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11.01.2023 - 22:31 / deadline.com
One of the top TV casting executives in the business, Meg Liberman, currently EVP and head of casting at CBS Studios, has announced her retirement after 47 years in casting, the last 14 at the studio. The studio’s new casting department structure is expected to be announced shortly.
“As I look back on my 40-plus-year career in casting, I’ve decided that I’m ready to embark on my next adventure and will be retiring,” Liberman said in her farewell note to staff. (You can read it in full below.)
Liberman, an Emmy-winning casting director, joined then-CBS Television Studios in August 2008 as SVP, Casting, and was promoted to EVP in September 2017. During her time at the studio, she has overseen casting of more than 350 projects – series and pilots across broadcast, streaming and cable, including The Good Wife and The Good Fight, the NCIS and Star Trek franchises, Dead To Me, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and Jane the Virgin.
“There is so much to say about her and the brilliant work she has done over her 40-plus-year career, but I think we would all agree that Meg is much more than a casting savant – she is an incredible human being,” CBS President David Stapf said in his company email (You can read it below.) “She is smart, passionate, generous and always unflappable – the epitome of grace under pressure.”
Prior to her joining CBS Studios, Liberman was a casting director for more than 100 series and movies, such as My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Seinfeld, The Comeback, The Larry Sanders Show, Band of Brothers, Fame, From the Earth to the Moon, Pushing Daisies, Alf, That ‘70s Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun and more.
Liberman founded her own company in 1984 before partnering with Marc Hirschfeld from 1987-99 and then with Cami Patton until
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