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Mary Vernieu was born on 9 July 1963 in California, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for Knives Out (2019), Glass Onion (2022) and Promising Young Woman (2020).- Casting Director
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Anna-Lena Slater is known for A Cure for Wellness (2016), Uncharted (2022) and The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023).- Casting Department
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After UCLA Film School, Joe was thrust into the world of casting, working for Aaron Spelling and casting the hit show Melrose Place for two seasons. While at Spelling he worked on many projects including Savannah and Central Park West for CBS Productions and Malibu Shores for NBC. He then became Manager of feature casting for New Line Cinema and Fine Line Films. During his tenure at New Line/Fine Line, Joe worked with Valerie McCaffrey, VP of Casting on over 80 features (overseeing the casting as Casting Executives and doing the actual casting on many of the features)including, 'Lord of the Rings', American History X (1998), 'Magnolia', 'Boogie Nights', Dark City (1998), 'Rush Hour', 'Blade', Austin Powers Series, 'I Am Sam' and 'Pleasantville' to name just a few. Independently, he recently cast Beauty Shop (2004), A Complex Occupation (2004), _Motives (2004)_ , _Homeland Security (2003) (TV)_ for Paramount, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (2000), and most recently Lionsgates' Cabin Fever (2002) in which Joe has his first feature film cameo as the Bowling Alley Killer. Joe's film company, Arcadian Films is set to produce the psychological horror film I Remember (2006) which was written by Joe and will be his directorial debut. Producing was the next success for Joe, with Superfag (2002), _Neo Ned (2004)_ The Surfer King (2005), State's Evidence (2003), Sitting With The Dead (2005), Regionrat (2005) and I Remember (2005).- Casting Department
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Ayo Davis has been named to the newly created position of Executive Vice President, Creative Development and Strategy, Disney Branded Television, it was announced today by Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer, Disney Branded Television, to whom she will report. Davis will oversee all live-action programming created by Disney Branded Television for Disney+ and the Disney Channel, Disney XD and Disney Junior networks. Davis will have oversight of scripted and unscripted series, movies and specials, and will manage the teams for Original Development, Current Programming, Original Movies, Unscripted Content, Casting & Talent Relations, Integrated Content Strategy, and Educational Resource Group/D&I. Executives reporting directly into Davis include the following: . Jonas Agin, VP, Original Series . Kory Lunsford, VP, Current Series . Lauren Kisilevsky, VP, Original Movies . Dan Silver, VP, Originals, Unscripted Content . Judy Taylor, SVP, Casting & Talent Relations . Theresa Helmer, Executive Director, Integrated Content Strategy . Vicki Ariyasu, SVP, Educational Resource Group In her new role, Davis will help fuel the Company's Disney+ streaming platform and branded networks with programming geared toward kids, tweens, teens and families that is imaginative, aspirational and reflective of their world and experiences.- Casting Director
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Mike Fenton was born on 29 January 1935 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a casting director and producer, known for Aliens (1986), Back to the Future (1985) and Blade Runner (1982). He was married to Janet Monfort and Irene. He died on 30 December 2020 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Casting Director
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Tricia Wood was born on 13 February 1970 in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for CODA (2021), La La Land (2016) and Twilight (2008).- Casting Director
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Theo Park is known for Ted Lasso (2020), The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022) and Calibre (2018).- Casting Director
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Donna Morong is a respected casting director, with over 25 years in the business. She began her career in New York City as a casting associate at Simon and Kumin Casting, a highly-regarded company that cast for Broadway and off-Broadway, doing premieres of Neil Simon's, plays as well as premieres of August Wilson, Athol Fugard, and David Rabe. She subsequently worked with Douglas Aibel at the Vineyard Theater and with him on independent film projects including John Patrick Shanley's first feature film, "Five Corners". After marrying David Morong, a production designer for MTV, she moved with her young family to Los Angeles. Her first casting work was under the supervision of Johanna Ray, where she cast "Map of the Human Heart". Subsequently, she was hired by Ilene Starger at the Walt Disney Company as a manager of casting for feature films.. After Ms. Starger moved back to NYC, she worked under Marcia Ross for 13 years, becoming a Senior Vice President of Feature Casting for Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, under the executives Nina Jacobson Donald Deline, David Hoberman, and David Vogel. More recently she has dedicated herself to working with independent filmmakers, including Quentin Dupieux (Rubber),Hanna Ladoul and Marco La Vida (Anywhere with You), and Mari Walker (See You Then). Films she has cast have appeared at film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, South by Southwest. Her other passion is training actors of all ages to work professionally. She resides in Los Angeles with her husband, David, where she raised her three children, William, James and Sarah Morong.- Casting Department
