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Spotlight is a
Contacts Listings
section, which lists a variety of professionals which provide services to the entertainment industry. Spotlight has been at the forefront of film, television and theatre casting since 1927.
Spotlight was founded in 1927, when stage manager Keith Moss came up with the Spotlight Directory to connect theatre directors and casting directors with actors. His first directory featured 236 performers and 2 dogs.
Rodney Millington joined Spotlight as the managing director, and thanks to his leadership, Spotlight was a casting staple by World War II. It was judged as so essential to this industry (which in itself was significant due to how it bolstered morale) that it was granted an exemption from paper rationing.
After the war, the Seale family took over. Kenneth Seale joined the company as an employee, and later became a director. He was succeeded by his son Nigel, who launched a CD version of Spotlight in 1995, which won a Professional Publishers Association award. The directory was moved online in 1997. Spotlight was registered as an
studios
from Leicester Square to Garrick Street in October 2023.
Spotlight was the publisher of annual directories of entertainment industry professionals from 1927 to 2017 including:
* Actors
* Actresses
* Presenters
* Dancers
* Children & Young Performers
* Graduates
* Stunts
* Contacts
* The Production Directory
Spotlight website
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casting
Casting is a manufacturing process in which a liquid material is usually poured into a mold, which contains a hollow cavity of the desired shape, and then allowed to solidify. The solidified part is also known as a casting, which is ejected or ...
resource in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1927, it has actors, actresses, presenters, dancers, and voice over artists in its database. It is used by thousands of production companies, broadcasters, advertisement agencies, and casting director
In the performing arts industry such as theatre, film, or television, casting, or a casting call, is a pre-production process for selecting a certain type of actor, dancer, singer, or extra to land the role of a character in a script, screenp ...
s. It also hosts a publicContacts Listings
section, which lists a variety of professionals which provide services to the entertainment industry. Spotlight has been at the forefront of film, television and theatre casting since 1927.
History
Spotlight was founded in 1927, when stage manager Keith Moss came up with the Spotlight Directory to connect theatre directors and casting directors with actors. His first directory featured 236 performers and 2 dogs.
Rodney Millington joined Spotlight as the managing director, and thanks to his leadership, Spotlight was a casting staple by World War II. It was judged as so essential to this industry (which in itself was significant due to how it bolstered morale) that it was granted an exemption from paper rationing.
After the war, the Seale family took over. Kenneth Seale joined the company as an employee, and later became a director. He was succeeded by his son Nigel, who launched a CD version of Spotlight in 1995, which won a Professional Publishers Association award. The directory was moved online in 1997. Spotlight was registered as an unlimited company
An unlimited company or private unlimited company is a hybrid company (corporation) incorporated with or without a share capital (and similar to its limited company counterpart) but where the legal liability of the members or shareholders is not ...
in 2010, which does not have to disclose its profits publicly. The final print directory was published in 2017. Nigel Seale died in 2019 aged 78. His daughters Emma and Philippa worked for Spotlight, and his son Ben became chief executive.
Spotlight was acquired by Talent Systems in 2020. In 2021, Matt Hood took over as the managing director. Spotlight moved their offices anstudios
from Leicester Square to Garrick Street in October 2023.
Spotlight Directories
Spotlight was the publisher of annual directories of entertainment industry professionals from 1927 to 2017 including:
* Actors
* Actresses
* Presenters
* Dancers
* Children & Young Performers
* Graduates
* Stunts
* Contacts
* The Production Directory
References
External links
Spotlight website
Directories 1927 establishments in the United Kingdom Casting companies {{UK-corp-stub