David Grindrod – Casting Director/David Grindrod Associates CDG – Subject/Subjects Offered: The Role Of The Casting Director: “What We Aspects From Artists In Auditions” – Classes Offered: Seminar

Theatre includes:

Back to the Future (Manchester Opera House); Waitress (Adelphi & UK Tour); Only Fools & Horses (Theatre Royal Haymarket); Local Hero (Edinburgh Lyceum / Old Vic); Sweet Charity (Donmar); Adult Casting for Matilda (Cambridge Theatre); Adult Casting for School of Rock (Gillian Lynne Theatre & UK Tour); 42nd Street, Shrek The Musical (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Bat Out of Hell (Dominion / Coliseum); 5 Guys Named Moe (Marble Arch); Magic Mike Live (Hippodrome Casino); CATS (Palladium / UK Tour / International Tour); Mamma Mia! (worldwide); Groundhog Day, Jekyll & Hyde (Old Vic); Chicago (Cambridge / Adelphi / Garrick); Grease (UK Tour); Priscilla Queen of the Desert (UK Tour); Mrs Henderson Presents, Fat Friends, The Commitments (UK Tour); Man of La Mancha, Carousel, Sunset Boulevard, Sweeney Todd (English National Opera); 42nd Street, Singing in the Rain. Kiss Me Kate (Chatelet, Paris); Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Hello Dolly, Crazy for You (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); The Braille Legacy, The Woman in White, Harold and Maud, Violet (Charing Cross Theatre).

The Beggars Opera (Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris); Guys and Dolls, Funny Girl (Theatre Marigny, Paris).

Film:

Musical Ensemble Casting: Mamma Mia! Here we Go Again; Beauty & The Beast; Aladdin; Mamma Mia!

UK Dancer Casting: Mary Poppins Returns; Nine.

Casting Director: The Phantom of the Opera.

Television:

Sound of Music Live, Superstar, Over the Rainbow, I’d Do Anything, Any Dream Will Do, How Do Solve A Problem like Maria, (2007 Emmy Award), Kombat Opera presents…(2008 Golden Rose Montreux Award) Hollyoaks, West End Star (TV3 Sweden).

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Coach Language: English