Marc Frankum is a casting director working mostly in live theatre, Marc has cast numerous plays and musicals in the West End and for many theatres and producers throughout the UK. Marc is also the in-house casting director for the English Theatre Frankfurt and a member of the Casting Directors’ Guild.
brief biog
Marc originally trained as an actor at Drama Centre London before becoming a Casting Director in 2009. Marc is passionate about all genres of theatre, from Shakespeare to modern musicals. Marc has worked on some award wining shows including ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ which won the Olivier award for Best Entertainment & Family Production in 2013.
CASTING DIRECTOR CREDITS
Marc has cast ‘Bang Bang’ (Northcott Theatre/UK Tour), ‘The History Boys’ (Grand Theatre Wolverhampton), ‘God of Chaos’, ‘The Kneebone Cadillac’ (Theatre Royal Plymouth), ‘Cinderella’, ‘Aladdin’ (Theatre Royal Norwich), ‘Moll Flanders’, ‘Pieces of String’, ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, ‘Clybourne Park’, ‘Noises Off’, ‘Macbeth’ (Mercury Theatre, Colchester), ‘Dracula’ (Touring Consortium Theatre Company), ‘Secret Life of Humans’, ‘The Effect’, ‘Sweeney Todd’, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’, ‘The Children’, ‘Apologia’, ‘Cabaret’, ‘The Lion in Winter’, ‘Disgraced’, ‘The Glass Menagerie’, ‘Jekyll & Hyde the Musical’, ‘Hand to God’, ‘Pygmalion’, ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, ‘Handbagged’, ’Spamalot’, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, ‘Death and the Maiden’, ‘Other Desert Cities’, ‘Ghost, The Musical’, ‘Strangers on a Train’ (The English Theatre Frankfurt), ‘The Full Monty’ 2018/19 & 2016/17 (UK Tour), ‘Tonight at 8.30’ (Jermyn Street Theatre), ‘The Band’ (UK Tour), ‘I Capture the Castle’ (Palace Theatre Watford/Bolton Octagon), ‘Out Of Order’ (UK Tour), ‘Hand to God’ (West End), ‘Twelfth Night’ (Shakespeare’s Globe), ‘Barbarians’ (Tooting Arts Club), ‘When Blair had Bush and Bunga’ (Pleasance One), ‘Dial M for Murder’ (UK Tour), ‘The Duck House’ (West End/Tour), ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’ (West End/Chichester Festival Theatre/The Children’s Touring Partnership), ‘Stepping Out’ (Salisbury Playhouse) ‘The Mousetrap’ (60th Anniversary Tour), ‘The Woman In Black’ (West End), ‘An Inspector Calls’ (UK Tour), ‘Mother Adam’ (Jermyn Street Theatre), ‘The Hairy Ape’ (Southwark Playhouse) ‘End of the Rainbow’ (UK Tour), ‘Sign of the Times’ (Duchess Theatre), ‘Calendar Girls’ (UK Tour), ‘Far Away’ (Bristol Old Vic) and ‘The History Boys’ (Theatre Royal Bath/West Yorkshire Playhouse) and was casting associate on ‘The Bodyguard’ (West End), ‘Elf, The Musical’ (Plymouth/Dublin) and casting consultant on ‘Love on the Links’ (Salisbury Playhouse), ‘The Dark Room’ (Theatre 503), ‘Chinese Whispers’ (Greenwich Theatre).
CASTING DIRECTOR COLLABORATIONS
Marc has worked alongside fellow Casting Director Sarah Bird on series 6 of ‘Hustle’, the BBC One Wales series ‘Crash’, ‘Upstart Crow’ (West End), ‘Sleepless a Musical Romance’ (West End), ‘Uncle Vanya’ (West Yorkshire Playhouse), ‘Forgotten Voices’ (Edinburgh Festival), ‘Perfect Nonsense’ (West End/UK Tour), ‘All My Sons’ (Regents Park), ‘Sweet Bird of Youth’ (Old Vic), ‘Race’ (Hampstead Theatre), ‘The Full Monty’ (West End), ‘Fortune’s Fool’ (The Old Vic), ‘The Ladykillers’ (West End) ‘The 39 Steps’ (West End/UK Tour), ‘The Way of the World’ (Sheffield Theatres), ‘The Madness of George III’ (Theatre Royal Bath/West End), ‘Eden End’ (ETT), ‘Hobson’s Choice’ (Sheffield Theatres), ‘Cause Celebre’ (The Old Vic), ‘Me & My Girl’ (Sheffield Theatres), ‘An Ideal Husband’ (West End), ‘Blithe Spirit’ (Theatre Royal Bath), ‘When We Are Married’ (West End) ‘Deathtrap’ (West End), ‘Calendar Girls’ (West End & UK Tours), ‘The Rivals’ (Theatre Royal Bath/West End), ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’ (Young Vic), ‘Pride and Prejudice’ (Theatre Royal Bath), ‘The Caretaker’ (Trafalgar Studios), ‘The Crucible’ (Regents Park), ‘Juliet and her Romeo’ (Bristol Old Vic), ‘End of the Rainbow’ (Northampton), ‘Rainman’ (UK Tour), ‘The Rise and Fall of Little Voice’ (West End), ‘Speaking in Tongues’ (West End), ‘Mrs Klein’ (Almedia Theatre), ‘Bedroom Farce/Miss Julie’ (Rose Theatre Kingston).
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