Ticket Limitations: Members may attend as many Zoom Webinars as they wish.

Age: 18+

Format: Seminar style, attendees' mics, and cameras will be turned off.

When booking you will be asked to submit a question, unfortunately we won't be able to answer specific questions on the day as we know from experience the hour will fly by!

About the session:

This session is a Q&A hosted by Spotlight, where they have an open and honest discussion with members of the CDG.

The CDG and Spotlight really want to dispel any myths or misconceptions about the expectations of casting directors and we want to help spread awareness of best practices and current guideline within the industry.

Join from PC, Mac, iPad, or Android:

https://spotlight.zoom.us/j/89361256104

Members of the Panel:

Nadine Rennie CDG – Casting Director

Nadine is Co-Chair of the Casting Directors Guild.

Current projects include working with Atri Banerjee & the Gate Theatre on a UK premiere, Lidless Theatre &The Kings Head Theatre on Philip Ridley’s infamous The Pitchfork Disney; ELMET with the Javaad Alipoor Company for Bradford 2025 and Synergy Theatre Project ona new play by Evan Placey coming this autumn to Southwark Playhouse.

Previous theatre includes Providers (Synergy Theatre at Brixton House); Expendable (Royal Court); Miracle on 34 th Street (HOME Manchester); Pig Heart Boy (Unicorn/tour); Wish You Were Here (Gate); The Flea (Yard); My Mother’s Funeral: The Show (Paines Plough); Miss Julie (Park); Dead Girls Rising (Silent Uproar); We Could All Be Perfect (Sheffield Theatres); He Said She Said (Kiln); Wreckage (King’s Head); Breeding (King’s Head); Leaves of Glass(Park); Further Than The Furthest Thing (Minack); SHED: Exploded View (Royal Exchange); Bacon (Finborough); Es & Flo (WMC & Kiln); Super High Resolution (Soho); Britannicus (Lyric); The Breach (Hampstead); The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs (Soho); Typical Girls (Sheffield Theatres); Run Sister Run (Paines Plough); Little Baby Jesus (Orange Tree); TheLast King of Scotland (Sheffield Theatres) and There Are No Beginnings (Leeds).

Prior to going Freelance, Nadine was in-house Casting Director at Soho Theatre for over fifteen years.

Jessica Ronane CDG – Casting Director

Jessica is Co-Chair of the Casting Directors Guild.

Theatre includes: The Real Thing, Pygmalion, The Dumb Waiter, Camp Siegfried, Faith Healer, Lungs, A Very Expensive Poison, Present Laughter, All My Sons (OLD VIC)

Stranger Things: The First Shadow, Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Lehman Trilogy, The Glass Menagerie (West End); A Mirror (West End/Almeida); Grace Pervades (Theatre Royal Bath); The Little Foxes (Young Vic); The Spy Who Came In From the Cold, The Caretaker (Chichester); People, Places and Things (West End); Ulster American (Riverside Studios).

Television includes: True Detective, Night Country.

Film includes: After the Hunt, The Woman in Cabin 10, Queer, Mickey 17

Before booking:

You will need to enter your link to your Spotlight Profile and your Spotlight registered email address to book this session. You can find your link by clicking on 'Link to my profile' from the menu within your account.

The Zoom Webinar:

Those who book a ticket will be emailed the link via Eventbrite, if you are not receiving these emails please contact Eventbrite directly not Spotlight. If you have any issues on the day please email performer.success@spotlight.com

If you have any accessibility requirements please email performer.success@spotlight.com

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Spotlight Success Session:Webinar with two Casting Directors from the (CDG)