Casting Directors

Here is how the work lines up. Casting for a production in Canada draws on a talent pool deep enough to crew Hollywood-scale features, premium streaming series, and prestige Canadian features at once, week after week. Our casting directors have senior Toronto pros such as Ricki Maslar (many Canadian Screen Award nominations), John Buchan and Jason Knight (the long-running Suits, Murdoch Mysteries, and Star Trek: Discovery Toronto roster), and Sara Kay, alongside Vancouver leads such as Robin D.

Here is what we have to work with. Cook (Riverdale, Supernatural, and the Pacific-Northwest CW and Netflix slate) and Montreal francophone pro Lucie Robitaille covering UDA-registered talent for Radio-Canada, Club Illico, and Quebec features. Principal pools draw on graduates of the National Theatre School Montreal, Vancouver Film School, Toronto's Second City improv pipeline, the Canadian Film Centre's Actors Conservatory, the Stratford Festival ensemble, the Shaw Festival ensemble, and Soulpepper Toronto — with crossover into theatre talent that often steps onto film and series casts.

Here is the layout. Talent agencies represented in our submission network have Gary Goddard Agency, Oscars, Premier Artists Management, McGowan Management, Da Costa Talent, Agence Ginette Achim, and Agence Roy & Turner Communications, with ACTRA (English-Canada) and UDA (Quebec) dual-area access for any production that touches both anglophone and francophone markets.

Here is how the work shapes up. Sessions run at pro casting rooms across Toronto (Dufflet, Yonge-Eglinton casting spaces), Vancouver (Pacific Backlot, Gastown casting facilities), Montreal (Mile End and Plateau studios), Calgary, Halifax, and Winnipeg, with self-tape pipelines, live video auditions for remote directors, and full recording of in-person reads for callback review.

Here is how it adds up. Bilingual English-French casting is core to the practice: we shortlist actors with logged global credits and authentic regional accents. General Canadian, Quebec French, Acadian French, Newfoundland English, and the Indigenous-language skills sourced through the Indigenous Screen Office for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis roles — and we extend the search to Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi, Tagalog, Tamil, and Spanish fluent performers reflecting the multicultural depth of Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal. Background and crowd-scene casting flows through our AD network.

Here is the run-down. ACTRA Independent Production Agreement, UDA collective agreements, and CPTC, Ontario Creates, Creative BC, SODEC, and Alberta Film Commission compliance are built into our contracting so principal-cast spend qualifies cleanly under the federal CPTC (up to 25%) plus provincial stack through to Canadian Screen Awards, TIFF, VIFF, and Hot Docs delivery, with festival travel lined up through the production legal team.