, he returned to Hubbard Casting working on projects such as The Bourne Supremacy, Churchill The Hollywood Years, Silver City and Omagh. He was also casting assistant for two series of Taggart.
Brendan's book "Its the Audition, Stupid!" will be published in July 2011
1. Aisha Walters
Aisha is currently Shaheen Baig's Casting Associate.
She graduated from Leeds University with a degree in Politics in 2006. The next 6 months she spent as administration trainee at Tamasha Theatre Company, where she developed an interest in casting after working closely with the director on a production.
The following year and a half she worked at various companies as an intern; including the RSC and Pippa Ailion Casting, before starting work for Shaheen in 2008. Aisha has assisted Shaheen on numerous projects including THE UNLOVED, DIVE and BRIGHTON ROCK.
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2. Beth Charkham
Beth casts extensively both here and in the US. Her UK TV credits include; ‘Four Seasons’, ‘Starting Over’, ‘Angel Cake’, ‘Men Behaving Badly’, ‘Back to the Secret Garden’, ‘Silent Witness’ etc, for US TV she has worked for such big production companies as CBS, Universal, ABC, and NBC. Her film casting includes work for both US and UK; ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Endgame’ and ‘Nowhere in Africa’ (which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film).
3. Debbie O'Brien
West End productions include Flashdance; Priscilla Queen of the Desert; Thriller Live; Grease; The Rat Pack Live from Las Vegas; The King and I; The Harder They Come; Showboat; Dancing in the Streets; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Saturday Night Fever; The Snowman; Fame; Peter Pan; The Pirates of Penzance; Mum’s the Word; Daisy Pulls It Off; Napoleon; La Cava; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Smokey Joe's Café; The Rocky Horror Show; Soul Train; Rent; Always; Steaming; Ain't Misbehavin'; Disgracefully Yours..
4. Sarah Hughes
Sarah Hughes has been Alan Ayckbourn’s casting director since 1991. She has worked for the last ten years as a freelance casting director for the BBC, where shows include “Pulling”, “Love Soup”, “Rock and Chips”, “Two Pints...”, “The Old Guys” and the forthcoming “Learning to walk again”.
Her freelance theatre casting includes many shows for West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal Northampton, Birmingham Rep and the Orange Tree, and several projects for Frantic Assembly,
including the TMA award-winning “Othello” and the forthcoming “Lovesong”. Having recently cast no. 1 tours of “Life of Riley” and “Communicating Doors”, she is currently casting “Neighbourhood Watch” and “Dear Uncle” for the Stephen Joseph Theatre for summer 2011.
5. Vikki Wildman- cancelled
Vicky has worked in the casting department of loads of films including; Gangs of New York, Finding Neverland, Bourne Identity, The Mummy Returns, Beowulf & Grendel,
and currently has 3 projects in post-production
5. DENISE SILVEY
Denise began her career in theatre over 25 years ago, spending much of that time as an actress and singer working in the West End and in film, television and radio, before moving on into production, casting and being and Agent.
Denise founded Cahoots Theatre Company in 1993. In 1999 Cahoots produced the West End revival of Starting Here, Starting Now at the Jermyn Street Theatre. She was subsequently appointed Artistic Associate of the theatre and went on to produce the musical Snap and the play Sick Dictators and to co-produce the play High Spirits with Ballantrae at the Bridewell Theatre.
In 2004 Denise received the Stage One New Producers Bursary, enabling her to cast and produce the comedy The Translucent Frogs of Quuup by Chris Larner and Mark Stevens, at the Edinburgh Festival before transferring it to the Ambassadors Theatre and the Kings Head.
During the same year whilst providing production co-ordination services to Fiery Angel Theatre Company, Denise helped take Fascinating Aida to New York where she formed the relationship with 59E59 Theaters that later enabled her to take actress and artist Kara Wilson to New York for the Brits on Broadway season. Following that season Denise entered into a co-production with the New York based Godlight Company and brought their highly successful A Clockwork Orange to Edinburgh for a sell-out season.
In addition to running Cahoots Theatre Company Denise is currently engaged as Production Controller and Casting Director on the West End production of The Mousetrap. She was casting consultant for ‘The Watcher’ at the Waterloo East Theatre and has recently cast ‘Hitch’ starring Tim McInerney, Hugh Fraser and Graham Seed.
6. Anji Caroll
Feature films: 'Papadopoulos & Sons', 'West Is West', 'Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution', 'Out Of Depth' and 'The Jolly Boys' Last Stand'.
T.V. : 'Titanic: Flesh & Steel Vs Nature', BBC 2's comedy drama series 'The Cup', 'The Bill' – (over 50 episodes),'The Sarah Jane Adventures' – 'Invasion Of The Bane', 2 series of 'London's Burning' (32 x 60 minute episodes) and 'The Knock' (4 x 90 minute episodes).
