Nancy Bishop
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| occupation = Casting director
| website = {{url|https://nancybishopcasting.com/}}
{{url|https://nancybishopcoaching.com/}}
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Nancy Bishop is an American casting director,{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0084147/|title=Nancy Bishop|website=IMDb}} who works internationally from offices in London, United Kingdom and Prague, Czech Republic.{{cite web|url=http://nancybishopcasting.com/ |title=Nancy Bishop Casting – Nancy Bishop Casting |publisher=Nancybishopcasting.com |date= |accessdate=2022-08-08}}
Life and career
A graduate of the University of Michigan and Northwestern University, she worked as a theatre director in Chicago before moving to Prague in the 1990s to direct a play with the Black Box Theatre company[https://web.archive.org/web/20160907144448/https://www.thestage.co.uk/advice/2016/my-first-job-nancy-bishop/ ] and later became the artistic director of the company. When large scale film productions started to shoot in Prague, Nancy developed a casting career and is known as a specialist in European and especially Slavic talent. Studio credits include European casting on Mission Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Bourne Identity (2002), Hellboy (2004) and Snowpiercer (2013), and she has also worked with directors such as Roman Polanski, Peter Greenaway, Neil Burger, and Michael Apted. TV credits include SyFy’s Dune (2000), 12 Monkeys (2015-) and Blood Drive (2017-). She is a national board member at the Casting Society of America,{{cite web|url=http://www.castingsociety.com/about/leadership|title = Leadership}} as well as Chairman of the London branch of CSA. Also a recognized acting coach, she founded the Acting for Film program at the Prague Film School, and teaches classes internationally.{{cite web|url=http://nancybishopcoaching.com |title=Nancy Bishop Coaching – Nancy Bishop |publisher=Nancybishopcoaching.com |date= |accessdate=2022-08-08}} She has penned two books about acting for Bloomsbury Press: Secrets from the Casting Couch and Auditioning for Film and TV.{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/secrets-from-the-casting-couch-9781408113271/ |title=Secrets from the Casting Couch: On Camera Strategies for Actors from a Casting Director: Nancy Bishop: Methuen Drama |website=www.bloomsbury.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905003415/https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/secrets-from-the-casting-couch-9781408113271/ |archive-date=2017-09-05}}{{cite web|url=http://nancybishopcasting.com/book/|title = Nancy Bishop Casting | Book}} She is a member of BAFTA, the International Casting Directors Network, and The European Film Academy.
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External links
- [http://nancybishopcasting.com/ Official webpage]
- [http://nancybishopcoaching.com Coaching webpage]
- [http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/10/05/rexpatriates/ CNN]
- [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/69308818-7c1a-11e2-99f0-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2gkNnQQes Financial Times]
- {{IMDb name|nm0084147}}
- [http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/2348-getting-that-big-break-and-acting-the-part.html Prague Post]
- [http://www.expats.cz/prague/article/interviews/nancy-bishop/ Expats]
- [http://praguemonitor.com/2010/02/09/interview-nancy-bishop Prague Monitor]
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Category:American theatre directors
Category:American women theatre directors