Jim Arnold CDG was Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012- 2018, before establishing Jim Arnold Casting in 2018. He was the Original Casting Associate for Matilda, the Musical at the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon, and was Casting Assistant at the RSC for 3 and a half years from 2007-2011. He has worked with several leading Casting Directors in TV, film and theatre and is a full member of the Casting Director’s Guild of Great Britain and Ireland. Current projects: Wicked (Apollo Victoria); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Piccadilly); Something Rotten! (Birmingham Rep) and A Christmas Carol (ENO & LMTO at the Coliseum). Previous credits: West Side Story (Royal Exchange); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wiltshire Creative and Wales Millennium Centre); Rock of Ages (UK tour); The Wedding Singer (Wembley Park and UK tour); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); DNA (Hull Truck and UK tour); Yerma (Gate and Hull Truck); Pericles Re-imagined (Regent’s Park) and Matilda The Musical (Original Casting Associate for the RSC). As Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting: Wicked UK & Ireland Tour; The Wind in the Willows (London Palladium and UK tour); Funny Girl (Savoy and UK tour); Tiger Bay – The Musical (Wales Millennium Centre); Billy Elliot the Musical (Victoria Palace and UK tour); Top Hat (Aldwych and UK tour) and Guys and Dolls (Chichester and West End). .