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EMILY JONES Telephone: 07792 120766 Email: Emilyjonescasting@Gmail.Com EMILY JONES Telephone: 07792 120766 Email: [email protected] CASTING DIRECTOR TV: 2015 Doctors (3 episodes) BBC Dominic Keavey Film: 2017 Collection Only Constant Productions John Hickman/ Alastair Cummings 2017 Tilda & Lail NFTS Alexandra Brodski 2016 Finding Clive Ignition Films Deva Palmier 2016 Beauty Moolmore Films Nicola Abbatangelo 2013 Ibiza Undead Temple Heart Films Andy Edwards 2012 LIMBO JenX Films Matt McCooey Theatre: 2017 PowerPlay Hampton Court Palace Jo McInnes 2016 Orca Southwark Playhouse Alice Hamilton 2015 Donkey Heart Trafalgar Studios Nina Raine 2014 Coolatully Papatango/Finborough David Mercatali 2014 Donkey Heart The Old Red Lion Nina Raine 2014 World Enough & Time Fluff Productions/ Justin Audibert Park Theatre (Park 90) 2014 The Hard Man Finborough Theatre Mark Dominey 2014 The Keepers of Infinite Space The Moving Theatre/ Zoe Lafferty Park Theatre (Park 90) 2013 Unscorched Papatango/Finborough Justin Audibert 2013 Richard III Changeling Theatre Robert Forknall 2013 World Enough & Time Fluff Productions/ Helen Tennison Dalston Bunker 2012 As You Like It Changeling Theatre Robert Forknall CASTING ASSISTANT ANDY MORGAN CDG Making Noise Quietly August 2016 JILL GREEN CDG: July 2016 Assistant cover BBC DRAMA SERIES CASTING: Silent Witness May - June 2016 Casualty May 2015 - June 2016 Father Brown March – August 2015 The Coroner March – August 2015 Doctors January – May 2015 GINNY SCHILLER CDG: August 2012 - January 2015 Headlong/Sonia Freedman: 1984 Rob Icke/Dan Raggatt Theatre Royal Bath: Hay Fever Lindsay Posner The Hypochondriac Lindsay Posnor Hay Fever Lindsay Posner Kafka’s Dick David Grindley Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Adrian Noble Therese Raquin Jonathan Munby Things We Do For Love Laurence Boswell Moon Tiger Stephen Unwin Relative Values Trevor Nunn Relatively Speaking (U/S) Lindsay Posner/ Tom Attenborough Abigail’s Party Lindsay Posner/Tom Attenborough Ustinov Studio Bath: The Father James MacDonald The Harvest Michael Boyd The Mother Laurence Boswell Exit the King Laurence Boswell Play Strindberg Nancy Meckler Bad Jews Michael Longhurst Intimate Apparel Laurence Boswell Intimate Apparel Laurence Boswell The Big Meal Michael Boyd A Steady Rain David Grindley Spanish Golden Age Season Laurence Boswell/Mehmet Ergen Fifty Words Laurence Boswell 4000 Miles James Dacre The American Plan David Grindley St James Theatre: Scenes From a Marriage Trevor Nunn In the Next Room Laurence Boswell The Rose Theatre, Kingston: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe Ciaran McConville Donkeys’ Years Lisa Spirling Ghosts Stephen Unwin Joe Egg Stephen Unwin Smack Family Robison Richard Wilson The Vortex Stephen Unwin Cinderella Rachel Kavanaugh Liverpool Everyman/Playhouse: Sex & the Three Day Week Serder Bilis Twelfth Night Gemma Bodinetz The Misanthrope Gemma Bodinetz Royal Theatre, Northampton: Regeneration Simon Godwin A Tale of Two Cities James Dacre Dancing at Lughnasa Richard Beecham Other: The Merchant of Venice Almeida Theatre Rupert Goold Pride & Prejudice Regent’s Park Theatre Deborah Bruce Fatal Attraction Theatre Royal, Haymarket Trevor Nunn Playing For Time Sheffield Crucible Richard Beecham Harvey Birmingham/Tour Lindsay Posner The Life & Times of Fanny Hill Bristol Old Vic Michael Oakley The Dishwashers Birmingham Rep/Tour Nikolai Foster The Finger (reading) Hampstead Theatre Terry Johnson Othello Second Age John Breen The Shawshank Redemption Assembly Rooms Lucy Pitman-Wallace CASTING WORK EXPERIENCE Film: BRISTOL JOB - work experience with casting director Andy Brierley and producer Nick Pitt. Theatre: 2012 Eisteddfod Hightide (for Latitude) Powell Casting 2013 To Sir, With Love Royal Theatre, Northampton Camilla Evan CDG .
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