Ginny Schiller CDG 9 Clapton Terrace London E5 9BW Casting Director Tel: 020 8806 5383 Mob: 07970 517667 [email protected] curriculum vitae I am an experienced casting director with over 20 years in the industry. My casting career began at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1997 and I went freelance in 2001. I have collaborated on hundreds of productions with scores of directors, producers and venues, and although my main focus has always been theatre, I have also cast for television, film, radio and commercials. I have been in-house casting director for Chichester Festival Theatre, Rose Theatre Kingston, English Touring Theatre and Soho Theatre and returned to the RSC in 2005/6 to lead the casting for the Complete Works Season. I currently work closely with Danny Moar on many of the shows for Theatre Royal Bath Productions, with Laurence Boswell at the Ustinov Studio Theatre and with Howard Panter and Trafalgar Theatre Productions. I have cast for independent commercial producers, the subsidised sector, for the touring circuit, regional, fringe and West End venues, including the Almeida, Arcola, ATG, Birmingham Rep, Bolton Octagon, Bristol Old Vic, Bush Theatre, City of London Sinfonia, Clwyd Theatr Cyrmu, Feelgood Fiction, Frantic Assembly, Greenwich Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Headlong, HOME Manchester, Jermyn Street, Leicester Curve, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Marlowe Studio Canterbury, Menier Chocolate Factory, New Wolsey Ipswich, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, Northampton Royal & Derngate, Oxford Playhouse, Plymouth Theatre Royal and Drum, Print Room at the Coronet, Promenade Productions, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre, Shared Experience, Sheffield Crucible, Sonia Friedman Productions, Southwark Playhouse, St James’, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Tobacco Factory, Touring Consortium, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Wilton’s Music Hall, Young Vic and Yvonne Arnaud theatres. I served a two-year term on the committee of the Casting Directors’ Guild and was actively involved in discussions with Equity regarding the casting process and diversity issues across the media. I am regularly asked to lead audition workshops, masterclasses and Q&As run by drama schools and other organisations including The Actor’s Centre, Actor’s Guild of Great Britain, ALRA, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, the CPMA, Central School of Speech and Drama, Custom/Practice, Drama Centre, Drama Studio, Director’s Guild of Great Britain, ETT, FuseLondon, Guildford School of Acting, LAMDA, Oxford School of Drama, RADA, the Rose Theatre, StandUp Drama and Talawa Theatre Company. Some recent theatre credits include: • Kenneth Lonergan’s The Starry Messenger at the Wyndhams, directed by Sam Yates, with Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern. • The Almeida’s production of Richard II directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins and starring Simon Russell Beale for winter 2018, and the revival of Rupert Goold’s production of The Merchant of Venice, with Ian McDiarmid as Shylock in 2014. • A Song at Twilight by Noel Coward, with Simon Callow and Jane Asher, directed by Stephen Unwin for the Theatre Royal Bath and on tour. • Apologia by Alexei Kaye-Campbell and directed by Jamie Lloyd at the Trafalgar Studios, starring Stockard Channing, Laura Carmichael, Freema Agyeman and Joseph Millson. • Michael Boyd’s first Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard, in a new translation by Rory Mullarkey, at the Bristol Old Vic and Manchester Royal Exchange. - 1 - • All bar one of the productions in 15 seasons at the Ustinov Studio in Bath under the Artistic Directorship of Laurence Boswell, which have received slews of five star reviews and accolades, including: o The Father by Florian Zeller, translated by Christopher Hampton and directed by James Macdonald, which transferred to the Tricycle, then to the Wyndham’s, the Duke of York’s, toured and also recorded for Radio 4. Kenneth Cranham was nominated for several awards and won Best Actor at the Oliviers 2016. o F Murray Abraham in The Mentor by Daniel Kehlmann, directed by Laurence Boswell, which transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre. o Gina McKee in The Mother, also by Florian Zeller and directed by Laurence Boswell, which transferred to the Tricycle. o Several iterations of Bad Jews by Joshua Harmon, directed by Michael Longhurst, at the Ustinov, St James, Arts, Theatre Royal Haymarket and on tour. o Laurence’s production of Lynn Nottage’s Intimate Apparel, which moved to the Park Theatre, was nominated for two Evening Standard awards including Best Actress for Tanya Moodie. o The Open House directed by Michael Boyd which moved to the Print Room, The American Plan directed by David Grindley and Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play directed by Laurence Boswell, both of which transferred to the St James’s Theatre. • King Lear at the Globe starring Kevin McNally, directed by Nancy Meckler. • The UK premiere of The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures by Tony Kushner, at Hampstead Theatre with Michael Boyd directing; the cast included Tamsin Greig, David Calder, Sara Kestleman and Luke Newberry. • A workshop of new adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s Summer Lightning by Giles Havergal directed by Maria Aitken, with Adrian Scarborough, Nicholas Le Prevost, Alice Orr-Ewing, Julie Legrand, Pippa Bennett-Warner and Ncuti Gatwa. The full production is slated for 2019. • 1984 adapted and directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan for Headlong and Nottingham Playhouse on tour, and subsequently at the Almeida, three West End outings and an international tour. • Nicholas Wright’s adaptation of Regeneration directed by Simon Godwin. • Eight productions for Trevor Nunn including Relative Values at the Theatre Royal Bath and Pinter Theatre with Caroline Quentin, Patricia Hodge and Rory Bremner, Scenes from a Marriage at the St James with Olivia Williams, The Wars of the Roses at the Rose Theatre Kingston with Robert Sheehan and Joely Richardson, A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Kulvinder Ghir at the New Wolsey Ipswich and Agnes Colander at the Ustinov which transferred to the Jermyn Street Theatre. • Gemma Bodinetz’ inaugural production of Twelfth Night at the new Liverpool Everyman, with Matthew Kelly, Nicholas Woodeson and Jodie McNee. • Arthur Miller’s Playing for Time at Sheffield Crucible directed by Richard Beecham, starring Siân Phillips, which required a dozen highly-skilled actor/musicians. • Switzerland at the Ustinov with Phyllis Logan, Great Expectations at West Yorkshire Playhouse and Around the World in 80 Days at the St James, all directed by Lucy Bailey. • Richard Bean’s Smack Family Robinson at the Rose, directed by Richard Wilson, with Denise Welch, Keith Allen and Harry Melling. • Romeo & Juliet for Headlong on tour and The Alchemist at Liverpool Playhouse, both directed by Robert Icke. A full list of credits is given below. If you require any further information or references, please do not hesitate to contact me. - 2 - THEATRE includes: Production Author Director Producer/Venue THE ENTERTAINER John Osborne Sean O’Connor No 1 tour THE STARRY MESSENGER Kenneth Lonergan Sam Yates Wyndhams STRANGE FRUIT Caryl Phillips Nancy Medina Bush Theatre ADMISSIONS Joshua Harmon Daniel Aukin Trafalgar Studios RICHARD II Shakespeare Joe Hill-Gibbins Almeida BILLY BISHOP GOES TO John Gray/Eric Jimmy Walters Jermyn Street/Proud Haddock WAR Peterson REBUS: DEATH’S Rona Munro after a Roxana Silbert Birmingham Rep/tour SHADOWS story by Ian Rankin APOLOGIA Alexi Kaye-Campbell Jamie Lloyd Trafalgar Studios RICHARD III Shakespeare Lindsay Posner Shakespeare’s Rose, York ROMEO & JULIET Shakespeare Lindsay Posner Shakespeare’s Rose, York A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM Shakespeare Juliet Forster Shakespeare’s Rose, York MACBETH Shakespeare Damian Cruden Shakespeare’s Rose, York THE CHERRY ORCHARD Chekhov, translated Michael Boyd Bristol Old Vic/Royal Exchange by Rory Mullarkey THE PHILANTHROPIST Christopher Hampton Simon Callow Trafalgar Studios KING LEAR Shakespeare Nancy Meckler Shakespeare’s Globe UNCLE VANYA Chekhov, translated Walter Meierjohann HOME Manchester by Andrew Upton *Katie West won the MEN award for Best actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Sonya (the fall of) THE MASTER Zinnie Harris, after James Brining Courtyard, WYP BUILDER Ibsen WAITING FOR GODOT Samuel Beckett Mark Rosenblatt Tobacco Factory ALL OUR CHILDREN Stephen Unwin Stephen Unwin Jermyn Street THE CEREMONY Eva Hoffman Braham Murray JW3 DESSERT Oliver Cotton Trevor Nunn Southwark Playhouse ROSE Martin Sherman Richard Beecham HOME Manchester *Janet Suzman won Best Actress for the MEN Awards 2018 THE INTELLIGENT Tony Kushner Michael Boyd Hampstead Theatre HOMOSEXUAL’S GUIDE TO CAPITALISM AND SOCIALISM WITH A KEY TO THE SCRIPTURES A TALE OF TWO CITIES Dickens/Mike Poulton James Dacre Northampton/Touring Consortium 2016 revival LUNCH & THE BOW OF Steven Berkoff Nigel Harman Jimmy Jewel/Trafalgar 2 ULYSSES ZEALOT Theresa Rebeck Lindsay Posner Adam Spiegel Productions ALL IS FORGIVEN Joe Keenan David Grindley Mark Milln/Greenelight Stage THE TEMPEST Shakespeare William Galinsky Norfolk & Norwich Festival THE CRUCIBLE Arthur Miller Tom Morris Bristol Old Vic GREAT EXPECTATIONS Dickens/Michael Eaton Lucy Bailey West Yorkshire Playhouse AROUND THE WORLD IN Jules Verne, Lucy Bailey St James Theatre 80 DAYS adapted by Lucy Eason A BETTER WOMAN Simon Mendes da Tilly Vosburgh Marlowe Studio, Canterbury Costa HARVEY Mary Chase Lindsay Posner Birmingham Rep/Theatre