Simone Pereira Hind CDG

Casting Director

Simone's first casting for theatre was for Arthur Miller and Michael Blakemore’s premiere of Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan for the Wyndhams Theatre in 1991. She followed this with Desire for David Lan at the Almeida, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens for Giacomo Capizzano, Our Boys for Jonathan Lewis, Arthur Smith’s Sod for the Edinburgh Fringe and Twelve Angry Men for Harold Pinter with her sister Vanessa Pereira. More recently she has co-cast Life is a Dream, The Scent of Roses, Red Ellen, Macbeth (an undoing) Anna Karenina for the Lyceum Edinburgh, Dracula for the National Theatre of Scotland and The White Card for Northern Stage and Soho Theatre with Anna Dawson. She and Anna are currently casting the new musical stage show, Restless Natives and The Girls of Slender Means for Roxana Silbert. As well as theatre, Simone casts films including Munich: The Edge of War, Elizabeth, Hilary and Jackie and Hamlet and television, including two series of Granite Harbour and the casting in Scotland for 8 series of Outlander.