A boutique theater and film casting company based in New York City
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Gem of the Ocean
GEM OF THE OCEAN was presented at the Walter Kerr Theatre under of the direction of Kenny Leon. The cast members were; Phylicia Rashad, Anthony Chisolm, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Lisa Gay Hamilton, John Earl Jelks, and Raynor Scheine. GEM OF THE OCEAN received five Tony Award Nominations including Best New Play.
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Jitney
JITNEY was presented at Second Stage Theatre under the direction of Marion McClinton. The cast included: Anthony Chisolm, Paul Butler, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Barry Shabaka Henley, Willis Burke ll, Russell Hornsby, Carl Lumbley, Michole Briana White, and Leo V. Finney lll. JITNEY won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play.
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Radio Golf
Harriet cast the original production of RADIO GOLF presented at Yale Repertory Theatre under the direction of Timothy Douglas. The cast included: Phylicia Rashad, Anthony Chisolm, James A Williams, Richard Brooks, John Earl Jelkes, and Michelle Shay. The original cast toured to the Mark Taper Forum, The Huntinton Theatre Co., and the McCarter Theatre under the direction of Kenny Leon. It opened at the Cort Theatre on Broadway with Tanya Pinkins and Harry Lennix. RADIO GOLF won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. It received several Tony Award nomination including Best New Play, and Best Featured Actor in a Play for both Anthony Chisolm and John Earl Jelkes. It was also nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play
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Secret Order
SECRET ORDER was presented at 59 E 59th Street Theatre under the direction of Charles Towers. The cast included: Larry Pine, Dan Coleman, Jessi Campbell, and Kenneth Tigar
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Thunder Knocking on the Door
THUNDER KNOCKING ON THE DOOR was presented at the Minetta Lane Theatre under the direction of Oscar Eustis. The cast included Leslie Uggams, Chuck Cooper, Peter Jay Fernandez, Marva Hicks and Michael McElroy
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New Light Theater Project
Gama Valle has cast several plays for New Light Theatre Project in New York, NY. Selected production photos pictured here...
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Alliance Theater Company
Harriet Bass Casting has cast over fifty plays for the Alliance Theatre Company in Atlanta, Georgia. The selected production photos pictured here include: "By the Way Meet Vera Stark", directed by Leah Gardner, "In Love and Warcraft", directed by Laura Kepley, "Good People" directed by Susan Booth, "Warrior Class", directed by Eric Ting, "Fairytale lives of Russian Girls", directed by Eric Rosen, "Bike America" directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, "Tall Girls", directed by Susan Booth, and "What I Learned in Paris", directed by Susan Booth. Other favorite casting projects include: "Tiger Style", "Blues for an Alabama Sky", "The Whipping Man", "In the Red and Brown Water", and "The North Plan".
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Arizona Theatre Company
Harriet Bass Casting has cast several projects at Arizona Theatre Company operating in both Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona. Selected production photos pictured here are: "The Kite Runner" , directed by David Ira Goldstein, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", directed by Lou Bellamy and "The Mountaintop", also directed by Lou Bellamy. Other productions at Arizona Theatre Company include: "Somebody/Nobody", "A Raisin in the Sun", and " Jitney".
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Asolo Repertory Theatre
Harriet has just started casting for the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida this season. Production photos pictured here are "All the Way", directed by Emily Sophia Knapp and "Disgraced", directed by Michael Donald Edwards.
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CenterStage
Harriet Bass Casting has worked on several projects with Center Stage in Baltimore, Maryland. Selected production photos pictured here are: "Things of Dry Hours", directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah and "Ah Wilderness", directed by Melia Bensussan . She has also cast "The Three Sisters", directed by Irene Lewis, and "An Ideal Husband" also directed by Irene Lewis
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Dallas Theatre Center
For many years, under a previous artistic team, Harriet was the New York casting director for the Dallas Theatre Center in Dallas, Texas. She is pleased to have recently renewed her relationship with the theatre under the present artistic team. Recent production photos pictured here are: "A Raisin in the Sun", directed by Sarah Rasmussen, "Sense and Sensibility", directed by Tre Garrett, and "Deferred Action", directed by David Lozano.
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Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Here are shots of Harriet’s first season with Denver Center for the Performing Arts. [one_third padding=”0 15px 0 10px”] “Oklahoma!” ...
