Felicia Fasano has found her place in Hollywood in comedy, but, more recently, she has carved out a niche by staffing comedic, female-led shows that have shaken up the TV landscape. Through the funny women who work in front of and behind the camera, she’s been able to build grounded casts in realistic series that use some of your favorite comedy names as well as new faces you might not have seen in a major role on TV before. Fasano fell into these jobs by chance, but with “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” “Better things,” and “I’m Sorry,” she’s built up a roster of projects that feel timely, fresh, and much-needed in the TV space. It can change who and how she casts, but so has the new environment in television, and she talked about it all with Backstage.
How do female filmmakers create a different environment or approach to casting? I think their writing is way more specific than other jobs I’ve done, where character descriptions are really vague. With Andrea [Savage] and Pamela [Adlon], they take things from their lives to some degree so they could include physicalities and specifics to characters. Or there’s just an essence of someone real and that really makes the
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