Bernard Telsey

Bernard Telsey

Bernard Telsey

Bernard Telsey (b. February 8, 1960) is a casting director and co-founder of MCC Theater. In the 1980s, he began working for Simon & Kumin Casting as an assistant, then a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting. Shows his company has cast include (Broadway) Rent, Wicked, In the Heights, South Pacific, Hairspray, Rock of Ages, Equus, Legally Blonde, A Catered Affair, The Homecoming, Talk Radio, November, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple, The Rocky Horror Show, All Shook Up, Tarzan, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, (Off-Broadway) reasons to be pretty, 50 Words, Almost an Evening, and De La Guarda. He has cast for several theatre companies including the Atlantic Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, New York Theatre Workshop, Drama Dept, ACT in San Francisco, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage, and Goodman Theatre. Films cast include Rachel Getting Married, Sex and the City, Margin Call, Across the Universe, Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April, Rent.Rent established Telsey as someone who casts unconventional shows, which got him assigned to cast The Capeman. He is notable for discovering Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Anthony Rapp, and Jesse L. Martin.Telsey has also served for seven years as the New York Vice-President of the Casting Society of America.

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The Idea of You (2024)

IMDB: 6.6 (14029 votes)
Theater Camp (2023)

IMDB: 7.3 (476 votes)
Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

IMDB: 6.1 (15244 votes)
Respect (2021)

IMDB: 6.6 (15239 votes)
tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

IMDB: 7.5 (106677 votes)
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

IMDB: 7.2 (34354 votes)
The Greatest Showman (2017)

IMDB: 7.6 (219329 votes)
Miss Sloane (2016)

IMDB: 7.5 (59348 votes)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)

IMDB: 6.6 (47654 votes)
Focus (2015)

IMDB: 6.6 (203946 votes)
The Intern (2015)

IMDB: 7.1 (205321 votes)
A Most Violent Year (2014)

IMDB: 7.0 (65696 votes)
Into the woods (2014)

IMDB: 5.9 (127722 votes)
Joyful Noise (2012)

IMDB: 5.7 (7740 votes)
Friends with Kids (2011)

IMDB: 6.1 (42610 votes)
Jonah Hex (2010)

IMDB: 4.7 (53567 votes)
Across the Universe (2007)

IMDB: 7.3 (111539 votes)
Finding Forrester (2000)

IMDB: 7.3 (87025 votes)
The Bone Collector (1999)

IMDB: 6.7 (147442 votes)
Independence Day (1996)

IMDB: 7 (578611 votes)