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'''Bernard Telsey''' (b. February 8, 1960)<ref>http://gawker.com/bernard-telsey/</ref> is a [[casting director]] and co-founder of [[MCC Theater]]. In the 1980s, he began working for [[Simon & Kumin Casting]] as an assistant, then a casting director at [[Risa Bramon]] & [[Billy Hopkins]] Casting. Shows his company has cast include (Broadway) ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]'', ''[[Wicked (musical)|Wicked]]'', ''[[In the Heights]]'', ''[[South Pacific (musical)|South Pacific]]'', ''[[Hairspray (musical)|Hairspray]]'', ''[[Equus (play)|Equus]]'', ''[[Legally Blonde (musical)|Legally Blonde]]'', ''[[A Catered Affair]]'', ''[[The Homecoming]]'', ''[[Talk Radio (play)|Talk Radio]]'', ''[[November (play)|November]]'', ''[[Grey Gardens (musical)|Grey Gardens]]'', ''[[The Color Purple (musical)|The Color Purple]]'', ''[[The Rocky Horror Show]]'', ''[[All Shook Up (musical)|All Shook Up]]'', ''[[Tarzan (musical)|Tarzan]]'', and ''[[Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]]'', ([[Off-Broadway]]) ''[[reasons to be pretty]]'', ''[[50 Words]]'', ''[[Almost an Evening]]'', and ''[[De La Guarda]]''. He has cast for several theatre companies including the [[Atlantic Theatre Company]], [[Signature Theatre]], [[Westport Playhouse]], [[New York Theater Workshop]], [[Drama Dept]], [[ACT in San Francisco]], [[La Jolla Playhouse]], [[McCarter Theatre]], [[Long Wharf Theatre]], [[Hartford Stage]], and [[Goodman Theatre]]. Films cast include ''[[Rachel Getting Married]]'', ''[[Sex and the City (film)|Sex and the City]]'', ''[[Across the Universe (film)|Across the Universe]]'', ''[[Dan in Real Life]]'', ''[[Pieces of April]]'', ''[[Rent (film)|Rent]]''.<ref>[[American Theatre Wing]] biography of Bernard Tesley http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/bernard_telsey</ref>