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Seth Mason in the house!
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Join us for this amazing casting director Q&A with Seth Mason to end our 2024 Seth has most recently been co-casting director on Unforgotten 6 (Mainstreet for ITV), due for release in 2025. He was casting director on the recent West End hit I Wish You Well, The Catch, the feature film Embers and…
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One Day can we get a casting director from the show in?!
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Meet Katie Mozumder Katie is joining us for our next Q&A with the UK Actors Tweetups and we are beyond thrilled. We will spend an hour getting up close and personal and asking Katie all those important Casting Director questions we are dying to know (about One Day – eek!!!), followed by our usual…
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BBC Casting Director Emma Sylvester joins us
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MEET THE LOVELIEST CASTING DIRECTOR IN SHOWBIZ, EMMA SYLVESTER We are thrilled to announce that first ever daytime Tweetup, with the option for the parents among us to bring their babies if they want to – don’t worry you don’t have to steal a baby to come. Anyone is welcome. This is just going to…
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Welcoming Ben Cogan to our next online Tweetup
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Ben Cogan is best known for his 15 years at BBC casting over 300 episodes of Doctors, 180 episodes of Casualty, as well as Holby City, EastEnders and more. We can’t wait to chat to Ben about castings, lockdown, one-to-ones, and what’s next for the film industry.
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BRINGING YOU CASTING DIRECTOR SHAKYRA DOWLING
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Casting Director Shakyra Dowling has kindly volunteered to come and do a virtual Q&A with us to talk shop about castings, chat about her upcoming film, Wolf, starring George MacKay, Lily Rose-Depp and Paddy Considine, and answer any casting director questions you might have.
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WELCOMING CASTING DIRECTOR LAURA WINDOWS
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KICKING OFF THE NEW YEAR, WE WELCOME CASTING DIRECTOR LAURA WINDOWS We are 99% sure you’ll already know who Laura Windows is given her extensive credits in casting including all of these movies and television shows shown above…and they are just a few of her many credits. And we would love you to join us…
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We have a Casting Director Claire Bleasdale – right after a BAFTA win!
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CASTING DIRECTOR CLAIRE BLEASDALE JOINS US With Cannes fast approaching and the Oscars and BAFTAs recently on, we thought it was only timely to bring in a Casting Director whose short film just WON A BAFTA. Also Claire will be heading off to Cannes for the film festival the very next day, so if…
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Casting Directors Association talk
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We are delighted to welcome Andrea Clark Casting and Kate Evans from Kate and Lou Casting along to speak in Feb about all things Casting Directors Association (CDA) and castings. Andrea and Kate sit on the board, and other members include casting directors Tree Petts, Emily Tilelli, Shakyra Dowling and Brendan McNamara (amongst others). Andrea Clark Casting was founded in…
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Jeremy Zimmerman joins us to chat all things casting….
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On Tuesday October 3rd the Zimmerman himself will be joining us to discuss his casting career. Jeremy is one of the busiest CDs in London so we’re extra lucky to have him with us next week at Bar Topolski. More about Jeremy… Jeremy Zimmermann is one of the UK’s leading casting directors and has worked on international productions for the…
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3 fabulous industry ladies are onboard…!
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3 fabulous industry ladies are onboard…! Enough of the mystery! On Tuesday July 4th we have leading actress Lara Peake, producer Nicola Bowen and casting director Shakyra Dowling who make up the team behind indie hit SPACESHIP – A girl fakes her own alien abduction and disappears, leaving her father to search for her…
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CD Manuel Puro is popping in to see us!
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We are incredibly lucky to be bringing back MANUEL PURO of (Puro Casting). He’ll be joining us on May 2nd at 7pm at our usual spot Gerry’s Club. Manuel has a hugely impressive list of credits; he’s worked with some incredible names in the business…starting with Jeremy Zimmerman in 1995, he was headhunted in 2000 by Micheal…
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Casting Director Gemma Sykes joins us!
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Gemma has now opened her own casting company after working at Dan Hubbard Casting for many years. That’s right – you heard it here first! We are thrilled to have Gemma along to our favourite actor’s bar, Gerry’s Club, on Tuesday April 4th at 7pm to chat castings, acting and all things film/TV. If you didn’t catch…
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Sharon Sorrentini is visiting
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March NEWS Bring on Sharon Sorrentino! We are delighted to have Sharon Sorrentino to the Tweetups to talk about all things Castings. And we are back at the gorgeous Actors club, Gerry’s Club. Sharon Sorrentino has been working in the industry for over a decade and some of the Casting Directors she has worked with…
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Ben Cogan, ex BBC, is in the house
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Feb NEWS The one and only BenCogan is is popping in to say hello! Here’s hoping you’ve all got over the January blues and are cracking on with your 2016 bucket list! If you’re feeling the chill and want to cosy up with some interesting and inspiring industry folk why not add this…
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Gemma Sykes from Dan Hubbard Casting joins us
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CD Gemma Sykes is joining us…Yay! The lovely Gemma Sykes will be joining us for a Q&A on June 2nd, at the Pheonix Arts Club. Gemma is an Associate alongside Dan Hubbard where she’s worked on Downton Abbey, Chalet Girl, Captain Phillips and more recently Generation Z as a casting director in her own…