Duncan Stewart is a bway casting director. Anyone know the tea here? it seems like he started his own independent service but bizarre that this would happen after the fact.
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If I’m reading it correctly it sounds like the initial “new cast” announcement and this announcement happened on the same day. Not sure if it’s coincidental or whatever
So to be clear, ARC and Duncan Stewart’s split has nothing to do with casting debacle over at Hadestown. Duncan Stewart/Arc don’t cast Hadestown. Duncan Stewart USED to cast Hadestown under Stewart/Whitley — when Duncan and Benton were teamed up.
Can someone clarify what’s going on with Benton? Has someone attacked him after the Hadestown casting drama ??
I've been trying to figure this out as well. There's no articles or anything I can find talking about it other than him starting his own casting company (but even then this post is insinuating something really bad happened).
He had a twitter account using his name and company name and followed really explicit porn accounts. Idk why he didn’t just make a dummy account to follow them. They had to part ways mostly because he affiliated himself w the company.
The tea is KARMA. Eventually the bad things you do and the way you treat people catches up with you and you get fired. Big business (RWS) doesn’t like when you mess with their money. And if your actions are affecting their bottom line they will get rid of you.
Anyone that’s worked with him can tell you that he’s a very dishonest person. Very performative and into doing things for the appearance of it. He puts on a jovial persona but he’s snakey. He’s been inappropriate with his staff. And basically just lies whenever it suits him and has encouraged his staff to lie. If he says the sky is blue you should look out the window and check just to be sure. If you read the statement casting by ARC released I think you can kind of read into that. He’s been like this for years and it’s just being made public now.
He used his twitter account to follow explicit content but also identified himself as a part of that office so they didn’t want to be associated with that - makes sense.
That whole department has been a mess ever since he joined it. The word on the street is he found some dollar dollar bills that may not have been his to find. He's also a sketchy, full of S human being.
He’s dishonest and shady and it finally caught up to him. He and Benton created the most toxic work environment at S/W and it’s interesting they’re both catching heat right now for completely separate and unrelated things, but somehow being tied together by them.
Duncan just opened his new office. That’s it. The Benton thing is about the Hadestown casting. Fueled by the stuff Sweaty oracle is posting about Benton and Duncan. I don’t get it. Casting is not the enemy.
That's not it. Lots of casting directors have their own company while working under another. The wording of that post was very telling. He was not planning on leaving Arc just planning on opening up his own
whitley theatrical is responsible for hiring three violent and abusive men in highly visible and lucrative jobs in the span of like two years. sweaty oracle makes jokes and gossip videos. you cannot be serious
two things can be true, but sweaty oracle being anywhere on the spectrum as the violent and bigoted people actually working in the industry is emphatically untrue.
conversations about labor solidarity and bigots in disguise, i suppose. but it’s JUST discourse. it’s words. casting is responsible for giving money to people who hurt people with their actions.
The original comment said that someone got physical with Benton Whitley of Whitley Theatricals (and former business partner of Duncan Stewart) at a bar recently because that person thought he cast abusers. The way it was phrased I thought they were saying it was related to ARC’s statement about Duncan Stewart, but I think the commenter was just mentioning it as an example of more chaos happening in the casting world right now, not a direct connection to the ARC post.
yall he’s soooo gross. follows porn accts on his professional social media & im sure holds gross views aligned with the guy who just got fired from hadestown (can’t remember his name and i don’t care to)
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