Radio: BBC 4's political drama series - 'Number Ten'.
Theatre includes: 'Precious Little Talent' Trafalgar Studios, 'Spring And Port Wine', 'Proof', The Rivals', 'Bus Stop', 'Peter Pan','Desire Under The Elms', 'Copenhagen', 'Dumb Show', 'Honeymoon Suite' for the New Vic ,'Othello' and 'Richard III' Ludlow Festival, 'The Ladykillers', 'Twelfth Night', 'The Deep Blue Sea', 'Macbeth', 'Notebook of Trigorin', - Northcott Theatre and 'The Wizard of Oz', 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?', 'Antigone', 'The Beggar's Opera', 'Chorus of Disapproval', 'Henry IV parts 1 & 2', 'Wind In The Willows' and 'Betrayal' for the Bristol Old Vic.
1. Carol Dudley
Carol is a member of Casting Director’s Guild of GB & Casting Society of America, she has many years experience casting in the US, has cast for HBO, the UK and Europe and works across film, theatre and TV.
Theatre includes;
MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION – tour and West End Dir: Michael Rudman
BERLIN - HANOVER EXPRESS – Hampstead Theatre. Dir: Michael Rudman – World premiere
SUNDAY FATHER - Hampstead Theatre. Dir: Rupert Goold – UK premiere
U.S. AND THEM - Hampstead Theatre. Dir: Jennie Darnell – World premiere
WHAT THE NIGHT IS FOR – West End Dir: John Caird – UK premiere
Television Includes;
DARK RIDE Prod: Action Factory Dir: Axel Sands
LASKO Prod: Herman Joha / Action Concept, Dir: Diethard Kuster
KINGDOM IN TWILIGHT Prod: Konstantin Thoeren / Tandem Dir: Uli Edel
PRINCE WILLIAM - MOW - ABC/TV. Prod: Bonnie Raskin Dir: Michael Watkins
ENTRUSTED - Miniseries - Le Sabre (France), Grosvernor Park (GB) Dir: Giacomo Battiato
THE LOST BATTALION - A&E MOW - Prod: David Gerber. Dir Russell Mulcahy.
IN HIS LIFE - NBC MOW/ NBC Productions. Prod: Michael O’Hara. Dir: David Carson
THE LINDA MCCARTNEY STORY - Columbia Pictures/CBS MOW
MONKEY KING - Hallmark/NBC. Prod: Robert Halmi, Dir: Peter Macdonald
MONTICELLO: MEMOIRS OF SALLY HEMINGS. CBS mini-series.Prod. Craig Anderson.
TERROR IN THE MALL. (Fox Broadcasting MOW). UFA/Warner Bros. Int'l. Prods.
2. Aisha Walters
Aisha is currently Shaheen Baig's Casting Associate.
She graduated from Leeds University with a degree in Politics in 2006. The next 6 months she spent as administration trainee at Tamasha Theatre Company, where she developed an interest in casting after working closely with the director on a production. The
following year and a half she worked at various companies as an intern; including the RSC and Pippa Ailion Casting, before starting
work for Shaheen in 2008. Aisha has assisted Shaheen on numerous projects including THE UNLOVED, DIVE and BRIGHTON ROCK.
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3. Carl Proctor
As well as numerous TV credits Carl has cast over 25 films including ONE MORE KISS directed by Vadim Jean, TWELFTH NIGHT directed by Trevor Nunn, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE (with John Malkovich & Willem Dafoe) THE WEDDING DATE (with Debra Messing), MRS PALFREY AT THE CLAREMONT (with Joan Plowright) and BLOOD CREEK directed by Joel Schumacher. Carl has produced a number of short films and one feature – MAD DOGS and directed several stage productions.
4. Rowland Beckley
Rowland has worked in television for over 10 years and began his career on the Studio floor as a 2nd/3rd AD. But a love of acting & the theatre,
led him into pursuing a career in casting. He's been casting for the past 8 years and has worked on numerous productions such as Being April,
The Bill, Grease Monkeys, Holby City & The Afternoon Plays. Currently employed by the BBC's inhouse casting department. Recent productions
include Eastenders, Eastenders E20 and Doctors.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2276413/
5. Gemma Hancock
Gemma has been working in casting for 15 years, starting as an assistant to Jane Arnell, then working with casting directors Julia Duff, Sarah Beardsall and Laura Scott. After a two-year spell in the casting department at the RSC, Gemma teamed up with Sam Stevenson in 2004 to form Hancock Stevenson Casting. Gemma and Sam cast both theatre and TV projects, as well as the occasional film. They have been responsible for casting the last four series of SILENT WITNESS for BBC1, an adaptation of Martin Amis’ MONEY for BBC2, CONSUMING PASSION for BBC4, THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES for BBC1, Simon Schama’s ROUGH CROSSINGS for BBC2, MR LOVEDAY’S LITTLE OUTING for BBC4, and many episodes of THE BILL for ITV. In 2010 Gemma and Sam received a Primetime Emmy nomination for their casting of EMMA for BBC1.
