Jacob Sparrow Casting (he/him/his) [email protected]

Casting Director Theatre

2021 Curious Incident International Tour dir. Anna Marsland 2021 Open Air Theatre dir. Tim Sheader 2021 May Queen Coventry Belgrade dir. Balisha Karra 2021 Black Love Roundabout dir. Chinonyerem Odimba 2021 Hungry Roundabout dir. Katie Posner 2021 LOVE European Tour dir. Alexander Zeldin 2021 Development Project Leeds Playhouse dir. Jamie Fletcher 2020 Faith, Hope & Charity Theatre Odeon, Paris dir. Alexander Zeldin 2020 Monsoon Wedding Leeds Playhouse/ Roundhouse dir. Mira Nair 2020 Paines Plough Season Roundabout Theatre dir. Katie Posner 2020 City of Angels* Garrick Theatre dir. Josie Rourke 2020 Sinners Playground Theatre dir. Brian Cox 2019 Faith, Hope & Charity Dorfman Theatre dir. Alexander Zeldin 2019 Mr Gum the Musical Dorfman Theatre dir. Amy Hodge 2019 Mold Riots Theatr Clywd dir. Katie Posner 2019 Rutherford and Son Lyttelton Theatre dir. Polly Findlay 2019 Our Town Open Air Theatre dir. Ellen McDougall 2019 Queens Theatre Hornchurch dir. Douglas Rintoul 2019 Wave Me Goodbye Theatr Clywd dir. Christian Patterson 2019 Revival* Olivier Theatre dir. 2019 Downstate* Steppenwolff/Dorfman dir. Pam MacKinnon 2019 The Winter’s Tale Dorfman Theatre dir. Ruth Johnson 2018 Olivier Theatre dir. 2018 LOVE International tour dir. Alexander Zeldin 2018 Curious Incident School’s Tour dir. Anna Marsland 2018 LOVE Film BBC Films dir. Alexander Zeldin 2018 Pericles Olivier Theatre dir. Emily Lim 2018 The Rink Southwark Playhouse dir. Adam Lenson 2018 Julie* Lyttelton Theatre dir. Carrie Cracknell 2017 Amadeus Revival Olivier Theatre dir. Michael Longhurst 2017 The Winter’s Tale NT Learning + Dorfman dir. Justin Audibert 2017 NT Learning dir. Justin Audibert 2017 Pinocchio* Lyttelton Theatre dir. 2017 Follies* Olivier Theatre dir. Dominic Cooke 2017 Neaptide Lyttelton Theatre dir. Sarah Frankcom 2017 Bent Lyttelton Theatre dir. 2017 Wig Out! Lyttelton Theatre dir. Tarell Alvin-McCraney 2017 Certain Young Men Lyttelton Theatre dir. Peter Gill 2017 The Drag Lyttelton Theatre dir. 2017 First Drafts Yard Theatre dir. Various 2017 Up Next Olivier Theatre dir. 2017 Superhero Southwark Playhouse dir. Adam Lenson 2017 Ode to Leeds West Yorkshire Playhouse dir. James Brining 2016 LOVE Dorfman Theatre dir. Alexander Zeldin 2016 Amadeus* Olivier Theatre dir. Michael Longhurst 2015 Wonder.land* Olivier Theatre dir. Rufus Norris

*denotes Co-Casting Director credit

Jacob worked in the NT Casting Department from 2015 to 2019 before becoming a freelance Casting Director. Prior to working at the National Theatre, Jacob worked with Pippa Ailion Casting and Telsey and in New York, as well as alongside James Orange.

He is a passionate advocate for equal representation onstage and promoting a wide range of intersectional voices. He is committed to promoting underrepresented voices (particularly trans, non-binary and disabled identifying artists) in a constructive and meaningful way and this is intrinsic to his creative casting practice.

He is also a trained mental health practitioner.

Film

2020 We Begin Again dir. Amy Hodge 2020 LVTLP RW Productions dir. Raphael Warner 2018 LOVE Film BBC Films dir. Alexander Zeldin

Audio

2021 The Electricity of Audible/Whistledown dir. Catriona Shoobridge Every Living Thing

Additional Casting Theatre

2020 The Seagull dir. Jamie Lloyd 2019 Ocean at the End of Dorfman Theatre dir. Katy Rudd the Lane 2019 Hansard Lyttelton Theatre dir. 2019 Jellyfish Dorfman Theatre dir. Tim Hoare 2018 Absolute Hell Lyttelton Theatre dir. Joe Hill-Gibbons 2018 London Palladium dir. 2018 Beginning Ambassadors Theatre dir. Polly Findlay 2017 Lyttelton Theatre dir. 2017 Oslo Theatre dir. Bartlett Sher 2017 Lyttelton Theatre dir. Marianne Elliott 2016 Threepenny Opera Olivier Theatre dir. Rufus Norris 2016 People Places and Wyndham’s Theatre dir. + Holly Things Race Roughan 2015 People Places and Dorfman Theatre dir. Jeremy Herrin Things