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105. A Modern Class of Casting Visionaries- Featuring Olissa Rogers!
This month we are delighted to welcome Olissa Rogers to our Modern Class of Casting Visionaries!
Olissa Rogers is an Emmy Award-winning freelance Casting Director. She began her career in Germany in 2008, focusing on TV series until 2016. After moving to the UK, she worked as a casting assistant to Jeremy Zimmermann and later Kharmel Cochrane. In 2019, she became an associate to Theo Park on major TV projects like Ted Lasso, followed by roles with Amy Hubbard and Fiona Weir. Since April 2022, Olissa has led her own casting projects, including Royal Mob, African Queens, and My Friend Misty.
In this episode we discuss...
- How she didn’t want to go to uni in Germany so moved to Munich to join a directing program and got put in casting
- Casting in Germany and how a fate meeting with Jeremy Zimmerman ended up moving her to London
- Any differences she sees between casting in London and German
- We dive into the casting of Ted Lasso. Who was attached and who auditioned.
- What creating a football team was like and how the roles shifted and changed to suit the actors/characters
- What she has on the horizon
- What it’s been like be a small part I developing the global CSA chapter
- Her talent crushes
- How she finds and cultivates talent
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