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Warner Bros. Television is promoting from within.

Clancy Collins White, who has been with the studio for more than 20 years, is adding to her portfolio after she was promoted to President, Creative Affairs. Collins White, who was previously EVP, Creative Affairs, will now oversee casting and research at the studio.

The company has also promoted casting chief Mele Nagler.

It is a new role for both Collins White and Warner Bros. TV. She will continue to oversee scripted program development — including dramas, comedies and limited series – but will now oversee casting, led by Nagler, and Audience & Content Research and Insights, headed by Jeanne Cotton. Adrienne Turner will continue to lead comedy development and Parul Agrawal will continue to run drama development, both reporting to Collins White.

Current programming, led by Vicki Dummer, will be overseen by Channing Dungey, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Television Group and Wbd US Networks.

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Warner Bros. Television has upped Clancy Collins White to the newly established position of president of Creative Affairs. In this role, Collins White will oversee the studio’s TV production unit for live-action scripted programming, which will include dramas, comedies and limited series, and will add oversight when it comes to casting and research.

Collins White will report directly to Channing Dungey, the newly appointed chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group and Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks. While Collins White will oversee the creative side of the studio, Brett Paul will continue to oversee the business side. Paul was named president of Warner Bros. Television Group as well as COO of U.S. Networks in December of last year. In this role, he is also responsible for oversight of WB’s unscripted television as well as its TV animation studios.

Collins White will also oversee Wbtv’s Comedy Development,...

Warner Bros. Television has promoted veteran executive Clancy Collins White to the newly created position of president of creative affairs.

In the role, Collins White will continue to oversee scripted programming development for Wbtv while also adding oversight of casting and research. She reports to Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group and Wbd US Networks.

“Warner Bros Television has been my home for more than 20 years, and I am incredibly honored by this opportunity and excited to take on this new role,” Collins White said. “I want to extend my deepest thanks to Channing for her mentorship and unwavering support. I look forward to continuing our work together alongside our amazingly talented teams and the best storytellers in the business.”

In addition, Wbtv casting head Mele Nagler has been promoted to executive vice president of that department. She will now report to Collins White and continues...

Warner Bros. TV is promoting two veteran executives.

Clancy Collins White has been named president creative affairs, a new position at the studio that will add casting and research to her purview. Casting chief Mele Nagler, meanwhile, has been upped to executive vp, reporting to Collins White.

“Clancy has been an essential part of Warner Bros. Television’s success for more than two decades, and I am thrilled that she will now take on an even more prominent leadership role. Storytelling is at the heart of everything we do, and Clancy’s taste, collaborative spirit, passion for making great television, and dedication to our artistic partners make her the ideal creative leader for our future,” said Channing Dungey, chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Television Group and Wbd U.S. Networks. “Mele has played an invaluable part in putting together stellar casts for our highest-profile current series. I’m delighted...

Veteran Warner Bros. Television casting executive Findley Davidson has departed the studio after 15 years, most recently as head of New York casting. She has launched her own, New York-based independent casting office, Findley Davidson Casting, which will offer casting services for film, television, and theatre.

Davidson, who joined Wbtv in 2008, was made VP and head of the studio’s New York casting office in 2019, following the retirement of VP Meg Simon after a 40-year career. I hear Wbtv will maintain some casting presence in New York though it is not expected to be at the level of the past. The studio’s parent Warner Bros. Discovery has been in a cost-cutting mode post-merger, and casting is one of the areas where the company has scaled back, including the elimination of the HBO Max casting department in favor of adopting HBO’s model that involves using casting directors on individual shows.

Warner Bros Television is cutting more than a quarter of its workforce as part of its parent company’s drive to cut costs.

The studio is cutting 26 of personnel, a total of 125 positions, across scripted, unscripted and animation.

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Deadline revealed Monday that cuts would likely come today and we revealed earlier that Warner Bros. TV was shutting down digital production arm Stage 13 and its Warner Bros Television Workshop – a key plank in finding and mentoring new and diverse talent.

These cuts come with a number of structural changes put in place by chairman Channing Dungey, particularly in unscripted and animation. She...

Scott Genkinger and Deborah George have split with Junie Lowry-Johnson Casting and launched their own Studio City office. Genkinger is currently casting the NBC pilot “The Mysteries of Laura,” which follows the life and relationships of a female homicide detective on. Other NBC pilots with casting directors attached includes “A to Z,” a comedy about modern dating as it’s viewed from the staff of an online dating company, to be cast by Lisa Ystrom; 1960s-set “Mission Control,” about a strong woman confronting a macho astronaut in the race to land on the moon, (Julie Tucker and Ross Meyerson will cast out of New York and Susie Farris out of Los Angeles); and the comedy “Ellen More or Less,” about a formerly obese woman who has recently shed weight, being cast by L.A.-based Brett Greenstein and Collin Daniel. Meanwhile, the drama “Coercion,” about a man who discovers his parents are former spies,...

