When Universal finally greenlit “Wicked,” casting director Bernard Telsey certainly knew the musical. He brought Idina Menzel ...

Casting director Sarah Finn has been Marvel’s longtime secret weapon: She’s the one fielding thousands and thousands of auditions to populate Hollywood’s biggest film franchise. Over the years, she’s ...

The Artios Awards also honored film nominees for animated, international, and low-budget features, as well as London theater ...

Casting Society nominations for Artios Awards include casting directors from "Jay Kelly," "Hamnet" and "Wicked: For Good." ...

With the Oscar for casting making its debut at the 2026 ceremony, we asked 6 leading casting directors to explain what it is ...

When asked about what the new Oscar category meant to him, Telsey admits he gets emotional thinking about it. “I’ve been in ...

Reality TV casting has undergone a fundamental shift. Producers who once prioritized explosive personalities and guaranteed ...

BroadwayWorld spoke with casting director Bernard Telsey about his work on the pair of Wicked films, his reaction to being ...

Casting director Heidi Levitt has spent decades working in close collaboration with many of the most acclaimed directors of their era on some of the best - and most perfectly and audaciously cast - ...

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part "Wicked" movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The ...

Jackie Burch, the famed casting director who worked on hit franchises like "Die Hard," "The Hunger Games," "Predator" and more, has died at the age of 74. According to friend and fellow casting ...

The casting director behind "JFK," "Natural Born Killers," and "The Rock" talks about her powerful new documentary, which follows her husband's Alzheimer's battle, and why she's happy the Academy is ...