EP012 - Leader - Steph Pringle on Passion, Intuition and Finding Your Tribe.

Stephanie Pringle is Australia’s most dynamic casting director. With credits spanning across film, tv and big brand advertising, her focus is on emerging talent and advocating for inclusion and authentic representation on screen and stage. 

In the advertising space, Stephanie cut her teeth on big brand campaigns with international directors such as David Fincher (Se7ven, The Social Network), Jean Pierre Jeunet (BAFTA award winner) and Bobby Farrelly (There's Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber) and big name locals like David Deneen (AFI award winner), Paul Middleditch (4 x Gold Cannes Lions) and Rey Carlson (AFI award winner). 

She is on the Women in Theatre and Screen (WITS) Core Committee, finding ways to create gender parity within our industry and in 2018 was the first Casting Director to win B&T’s 30 under 30 Award. She is a proud member of the Casting Guild of Australia, sitting on their Diversity Committee.

She co-found Chicken and Chips Casting with Alison Fowler in 2015 and is mentored by Casting Director and her former colleague, Fiona Dann. Her recently wrapped film projects include:

Pioneering and award-winning Australian film, The Flood, directed by Victoria Wharfe McIntyre;

Award-winning film, Ellie & Abbie (and Ellie’s Dead Aunt) directed by Monica Zanetti (the first Australian film to open 27th Mardi Gras Film Festival);

Deadhouse Dark Anthology created by Enzo Tedeschi;

Blood Sisters directed by Madeleine Dyer;

Factual program Stargazing produced by the BBC;

Chlorine directed by Melissa Anastasi and Deluge directed by Cloudy Rhodes - both premiering at the 2019 Sydney Film Festival. 

Chicken and Chips Casting have also just been nominated for 3 x CGA awards (which is MASSIVE news!)

Stephanie has also begun casting for theatre - beginning with an all female appropriation of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet - produced by the SheShakespeare Theatre Company. 

Stephanie enjoys casting unique and authentic characters and prides herself on being Australia’s most diverse Casting Director.

She is drawn to scripts that allow her to cast blindly and authentically - and, her strike rate speaks for itself. 

Enjoy my conversation with my long-time friend, Steph Pringle on The Mapplife Podcast.

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