Nancy Bishop, C.S.A. is an Emmy nominated casting director, who works internationally with offices in London and Prague. With nearly one hundred major feature films and television projects amongst her credits, Nancy has cast hundreds of actors throughout Europe, UK and US. Nancy has been retained as a casting director by dozens of major screen producers and directors, including Brad Bird (Mission Impossible IV), Roman Polanski (Oliver) and Ridley Scott (Child 44). She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her casting work on Anne Frank: The Whole Story, ABC / Disney Studios. Nancy is a native of New England and trained as an actor and director at the University of Michigan and the National Theatre Institute. She earned a Master’s of Arts degree in theatre at Northwestern University. Nancy began hercareer as an actor, director and acting teacher in Chicago. Nancy also took Master Class at the ongoing IFFI Goa 2015.

In an interaction at IFFI Goa 2015 Nancy Bishop averred with reservation that the phenomena of Casting Couch does exist at some level. Regarding places looking for talent, she said she takes workshops in various countries and also goes for street casting when a totally unknown face is required. Neither producer nor cast director but it is the financer who has a final say in deciding cast in most of the cases. She concluded by stating that casting being a creative process, the time taken in finalising the cast depends on the project.