Theatre work includes casting more than 20 productions for Peter Hall, including Henry IV (for summer 2011), Pygmalion, Waiting for Godot, Uncle Vanya, The Dresser, As You Like It, Habeas Corpus and Measure for Measure. Other theatre directors worked with include Howard Davies, Sean Mathias, Thea Sharrock, Melly Still, Hettie Macdonald and David Grindley.
6. Gaby Kester
Gaby Kester has been working in casting for 13 years and set up Gaby Kester Casting in 2005. Although she works predominantly for film, Gaby has also cast several plays and is currently casting the hit comedy show “Celebrity Autobiography” that has transferred to London from Broadway.
Gaby brings years of experience to the world of casting having worked with top UK casting directors Michelle Guish and Priscilla John on such films as “Saving Private Ryan”, “Shakespeare in Love” and “Bridget Jones’s Diary”. From 2002 until 2005 she worked solely with Michelle Guish as Associate Casting Director on such films as “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason”, “Nanny McPhee” and “Five Children and It”. For “Five Children and It” she was given the challenging but ultimately hugely rewarding task of casting all five of the five children of the title.
Since setting up on her own, Gaby’s first job was casting the three teenage leads for the late Anthony Minghella in “Breaking and Entering”. Other films include “The Oxford Murders” with John Hurt and Elijah Wood, “Flashbacks of a Fool” with Daniel Craig and “Re-uniting the Rubins” with Timothy Spall. Theatre work includes plays for the Royal Court and the Tricycle Theatre.
Gaby’s latest film “Hysteria” starring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Jonathan Pryce and Rupert Everett will be released in the cinema this autumn.
1. Jane Frisby
Jane Frisby has been a Freelance Casting Director since 1987 - previously working for both Hubbard Casting and Liz Cassidy. Jane has cast many many commercials and many Corporates . Her first Feature was for C4 called 'Turbulence' and following that 'Hear My Song' (a first Feature for both Jimmy Nesbitt and Tara Fitzgerald ) then 'Shopping' (a first Feature for Jude Law) also 'Boston Kickout' with John Simm, Andy Lincoln and Marc Warren.
This year Jane has cast no less than 3 Mircro Budget Features 'Operation Stormhouse', 'Life Just Is' and 'In Clear Sight' . She has
also produced and cast her first Feature 'The Fighter's Ballad' for her Production Company 'Yellow Dolphin Films' this stars Clive
Russell and Peter Cadwell - next project in development now !!!
2. Andrew Mann
Andrew Mann is one of the most successful and respected casting directors for commercials in the country. For 10 years, the top professionals in advertising, television and video have come to rely on his superb taste and proficiency when casting their projects. He understands that the correct cast makes the difference between an average production and a memorable one. He meets with thousands of professional artists over the course of a given year including actors, dancers, models, comedians & musicians but also specialises in 'Street-Casting'. Andrew has cast commercials for ASDA, V2 Records, Samsung, and BBC Children in Need amongst others, he also casts BBC Idents and the award winning infomercial 'Knife Edge' shot to look like a computer game, highlighting the worrying rise of 'knife culture' within Britain's youth, for the Metropolitan Police Force.
3. Andrea Clarke
Andrea’s casting work spans across, Film, TV, Commercials, Corporate, Music Videos and Idents, as both Casting Director and Casting Associate. She has cast commercials for clients such as; John Lewis, McDonalds, B The Roadside, Films include; Keeping Mum, The Truth About Love, Van Wilder 2, Flood, Mutant Chronicles. Andrea has a couple more projects currently in pre and post- production.
4. Ben Cogan
Ban has been working in Casting for over 10 years. As a Casting Assistant he worked on 'Waking the Dead', Eastenders',' In Deep' and 'Holby City'
He now works within a department that casts over 380 hours of continuing drama every year, and is casting director for regular and guest casting on
'Doctors' and 'Casualty'.
5. Annie Rowe
Annie trained as an actress at NYT and RADA before becoming a freelance casting assistant in 2007. In 2009, alongside assisting Gary Davy, Sarah Crowe, Jeremy Zimmerman, Tree Petts and more, Annie began casting independently and is the resident casting director for main in-house shows at Theatre503. She also continues to work for, amongst others, The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath, BDA Creative, The Bush Theatre and the Casting Collective.
