Heather Basten CDG
@HeatherBCasting
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Casting Director CDG | Film, TV, Theatre | @A24 @SHOWTIME Emmy® Nom Dreaming Whilst Black | @Universalpics Speak No Evil 🏆 Royal Television Society Nominee
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"SPEAK NO EVIL" - Starring James McAvoy, Scoot McNairy & Mackenzie Davis.
And also introducing a BRILLIANT newcomer Dan Hough...
Directed by James Watkins
#SpeakNoEvilMovie
only in theaters September 13.
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The first time I came to Venice FF a stranger on the Red Carpet asked me to hold their bags (attendants everywhere 👀🤔) - audacity and embarrassment strikes again. Anyway. I can confirm I have cast 3 films in competition here and I'm not holding any bags.
In fact my loving
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I have 2 feature films in competition at Venice... What is happening.
We're thrilled that two
#BFIBacked
films will have their world premieres at Venice Critics' Week.
- Hoard (Dir
@LunaCarmoon
)
- Sky Peals (Dir
@moinwjh
)
#NationalLottery
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Don't forget "Casting Director Barbie".
Barbie is launching a ‘Women in Film’ collection with:
• Director Barbie
• Movie Star Barbie
• Studio Exec Barbie
• Cinematographer Barbie
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I just realised I am in my heavy pregnant> postpartum CV era....🤰🏾👶🏾
#Hoard
Premiere Last night (gave birth during casting)
#Sumotherhood
Premiere tonight (9 months preggers)
#SkyPeals
Premiere tomorrow night (gave birth during casting)
#DreamingWhilstBlack
(2 months postpartum)
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We had an amazing day Streetcasting at Pride for an LGBTQIA+ Film 🏳️🌈 HAPPY PRIDE!
ALSO Did you know our cards turn into a Herb garden if you plant them? Dill, Thyme, Basil and Rocket ❤️
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A full day of recalls means a full studio tuckshop 👀🍭
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📢Theatre Casting News 📢
Jared Harris (Chernobyl) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) will star in "The Homecoming" by Harold Pinter.
The production will run at the
@youngvictheatre
from 27 November until 27 January.
Director: Matthew Dunster
@dunster_matthew
👊🏾
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Over the moon to be amongst such amazing company.
#CDGAwards2024
What a privilege to be able laugh 🖤
Love Love Love to anyone and everyone who watched this show (or documentary as we like to call it 🤪)
Huge congratulations to
@HeatherBCasting
on winning 'Best Casting in a TV comedy series ' sponsored by
@hamiltonhodell
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It is a privilege for me to see 2023.
Here is a glimpse into my casting studio. Our safe space where we try to work out ways of being human. (or not human - subjective to project🥹).
And here is to more of that...🖤
Photos by
@sophiegids
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My Friday thought to round off the week, is to just go where you are appreciated and respected 🖤🖤🖤
#DreamingWhilstBlack
@A24
@BBC
@BigDealFilms
@BroadcastAwards
Winners 2024!!! 🥂
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By giving your leads equal centering in a cast announcement, it sends a message straight up that they are equally valued.
It means they are given equitable visibility.
It sets a precedent for your show or production. We are not here to play or be played with.
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I am so honoured to have cast both UK features in competition at Venice Critics Week this year...
@SicVeneziaSNCCI
. To work with such great people is a blessing - truly.
"HOARD" - Dir. Luna Carmoon. Starring Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn, Hayley Squires.
@BBCFilm
1984,
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A24‘s "Dreaming Whilst Black" has been greenlit for a second season by the BBC and Showtime. 🥂
@BigDealFilms
@A24
@Showtime
@BBC
We go again! ➡️
@DEADLINE
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Woken up to a
@RTS_media
Nomination "Dreaming Whilst Black" - Casting Award...
@A24
@BBC
I am just happy and grateful to be HERE 😩🖤
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Can you - if you will - imagine my face during a chemistry test casting with
@TosinCole
&
@heatha_a
?
Come and see them on the West End beacuse...😪😮💨😮💨 they are pretty magical and surely your life (and maybe relationship 😂) will never be the same...
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***OPEN CASTING** FOR DEAF TALENT*** for a BBC + BFI Backed Feature Film...
This is a groundbreaking UK feature film, from a deaf writer/director, with an almost all-deaf cast shot in British Sign Language.
TO APPLY: 🔗
BSL Video ⬇️
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What a day casting with some insanely talented actors...we sung, we danced and we acted our socks off
@OpenAirTheatre
#CastingDirector
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Venice Film Festival Day
#1
... Standing ovation for our film HOARD.
