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'''Bernard Telsey''' (born February 8, 1960)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/bernard-telsey/ |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-09-15 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013055750/http://gawker.com/bernard-telsey/ |archivedate=2012-10-13 |df= }}</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]]'', ''[[Rock of Ages (musical)|Rock of Ages]]'', ''[[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 Company (New York City)|Signature Theatre]], [[Westport Country Playhouse]], [[New York Theatre Workshop]], Drama Dept, [[American Conservatory TheatreTheater|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]]'', ''[[Margin Call (film)|Margin Call]]'', ''[[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 {{cite web|url=http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/bernard_telsey |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-09-15 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328083142/http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/bernard_telsey |archivedate=2012-03-28 |df= }}</ref>
 
''Rent'' established Telsey as someone who casts unconventional shows, which got him assigned to cast ''[[The Capeman]]''.<ref>[[Simonson, Robert]]. "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Bernard Telsey." ''[[Playbill]]''.com. December 26, 2006. {{cite web|url=http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/104439-PLAYBILLCOMS-BRIEF-ENCOUNTER-with-Bernard-Telsey |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-09-15 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022043422/http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/104439-PLAYBILLCOMS-BRIEF-ENCOUNTER-with-Bernard-Telsey |archivedate=2012-10-22 |df= }}</ref> He is notable for discovering [[Taye Diggs]], [[Idina Menzel]], [[Anthony Rapp]], and [[Jesse L. Martin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cityfile.com/profiles/bernard-telsey |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2011-09-15 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623003936/http://cityfile.com/profiles/bernard-telsey |archivedate=2011-06-23 |df= }}</ref>
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