Richard Pagano

Rick Pagano began his career working at the Pittsburgh Public Theater, as Casting Director, Literary Manager, and Producer of New Plays. He then relocated to Los Angeles to cast for the Mark Taper Forum and Center Theater Group. He left in 1984 to start his own casting company. He has cast more than 70 feature films, including X Men 3, Hotel Rwanda; Rudy and Drugstore Cowboy and more recently, Fool's Game, directed by Sergei Bodrov.His company has also worked in television, casting such hit shows as "The Blacklist," "24", "Picket Fences", and "Chicago Hope", winning two EMMY's for casting. Pagano/Manwiller has also cast over 100 productions for theater around the U.S. including the Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Lincoln Center, and Broadway, including the original Tony-Award-winning production of BIG RIVER.As writer/director, Mr. Pagano has directed his own plays. He also e co-directed (with collaborator Charles Otte) a critically-acclaimed adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's HEDDA GABLER at the Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles, as well as directing his latest play, Treat Yourseld Like Cary Grant.Mr. Pagano has a B.A. from Middlebury College and completed his doctoral studies in dramatic literature from Columbia University. He has taught at UCLA, NYU, Columbia University, and the National Theater Conservatory in Lodz, Poland. Show less «