🌟Joseph Quinn
🌟 Saura Lightfoot-Leon
🎥 Luna Carmoon
@SicVeneziaSNCCI
#VeniceFilmFestival
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Here is my two cents on casting announcements that nobody asked for...
(the following is subjective and not always manageable given the timeline of any casting process, I know...)
But what we should strive for or talk about before ANY project...🧵
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Dreaming Whilst Black...now nominated for an International EMMY 🏆🏆 !!
This series has been a near 3 year journey for me (a lifetime for others), from casting the first lil table read in the middle of the pandemic, and here now with an Emmy nomination.
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Truly honoured to be nominated for "Dreaming Whilst Black" - Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series sponsored by
@hamiltonhodell
Casting Directors’ Guild Awards
@CDGNews
➡️
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A reminder that everyone is welcome in our industry. We see you, and stand with you. An injury to one is an injury to all. 💗
A message from some us Casting Folk to the beautiful Trans Community 🏳️⚧️🙌🏻✨ - we know the last week has been tough x
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Thank you for sharing our petition & your comments. Spotlight have taken these on board & are currently reviewing everything, very carefully. We have spoken with them today. They will be back with positive updates for us all soon.
@SpotlightUK
Casting directors, agents, directors, actors and all industry ppl who are not happy with
@SpotlightUK
’s new tiered membership, please sign and share this petition to remove this new divisive feature:
Sign the Petition! via
@UKChange
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There is no progress without strikes and protest. Our ability to strike and protest is under threat.
Solidarity with
#SAGAFTRA
and
#SAGAFTRAstrike
👊🏾
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Wheewwww
@CDGNews
thank you!
For ‘Best Casting in a TV Comedy Series’ sponsored by
@hamiltonhodell
, the nominees are…
Congratulations to you all 👏
#CDGAwards2024
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Hello Hi! We have joined the TikTok Revolution....for casting!
All our OPEN CASTINGS will be there, as well as maybe other useful things!
#TikTok
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***📢FREE CINEMA TRIP📢***
I have 10 free tickets to our BIFA-winning horror feature OUT OF DARKNESS in my local cinema, Stratford (East London)
@vuecinemas
for this Sunday 25th Feb 6:00pm !
❗️TAG YOURSELF UNDER THIS POST IF INTERESTED and I will DM 10 people at random
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So so proud of this cast...ready to rock out!!
Exclusive: Passing Strange musical announces European premiere cast
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'Dreaming Whilst Black': Showtime Acquires Buzzy BBC Comedy From Big Deal Films & A24
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It is
#AutismAcceptanceWeek
, and today I am celebrating my son taking a nibble of a Mcdonald's chip. Literally celebrating 🖤 if you know - you know!
#restrictivefoodintake
#smallwins
#sensoryeating
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100% what 😩😩😩🖤
Stranger Things star's new movie debuts with 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating
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Full Cast... 🖤🖤🖤
Max. Sam. Lenny. Joey. Teddy. And Ruth.
please welcome: the cast for The Homecoming
with Jared Harris (Chernobyl, Mad Men), Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders, Gangs of London), Lisa Diveney, David Angland, Robert Emms and Nicolas Tennant
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What's better than one prize? Three 🏆🏆🏆
BREAKING: Luna Carmoon's ‘Hoard’ starring Saura Lightfoot Leon, Joseph Quinn takes three prizes including audience award at Venice Critics’ Week
#Venezia80
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CAST REVEALED
@BroadwayWorld
: God of Carnage revival at
@LyricHammer
⭐⭐Starring Freema Agyeman, Ariyon Bakare, Martin Hutson and Dinita Gohil⭐⭐
Oh what a revival of this Tony and Olivier Award-winning play this will be....🤩
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A love story... 🖤🖤🖤
#CastingBy
Do you believe in destiny?
New artwork has landed for the fierce new romance starring Tosin Cole (
@TosinCole
) and Heather Agyepong (
@heatha_a
).
Photo by Courtney Phillip, Art Direction by Studio Doug, Grooming by Emma McRae.
Opens 16 Feb. Find out more:
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Heather Basten wins the CDG Award for Best Casting in a Commercial for ‘We Are The NHS'. Congratulations Heather!
#CDGAwards2023
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OUT OF DARKNESS is out in major cinemas NEAR YOU FROM FRIDAY! Vue, Cineworld, Odeon...
In the USA "Out of Darkness" has had the best opening weekend for a UK debut feature in 7 years...! Groundbreaking.
Find a cinema + book here: ➡️ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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From Executive Producer
@jadapsmith
comes a new docuseries exploring the lives of iconic African queens.
