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Shondaland Casting Guru Linda Lowy Forms Backyard Casting With Morgan Smith, Lily Trotter


EXCLUSIVE: Linda Lowy, the Emmy award-winning casting director of Grey’s Anatomy and Friday Night Lights, has launched Backyard Casting with longtime colleagues Morgan Smith and Lily Trotter.…

Lowy is the 2013 recipient of the Casting Society of America Hoyt Bowers achievement award and has nine Emmy nominations; she won three for Grey’s Anatomy, Friday Night Lights and Bastard Out of Carolina. A veteran feature film casting director before venturing into television, Lowy cast shows for more than 17 years under the Shonda Rhimes banner, including Greys, Scandal, How to Get Away With Murder and Inventing Anna, in addition to many projects outside of Shondaland. She was instrumental in casting Sarah Lancashire in Julia, and Jean Smart and Laurie Metcalf in Hacks.

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