Winners of the Casting Society’s 2025 Artios Awards, which recognize excellence in casting, have been revealed. Casting directors from several Broadway productions, as well as a national tour and film adaptation, were honored at simultaneous ceremonies held on Feb. 12 in New York, Los Angeles and London. The New York ceremony was hosted by Jordan Carlos at the Edison Ballroom, while Janelle James served as host of the West Coast edition at the Beverly Hilton. The London ceremony was hosted by Susan Wokoma at the White City House.
Winners in the Broadway: Comedy or Drama and Broadway: Musical categories were casting directors of the 2024 Best Play Tony Award winner “Stereophonic” (Alaine Alldaffer and Taylor Williams) and Best Musical Tony winner “The Outsiders” (Tara Rubin and Xavier Rubiano), respectively.
Additionally, Henry Russell Bergstein, who cast both the Off-Broadway engagement and subsequent Main Stem transfer of “Oh, Mary!,” was named the victor in the New York Theater: Comedy or Drama category. The winner of the corresponding New York Theater: Musical category was the casting team behind the Off-Broadway mounting of David Ives and Stephen Sondheim’s “Here We Are”: Bernard Telsey and Adam Caldwell, as well as associate casting director Geoff Josselson.
Lindsay Levine and Rachel Hoffman were awarded in the Theater Tours category for their work in casting the national tour of “MJ.”
The aforementioned Telsey received an additional Artios for casting the motion picture adaptation of Broadway’s “Wicked,” alongside Tiffany Little Canfield, associate casting director Ryan Bernard Tymensky and location casting director Tamsyn Manson.
Select theater-related categories can be found below, with winners noted in bold. A comprehensive list of nominees can be found here.
Broadway: Comedy or Drama
“Appropriate”: Jim Carnahan and Alexandre Bleau
“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding”: Kelly Gillespie, David Caparelliotis and Erica A. Hart
“Mother Play”: Will Cantler, Karyn Casl and Charlie Hano (associate casting director)
“Purlie Victorious”: Will Cantler and Destiny Lilly
“Stereophonic”: Alaine Alldaffer and Taylor Williams
“Uncle Vanya”: Daniel Swee
Broadway: Musical
“Cabaret”: Bernard Telsey and Kristian Charbonier
“Hell’s Kitchen”: Kate Murray and Heidi Griffiths
“Here Lies Love”: Tara Rubin and Xavier Rubiano
“Suffs”: Heidi Griffiths and Kate Murray
“The Outsiders”: Tara Rubin and Xavier Rubiano
“Water for Elephants””:Tara Rubin, Claire Burke and Frankie Ramirez (associate casting director)
New York Theater: Comedy or Drama
“Oh, Mary!”: Henry Russell Bergstein
“Russian Troll Farm”: Karyn Casl
“The Comeuppance”: David Caparelliotis
“The Night of the Iguana”:Stephanie Klapper
“The Pianist”: Will Cantler, Destiny Lilly and Charlie Hano (associate casting director)
“The Welkin”: Karyn Casl and Destiny Lilly
New York Theater: Musical
“Fiddler on the Roof”: Geoff Josselson
“Here We Are”: Bernard Telsey, Adam Caldwell and Geoff Josselson (associate casting director)
“(pray)”: Destiny Lilly
“Rent”: Kevin Metzger-Timson
“The Great Gatsby”: Jillian Cimini, Stephen Kopel and Neal Buckley (associate casting director)
“The Lonely Few”: Beth Lipari, Phyllis Schuringa, Craig Burns, Destiny Lilly and Charlie Hano (associate casting director)
Theater Tours:
“Company”: Merri Sugarman and Spencer Gualdoni (associate casting director)
“Funny Girl”: Jim Carnahan and Jason Thinger
“Mamma Mia!”: Kevin Metzger-Timson and Spencer Gualdoni (associate casting director)
“MJ”: Lindsay Levine and Rachel Hoffman
“Mrs. Doubtfire”: Craig Burns
“The Wiz”: Tara Rubin and Olivia Paige West