QUEEN CLEOPATRA follows the story of Cleopatra, one of the world’s most famous and misunderstood woman.
QUEEN CLEOPATRA is available to stream May 10 only on Netflix
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When you receive a call saying "Darren Aronofsky" and "Film" and "Las Vegas' all in the same sentence....
It is a no brainer.
#CastingBy
#CastingDirector
@imanwilson22
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Thats it. A short thread that is not really a thread, said with love.
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A24 Boards Full Season Of "Dreaming Whilst Black"...
➡️ ⬅️
#CastingDirector
#CastingBy
@A24
@theadjani
@BigDealFilms
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"RED PITCH builds to one of the best and most horrible stage fights I've ever seen..."
A SPOTLIGHT on our formidable and breathtaking understudies of Red Pitch...SHEM HAMILTON & TOYIN OMARI-KINCH. How lucky we truly are.
@ShemHamilton_
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Ooooooo y'all are not ready for this TV musical series 😁😁💪🏾
@AmazonStudios
#CastingDirector
#Jungle
#TV
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CARNAGE IS COMING 🌪️
@LyricHammer
:
Here's your first 📷at the cast who'll be bringing Yasmina Reza's Olivier & Tony winning comedy to life.
Starring Freema Agyeman, Ariyon Bakare, Dinita Gohil & Martin Hutson - 01 - 30 Sep
📷 Image: Sebastian Nevols | Design:
@GregBunbury
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"The dream will be televised"... 🥶🥶🥶
@A24
The dream will be televised. Dreaming Whilst Black, A24 UK's hottest new comedy starring
@theadjani
is now streaming in the US on
@showtime
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Can we just give these animators an Oscar now? For this 3mins of footage?
One Spider-Man wants to change his own destiny. 🕷 Miles Morales returns for the next Spider-Man movie, Only In Cinemas June 2. Watch the new trailer for Across the
#SpiderVerse
now.
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James McAvoy joins Blumhouse And Universal’s Thriller Horror, ‘Speak No Evil’.
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Breaking: Ramin Karimloo (
@raminkarimloo
) and Anoushka Lucas to star in "A FACE IN THE CROWD" musical at
@youngvictheatre
🖤🖤🖤
#CastingBy
Breaking: Ramin Karimloo (
@raminkarimloo
) and Anoushka Lucas to star in A Face in the Crowd musical at the Young Vic
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@OlivierAwards
The moral of every creative story here in the UK...don't wait to be validated by these institutions. Create your own spaces to be respected and celebrated. Find your people xx
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Joseph Quinn’s first post-Stranger Things movie gets unexpected first clip...
@Variety
⬇️⬇️⬇️
Director: My good sis
@LunaCarmoon
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In additional news....
OK signing OFF BYE 📽️ !
Thrilled that
@ArianMoayed
is joining
@ArianaDeBose
and Barbie Ferreira in the cast of
@PrimeVideo
and
@Blumhouse
’s upcoming Psychological Thriller, House of Spoils.
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🥰🥰🥰
@HeatherBCasting
for the win! Automatic reply for subbing tapes with clear communication of the casting process and timeline. We can share that with clients. Takes out the guesswork. LOVE it Heather and team!
#castingdirector
@MLM_TeamBTS
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😢😢🖤🖤🖤
I'm just obsessed with Dreaming Whilst Black, created by and starring
@theadjani
. Everything about it is faultless. Including the casting by
@HeatherBCasting
. Catch it on
@BBCiPlayer
.
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May 10th - UK Cinemas...HOARD is released. 🐀
You do not want to miss this one...
@LunaCarmoon
#JosephQuinn
#SauraLightfootLeon
#Castingby
#Film
@BBCFilm
@DelavalFilm
@ErebusPictures
@anti_worlds
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Red Pitch, the smash-hit, multi-award-winning, sold-out story of brotherhood, returns for three weeks only.
Experience the full-throttle power of one of the hit productions of our anniversary year performed by the original cast.
6-30 Sept | Book now
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🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The Casting Directors’ Guild U.K. Awards 2022 nominations are in! Huge congratulations to
@HeatherBCasting
,
@laurendevans
,
@FreckCasting
,
@GrindrodBurton
&
@AmyJacksoncast
who have all been nominated ✨🥳🏆
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West End Transfer for Red Pitch ! 🖤🖤🖤
"Sunday is the day we change our lives"
Following 2 sold-out runs at the Bush Theatre and winning all 5 major Best Debut Play awards, Red Pitch transfers to London’s newest West End theatre from 15 March 2024.