THEATRE INCLUDES: 'The Biting Point', ‘The Charming Man’, ‘Breed’, ‘Epic’, ‘Wild Horses’, ‘Porn – The Musical’, ‘This Much Is True’, ‘Manorhouse’, ‘The Tin Horizon‘ - Theatre503. ‘Alice Through The Looking Glass’, ‘Around The World in 80 Days’ – The Egg at Theatre Royal Bath, ‘Public Property’ - Trafalgar Studios, ‘Face The Camera And Smile', Writer's Avenue - Soho Theatre Studio, 'Seconds', Writer's Avenue - The Pleasance, Islington.
AS CASTING ASSISTANT: ‘The Knowledge’, ‘Little Platoons’, ‘The Whisky Taster’ - Bush Theatre, ‘Love On The Dole’ - Finborough Theatre.
SHORT FILM INCLUDES: ‘By Hook’,‘Trailing Dirt’ and ‘Modo and Mahu’.
Many corporate films for BDA Creative.
Annie’s website can be viewed at http://www.annierowe-casting.com
6. Sue Jones
Sue began casting 16 years ago, with Steven Berkoff's "Acapulco" at the The King’s Head Theatre, this began a 2 year period as Resident Casting Director there. She now works in all media - Film, TV, Commercials, Promos and Video Games.
Film includes: Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth", "Human Traffic", "Ronin" and UK casting on Robert de Niro's "The Good Shepherd". Most recently the Irish comedy “Holy Water”, horror film “The Task” and US thriller “The Fourth Kind”.
In TV Sue has worked for companies such as Hallmark and CBS and for directors like Shane Meadows and Stephen Daldry.
1. Manuel Puro
Manuel is a casting director who works mainly in casting feature films and TV. Recent features include; ‘Fake Identity’ starring Val Kilmer, ‘Tormented’ (BBC films/Warner Bros), ‘Moon’ with Kevin Spacey, ‘Heartless’ with Noel Clarke, and this year, ‘Flutter’, ‘Baptism’ and ‘Juliet and Gertrude’. He has also worked on TV dramas including; ‘Sea Wolf’ with Neve Campbell and ‘Crusoe’ for NBC.
2. Andy Brierley
Andy Brierley is a freelance casting director. Current projects include Coming Up 2011 (7x30 mins films for Channel 4/Touchpaper), his fifth serie s of Russell T. Davies’s The Sarah Jane Adventures for BBC1, as well as projects in development for Living TV and Channel 4.
Andy is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh and of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
3. Wayne Waterson
Wayne works alongside Ian Sheppard and together they form the casting company ‘The Searchers’. Together they have cast many, many large commercial campaigns for both TV and cinema use and have worked for all the major brand names in the UK and abroad.
4. Alison Chard
Alison has extensive casting credits for Theatre and Television. She worked on dozens of productions for the Royal National Theatre and was Head of Casting for the Royal Shakespeare Company for several years.
Her TV credits include Real Women, M.I.T. and twelve years on The Bill, where she was also Head of Casting. Last year she cast the spectacular production of Peter Pan staged in Kensington Gardens and has just completed casting on Swallows and Amazons, to be directed by
Tom Morris for Bristol Old Vic at Christmas. She is a member of the Casting Directors Guild of Great Britain and BAFTA
5. Camilla Evans
After 10 years assisting experience across Theatre, Film & Television Camilla set up her own business last year, her most recent work includes:
Theatre; ‘One Night In November’ Belgrade Theatre, ‘Misconception’ Edinburgh Festival,
‘The Door Never Closes’ and ‘All The Little Things We Crushed’ for Almeida Theatre, ‘Marine Parade’ Brighton Festival (World premier) and High Tide Festival 2009 and 2010
TV in 2010: ‘Hustle’ (series 7 for BBC), ‘Henry: The Mind of a Tyrant’ (Channel 4) and ‘All The Small Things’ with Maggie Lunn (BBC). And Film; ‘Eliminate’ and ‘Scooterman’
6. Louise McCabe
Louise McCabe is currently completing work as Casting Director on a new short film for boutique production house Wyld Stallyons whose clients include Channel 4, MTV and Bacardi. Recently Louise was recruited by Bernard Telsey New York as UK Regional Casting Assistant on 'Sex and the City 2' and also assisted on 'Across the Universe', where the team put Jim Sturgess into his first major film role. Louise was a lecturer at Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts for 4 years, where she taught Scene Study, Professional Preparation and Audition
Technique. Prior to this, Louise was an actress for 7 years in London and New York, where she was a member of the original 24-Hour Theatre Company.
