Jim Arnold CDG

Jim is a freelance casting director of musicals and plays for West End and regional theatres, and for UK and international tours. He established Jim Arnold Casting in 2018, having previously worked alongside many leading casting directors in television, film and theatre. He was the original Casting Associate for Matilda the Musical at the RSC in Stratford upon-Avon, and Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting from 2012-2018. He is a full member of the Casting Directors’ Guild of Great Britain and Ireland.

Credits include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria); Pretty Woman: The Musical (Savoy); Bonnie & Clyde (Arts Theatre); Great British Bake Off – The Musical (Cheltenham Everyman); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Leeds Playhouse and UK tour); Fisherman’s Friends: The Musical (Hall for Cornwall and UK tour); Rock of Ages (UK tour); When Darkness Falls (UK tour); The Prince of Egypt (Dominion); Romeo and Juliet (Metcalfe Gordon Productions); A Christmas Carol (Dominion); West Side Story (Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester); Curtains (Wyndham’s and UK tour); Bend It Like Beckham (St Lawrence Centre, Toronto); Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter and UK tour); The Mirror Crack’d (Wales Millennium Centre and Wiltshire Creative); Eugenius! (The Other Palace); The Wedding Singer (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, UK tour and South Korea – Best Musical at the 13th Annual Daegu International Musical Festival 2019); Camelot, Girlfriends and A Christmas Carol (LMTO Concert Series 2018); My Name Is Beethoven (workshop); The Rest Is Silence (dreamthinkspeak); Crave and Illusions (Actors Touring Company); DNA (Hull Truck and UK tour); Yerma (Gate and Hull Truck); Pericles (Regent’s Park); Lingua Franca (Finborough and 59East59, NYC); Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams (Finborough); Fragile! and Le Mariage (Arcola) and Artist Descending a Staircase (The Old Red Lion).

Credits as Associate Casting Director for Pippa Ailion Casting include: Wicked (Apollo Victoria, UK and international tours); Street Scene (Teatro Real, Madrid); My Fair Lady (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples); Tiger Bay – The Musical (Wales Millennium Centre – Wales Theatre Award 2018 for Best Ensemble); The Wind in the Willows (London Palladium and UK tour); Funny Girl (Savoy and UK tour); One Love – The Bob Marley Musical (Birmingham Rep); Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace and UK tour); Top Hat (Aldwych and UK tour – Olivier Award 2013 for Best New Musical); The Lion King (Lyceum); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Guys and Dolls and Gypsy (Chichester and West End); Noël (National Opera House, Wexford); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice (Birmingham Rep and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Oh! What a Lovely War (Theatre Royal Stratford East and UK tour); American Pyscho (Almeida); From Here to Eternity (Shaftesbury); The Sound of Music (Regent›s Park); Let It Be (Savoy); Kate Bush – Before the Dawn (Eventim Apollo); Blue Man Group (worldwide).