Heather Basten CDG

Heather Basten is an award-winning, BIFA and Royal Television Society-nominated casting director working across film, television, theatre, including West End and major regional productions, and commercials.

Theatre includes: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Old Vic); The Homecoming, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, A Face in the Crowd, Beneatha's Place, Passing Strange (Young Vic); Shifters, Elektra, Barcelona, Self Esteem: A Complicated Woman (Duke of York’s); The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (RSC, Soho Place); Red Pitch (Bush, Soho Place); The Harder They Come (Stratford East); Dracula (Lyric Hammersmith); House of Ife (Bush); Comedy of Spies (Noël Coward).

TV and film includes: Dreaming Whilst Black (A24, Showtime, BBC); Speak No Evil (Universal/Blumhouse); Hoard (BBC Film); Other Mommy (Universal).

Heather is a member of the Casting Directors Guild and the Casting Society of America. She received a Royal Television Society nomination for Best Casting in 2023, followed by BIFA and BBTA nominations in 2024. Her work has also been recognised through honours including Screen International’s Star of Tomorrow, BAFTA Breakthrough, a CSA Artios nomination, and a Casting Directors’ Guild Award win. She is the founder of In The Room Studios, operating across London.