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Casting director
Bernard Telsey (born February 8, 1960)
[1] is a
casting director and co-founder of
MCC Theater.
In the 1980s, Telsey began working for Simon & Kumin Casting as an assistant, then a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting.
- Shows his company has cast include Broadway:
Rent, Wicked, In the Heights,
South Pacific, Hairspray, Rock of Ages,
Equus, Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair,
The Homecoming, Talk Radio, November, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple,
The Rocky Horror Show,
All Shook Up, Tarzan, and
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Off-Broadway) shows include:
reasons to be pretty, 50 Words, Almost an Evening, and De La Guarda.
- Telsey has cast for several theatre companies including the
Atlantic Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, Drama Dept,
ACT in San Francisco, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre,
Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, and
Goodman Theatre.
- Films cast include
Rachel Getting Married, Sex and the City,
Margin Call, Across the Universe, Dan in Real Life,
Pieces of April,
Rent.
[2]
Rent established Telsey as someone who casts unconventional shows, which got him assigned to cast
The Capeman.
[3] Telsey is said to have discovered
Taye Diggs,
Idina Menzel,
Anthony Rapp, and
Jesse L. Martin.
[4]
Telsey has also served for seven years as the New York Vice-president of the
Casting Society of America.
Personal life
Telsey lives in
New York City with his wife, Anne, and two sons, Felix and Daniel.
[5]
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