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Aisha was recognised as one of the SCREEN INTERNATIONAL’S STARS OF TOMORROW in 2020. Her TV credits include LADY PARTS written and directed by NIDA MANZOOR  and ENTERPRICE (WRITTEN BY AND STARRING KAYODE EWUMI). Aisha’s film credit include DIRTY GOD and THE LAST TREE which both premiered at  THE SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL and  the critically acclaimed COUNTY LINES. Aisha was nominated for a  BRITISH INDEPENDENT FILM AWARD alongside SHAHEEN BAIG for their work on THE LAST TREE. Her upcoming projects include THE BABY for SISTER PICTURES and HBO, NETFLIX’S MAN VS BEE and working title’s TV adaptation of EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE.

Lucy is Daniel Edwards Associate. She has worked for a number of well-known Casting Directors including Kate Rhodes James CDG, Laura Scott CDG, Rachel Freck CDG, Lucinda Syson CDG and Daniel Edwards CDG. Lucy has been working for Vicki Thomson CDG since January 2018.

Casting Assistant credits with Daniel Edwards – THE INNOCENTS (New Pictures). 

Catherine is a Casting Assistant who worked for Jina Jay Casting from February 2018, and is now currently working for Daniel Edwards Casting since January 2020.

She worked on a variety of Film & TV Projects with Jina Jay that include Emmy award-winning ‘Black Mirror: Bandersnatch’, ‘Black Mirror’ Season 5 (Netflix) and ‘Temple’ (Sky). Also ‘Enola Holmes’ (Netflix/Legendary Pictures) and upcoming films ‘Dune’ (Legendary Pictures) and ‘Operation Mincemeat’ (SeeSaw) to name a few.

Tom worked as an actor, agents assistant and producer before starting his casting career with Daniel Edwards Casting in January 2020.

Rebecca Wright has been in Casting since 1998 having previously worked as a Second Assistant Director in TV and film. She began her Casting career as Assistant to Joyce Gallie and then Ann Fielden before working with Di Carling. After 10 great years with Di she set up on her own as REBECCA WRIGHT CASTING in November 2011.

She casts for TV and Film. Rebecca has recently finished casting Series 3 of Jez Butterworth's drama Britannia for Sky Atlantic and Series 10 of Call The Midwife for BBC1.

She lives in London and is a member of the Casting Directors' Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

Seth has most recently been co-casting director on The Split 3 (BBC / Sister) and Get Even 2 (Netflix / iPlayer), both due to air in 2022.

As casting associate, he recently worked on Des (New Pictures), Starstruck (HBO Max / BBC Three), Unforgotten 4 (Mainstreet Pictures), Worzel Gummidge (Leopard Pictures), World On Fire (Mammoth), Silent Witness (BBC), Baz Luhrmann’s The Secret Life of Flowers for ERDEM x H&M and the hit feature film Crawl (Paramount).

Upcoming projects as casting associate include Sherwood (House Productions for BBC One), The Bubble (Judd Apatow’s new film for Netflix), Crossfire (Dancing Ledge for BBC One) and The Undeclared War (Playground Productions for Channel 4)

Other past projects with Victor and Andy include The Rook (Starz/Lionsgate), Leonardo (Lux Vide / Big Light), The Watch (BBC America), Innocent II (TXTV for ITV1), Cleaning Up (Sister Pictures), Dark Money (The Forge), Deep Water (Kudos), Unforgotten III (Mainstreet), The Tunnel III (Sky) and Troy: Fall of A City (BBC)

In theatre, Seth was casting director on the Offie-nominated Homos, or Everyone in America at the Finborough Theatre in 2018 and the Southwark Playhouse production of Constellations (sadly curtailed due to the Covid-19 pandemic). He was also casting director on Seven Decades at the V & A in 2019 and the short films Ouzo and Blackcurrant (Mini Productions), Muse (NFTS), Nant (Strike Pictres) and Bus Driver (NFTS).

Seth previously worked as casting assistant at Catherine Willis Casting, on a range of projects from Flowers (Channel 4) and Upstart Crow (BBC Two) to Hetty Feather (CBBC) and Plebs (ITV2). He has also worked for Daniel Edwards on Mr Selfridge (ITV) and Born To Kill (Channel 4). Prior to this, he also worked for Gary Davy and Julie Harkin.

