Jacob Sparrow (Casting Director)

Jacob is a freelance casting director, having previously worked in the NT Casting Department from 2015 to 2019, and as interim Head of Casting for Sydney Theatre Company in 2024.

Selected Theatre includes: 

Private View, Hungry (Soho Theatre), Care, Girl in the Machine (Young Vic), Lord of the Flies, Marie and Rosetta, Choir (Chichester Festival Theatre), Here There are Blueberries, Burn It Down, The Big Life (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noughts and Crosses, Once On This Island, Carousel, Our Town (Regents Park), Consumed (Traverse), Under Milk Wood, Twelfth Night (Theatr Clwyd), Hadestown (Lyric Theatre), Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s), The Confessions (Europe + National Theatre), Orlando (Garrick Theatre), Oklahoma! (Young Vic, Wyndham’s Theatre), As You Like It (Soho Place), The Hot Wing King (Dorfman Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors, The Crucible, Anna Karenina, Much Ado About Nothing (Sheffield Crucible), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2021 tour), Jitney (Old Vic/Headlong/Leeds Playhouse), The Good Person of Szechwan (ETT), Village Idiot (Nottingham Playhouse), You Bury Me (Bristol Old Vic), Black Love (Kiln Theatre), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Leeds/Home Manchester),  LOVE, Faith, Hope and Charity (Dorfman/European tours), The Book Thief (Bolton Octagon), Wuthering Heights (Wise Children), Perspectives (New Views), 2021 Roundabout Season (Paines Plough), City of Angels (Garrick), Hadestown, Pericles, Follies, Amadeus (all Olivier Theatre), LOVE (Dorfman/International Tour/Film), Queer Season, Rutherford and Son, Faith Hope and Charity, Mr Gum, Downstate (National Theatre).