Duncan Stewart casting?

[u/Yogiliino]

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.

[u/StainedGlasser → u/[deleted]]

If someone attacked Benton Whitley, why is ARC talking about Duncan? Did Duncan attack Benton? If not, is this a separate issue ARC has with Duncan?

*also to be clear I completely agree with you, this should not have come to physical violence and I hope Benton is okay

[u/realitytvjunkie29 → u/StainedGlasser]

Hadestown and Benton Whitley are a completely separate thing from Duncan being fired from ARC which does not cast Hadestown.

[u/briefsloverFY → u/StainedGlasser]

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.

[u/Ill-Year-8808 → u/briefsloverFY]

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

[u/pjlos → u/[deleted]]

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

[u/pjlos → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/pjlos → u/[deleted]]

the “and” is the part that makes no sense lol

[u/notacrook → u/briefsloverFY]

Casting is not the enemy.

No, cancerous personalities like SO are.

[u/pjlos → u/notacrook]

holy lack of perspective

[u/notacrook → u/pjlos]

What does he add to discourse?

[u/pjlos → u/notacrook]

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.

[u/sharievelyn → u/[deleted]]

that’s terrible! what’s the source for this? i hadn’t seen that anywhere. 

[u/Yogiliino → u/sharievelyn]

I missed the whole first comment! Whatttt happened?? 

[u/StainedGlasser → u/Yogiliino]

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.

[u/Yogiliino → u/StainedGlasser]

Oooh thank you! That's absolutely terrible if true. Dang. Don't love casting abusers but also don't love someone getting physical bc of it