Susan Shopmaker, Casting Director

Susan Shopmaker is one of independent film's most respected casting directors, with over 20 years of feature film credits to her name. In 2018 she won the Casting Society of America's Artios Award for Eliza Hittman's Beach Rats and previously won an Artios Award for Sean Durkin’s acclaimed Sundance drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, and was also nominated for Darius Marder’s Academy Award winning film Sound Of Metal, Goat (Andrew Neel), James White (Josh Mond), Afterschool (Antonio Campos), and Disney's Enchanted.

In 2021-2022 Susan cast Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, Alonso Ruizpalacios’s La Cocina, Michel Franco’s Memory & Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw .

She also cast Paul Schrader’s First Reformed, The Card Counter and worked on his latest,  The Master Gardener. Susan also cast John Cameron Mitchell’s cult classic Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Slattery's God's Pocket & Maggie Moore(s), Michel Franco’s Chronic (Cannes 2015 Award Winner & 2017 Spirit Award Nominee), Franco’s Sundown (2021), and The Nest for Sean Durkin.

Television work includes the Amazon series Dead Ringers and both seasons of Terence Nance’s Random Acts Of Flyness for HBO.

Other awards: Ensemble acting award for Carlos Puga’s All That I Am at SXSW 2013 and Best actress award to entire cast of women in Lance Edmand’s Bluebird at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

Selected Filmography

The Holdovers
2023 • Alexander Payne
With Paul Giamatti, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa

The Iron Claw
2023 • Written & Directed by Sean Durkin
With Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons

Memory
2023 • Written & Directed by Michel Franco
With Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber

The Card Counter
2021 • Written & Directed by Paul Schrader

The Nest
2020 • Written & Directed by Sean Durkin

Grand Army
2020 • (Netflix Series) Created by Katie Capiello

Sound of Metal
2019 • Written & Directed by Darius Marder

Random Acts of Flyness
2018 • Written & Directed by Terence Nance

First Reformed
2017 • Written & Directed by Paul Schrader

Where is Kyra? 
2017 • Written & Directed by Andrew Dosunmu
With Kiefer Sutherland, Michelle Pfeiffer

Beach Rats
2017 • Written & Directed by Eliza Hittman
With Harris Dickinson, Kate Hodge, Madeline Weinstein

Goat
2016 • Directed by Andrew Neel
With Ben Schnetzer, Nick Jonas, Gus Halper, James Franco
Cannes 2015 Award Winner

Tramps
2016 • Written & Directed by Adam Leon
With Callum Turner, Grace van Patten, Michal Vondel, Mike Birbiglia

Imperium
2016 • Directed by Daniel Ragussis
With Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts

Chronic
2015 • Written & Directed by Michel Franco
With Tim Roth, Michael Cristofer, Robin Bartlett, David Dastmalchian,

James White
2015 • Written & Directed by Josh Mond
With Christopher Abbott, Cynthia Nixon, Scott Mescudi

Those People
2015 • Written & Directed by Joey Kuhn
With Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman

Listen Up Philip
2014 • Written & Directed by Alex Ross Perry
With Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce

God’s Pocket
2014 • Directed by John Slattery
With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins

That Awkward Moment
2014 • Written & Directed by Tom Gormican
With Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller

Bluebird
2013 • Written & Directed by Lance Edmands
With Amy Morton, John Slattery, Louisa Krause

King Kelly
2012 • Written & Directed by Andrew Neel
With Louisa Krause, Libby Woodbridge, Roderick Hill

Martha Marcy May Marlene
2011 • Written & Directed by Sean Durkin
With Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes

American Violet
2008 • Directed by Tim Disney. Written by Bill Haney
With Nicole Beharie, Will Patton, Alfre Woodard

Afterschool
2008 • Written & Directed by Antonio Campos
With Ezra Miller, Jeremy Allen White, Emory Cohen

Shortbus
2006 • Written & Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
With Sook-Yin Lee, Peter Stickles, PJ DeBoy, Jay Brannan

Tanner on Tanner
2004 • Directed by Robert Altman.  Written by Garry Trudeau
With Cynthia Nixon, Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed

Party Monster
2003 • Written & Directed by Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
With Macaulay Culkin, Wilson Cruz, Seth Green

Hedwig and the Angry Inch
2001 • Written & Directed by John Cameron Mitchell
With John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Michael Aronov

Series 7:  The Contenders

2001 • Written & Directed by Daniel Minahan
Brooke Smith, Marylouise Burke, Merritt Weaver, Glenn Fitzgerald

New York Casting

Skins
2011 • Creators:  Bryan Elsley, James Brittain, Jamie Brittain.  With Danny Flaherty, Sophia Black-D'Elia, James Newman

Enchanted
2007 • Directed by Kevin Lima.  Written by Bill Kelly.  With Amy Adams, Susan Sarandon, James Marsden, Patrick Dempsey

The Holiday
2006 • Written & Directed by Nancy Meyers.  With Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach

Something’s Gotta Give
2003 • Written & Directed by Nancy Meyers.  With Jack Nicholson, Diane Keaton, Keanu Reeves, Amanda Peet, Frances McDormand