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American casting director
Nancy Bishop is an American casting director,[1] who works internationally from offices in London, United Kingdom and Prague, Czech Republic.[2]
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[3] 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),[1] and she has also worked with directors such as Roman Polanski, Peter Greenaway, Neil Burger, and Michael Apted.[1] TV credits include SyFy’s Dune (2000), 12 Monkeys (2015-) and Blood Drive (2017-).[1] She is a national board member at the Casting Society of America,[4] 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,[2] and teaches classes internationally.[5] She has penned two books about acting for Bloomsbury Press: Secrets from the Casting Couch and Auditioning for Film and TV.[6][7] She is a member of BAFTA, the International Casting Directors Network, and The European Film Academy.[1]
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