1. Janine Snape
Janine is a member of the CDG and is currently Assistant Casting Director at the RSC. She has also cast for many theatres including; Arcola Theatre, Old Red Lion, Theatre 503, Headlong, Bush, and The Finborough. You will be asked to bring a Shakespeare speech for this session.
2. Melissa Waudby
Melissa has worked for over twelve years as a casting director in Theatre, TV and Film. She is currently responsible for the ongoing casting of Crimewatch and its Solved programmes for the BBC, casting for Gaia Media Films and for in house production company Wishbone.
Filming has literally just finished for her latest project, feature film Kill Keith which already is creating quite a stir in the media.
Melissa also runs her own production company, co-writing and producing various theatre and film projects.
3. Carolyn McLeod
TV & film with 3 projects currently in pre-production. She has worked for The Bill, and cast various projects for the BBC including Liverpool Nativity, The Great Escape, and Manchester Passion. Features include, London Dreams, Starship Troopers, Pumpkinhead 3, and 4. As Casting Assistant she has worked on 2 of the Harry Potter films.
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4. Nana Kilmek
Nana Klimek started casting around the year 2000. Her background as a performer, predominantly in the dance world, paved the way for her casting career.
Over the past ten years, Nana has cast countless commercials, pop promos, and short films.
Commercials include VW, Ford, McDonalds, Nokia, Domino Pizza, British Gas, Olympus, Beck’s, Wrigley’s, and most recently the current commercial for Very.co.uk and Orange.
Pop promos include U2, Nick Cave, Goldfrapp, Florence & the Machine, Fergie, Dizzie Rascal, Franz Ferdinand, Mika and many more.
5. Alex Wheeler
Alex worked extensively as an actor and director in both Manchester
and London, now a well established casting associate. Alex has worked on over 100 commercials including the already iconic ‘Hovis -
through the ages’ as well as several feature films and dramas
including ‘Four Lions’ directed by Chris Morris, ‘Submarine’
directed by Richard Ayoade and ‘You Want Me to Kill Him?’ directed by Andrew Douglas’.
6. Annelie Powell
Annelie is a busy Casting Assistant, and has worked with casting directors such as Sarah Hughes, Ginny Schiller and most recently Marilyn Johnson. She has worked in both theatre and TV. Annelie's theatre work includes; the Arcola, Trafalgar Studios, Lichfield Garrick, Theatre Royal Bath, Liverpool Everyman and Regents Park,in 2010 she has been assisting at Holby City.
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1. John Manning
John started his career at Salisbury Playhouse where he was resident for four years, casting over forty productions.
He was Casting Co-ordinator on The Complete Works Festival at the Royal Shakespeare Company, working on Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, King John, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra and The Histories.
Recent work includes The 39 Steps (second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth cast - Criterion Theatre, West End and national tours 2008 and 2010), Stephen Daldry’s National Theatre production of An Inspector Calls (Novello and Wyndham’s Theatre, West End 2010 and national tour 2009 for PW Productions), and Dial M For Murder (national tour 2009).
Other freelance work includes: Turandot (Hampstead Theatre), Cyrano de Bergerac, Not the End of the World, The Birthday Party, The Barber of Seville (Bristol Old Vic), Northanger Abbey, Alphabetical Order, Othello, The Herbal Bed (Salisbury Playhouse), The Arab-Israeli Cookbook (Tricycle Theatre), Top Girls, Flying Under Bridges, Get Ken Barlow (Watford Palace), Travels With My Aunt and Romeo and Juliet (New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich).
2. Rachael Speed
Rachel comes to casting from a different prospective, having worked her way up from Runner to Second Unit Director or Assistant Director on many TV productions, she has lots of experience of what is required of an actor on set.
She Assisted Marilyn Johnson on "Sugar Rush" and currently has a feature "Junkhearts" in post-production.
3. Cara Beckinsale
Cara is an up and coming casting director and one to look out for, having assisted; Celestia Fox, Jina Jay, Nina Gold, Julia Duff, Doreen Jones, Di Carling, Laura Scott, Kate Rhodes James and Rachel Freck, she has had experience in a broad range of casting including; film, television series, American pilots, comedy shorts and mini series. In January 2009 she cast her first feature film. She has also worked as an agent’s assistant at United Agents and Gordon and French, and prior to that was a casting director in Australia, (Sydney and Melbourne) with seven years experience there.
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4. Jane Arnell
Jane has many years experience in TV casting both in the UK and USA. She worked as Casting Assistant on: “Lady Jane”, “Between the Lines”, and “Ballykissangel” amongst others and as Casting Director on; “Harry Enfield”, “Chancer”, “Soldier Soldier”, “Days of Darkness”, “Minder”, and “The Bill” to pick out just a few.