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Hartford Stage Company
Harriet has been a frequent returning casting director for the Hartford Stage Company in Hartford, Connecticut. Production photos pictured here are; “Snow Falling on Cedars”, directed by Jeremy Cohen, “Dying City”, directed by Max Williams, “The Bluest Eye”, directed by Eric Ting and “The Good Body”, directed by Tracy Brigden. Other favorite projects are: "Gee's Bend", "Gem of the Ocean", and "Mahalia. Harriet has also cast several seasons of their new play reading series, "Brand NEW".
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Humana Festival at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville
Harriet Bass Casting frequently works with the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. Selected production photos pictured here are: "Moot the Messenger", directed by Marion McClinton, "How We Got On ", directed by Wendy Goldberg, and "Cry Old Kingdom", directed by Tim Dugdale. Her additional credit at the Humana Festival was, "Hazard County", directed by Chris Coleman.
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Merrimack Repertory Theatre
Harriet Bass Casting has been the primary New York casting office for Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Lowell, Massachusetts for over ten years. Selected production photos pictured here are: "Year Zero", directed by Kyle Fabel. " Oceanside", directed Melia Bensussen, "Fabuloso", directed by Kyle Fabel, "Heroes", directed by Carl Forsman. "Stella and Lou", directed Charles Towers, and "The Realness", directed by Wendy Goldberg. Other favorite projects include: "The Outgoing Tide", "Tally's Folly", "Glengarry Glen Ross". "The Persian Quarter", "Memory House", "Mrs. Whitney", "The Exceptionals", and "The Last Days of Micky and Jean".
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Portland Center Stage
Harriet Bass Casting regularly works with Portland Stage Company in Portland Oregon. She has been their exclusive New York Casting director for over fifteen years. On numerous occasions her cast members have been winning recipients and nominees of their annual Drammy Awards in Outstanding Actor in a Play. Selected production photos pictured here are: "Aint Misbehavin", "Sweeney Todd", "Shakespeare's Amazing Cymbeline", Anna Karenina", "Fiddler on the Roof", and "Dreamgirls", all directed by Chris Coleman, "On Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" and "The North Plan", both directed by Rose Riordan, "Chinglish", directed by May Adrales, and "Venus in Fur", directed by Nancy Keysotone. Other favorite casting projects include: "Great Expectations", "Stupid F*Cking Bird", "Other Desert Cities", "Vanya, Sonia, Masha And Spike", and "Oklahoma".
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Syracuse Stage Company
Harriet Bass Casting has worked on numerous productions at Syracuse Stage in Syracuse ,New York. She has been their exclusive New York casting director for the past past six seasons. Selected production photos pictured here are: "The Glass Menagerie, directed by Tim Bond, "Hairspray" directed by Bill Fennelly, "In the Next Room", directed by May Adrales, "The Piano Lesson, directed by Erin Craft, and "Mountaintop", directed by Tim Bond. Other favorite casting projects include; "Peter Pan", "Scorched", "The Christians", "The Brothers Size", "Blithe Spirit", "Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Story" "To Kill a Mockingbird", "Chinglish" and "The Whipping Man".
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Virginia Stage Company
Harriet Bass Casting has been the exclusive New York casting office for the Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk, Virginia for many years. She has cast close to fifty plays for them in that time. The selected production photos pictured here are: "The Taming of the Shrew", "A Christmas Carol" "Honky Tonk Angels", "The Last Five Years", all directed by Patrick Mullins, "The Great Gatsby", "The Other Place", "God of Carnage" all directed by Chris Hanna ", and "The Fantasticks, directed by Jose Zayas. Other favorite casting projects include: "Swingtime Salute", "Grounded", "Breath and Imagination", "All My Sons", "Peter and the Starcatcher", and "The Underpants".
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Gravesend
GRAVESEND is a story of four friends from the ghetto who get involved in a careless prank which goes badly wrong. As their weekend spirals out of control, they try to "fix" the situation with criminal acts that only succeed in making things worse. It is presented by Oliver Stone and directed by Salvatore Stabile. It is produced by Daniel Edelman, Mark Ross, Toni Ross, and Salvatore Stabile. It starred Thomas Brandise, Tom Molloy, Michael Parducci, Tony Tucci, and Sean Quinn
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Pushing Hands
PUSHING HANDS was the award winner director Ang Lee's first feature film. It is the first film in his "Father Knows Best" trilogy which included THE WEDDING BANQUET and EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN. It was first released in Taiwan but got a US release after the success of other two films in the trilogy.