Stephanie Yankwitt

Stephanie Yankwitt (she/her) is the co-founder and principal Casting Director of tbd casting co., which specializes in casting across all mediums, including Film, Television and Theatre. The casting team at tbd co. is strongly committed to inclusion and diversity of all kinds and prioritizes casting every project in a way that truly mirrors the heterogeneity of the real world. Select TV/film credits include 2024 Sundance Grand Jury winning & Official selection of Tribeca Film Festival film In The Summers (Alessandra Lacorazza; Lexicon/Exile), Growing Up (Brie Larson/Culture House, Disney+), and ongoing work with O Positive Films, Culture House and Lexicon NY, helmed by Alexander Dinelaris, with whom Stephanie collaborated on the Academy Award Winning film Birdman, or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). New York Theatre highlights include Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadway), Misha Chowdhury's Obie and Drama Desk Award Winning play Public Obscenities (Off-Broadway at Soho Rep and Theatre for a New Audience and regionally at Woolly Mammoth); and 2024 Pulitzer Finalist Here There Are Blueberries, conceived and created by Tectonic Theater Project, with regional productions at La Jolla Playhouse and Shakespeare Theatre Company, and off-Broadway in NYC at the New York Theatre Workshop.

tbd co. serves as the Resident Casting Office for Soho Rep and Tectonic Theater Project, and ongoing work with National Asian American Theatre Co., La Jolla Playhouse, and Keen Company. Stephanie sits on the Equity in Entertainment Committee of the CSA.

Margaret Dunn

Margaret Dunn is a Casting Director and Dramaturg who started her career in casting at Telsey + Company, where she helped cast everything from Broadway musicals and plays, to national commercials, to Whoopi Goldberg's eponymous sitcom. She then went to work for Julie Tucker, where she was the associate on the long-running FX show Rescue Me.

After several years working in casting, Margaret transitioned into literary, first spending three seasons as Literary Manager at the Williamstown Theater Festival and then working for nearly a decade in the Creative Projects department at The Shubert Organization. During her years at Shubert, the Organization developed and produced over two dozen Broadway shows, including Passing Strange, God of Carnage, Once, School of Rock, and Come From Away.

In 2017, Margaret left The Shubert Organization to re-enter casting.  She and Stephanie Yankwitt started their own office.  The company’s first casting job was the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview, by Jackie Sibblies Drury. Since then, they have cast two additional Pulitzer Prize finalist plays, a Sundance Grand Jury winning film, and a TV show Executive Produced by Academy Award winner Brie Larson.

Tanis Parenteau

Tanis Parenteau is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta (Cree). TV credits include recurring/guest star roles on Billions opposite Paul Giamatti, FBI: Most Wanted opposite Julian McMahon, Designated Survivor opposite Keifer Sutherland, and House of Cards opposite Michael Kelly. NYC: Manahatta (The Public Theater), Smoke (Signature Theater), Glenburn 12 WP (59E59 Theaters), Material Witness (La Mama). Regional: Manahatta (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Tanis narrates audiobooks for Penguin Random House, Audible, Hachette and Simon & Schuster. Her production company, TDEP Productions, focuses on uplifting contemporary Native stories and smashing harmful Native stereotypes.

She is currently developing multiple Native-led series and features. Tanis is on the SAG-AFTRA National Native Americans Committee, a member of the North American Indigenous Center of New York and the Tribal Liaison at AlterTheater. Tanis has assisted and consulted on casting projects at Soho Rep, The Gotham Film and Media Institute, Tectonic Theater Project, Labyrinth Theater, New Dramatists, Nickelodeon and Playwright’s Center. She also consults on casting Native American roles, cultural consultants and is building a robust roster of Native artists including actors, writers, directors, stage managers, consultants, designers and crew.

Nia Smith

Nia is a casting assistant and long-time theater educator hailing from the DC metro area. She was the 2019-2020 Education Apprentice at McCarter Theatre Center, where she worked with students aged three to ninety-two years old, and was a visiting teaching artist at American University. Since then, Nia has served as the Education and Community Engagement Fellow at New York Theatre Workshop and could most recently be found working as the 2022-2023 Con Edison Casting Fellow at Playwrights Horizons. She is so excited to join the tbd casting team and continue forward in her pursuit of creating welcoming, imaginative, and safe spaces for artists.