{{short description|Casting director}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2018}} '''Bernard Telsey''' (born February 8, 1960)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gawker.com/bernard-telsey/ |title=Bernard telsey News, Video and Gossip - Gawker |accessdate=2011-09-15 |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013055750/http://gawker.com/bernard-telsey/ |archivedate=2012-10-13 }}</ref> is an American casting director and co-founder of MCC Theater.
In the 1980s, Telsey 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'', ''Wicked'', ''In the Heights'', ''South Pacific'', ''Hairspray'', ''Rock of Ages'', ''Equus'', ''Legally Blonde'', ''A Catered Affair'', ''The Homecoming'', ''Talk Radio'', ''November'', ''Grey Gardens'', ''The Color Purple'', ''The Rocky Horror Show'', ''All Shook Up'', ''Tarzan'', and ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'', Off-Broadway shows include: ''Reasons to Be Pretty'', ''50 Words'', ''Almost an Evening'', and ''De La Guarda''. * Telsey has cast for several theatre companies including the Atlantic Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, New York Theatre 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'', ''Margin Call'', ''Across the Universe'', ''Dan in Real Life'', ''Pieces of April'', ''Rent''.<ref>American Theatre Wing biography of Bernard Tesley {{cite web|url=http://americantheatrewing.org/biography/detail/bernard_telsey |title=American Theatre Wing - Biography - Bernard Telsey |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 }}</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=PLAYBILL.Com's BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Bernard Telsey - Playbill.com |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 }}</ref>
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