Katy (or Dedikaty as she is known in the office) joined as Ali’s nimble right hand in 2009 and now is an acclaimed casting director. She’s proud of her roots having recently had her colour refreshed and also her Corkonian heritage. Whilst Ali has always had a personal aversion to formal education she is damn proud of Katy who is a Masters Graduate from Trinity College Dublin and Royal Holloway University of London. Katy’s superpower is recognising any actor any time anywhere no matter how out of context or heavy the blindfold—it really is extraordinary and on that basis we’re happy to say she’s sticking around.

Katie worked in TV production before moving into casting in 2017. Now a Casting Associate at Crowley Poole Casting, working for Casting Directors Suzanne Crowley and Gilly Poole.

Most notable projects include the Emmy and Bafta award winning Killing Eve seasons 1-4 (BBC America) with Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer; The Durrells (ITV), Trollied (Sky 1), We Hunt Together (UKTV) Finding Alice (ITV) and most recently Hollington Drive (ITV).

Katie has assisted in casting for several theatre projects for Hampstead Theatre and Sunset Limited (Boulevard Theatre) in 2019. In 2021, Katie worked as a Casting Director for Tara Theatre and The Lodger at the Coronet Theatre.

Katie is a probationary member of the CDG and recently became a member of the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion committee.

Casting for over 15 years, Carolyn is a freelance Casting Director, who specialises in Film, Theatre, TV and streaming content.  She has worked with directors including Paul Schrader, Stephen Herek, Michael Caton-Jones and Sofia Coppola on independent features and projects for Netflix, BBC, Disney, Warner Bros, Hallmark and the Sci-Fi Channel.

She is a Bafta member and is on the board of the European Chapter of the Casting Society of America.

Lauren began her casting career working for Kate Dowd. From there she spent six years working with Nina Gold on various feature films and TV series. Notable projects include, Game of Thrones, Star Wars – the Force Awakens, The Theory of Everything, The Imitation Game, King Lear, Mr Turner and The Danish Girl. Lauren’s co-casting Director credits with Nina Gold are Paddington 2 and Taboo.

More recently Lauren has independently cast three seasons of Sex Education for Netflix, Season two of Miracle Workers (TBS), The Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special (BBC), The One (Netflix) and Season 3 of the critically acclaimed series The Girlfriend Experience (Starz). Lauren is proud to have been recognised for her work on Sex Education with the ‘Best Casting in a TV Comedy’ award from The Casting Directors’ Guild UK (2020 & 2021), and two BAFTA nominations for ‘Scripted Casting.’

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Sharon is a UK based casting director, she has worked across all mediums of screen and stage on many award-winning productions. She primarily casts for the screen.

Her film credits include: The Journey (multi-award winning), Jericho's Walls Are Falling.

TV credits include: Sugarbabies (pilot); Murdered For Love? Samia Shahid; Elizabeth I’s Secret Agents (RTS award winning and BAFTA nominated). Amongst the many multi-award winning short films she has cast are: Oblivious, The Outer Circle, White, Sticky, Grandfather, The Storyteller, The Chop, Crack, No Playground for Little Cowboys and Invisible. She has cast countless commercials and music videos.

Theatre credits include: Borderlands (Hen & Chickens), 12 Angry Women(Lion and Unicorn), Fragile (Landor), Making Time (Old Red Lion) and Who Killed Wendy (The Malthouse, Nottingham).

Anna is a Scotland-based Casting Director and is currently associate Casting Director to Simone Pereira Hind, working from Edinburgh and London. She is a probationary member of the CDG and has worked in casting for over 8 years.

Anna’s associate and assistant television credits include the internationally successful series Outlander, BBC’s The Replacement and CBBC’s teen series Logan High. Simone and Anna have recently cast Lewis-set feature film Nobody has to know for Barry Crerar, Australian/Scottish co-production Falling For Figaro for Black Camel Pictures and from the producer of The Crown, they this year cast ‘Munich' for Netflix starring Jeremy Irons and George Mackay. Welsh comedy ‘The Toll’ will be premiering at this years Glasgow Film Festival and Aberdeen set thriller ‘Repression’ can now be seen on major streaming platforms, Amazon, Sky and Now Tv.

Casting Director credits include CBBC’s Scottish BAFTA winner Last Commanders, BBC’s Pancake and Life Is A Dream for The Royal Lyceum Edinburgh. This year Anna cast the animated adaptation of the much loved Tom Gates books for Sky TV, starring Mark Bonnar and Catherine Tate. Episodes to air on Sky Jan 2021.

Simone and Anna both love working on the many short films they have cast, supporting new talent and helping get people's ambitions onto the screen.