Bernard Telsey (DSC #220)

ATW: "Prolific Broadway casting director (and recent reality TV judge) Bernard Telsey discusses his parallel careers as the head of Telsey + Company and the artistic director of Off-Broadway’s MCC Theater. He shares some tidbits about his own training as an actor, his few acting gigs (including understudying Matthew Broderick) and how that training effects his casting work; the impetus behind MCC Theater and what his plans are for the company; what he thinks of casting theatre by reality TV in general and the Legally Blonde program in particular; and he talks about the varied challenges of casting, with particular focus on the actor-musicians of both the John Doyle-directed Company and the original cast and many companies of Rent over its 12 year run, as well as the distinctive characters of Wicked."