58 performances only
@sohoplacelondon
– secure tickets now from £25.
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A teaser trailer for musical TV series JUNGLE
@AmazonStudios
...
I am so so proud of this one...
🌟This October🌟
#CastingDirector
#AmazonStudios
#TV
#Musical
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Dreaming Whilst Black is the show that keeps on giving even up until NYE 😭😭🖤🖤🖤🖤
Best TV Of 2023: Farewells, Big Moves, Originality & Taylor Swift Defined The Year On The Small Screen
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Actual footage of me trying to say congratulations to
@_KarlQ
at the Stage Door of
@HamiltonWestEnd
😂🙏🏽 What a show!!
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Tonight PASSING STRANGE opens at the
@youngvictheatre
.
I remember reading this script...watching Spike Lee's filmed Broadway version...and thinking "holy s*** this is nuts and beautiful at the same time".
BLACK PUNK, ROCK and SOUL, a musical odyssey...🤘🏿📷
#CastingBy
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⏬ Check out this amazing write up on
@guardianfilm
Dreaming Whilst Black is out this Monday 24 July on BBC Three and iPlayer at 10pm.
THE HOTTEST NEW COMEDY!!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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I am so so proud of
@SafiaOG
. This award is so deserved. 🖤
#TheOrigin
@AndrewCFilm
@OliverKassman
@RuthHGreenberg
@protagonistpics
@BFI
The
#BIFA2022
for Breakthrough Performance, sponsored by
@NetflixUK
, goes to...
Safia Oakley-Green
(The Origin)
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Chemistry can be crafted beautifully in a room, and then chemistry can just exist, and it's a breathtaking thing to witness. In this case... The latter. In the most incredible way. I can't wait for the world to see this movie.
@LunaCarmoon
“You can’t rehearse the chemistry Saura and I had on the set.
Chemistry is a lottery. It just happens.
I think the best thing in HOARD is the non-verbal stuff.
We played two characters who endured the same pain: and words sometimes don’t really mind.”
#JosephQuinn
at
#SIC38
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We are so honoured to have cast Beneatha's Place for
@youngvictheatre
and
@kwamekweiarmah
. What a joy, and what a privilege to cross paths with actors like this.
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1 month! It's so much fun and full of nostalgia (the good kind).
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DREAMING WHILST BLACK on The Best Cast TV Shows of the 2023-2024 Season via
@IndieWire
Thank you
@GaryDavyCasting
🖤
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QUEEN CLEOPATRA drops globally on
@netflix
10/5/23.
BUZZED to be part of
#AfricanQueens
#seasontwo
as “JULIUS CAESAR”
From Executive Producer Jada Pinkett Smith a series exploring the lives of iconic African Queens.
#wesbrookstudios
@Nutopia_tv
@jadapsmith
@HeatherBCasting
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'Dreaming Whilst Black' cast literally be like 🔥🔥🔥...
@theadjani
@babiryebukilwa
#A24
#DreamingWhilstBlack
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I asked an AI bot, why Casting Directors are better than AI... 🤣 inspired by
@dearjohnbyrne
...and here is what it said.....
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#WandaVision
perfectly articulates grief (subjective - for me)...I find it so interesting / difficult / healing to watch. Even watching Wanda in Dr Strange.
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#OutOfDarkness
opening weekend = $1,004,855.
A true testament to all involved
@AndrewCFilm
@OliverKassman
@RuthHGreenberg
@GriffinWendy
and our brilliant and dedicated cast....!
#OutOfDarkness
opening weekend = $1,004,855.
THANK YOU to our incredible US partner
@bleeckerstfilms
, and of course to every audience member who came out to the cinema over Super Bowl weekend.
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I went to press night yesterday evening of No More Mr Nice Guy....the show is unreal + I have no real words that will TRULY capture it.
@Jonel1
is a force of nature with this show. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
It is an acting masterclass / masterpiece.
Just opened in London + touring to
Right off the back of
#ForBlackBoys
press night, tonight is press night for our next big show: No More Mr Nice Guy, and we’re totally sold out!
All the best to the incredible team behind the show.
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I am so excited to be speaking at the "World Cinema Film Festival" from
@BluebirdPicture
&
@JoelleMaeDavid1
(Director of Dreaming Whilst Black, Queenie).
Growing up in Barking and Dagenham was a big part of my life...so I am over the moon to be talking all things casting here!
Final line up and timings for Friday - Sunday - come through and hang with us and likeminded creatives!
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This show - Dreaming Whilst Black.
@A24
@BBC
.
Just the highest respect to
@theadjani
.
#CastingDirector
#CastingBy
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