BERNIE TELSEY graduated from New York University in 1981 with a degree in Theater Administration and Acting. In 1983, he co-founded MCC Theater, a non-profit Off-Broadway theater company. They have produced such plays as Bryony Lavery's Frozen (4 Tony nominations including Best Play, and one award for Best Featured Actor), Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone (4 OBIE Awards), Margaret Edson's Wit (1999 Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk Award), Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist), Alan Bowne's Beruit, Peter Hedges' Good As New (OBIE Award), Russell Lee's Nixon's Nixon (OBIE Award), and Neil Labute's The Distance From Here, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig, and Some Girls. Simultaneously, Telsey began working at Simon & Kumin Casting as an assistant, and then as a casting director at Risa Bramon & Billy Hopkins Casting. He opened his own casting office in 1988. Telsey + Company, formerly Bernard Telsey Casting, is responsible for many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions that include The Wedding Singer, Company, Grey Gardens, The Color Purple, Sweeney Todd, Wicked, Hairspray, Rent, Legally Blonde, In the Heights, The Rocky Horror Show, The Fantasticks, The Drowsy Chaperone, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Frozen, High Fidelity, Anna in the Tropics, La Boheme, Moon for the Misbegotten, Aida, Death of a Salesman, Electra, De La Guarda, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Capeman, Wit, and Food Chain. Telsey + Company has also cast for many of the leading New York non-profit theater companies such as MCC Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Signature Theatre, Drama Dept. and New York Theatre Workshop. Regionally, they have cast for The Goodman Theatre, The Hartford Stage Company, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and La Jolla Playhouse. They also cast Peter Sellars' international productions of Peony Pavilion, The Merchant of Venice and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky. Some film credits include Across The Universe, Ira & Abby, Then She Found Me, Keane, Rent, Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April, Camp, Finding Forrester, The Bone Collector, and The Grey Zone. Some television credits include HBO'S Undefeated, the New York Casting of Ugly Betty, MTV's The Game Killers, Whoopi (the series), and many commercials.
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