“Actors are artists,” says New York casting director David Caparelliotis, who is also a former actor. “You have to understand how hard and intense it is, and you have to respect the talent. There are times when you're sitting and watching an audition, when you go, ‘I fucking love actors. I love what I do.’” He adds that his career as a casting director has given him “an amazing opportunity to bring a group of artists together with the same goal” for every Broadway, Off-Broadway, or regional theater project he works on.With his casting partner Mele Nagler at MelCap Casting, Caparelliotis cast the recent Broadway productions of “Fences” with Denzel Washington, “The House of Blue Leaves” with Ben Stiller and Edie Falco, and “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo” with Robin Williams, as well as the current Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Andrew.

"The casting director is on the actor's side, both selfishly and unselfishly," says CD David Caparelliotis. "Selfishly, because I have to get my job done. I don't want to have 20 actors come in and be terrible, so I don't have anyone to bring to the director the next day. I'm only as good as the people I can bring in."Caparelliotis has become one of New York's most successful casting directors by consistently finding the right actors for Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional theater productions. He won an Artios Award last year for casting "Good People," starring Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan, and was nominated for three Artios Awards in 2010, for his work on "Fences," "The Royal Family," and "Lend Me a Tenor." Prior to opening his casting office, MelCap Casting, with fellow CD Mele Nagler in the fall of 2007, Caparelliotis was a casting director for Manhattan Theatre Club...

Casting director Mele Nagler scoured the world trying to find a boy who could believably portray 11-year-old Oskar Schell, the precocious protagonist in "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's novel. Over the course of the film, Oskar goes through a complex, keenly felt journey, so Nagler and director Stephen Daldry knew they needed an actor who had just the right combination of razor-sharp intellect and emotional availability. "Oskar is smarter than most adults," says Nagler. "He's an astute observer of the world. At the same time, the character is going through a tremendous loss—a loss that even your emotionally evolved adult would have a hard time going through. How do you find a child who can access that?"At one point, Nagler recalls, she was getting audition tapes "by the truckload" from places as far-flung as Canada, England, and Australia. In addition to employing the usual casting.

Playwright Tony Kushner, producer Marcy Carsey, and casting director Ellen Chenoweth will be honored by the Casting Society of America at this year's Artios Awards. The nominees for this year's awards—to be presented Nov. 1 in dual ceremonies at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and the American Airlines Theatre in New York—were announced today. Kushner, Carsey, and Chenoweth will be presented with special awards. The complete list of nominees follows.Big budget feature, drama"Avatar," Margery Simkin and Mali Finn (initial casting)"Inglourious Basterds," Johanna Ray and Jenny Jue"Nine," Francine Maisler"Sherlock Holmes," Reg Poerscout-Edgerton"Shutter Island," Ellen Lewis and Carolyn Pickman (location casting)Big budget feature, comedy"Couples Retreat," Sarah Halley Finn and Randi Hiller"Date Night," Donna Isaacson"Julie and Julia," Francine Maisler"The Proposal," Amanda Mackey Johnson, Cathy Sandrich Gelfond, and Angela Peri (location casting)"Valentine's Day," Deborah Aquila and Tricia WoodFeature,...

Jim Carnahan, the Roundabout Theatre Company's director of artistic development, was a double winner at the 23rd annual Artios Awards, which the Casting Society of America announced at its awards dinner Monday night at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

Carnahan took the prize for musical theater casting for Spring Awakening and shared the comedy theater prize with Mele Nagler for their work on Prelude to a Kiss. Daniel Swee took the award for dramatic theater casting for The Coast of Utopia, while Stephanie Klapper earned off-Broadway theater honors for An Oak Tree.

Mike Nichols, whose work covers stage, film and TV, was presented with the group's Apple Award for lifetime contributions to the New York entertainment community .

In the feature film categories, the top honors went to the casting teams responsible for Dreamgirls in the dramatic category, Night at the Museum for comedy, Smokin' Aces for action/horror and Half Nelson for independent film.

The top episodic TV prizes went to Rescue Me for dramatic episode casting, Entourage for comedy, Brothers & Sisters for dramatic pilot and Ugly Betty for comedy pilot.