The Committee
The Committee are elected by the membership and each serve two years. Each Committee member is assigned an area to look after and support.
The Committee are elected by the membership and each serve two years. Each Committee member is assigned an area to look after and support.
Jessica Ronane’s recent theatre credits include Stranger Things (Phoenix Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre); Ulster American (Riverside Studios); A Mirror (Almeida Theatre); The Lehman Trilogy (Gillian Lynne Theatre) and The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s Theatre).
Her work at The Old Vic includes Pygmalion, The Dumb Waiter, Faith Healer, Camp Siegfried, Endgame/Rough for Theatre II, A Christmas Carol, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, All My Sons, The American Clock, SYLVIA, A Monster Calls, Mood Music, Fanny & Alexander, Woyzeck, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, King Lear, The Caretaker, The Master Builder, Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, The Hairy Ape, Future Conditional, Girl from the North Country (The Old Vic/West End) and The Divide (The Old Vic/ EIF).
Jessica Ronane’s film credits include Mickey 17 (Bong Joon Ho), Queer (Luca Guadagnino), Good Grief (Dan Levy), Emma (Autumn De Wilde) and The Kid Who Would Be King (Joe Cornish). Upcoming films include Parliament Square and Julie both to be directed by Josie Rourke.
Television credits include True Detective: Night Country and The Amazing Mr. Blunden.
Jessica is Casting Director for Second Half Productions and Casting Consultant for The Old Vic.
Nadine was in-house Casting Director at Soho Theatre in London for over fifteen years; working on new plays by writers including Dennis Kelly, Bryony Lavery, Arinzé Kene, Roy Williams, Philip Ridley, Laura Wade, Hassan Abdulrazzak, Vicky Jones, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Oladipo Agboluaje.
Since going freelance in January 2019 Nadine has worked for theatres across London and the UK including Paines Plough, Arcola Theatre, Orange Tree Theatre, Sheffield Crucible, Leeds Playhouse, Fuel Theatre, National Theatre of Wales, Northern Stage, Pleasance Theatre London, Almeida, Minack Theatre, Kiln Theatre, Wales Millennium Centre and continues to cast on a regular basis for Soho Theatre.
Recent theatre includes:
Super High Resolution and The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho Theatre); He Said She Said (Synergy Theatre Tour/Kiln); Bacon (Finborough Theatre); Further Than The Furthest Thing (Minack, Cornwall); Leaves of Glass (Park Theatre/Lidless Theatre)
Nadine has a long-running association as Casting Director for Synergy Theatre Project.
TV work includes BAFTA-winning CBBC series Dixi, casting the first three series.
Orla began her career as a casting assistant in London from the mid-90s. She works primarily in UK and International TV and Film and set up her company Casting Pictures in 2019.
Recent TV credits include, Fool Me Once, Stay Close for Quay Street and Netflix, The Stranger for Red & Netflix, Das Boot 3&4 for Bavaria Fiction & Sky, The Defeated for Bron. Upcoming TV includes, The Red King for Quay Street & UKTV, Lazarus for Quay Street & Amazon, So Long Marianne for Buccaneer Media & Redpoint, The Crow Girl for Buccaneer Media & Paramount +
Recent Film credits include: Enola Holmes 2, Luther, Uncharted, Infinite, Red Joan, Red Sparrow. Upcoming Films include: Hamlet: Prince of Wales, A Greenham Woman
EDI LIAISON / TV / FILM
Kelly Valentine Hendry works across film and TV worldwide. Projects of note : Broadchurch, Fleabag ( S1), Bridgerton (Emmy nominated & CDG award winning!) , Queen Charlotte , Gangs of London, Wheel of Time & The Last Kingdom. Coming soon : Kaos for Netflix, Mary and George for Sky, Tattooist of Auschwitz for Sky and Rivals for Disney+
Kelly started her career as a stage manager and then was trained by the brilliant Hubbard Casting and Gail Stevens before going out on her own. She had a successful casting company with Victor Jenkins called VHJ casting before going solo with KVH casting. Now she works alongside her core team of casting professionals Lilly Hanbury, Jessica Mescall and Maximillian Murphy. They are committed to inclusion and diversity. Their office is in Soho, London.
THEATRE
Matilda is from Cornwall and based in Bristol, working on projects for theatre, screen and gaming. She was Head of Casting for Shakespeare’s Globe from 2012 to 2017, where she cast over 50 shows for the Globe and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
She is a member of BAFTA Connect and a founding member of the Murmuration, a women-led arts producing collective, with whom recent projects include work with the Barbican, Kyiv City Ballet, #Merky Films, and Citizens of the World, the UK’s leading choir for people seeking sanctuary and asylum.
THEATRE / CHILDREN’S CASTING CONSULTANT / PROBATIONARY MEMBERS
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