GRACE'S BIO

Grace was a performer for a number of years before switching sides of Grace was a performer for a number of years before switching sides of the table. Having gained a degree in Musical Theatre from ArtsEd she feels her training and previous own experience as an auditionee are integral to how she approaches the casting process. She has worked in a variety of offices but recently has been working for Jim Arnold CDG, Pearson Casting and is currently working in the office of Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting.

Credits as Casting Associate for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting: Moulin Rouge! (Piccadilly Theatre and UK Tour & International Tour); The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre and UK & International Tour); Natasha Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Donmar Warehouse); Lion King (Lyceum Theatre); Hercules (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); MJ The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Paddington (Workshop); The Greatest Showman (Workshop); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (UK & International Tour);

Credits as Senior Casting Assistant for Senior Casting Assistant for Pippa Ailion and Natalie Gallacher Casting: Jack and The Bean Stalk (Nottingham Playhouse); Sleeping Beauty (Salisbury Playhouse); Aladdin (Lyric Hammersmith); Tina: The Tina Turner Musical (Aldwych Theatre); Coming To England (UK Tour); The Wild Party (Hackney EartH); Dear Evan Hanson (UK Tour).

Credit as Casting Associate for Pearson Casting: KIT KAT CLUB (St Badrutt’s Palace, St Moritz).

Credits as Casting Assistant for Pearson Casting include: SIX The Musical (UK & International Tour); Operation Mincemeat (Fortune Theatre); Remembrance Monday (Seven Dials Playhouse); With All Our Hearts, 75th Anniversary of the NHS (Adelphi Theatre); Starlight Express (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Beetlejuice: The Musical (Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings); Virgin Voyages, Creative Studios for Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.

Credits as Senior Casting Assistant for Jim Arnold Casting include: Shrek - The Musical (UK Tour & Hammersmith Apollo); Don’t Forget (Workshop); Bonnie & Clyde (UK and Ireland Tour, Garrick Theatre and Arts Theatre); WICKED (Apollo Victoria Theatre and UK and Ireland Tour); Burlesque (Workshop); Pretty Woman: The Musical (UK and Ireland Tour and Savoy Theatre); Shanghai Orchid (Workshop); Kinda Dusty (UK Concerts); The Great British Bake Off: The Musical (Noël Coward Theatre and Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK Tour); Rock of Ages (UK Tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK and Canada Tour); When Darkness Falls (UK Tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre).

Credits as Senior Casting Assistant for Jim Arnold Casting include: Shrek - The Musical (UK Tour & Hammersmith Apollo); Don’t Forget (Workshop); Bonnie & Clyde (UK and Ireland Tour, Garrick Theatre and Arts Theatre); WICKED (Apollo Victoria Theatre and UK and Ireland Tour); Burlesque (Workshop); Pretty Woman: The Musical (UK and Ireland Tour and Savoy Theatre); Shanghai Orchid (Workshop); Kinda Dusty (UK Concerts); The Great British Bake Off: The Musical (Noël Coward Theatre and Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK Tour); Rock of Ages (UK Tour);Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK and Canada Tour); When Darkness Falls (UK Tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion Theatre).

** Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions **

HARRY'S BIO

Harry is a dynamic young Casting Director who loves scouting for talent in real world places. He began his career in casting working alongside Casting Director Debbie O'Brien. In January 2021, Harry was made a probationary member of the Casting Directors Guild (CDG).

As Casting Director Beast, Type, Song (Film, TATE Britain) Treason The Musical (Cadogan Hall) Dark Sublime (Trafalgar Studios) American Idiot (UK Tour / West End) The Pirate Queen (West End)

As Associate Casting Director The Man. The Music. The Show (Hugh Jackman World Arena Tour) Jean Paul Gaultier Fashion Freak Show (World Tour / Southbank) Dirty Dancing (West End / UK/Intl. Tour) Thriller Live (West End / UK/Intl. Tour) Starlight Express (Germany / UK Tour)

Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions

JIM'S BIO

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and International tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked alongside many leading Casting Directors in TV, film and theatre. He was the Original Casting Associate for Matilda, the Musical at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

Credits include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland tour); Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Christmas Carol – The Musical (The Lowry Quays); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour); Shrek - The Musical (UK tour and Eventim Apollo); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and UK tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Everyman Cheltenham and Noël Coward); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Romeo & Juliet (Metcalfe Gordon Productions); A Christmas Carol (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Bend It Like Beckham (St Lawrence Centre Toronto); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, UK tour and South Korea – Best Musical at the 13th Annual Daegu International Musical Festival 2019); Camelot, Girlfriends and A Christmas Carol (LMTO Concert Series 2018); My Name is Beethoven (Workshop); The Rest is Silence (dreamthinkspeak); Crave and Illusions (Actors Touring Company); DNA (Hull Truck & UK tour); Yerma (Gate & Hull Truck); Pericles (Regent's Park); Lingua Franca (Finborough & 59East59, NYC); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Finborough); Fragile! and Le Mariage (Arcola) and Artist Descending a Staircase (The Old Red Lion).