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5. Ilenka Jelowicki
Works at Mad Dog Casting and has cast literally hundreds of commercials. Her clients have included; Carlsberg, Guinness, Disney, Burger King, Playstation, The Times and many more. Ilenka also casts music videos and has done Idents for MTV and BBC. This year Ilenka casts her first feature film.
6. Miranda Gooch
Focussing on Casting over the past decade, her first solo project,’ TOOTH’ with a small budget, had a glorious cast attached, including Jim Broadbent, Harry Enfield, Sally Phillips, Stephen Fry, Richard E. Grant, Tim Dutton, Anna Wing, Jerry Hall and Vinnie Jones. Other projects include The Good Arrows (with Katie Brand) Dean Cavanagh and Irvine Welsh’s take on a dart player, which Irvine directed with Helen Grace. Gary Boulton-Brown’s True Story and feature film S.N.U.B. Miranda has worked with some of the industries best Casting Directors including Jina Jay and Nina Gold and was lucky enough to have been mentored by Phyllis Huffman (Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby etc) doing, amongst others, the Brit casting for The Blackwater Lightship. Miranda has recently diversified into the producer’s realm but continues to cast projects, drawing on her years of experience.
Current projects include Balzan’s Contract, filming in London and Malta at the end of October, with Gary Raymond and Keith Barron, two Canadian feature films The Wreck Of The Empress and Remembrance Man and of course, the ever enduring Magnificent Eleven, to be Directed by Irvine Welsh,who co-wrote with John and Peter Adams, of Angry Badger Pictures. Sean Bean, Dougrey Scott, Robert Vaughn and Paul Barber are attached.
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1. Catherine Willis
Catherine has a huge amount of experience casting for Television, credits include; 'Waking the Dead', 'Casualty', 'Little Miss Jocelyn', 'Coming Up', 'Dead Set', and 'FM' and recently the BAFTA award winning 'Criminal Justice' starring Maxine Peake. Catherine has 2 more TV projects out this year; 'Bloody Foreigners' and drama series 'I Shouldn't be Alive'.
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2. Leoni Kibbey
Leoni Kibbey has worked as Casting Director on both short and feature length films with budgets of up to £6 million. She has recently cast feature films starring the likes of Chris Noth (of 'Sex and The City' fame), Jennifer Ellison, Vincent Regan (300, Clash of the Titans), Colin Salmon, Don Warrington and Sean Verey (of 'Skins'). She is currently casting no fewer than five feature films, and has several more which she is due to begin casting including a movie adaptation of a popular teen novel. She is also currently casting US horror movie "Slash". Leoni also regularly works on large commercial, music video, TV and radio projects.
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3. Laura Dickens
Laura is currently casting at the BBC at 'Doctors'. She has loads of TV casting experience working first as an assistant on regular series; 'Class Act', 'Call Red', 'Have your Cake and Eat it' and 'Bodyguards' then as casting director on- 'The Bill', 'Holby City' and 'Casualty'. She has also worked in film in casting departments of, 'Harry Potter', 'The Martins', 'Reign of Fire' and 'About a Boy'.
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4. Irene Cotton
Irene has many years experience casting TV, Film, Theatre, Radio and hundreds of commercials. Irene was resident casting director for The Old Vic under Jonathan Miller, has cast West End Theatre, works regularly for the BBC, and has cast over 200 episodes of 'The Bill'. Films include 'The Libertine' starring John Malkovich.
5. John Cannon
John is a freelance casting director currently casting at long running series 'Holby City'. He has also cast at 'The Bill' and worked in theatre casting including a period at the RSC.
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6. Kevin Riddle
Kevin is a Casting Associate to watch out for, he has assisted some very successful casting directors and is quickly clocking up credits. He worked as Casting Assistant on, ‘Holby City’, ‘Eastenders’, ‘Dalziel and Pascoe’ and ‘Misfits’ and for film, ‘Mama Mia’, ‘Brideshead Revisited’, and this year already ‘The Wolfman’, ‘The Infidel’, 'Strawberry Fields' and his first Casting Director credit for the film ‘Acts of God’.
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1. Daniel Edwards
Daniel began his casting career as an assistant working with Natasha Greenberg on ‘A Very British Sex Scandal’ (Ch4), ‘Last Flight to Kuwait’ (BBC), ‘As the bell rings’ (Disney). With Marilyn Johnson on ‘Clone’ (BBC), ‘Fanny Hill’ (BBC), ‘Nearly Famous’ ( E4), ‘Caught in Trap’ (ITV) and feature ‘A congregation of Ghosts’. Then with Amanda Tabak, on numerous commercials and kids casting. He worked briefly for Suzanne Smith, Sasha Robertson and Jayne Collins on various projects before being reunited with Natasha Greenberg as associate casting director on the U.S. feature ‘The Glass House’, currently in post production. He recently finished working for Sue Jones on three feature films, ‘The Strays’, ‘The Task’ and ‘Dead Ahead’, and is currently at ‘The Bill’ working for head of casting Angela Grosvenor.
