Nominees announced for The CDG Casting Awards 2022
The Casting Directors’ Guild have announced the nominees for the 2022 CDG Casting Awards, in partnership with Spotlight.
Now in its fourth year, the CDG Casting awards seeks to reward and celebrate the incredible work achieved by casting teams across Film, Television, Theatre and Commercial. This year, The CDG are also thrilled to welcome Netflix as a brand new category sponsor, a testament to the continued success and demand for limited series.
This year’s ceremony will take place on Tuesday 22 February at the Ham Yard Hotel,* with hosts and presenters to be announced in due course.
CDG Co-chairs Jessica Ronane and Kate Ringsell said: “We are excited to be bringing together casting directors from across the country to celebrate our fourth annual CDG Awards. Despite another challenging year, our industry has determinedly stepped up and we are thrilled by the scope of work we will be celebrating by such a brilliant, wide range of casting directors. This is evidence that we appreciate the extraordinary work of our peers and we all have been delighted in the welcome escape that so much of this work has brought us. There have been some unforgettable performances both on stage and screen and it is time to come together and cheer on our community who so often are forgotten by the time the reviewers move in! As we head into 2022 we stride forward with optimism that casting directors and their vital input will be further recognised industry-wide.”
The 2022 categories and nominees include:
Best Casting in Regional Theatre (Outside of M25 includes straight Plays & Musicals)
Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Newcastle Theatre Royal - Jill Green, Nicholas Hockaday (Assistant) , Jo Hawes (Children’s Casting Director)
Rent, Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester - James Pearson and Rosie Pearson
South Pacific, Chichester Festival Theatre - Charlotte Sutton, Verity Naughton (Additional Children’s Casting)
The Comedy of Errors, Garden Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company (and tour) - Matthew Dewsbury
Best Casting in Musical Theatre (inside M25)
Back to the Future, Adelphi Theatre, David Grindrod
Carousel, Regents Park Open Air Theatre, Lucy Casson, James Orange and Jacob Sparrow, Verity Naughton (Children’s Casting Director)
Cinderella, Gillian Lynne Theatre, David Grindrod
Singing in the Rain, Sadler's Wells , Stuart Burt, Richard Johnston and Jacob Sparrow
Best Casting in Theatre (inside M25), sponsored by The Partnership Group
Constellations, Donmar Warehouse at the Vaudeville Theatre - Anna Cooper
Harm, The Bush - Annelie Powell
Romeo & Juliet, National Theatre - Alastair Coomer, Bryony Jarvis-Taylor
Romeo & Juliet, Regents Park Open Air Theatre - Stuart Burt, Annelie Powell
The nominated productions premiered between the 1 September 2020 - 31 August 2021 and have been selected by members of the Casting Directors’ Guild, who will now vote for a winner in each category.
Good luck to all of the nominees!