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Jennifer L. Smith was born on 11 January 1971 in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. Jennifer L. is a casting director, known for Tomorrow, When the War Began (2010), The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) and The Core (2003).- Casting Director
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Lora Kennedy was the EVP of Casting at Warner Bros. Theatrical from 1999-2018. During her career at Warner Bros., she oversaw such projects as the Harry Potter series, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, the Sherlock Holmes series, Happy Feet 1 + 2, and Fury Road. Kennedy cast several films that won awards for best acting by an ensemble, including Best Picture Oscar winner Argo (Screen Actors Guild Award, New York Film Critics and Hollywood Film Awards); The Town (National Board of Review); Syriana (Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble Cast). She has been nominated multiple times for Artios Awards, winning for Argo (Outstanding Achievement in Casting, Big Budget Feature) and in1999 for RKO 281(Outstanding Achievement in Casting, TV Movie of the Week). Kennedy also won an Emmy Award for her work on RKO 281. Other notable credits include Justice League; Wonder Woman (Artios Award nomination); Cloud Atlas; Speed Racer; Swordfish; Tombstone; Coneheads, One Fine Day and Soapdish. Kennedy served on the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences Board of Governors from 2013-2019. She received the Hoyt Bowers Award for Career Achievement in Casting from the Casting Society of America in 2012 and served on the society's board for four years.- Casting Director
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Cathy Sandrich Gelfond was born on 22 June 1961 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a casting director and actress, known for Love & Death (2023), Mayor of Kingstown (2021) and The Normal Heart (2014). She has been married to Brad Gelfond since 11 June 2000. They have one child.- Casting Director
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Janet Hirshenson is known for Parenthood (1989), Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) and Home Alone (1990).- Casting Director
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Jane Jenkins was born on 5 June 1943 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA. She is a casting director and actress, known for A Beautiful Mind (2001), A Few Good Men (1992) and Apollo 13 (1995).- Casting Director
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Michelle Lewitt has been casting since 1999. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she grew up exposed to the film/TV industry, but originally pursued other avenues in the arena of sports. An avid basketball enthusiast and player, she began her professional life on the path of coaching the sport. After a few years of coaching basketball she felt her talents being called in a different direction and left the basketball court to enter the film industry. Mentored by casting legends Jane Jenkins and Janet Hirshenson, working alongside them for almost 10 years, Michelle smoothly transitioned her love of assessing athletic ability and assembling successful basketball teams, into assessing acting talent and assembling successful casts. She was named one of Backstage Magazine's "Tomorrow's Power Casting Directors" in 2012. Her knack for casting potential movie stars before they become "stars" became one of her signature talents and has filmmakers implicitly trusting her casting instincts and taste. She now specializes and focuses most of her casting abilities in the indie film space, which she has cited as the arena where she finds the most creative fulfillment. She still actively plays and coaches basketball in addition to being the mom of two sons.- Casting Director
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Allison Jones is an American casting director who is credited for helping to bring together realistic ensemble casts for such television shows as Freaks and Geeks (1999) (for which she won an Emmy), Undeclared (2001), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990), Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000), United States of Tara (2009), Parks and Recreation (2009), Arrested Development (2003) (both of which she was also nominated for), and The Office (2005).
She has also cast several successful films, including The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Borat (2006), and Knocked Up (2007). Allison Jones also gained casting credit for Brüno (2009). She has worked as a casting director in the entertainment business since 1982, with her first credited work for the television show Family Ties (1982). In 2015, her work as a casting director included the comedy film Get Hard (2015), Other Space (2015), and Master of None (2015).- Intimacy Coordinator
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Marci Liroff was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), Mean Girls (2004) and Freaky Friday (2003).- Casting Director
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Justine Arteta is known for Daisy Jones & The Six (2023), Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2021) and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). She is married to Miguel Arteta.- Casting Director
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Kim Davis-Wagner is known for Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), Being John Malkovich (1999) and Little Miss Sunshine (2006).- Casting Director
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Sarah Finn was born on 1 February 1965 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for Crash (2004), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022).- Casting Director
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Miranda is an American born Casting Director, Film and TV Producer. She opened her company, Miranda Davidson Studios, in the heart of the Middle East operating in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in UAE and Riyadh Saudi Arabia.