2. Tree Petts
Tree Petts has been in casting for over 10 years and specialises in commercials, promos and virals, she and has also taken on a number of drama projects, such as ‘Washdays’, winner of Best Short Film at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival 2009. Recent work includes the award winning T Mobile ‘Singalong’ commercial shot in Trafalgar Square, other commercials include work for; Diet Coke, Nokia, John Lewis, Sony and many more. Recent music videos for Take That ‘Up All Night’ and Lily Allen’s ‘22’. Tree has also cast virals for big names such as Sky, Virgin Media and the Discovery Channel.
3. Phil Shaw
Phil Shaw trained as an actor and was formerly an agent with ITG, after which he started his own successful agency. Phil casts TV, film and commercials - recent projects include LOVE AND VIRTUE with John Malkovich, Damian Lewis, and Peter O'Toole; THE LAST POST (BAFTA nominated, with Gael Garcia Bernal), TV comedy series pilot, DECKIES; and the BAFTA/Oscar nominated
ROMANS 12:20 (which recently won first jury prize at the Los Angeles, New York and Rhode Island Festivals). He is currently working on a screen adaptation of Liz Jensen's novel WAR CRIMES FOR THE HOME; Susan Hill's psychological crime dramas, THE VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN and THE PURE IN HEART, the movie, GREENER GRASS for Light and Dark Films, and
in pre-production on the NBC/Sky TV mini-series 1066-Conqueror. Phil was a co-executive producer on the pilot for TV drama series, Wire in the Blood' Phil also runs an 'in demand' one-to-one consultancy for actors, is a voice and acting technique coach, and is writing a book about the interface between psychological astrology and the craft of acting.
4. Danielle Tarento
Danielle has years of experience in theatre, she was co-founder of the Menier Chocolate Factory and co-cast all of their shows between 2004 and 2006, including ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ which had a West End transfer. She then went on to be Casting Associate for Jayne Collins working on commercials, music videos and films. After which she went back to the theatre as Artistic Director of The Kings Head Theatre, again casting all the in-house productions and again receiving a West End transfer for one of them, ‘Naked Boys Singing’. Since 2009 Danielle has been freelance casting for The Union Theatre, Croyden Warehouse and The Jermyn Street Theatre, she has also cast a TV Pilot.
5. Chloe Emmerson
Chloe has years of experience casting film and TV. She worked as Casting Associate on ‘Sexy Beast’ and ‘Billy Elliot’. As casting director TV credits included; the ‘Nathan Barley’ series, ‘9/11-Out of the Blue’, ‘The Last Days of the Raj’ and Simon Schama’s ‘The Power of Art’ series. Recent film credits include; ‘New Town Killers’, ‘Dangerous Parking’, ‘The Waiting Room’ starring Anne-Marie Duff and the award winning ‘Vinyan’.
6. Tom Adams
Tom started out as an actor, then turned agent and enjoys his current position as a Casting Associate, he has therfore a practical and unique understanding of the entire casting process. Tom has assisted a variety of Casting Directors including Lucinda Syson, Marilyn Johnson, Anna Stark & Andrew Mann. He is currently Casting Associate to Jayne Collins, and has worked on TV; 'Collision' ( ITV), 'Clone' (BBC), 'Myths' (BBC), 'The Cut' ( BBC Switch). He also worked on 'Eurovision ‘Your Country Needs You’ 2009' and 2010 for the BBC and 'So You Think You Can Dance?'. In Commercials he has cast for most big brands.
1. Hannah Birkett
Hannah Birkett has been casting for 11 years and started working in casting whilst at University. After she graduated with a BA Hons in Media Arts with radio Broadcasting, she was employed full time. In 2003, aged just 23, Hannah won the British Television Advertising Craft Award for ‘Best Casting’, the only award for casting of its kind in the UK. In 2004 she set up Hannah Birkett Casting and since then has been working as a Casting Director in her own right. Hannah casts mainly commercials, and again won ‘Best Casting’ at the British Television Advertising Craft Awards in 2009, for a recent Cadbury’s commercial she cast (the kids with the eyebrows!).
