Stephanie Levinson, Jonathan Bluman and Lindsey Kasabian will head teams at the various Disney-owned studios under Sharon Klein.
Six months after Disney's acquisition of Fox, the new Disney TV Studios has solidified its casting executive structure.This Is Us, Modern Family — has been promoted to lead the 20th Century Fox Television casting team. Meanwhile, vp Jonathan Bluman will run the casting team at ABC Studios and vp Lindsey Kasabian will oversee Fox 21 Television Studios.
The three execs will lead the casting efforts of all series and pilots produced by their respective studio labels, managing a team of casting executives and setting casting strategy. Like FX executive vp of casting Michael Katcher, they'll all report to executive vp of casting for Disney TV Studios and FX Entertainment Sharon Klein.
"With the volume of programming we are producing and as my responsibilities have expanded, it became clear that we needed seasoned casting executives leading our efforts at each studio," said Klein. "Stephanie was the first person I thought of to take on a leadership role in this new casting structure. She’s a fantastic executive with superb taste, poise and judgement and has earned the respect and admiration of everyone from showrunners to agents to executives.
Bluman, a former WME agent, previously served as vp of talent and casting for the ABC Entertainment/ABC Studios casting department. In the role, he worked on a number of projects including ABC’s
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