Credits as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & International tours); Street Scene (Teatro Real, Madrid); My Fair Lady (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples); Tiger Bay – The Musical (Wales Millennium Centre – Wales Theatre Award 2018 for Best Ensemble); The Wind in the Willows (London Palladium & UK tour); Funny Girl (Savoy & UK tour); One Love – The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace & UK tour); Top Hat (Aldwych & UK tour – Olivier Award 2013 for Best New Musical); The Lion King (Lyceum); Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Guys & Dolls and Gypsy (Chichester & West End); Noël (National Opera House, Wexford); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Birmingham Rep & West Yorkshire Playhouse); Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East & UK tour); American Pyscho (Almeida); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury); The Sound of Music (Regent's Park); Let It Be (Savoy); Kate Bush – Before the Dawn (Eventim Apollo); Blue Man Group (Worldwide). ** Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions **

JIM'S BIO

Jim is a freelance Casting Director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and International tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked alongside many leading Casting Directors in TV, film and theatre. He was the Original Casting Associate for Matilda, the Musical at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, and Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

Credits include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria and UK & Ireland tour); Spend Spend Spend (Royal Exchange Theatre); A Christmas Carol – The Musical (The Lowry Quays); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy and UK & Ireland tour); Shrek - The Musical (UK tour and Eventim Apollo); Bonnie & Clyde (Garrick and UK tour); The Great British Bake Off Musical (Everyman Cheltenham and Noël Coward); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - The Musical (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Romeo & Juliet (Metcalfe Gordon Productions); A Christmas Carol (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Bend It Like Beckham (St Lawrence Centre Toronto); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, UK tour and South Korea – Best Musical at the 13th Annual Daegu International Musical Festival 2019); Camelot, Girlfriends and A Christmas Carol (LMTO Concert Series 2018); My Name is Beethoven (Workshop); The Rest is Silence (dreamthinkspeak); Crave and Illusions (Actors Touring Company); DNA (Hull Truck & UK tour); Yerma (Gate & Hull Truck); Pericles (Regent's Park); Lingua Franca (Finborough & 59East59, NYC); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Finborough); Fragile! and Le Mariage (Arcola) and Artist Descending a Staircase (The Old Red Lion).

Credits as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK & International tours); Street Scene (Teatro Real, Madrid); My Fair Lady (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples); Tiger Bay – The Musical (Wales Millennium Centre – Wales Theatre Award 2018 for Best Ensemble); The Wind in the Willows (London Palladium & UK tour); Funny Girl (Savoy & UK tour); One Love – The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace & UK tour); Top Hat (Aldwych & UK tour – Olivier Award 2013 for Best New Musical); The Lion King (Lyceum); Charlie & The Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane); Guys & Dolls and Gypsy (Chichester & West End); Noël (National Opera House, Wexford); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Birmingham Rep & West Yorkshire Playhouse); Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East & UK tour); American Pyscho (Almeida); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury); The Sound of Music (Regent's Park); Let It Be (Savoy); Kate Bush – Before the Dawn (Eventim Apollo); Blue Man Group (Worldwide). ** Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions **

JAMES'S BIO

*Pearson Casting are an award-winning, international Casting House based in London, Liverpool & New York, founded & run, by husband & wife team - James & Rosie Pearson. They work across theatre, film, TV, commercials & live performance.

With a combined industry experience of over 45 years, James and Rosie began their careers as performers.

James graduated with Distinction from the very first year of The London School of Musical Theatre and was the first graduate to gain employment as an actor, as well as the first graduate to perform in London's West End. He then spent 19 years working as an actor on stage, TV and film. He is also an experienced theatre director and worked as an agent for Keddie Scott Associates, London.

Rosie graduated from the University of Birmingham with a combined BA Hons in English and Theatre Studies before embarking on a successful career as an actor, director and producer.

James & Rosie are both members of the CDG - Casting Directors Guild, CDA - Casting Directors Association and the CSA - Casting Society of America. In 2022 they won Best Casting In Regional Theatre at the CDG Awards for their work on RENT.

They are joined in the New York office by Ian Subsara, who is a proud graduate of Elon University in North Carolina where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre. He has since worked extensively as a Casting Director across TV, live performance and theatre, both on and off-Broadway. The New York office is currently casting the US National Tour of 9 to 5, directed by Jeff Calhoun.

