Casting Directors’ Guild presents Special Award to Charlotte Bevan for Outstanding Contribution to Casting
Ahead of its inaugural Casting Awards on Tuesday 12 February 2019, the Casting Directors’ Guild (CDG)announces Charlotte Bevan as the recipient of its Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Casting. Charlotte is the Director of the Creative Diversity Project at the National Theatre.
The CDG explains: “Charlotte’s tireless determination to advance inclusivity and representation on all of our stages, to provoke as well as enable theatre makers to effect change, has had a remarkable influence on our industry. It is for this reason that we are proud to award Charlotte Bevan the CDG Award for Outstanding Contribution to Casting.”
After setting up and leading the Casting Department at Shakespeare’s Globe, in 2012 Charlotte joined the Casting Department at the National Theatre. In 2016 she shifted her focus from casting in order to establish the National Theatre’s Creative Diversity Project, which addresses all elements of Creative Diversity at the NT – gender equality, ethnicity, disability and LGBT+ representation amongst actors, directors, writers and other creatives.
In partnership with Spotlight she created ProFile, an online video database for professional d/Deaf and disabled actors to showcase their talents. When ProFile launched in 2017 it hosted the work of 20 actors; two years later it is home to nearly 200 actors and has been viewed by over 4000 industry users in 49 countries around the world. A large number of the actors have been successfully auditioned and cast through the site in film, TV and theatre roles across the UK. This year it is extending its reach by adding a young people’s section and journeying across the UK to meet and film actors locally.
During her 10-year career in Casting, Charlotte cast over 100 shows, including Henry IV and V, Richard III and Twelfth Night (Shakespeare’s Globe/West End/Broadway) and at the National Theatre, nut, Dara, the James Plays trilogy, Another World: Losing Our Children To Islamic State, her final show as a casting director was Angels in America (NT/Broadway).
The CDG in partnership with Spotlight presents the first Casting Awards on Tuesday 12 February 2019 at Ham Yard Hotel London. This new event will be the first UK Awards ceremony to celebrate the significant achievements of casting in the fields of Theatre, TV, Film and Commercials.