Casting; she has leveraged her in-depth and unmatched knowledge of the region with her relationships in Hollywood and around the world. MD Studios has worked on films such as "Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning - Part One", "Kandahar", "Fast & the Furious 7", "Star Trek and Beyond", Brad Pitt's "War Machine" and Micheal Bay's "6 Underground".
In addition to Hollywood blockbusters she has worked on many regional productions; Emirati feature films including "Sea Shadow" directed by Nawaf Al Janahi and "Happy Birthday Younis" starring Nabil Sawalha. She cast the Saudi female coming of age story "Norah" as well as in Doha on Kanye West's "Cruel Summer" bringing legendary actors from the Arab region such as Hayat Al Fahad and Ali Suleiman.
Producing; Miranda has now fearlessly stepped into the world of Production. With the nuts and bolts knowledge of how to navigate the regional landscape; culturally, economically and politically, her vision is to put a broader stamp on the spectrum of projects being produced in the Middle East. Championing stories that reflect the diverse mosaic of global cultures, backgrounds and passion filled excitement. Stories, that entertain, educate and empower viewers in a way that only great cinema and TV can.
She works to leverage local funding, incentive programs and soft assets to help create a viable funding path forward for film production in the region. The evolution of the Middle East, they way it operates and the way it is viewed, is rapidly changing; Miranda is on the forefront of helping Film and TV integrate and support that change.- Casting Director
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Nancy Nayor is known for This Is Me... Now (2024), Barbarian (2022) and The Mother (2023). She was previously married to Allen Battino.- Casting Director
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Ellen Lewis was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She is known for Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), The Departed (2006) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).- Casting Director
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Arguably the most famous casting director in show biz with more than 400 film and TV credits to his name, Lynn Stalmaster has helped to launch the career of many a great star. He was born in Nebraska, the son of a District Court Judge (Irvin Stalmaster, 1897-1952) and Estelle Lapidus (1903-1971). His family relocated to L.A. in 1938 where he was schooled at Beverly Hills High School and first discovered acting on radio. Following military service he studied at UCLA, graduating with a master's degree in theatre arts in 1952. Between 1951 and 1955, he had a minor career as a screen actor but at the same time hedged his bets by joining an independent production company headed by Jack J. Gross and Philip N. Krasne. Stalmaster started out as a producer's assistant and took over the role of casting director upon his predecessor's retirement, over time developing a canny aptitude for 'reading actors' as well as accumulating an inventory of (not necessarily established) theatrical players from the U.S. and Europe. He initially worked on several classic TV shows, including The Lone Wolf (1954), 319 episodes of Gunsmoke (1955) and Have Gun - Will Travel (1957). After going free-lance, he was tasked by the director Robert Wise to find 'new faces' who could be cast as suitable inmates for the Susan Hayward prison dramaI Want to Live! (1958). Offers soon began to flood in from other famous film makers for ensemble casting.
Stanley Kramer utilised his services for Inherit the Wind (1960) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) (kick-starting the career of William Shatner), William Wyler for The Children's Hour (1961), Billy Wilder for Irma la Douce (1963) and The Fortune Cookie (1966), Norman Jewison for The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Fiddler on the Roof (1971). Stalmaster's bolder choices included travelling across Europe to recruit native German speakers (rather than using familiar English actors) for key roles in The Great Escape (1963) (he found Hannes Messemer, who played prison Kommandant Von Luger, in Zurich). His keen eye for talent resulted in the seminal casting of relatively unknown stage actor Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate (1967) and LeVar Burton as Kunta Kinte in Roots (1977). He discovered Christopher Reeve on the New York stage and persisted in sustained efforts to have him assigned the lead role of Superman (1978) (saying "I was totally captured, not only by his talent, but by him as a human being"). He furthered the careers of Ned Beatty (Deliverance (1972)) and Jeff Bridges (Halls of Anger (1970)) by prompting their respective movie debuts. Others whose careers 'The Master Caster' helped mentor along the way include Richard Dreyfuss, Jill Clayburgh, John Travolta, Bruce Dern, Jon Voight and James Caan.