2. Andrea Clark
Andrea’s casting work spans across, Film, TV, Commercials, Corporate, Music Videos and Idents. She has cast commercials for clients such as; BT, Coca Cola, Mastercard, Volvo, Guinness, Gillette and recently the John Lewis Christmas advert. For TV she has cast for Tiger Aspect, BBC, Warner Brothers, ABC and Hallmark. Film includes; Hellboy, The Truth About Love, Van Wilder 2, Flood, Mutant Chronicles.
3. Ginny Schiller
Ginny has vast credits in casting including resident casting director positions at Soho Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, and RSC where she cast The Complete Works season. She has worked at many companies in London and around the country including Regent’s Park, ETT, Rose Theatre Kingston, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Oxford Playhouse, Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Young Vic and Theatre Clwyd to name a few. She also has experience casting TV, Film and Radio.
4. Richard Evans
Richard Evans CDG has cast a wide variety of productions in all media since 1989 including West End shows, ‘Dancing in the Streets’ and ‘The Rat Pack’. Prior to this Richard worked as an actor for ten years. He has devised and presented audition and career development workshops at the Actors' Centres in London and Manchester, and at many top drama and theatre schools. His book, Auditions: A Practical Guide, is published by Routledge. www.auditionsapracticalguide.com
5. Jo Adamson
Jo Adamson has spent over 14 years casting for theatre, television and film. Her hands on approach and constant sourcing and developing of new, fresh talent bring an exciting quality to her casting. Her most recent credits include ‘The Fever Chart’ for Pilot Theatre Company, ‘ChuckleVision’ for CBBC and several short films. Recently she also cast the Leeds actors for the much talked about "Red Riding Trilogy" for Revolution Films. During 2005 – 2007 she worked predominantly casting ‘The Bill’ bringing many high profiles names to the long running series, alongside this she has excellent theatre credits, starting as casting assistant at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.
6. Sue Jones
Sue began casting 16 years ago, with Steven Berkoff's "Acapulco" at the The King’s Head Theatre, this began a 2 year period as Resident Casting Director there. She now works in all media - Film, TV, Commercials, Promos and Video Games.
Film includes: Gary Oldman's "Nil By Mouth", "Human Traffic", "Ronin" and UK casting on Robert de Niro's "The Good Shepherd". Most recently the Irish comedy “Holy Water”, horror film “The Task” and US thriller “The Fourth Kind”.
In TV Sue has worked for companies such as Hallmark and CBS and for directors like Shane Meadows and Stephen Daldry.
1.Kelly Valentine Hendry
Kelly is a hugely successful Casting Associate. As Associate she worked on films- ‘Slumdog Millionaire’, ‘United 93’, ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’, ‘City of Ember’, and ‘High School Musical 3’ and TV ‘Rebus’, ‘Taggart’ and ‘The Last Enemy’. As Casting Director she cast ‘Lesbian Vampire Killers’ and has a whopping six projects currently in various stages between pre and post production, including ‘Ironclad’ with Derek Jacobi, Richard Attenborough and Robert Carlyle.
2.Beth Charkham
Beth casts extensively both here and in the US. Her UK TV credits include; ‘Four Seasons’, ‘Starting Over’, ‘Angel Cake’, ‘Men Behaving Badly’, ‘Back to the Secret Garden’, ‘Silent Witness’ etc, for US TV she has worked for such big production companies as CBS, Universal, ABC, and NBC. Her film casting includes work for both US and UK; ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Endgame’ and ‘Nowhere in Africa’ (which won the Oscar for Best Foreign Film).
3.Jenny Duffy- Unfortunately Jenny has had to cancel her session.
Sarah Hughes will be taking the session instead.
Sarah Hughes works in the Entertainment Department of the BBC, casting and co-casting many comedies and comedy dramas.
She has also been Alan Ayckbourn’s casting director for the last 17 years, casting world premieres of Alan’s plays, and all productions at Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, plus productions in the West End, The National Theatre, RSC and on Broadway.
Freelance work includes many plays for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Theatre Royal Northampton and other regional theatres; work for CBBC, The Children’s Company, and a number of commercials.
4.James Arnold
Jim has worked as the Casting Assistant for the Royal Shakespeare Company for 2 and a half years. He has worked alongside several casting directors including Janie Frazer, Ginny Schiller, Sam Jones, Lucy Jenkins, Hannah Miller and Helena Palmer. He is also the casting director for Cherub Theatre Company and works closely with the company's Artistic Director Michael Gieleta, casting plays at various venues around London including the Finborough and Arcola Theatres. Most recently he cast Tom Stoppard's 'Artist Descending a Staircase' at the Old Red Lion.
5.Anna Kennedy
Anna has cast many, many short films. She now moves into casting feature films with two projects being finished this year- thriller ‘Legarcy’ with Idris Elba (The Wire and The Office) and ‘Pimp’ with Billy Boyd and Danny Dyer.
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