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Alex Curran

Casting Director

Alex has nearly a decade of experience as a casting director and producer; spanning audio drama, podcasts, and video games.

She began her career at SIDE, contributing to major video game titles such as A Plague Tale and Cyberpunk 2077. Alex then moved to Audible, where she cast and produced a diverse slate of projects, ranging from the Peppa Pig Play-A-Long Podcast to The ABC Murders starring Peter Dinklage. Notably, she worked on several award-winning audio dramas, including executive producing Below (Winner: Best Fiction at the Irish Podcast Awards; Nominee: BBC Audio Drama Awards and ARIAs) and leading the casting and executive producing Mrs Wickham (Winner: Best Original Work at the Audie Awards).

Prior to joining Liquid Violet, Alex served as Casting Manager at BBC Studios. There, she oversaw the casting for their radio drama and podcast portfolio, including History’s Toughest Heroes hosted by Ray Winstone, and the critically acclaimed, award-winning series Faith, Hope and Glory.

Q&A with Alex

What do you do at Liquid Violet/what does your job title mean?

I’m an Associate Producer, so I mainly keep the communication with agents and actors, and schedule the recording sessions. I am on the Media & Entertainment side of things, so I mainly work on English dubbing projects and dialogue origination for animation.

What do you enjoy doing when you are not working?

Swing dancing, listening to jazz music, watching true crime series… and any hipster, obscure and uncool activity you can think of.

What is your biggest work-based accomplishment that you are really proud of?

We worked on a super cool animation project this year, but it’s still under NDA so I can’t say anything about it (YET!). No worries though, when it’s out you’ll definitely know as I will be bragging about it. A lot.

What led you to this career?

A series of unfortunate events. No, I’m joking, I love my job! The real story is that I used to watch a lot of shows dubbed in Italian, and I was always the annoying friend that had to comment on the dubbing and the translation all the time. So one time a friend of mine jokingly asked me “Why don’t you do the dubbing yourself then?!”. And, you guessed it, I took it quite seriously and ended up working in audio. Now I am the annoying friend that always has to comment on her own dubbing all the time.

If you could have an unlimited supply of one thing, what would it be?

I would say coffee, but we already have plenty of coffee in the office (do ask our runners to get you a cup when you come visit, it’s quite good coffee!) so I’ll say Aperol Spritz. I do think we should also have unlimited Aperol Spritz at Liquid Violet, but I guess that’s just me!

Doctor Who offers to take you back in time – what historical figure do you most want to meet?

Does Ella Fitzgerald count as an historical figure?

Which team member would you like to swap places with for a day?

Definitely Cosmo (Hannah’s dog). He’s by far the most loved team member.

What form would your daemon take?

Weirdly enough, that’s been a recurring topic of discussion in the office, and the team unanimously agreed that mine should be a Loris. (I don’t know what that says about our team or the idea they have of me?)

What could you give a presentation on with no advance warning?

Asking someone to give a presentation with no advance warning is every introvert’s worst nightmare and should definitely be illegal. I need some time to panic and get anxious before I can give any type of presentation. But thanks for coming to my TED talk anyway!

What is a job that you would be terrible at?!

Take away my morning coffee and I would be terrible at any job, probably.

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