In 2020 Pearson Casting launched the award-winning Collective Creative Initiative, a free 30 hour a week industry platform for the arts, in response to the Covid-19 crisis. In 2021 they redesigned this platform as a free resource for teaching institutions across the world, and became the proud recipients of a prestigious Industry Minds Award for 'Best Training Establishment'.

JAMES'S BIO

*Pearson Casting are an award-winning, international Casting House based in London, Liverpool & New York, founded & run, by husband & wife team - James & Rosie Pearson. They work across theatre, film, TV, commercials & live performance.

With a combined industry experience of over 45 years, James and Rosie began their careers as performers.

James graduated with Distinction from the very first year of The London School of Musical Theatre and was the first graduate to gain employment as an actor, as well as the first graduate to perform in London's West End. He then spent 19 years working as an actor on stage, TV and film. He is also an experienced theatre director and worked as an agent for Keddie Scott Associates, London.

Rosie graduated from the University of Birmingham with a combined BA Hons in English and Theatre Studies before embarking on a successful career as an actor, director and producer.

James & Rosie are both members of the CDG - Casting Directors Guild, CDA - Casting Directors Association and the CSA - Casting Society of America. In 2022 they won Best Casting In Regional Theatre at the CDG Awards for their work on RENT.

They are joined in the New York office by Ian Subsara, who is a proud graduate of Elon University in North Carolina where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre. He has since worked extensively as a Casting Director across TV, live performance and theatre, both on and off-Broadway. The New York office is currently casting the US National Tour of 9 to 5, directed by Jeff Calhoun.

In 2020 Pearson Casting launched the award-winning Collective Creative Initiative, a free 30 hour a week industry platform for the arts, in response to the Covid-19 crisis. In 2021 they redesigned this platform as a free resource for teaching institutions across the world, and became the proud recipients of a prestigious Industry Minds Award for 'Best Training Establishment'.

PETER'S BIO

Peter is a casting director based in London. He is also an associate at Stuart Burt Casting, as well as working independently and with stage and screen casting directors such as Kate Rhodes James, Annelie Powell, Harry Blumenau and James and Rosie Pearson.

Credits as Casting Assistant include House of the Dragon (HBO), Alien (FX), House of Spoils (Blumhouse x Amazon Studios), Dreaming Whilst Black (A24 x BBC), Dance 100 (Netflix), Cabaret (KitKat Club, West End), & Juliet (West End), Cyrano de Burgerac (West End), Standing At The Sky's Edge (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres), The Seagull (West End), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (International Tour), Sister Act (UK Tour), Mrs Doubtfire (West End), Kathy & Stella Solve A Murder (Roundabout)

Credits as Casting Director include How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Southwark Playhouse), Before After (Southwark Playhouse), The Coffeeshop Musical (UK Tour), Double Life (UK Tour), The Diary of Attica Lehane (Drama Studio, Sheffield), Wonderville - video artists (West End), Beautiful Young Man (Above The Stag), The House of Edgar (Workshop), PopArt (Workshop), Galileo (Workshop)

Please note all contact or questions regarding this workshop should come through the RAIS office. Please do not contact the workshop leader directly with questions

JAMES'S BIO

*Pearson Casting are an award-winning, international Casting House based in London, Liverpool & New York, founded & run, by husband & wife team - James & Rosie Pearson. They work across theatre, film, TV, commercials & live performance.

With a combined industry experience of over 45 years, James and Rosie began their careers as performers.

James graduated with Distinction from the very first year of The London School of Musical Theatre and was the first graduate to gain employment as an actor, as well as the first graduate to perform in London's West End. He then spent 19 years working as an actor on stage, TV and film. He is also an experienced theatre director and worked as an agent for Keddie Scott Associates, London.

Rosie graduated from the University of Birmingham with a combined BA Hons in English and Theatre Studies before embarking on a successful career as an actor, director and producer.

James & Rosie are both members of the CDG - Casting Directors Guild, CDA - Casting Directors Association and the CSA - Casting Society of America. In 2022 they won Best Casting In Regional Theatre at the CDG Awards for their work on RENT.

They are joined in the New York office by Ian Subsara, who is a proud graduate of Elon University in North Carolina where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music Theatre. He has since worked extensively as a Casting Director across TV, live performance and theatre, both on and off-Broadway. The New York office is currently casting the US National Tour of 9 to 5, directed by Jeff Calhoun.

In 2020 Pearson Casting launched the award-winning Collective Creative Initiative, a free 30 hour a week industry platform for the arts, in response to the Covid-19 crisis. In 2021 they redesigned this platform as a free resource for teaching institutions across the world, and became the proud recipients of a prestigious Industry Minds Award for 'Best Training Establishment'.