Stalmaster was the first in his chosen profession to receive a single card main screen credit ('casting by') for The Thomas Crown Affair and also the first casting director to receive an Honorary Academy Award in 2017.- Casting Director
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Mariana Stansheva is known for Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009), The Code (2009) and Criminal (2016). She has been married to John Cappilla since 8 December 2004.- Casting Director
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Jina is an Emmy Award Nominee, a CDG and CSA member with an extensive list of credits and she is very involved in the educational side of casting as the co-creator of the first casting course of its kind with the National Film and Television School in London.- Casting Director
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Patricia McCorkle, CSA Pat holds a Bachelor's degree from Douglas College and a Masters in Theatre Education with an emphasis in Directing from New York University. She began her casting career with Circle In the Square Theatre in New York. She then joined the prestigious TCG (Theatre Communications Group) and worked in the Casting Division for Non-profit Theatres throughout the United States. Within the span of a few years, Pat went into partnership with Casting Director Roger Sturtevant. McCorkle-Sturtevant maintained their strong Theatre ties and branched out into Television and Film projects. Pat continued to cast for all major networks and feature film companies. She continues to cast for Broadway (over 50 productions), Off Broadway (0ver 60 productions), Film (55 Features and independent) and Television (53 episodic and TV film) productions. Patricia's industry accomplishments are noteworthy; National board member of CSA (Casting Society of America), Recognized as Outstanding Alumni Achievement Award with Douglas College, Associate Artist for Barrington Stage Company, Lifetime Achievement award for George Street Playhouse, Emmy Nomination for Californication, 18 Artios nominations (industry award for excellence in casting), On the Executive Board of Directors for Laurents/Hatcher Foundation. Faculty member at; Rutgers University, University of Connecticut, Storrs, University of Missouri, Kansas City - (for MFA students), Harrt School, University of Delaware. Pat is also heavily involved in promoting actors of color, LBGT, and special needs communities with seminars, classes and workshops throughout the country.
Rebecca Weiss, CSA (Partner/ Casting Director at McCorkle Casting) is an NY based Casting Director focusing primarily on casting for film and theater. She has over a decade of experience in the theater industry, working first as a producer and dramaturg before transitioning full time to casting. With a love for new work in particular, some favorite casting credits with McCorkle Casting have been the world premieres of Suzan-Lori Park's Sally & Tom for The Guthrie Theater, May Treuhaft Ali's ABCD for Barrington Stage Co, the feature films Tripped Up, The Mistress, Hallmark's A Spectacular Christmas and Ghosts of Christmas Always and numerous plays and musicals for Barrington Stage, The Guthrie, George Street Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, City Theatre, Playmakers Rep, Milwaukee Rep, and more. Barrington Stage Company, Prior to her career in casting, she worked in the artistic department at Barrington Stage Company as dramaturg and line producer including the world premiere productions of Lloyd Suh's The Chinese Lady and Rachel Lynett's Well Intentioned White People, new plays including Bekah Brunstetter's The Cake, and more. As Associate Producer of Performing Arts Programs at Symphony Space, she worked on theater and music events including the annual Project Broadway series, the residencies of Rhiannon Giddons and The Magnetic Fields, and the annual marathon performance Wall to Wall. Prior to that as Artistic Director of Spicy Witch Productions, Rebecca produced and cast seven seasons of plays including five world premieres by emerging female writers. She also serves as Writers Group Literary Coordinator at The Playwrights Realm, where she continues her passion for new play development and is a member of Casting Society of America. She holds a BA in Theater and Music from The University of Rochester.
Jeffrey Dreisbach, Casting Partner Jeffrey received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Wayne State University with additional performance study from Roger Williams College (London) and California Institute of the Arts (Disney University). Upon graduation, Jeffrey worked as an actor in New York for over 20 years accruing theatre, film and television credits. On Broadway, he performed over 500 performances as Lt. Kenrick in Aaron Sorkin's, A Few Good Men (Original Cast). Jeffrey soon transitioned into performing arts administration and became Executive Director of the nations oldest and largest broadcast training Schools, served as faculty in a performing arts High School, Interim Director of an actors training institute and guest faculty at several universities. He began his role as Casting Partner with McCorkle Casting in 2010. His is the author of, "Conversation Pieces out of the Studio (Voice-over workbook) and his podcast, "Casting Actors Cast" is heard weekly worldwide with thousands of downloads. Jeffrey enjoys teaching actors at colleges, universities and conservatories throughout New York and the country.- Casting Director
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Victoria Thomas is known for Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019), The Harder They Fall (2021) and Detroit (2017).- Casting Director
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Victoria Burrows is known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) and Flight (2012).- Casting Director
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Marisol Roncali is known for Blue Beetle (2023), Emily the Criminal (2022) and Jungle Cruise (2021).- Casting Director
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Jo Edna Boldin was born on 8 December 1948 in Navarro, Texas, USA. She is a casting director and producer, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), Hell or High Water (2016) and The Harder They Fall (2021).- Casting Director
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Richard Hicks is known for Hell or High Water (2016), Gravity (2013) and Curb Your Enthusiasm (2000).