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Bernie Tesley

2025

USA

Bernard Telsey, along with his team at The Telsey Office, have cast such films as Kiss
of the Spider-Woman, Plainclothes, Wicked 1&2, The Idea of You, The Color Purple,
Mean Girls: The Musical, In the Heights, Tick, Tick…BOOM, The Little Mermaid Live
Action, Mary Poppins Returns, The Greatest Showman, Into the Woods, and the
upcoming Moana Live Action, Oh What Fun, The Man with the Bag, Verity, Best of the
Best, and Being Heumann.
Some recent television credits include The Gilded Age, Only Murders In The Building,
And Just Like That, Paradise, and This Is Us.
Broadway shows include, Maybe Happy Ending, Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, Sweeney
Todd, Kimberly Akimbo, Parade, Some Like It Hot, Into the Woods, MJ: The Musical,
Hamilton, Wicked, Kinky Boots, Hairspray, In the Heights, and Rent, and the upcoming
Ragtime, and The Lost Boys.
He is one of the co-Artistic Directors of MCC Theater and he was the 2016 recipient of
the Casting Society of America’s Hoyt Bowers Award for his contributions to the
profession. He is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA, and CSA, and served on the Academy
Board of Governors, representing the Casting Branch.