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About lisa
Lisa Parasyn is an Emmy®-Award winning Casting Director.
She is best known for her work on Schitt’s Creek, Star Trek Discovery, Outlander, Workin’ Moms, and Little Bird.
With critical acclaim in both the US and Canada, she is no stranger to industry nominations and awards across her more than 200 professional credits to-date. A noted five-time Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Casting, Lisa won her first in 2014 for Bomb Girls, her second in 2018 for Cardinal, two Canadian Screen Awards for Schitt’s Creek in 2020 and 2021 and again in 2024 for Little Bird. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awarded Lisa her first Emmy® for Outstanding Casting in a Comedy Series for her work on Schitt’s Creek in 2020.
With a career spanning 2 decades, Lisa remains one of the industry’s most in-demand Casting Directors and passionate producers. She demands a commitment to excellence on every project she undertakes.
To connect, please email lisa@lisaparasyncasting.com.
testimonials
Pilar Golden
Creator + Showrunner | Beyond Black Beauty
"It was my first time working in Toronto. Our show's needs were demanding and I was nervous about the casting process. But Lisa and her team are the kind of people who read the material thoroughly and thoughtfully. Every discussion, every session is a warm dialogue with a friend who is rooting for you and your project. Lisa's a visionary whose contributions have only elevated Beyond Black Beauty. I can't wait for us to work together again."
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CurrenT ProjectS
WAYWARD is a thriller set in a bucolic but sinister town that explores the insidious underbelly of the “troubled teen industry” and the eternal struggle between one generation and the next.
Netflix - 8 episode Limited Series starring Mae Martin and Brandon Jay McLaren. Series regulars include Toni Collette, Sarah Gadon, Brandon Jay McLaren, Sydney Topliffe and Alyvia Alyn Lind.
Watch the trailer HERE.
Melissa McCarthy and Clive Owen are set to lead the cast of a JonBenét Ramsey limited series, from Yellowstone producers MTV Entertainment Studios & 101 Studios, which has been given an official series greenlight at Paramount+.
McCarthy will play JonBenet Ramsey’s mother Patsy Ramsey and Owen will play father John Bennett Ramsey.
(Formerly 'Snowflakes') FX has picked up half-hour comedy pilot Adults to series for a 2025 premiere. The project was created by The Tonight Show writers Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw.
Adults is a twenty-something ensemble comedy following a group of codependent housemates trying to be good people, despite being neither “good” nor “people” yet.
Hallmark+ has given a straight-to-series order to the new one-hour drama series Ripple, created by Michele Giannusa.
From Lionsgate TV, Ripple explores how unexpectedly connected we are as human beings. We'll witness the ripple effect of how strangers, all dealing with life’s challenges in their own way, are led to one another.
Megan Park Drama ‘Sterling Point’ Gets Series Order At Prime Video.
Park (writer/director of My Old Ass), created the series and will also direct, executive produce and co-showrun alongside Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (The OC, Gossip Girl) under their Fake Empire banner. Amazon MGM Studios is the studio.
Plot details of the series are being kept under wraps.
THE ABANDONS tells the story of a group of diverse renegade families living on the fringes of society in 1850s Oregon.
Created by Kurt Sutter, the first season is currently in production, bringing together an all-star ensemble cast led by Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson as two mothers locked in a bloody feud.
Benito Skinner‘s comedy series “Overcompensating” has been ordered at Amazon Prime Video.
The series is described as a college-set ensemble comedy about the wild, chaotic journey of Benny (Skinner), a closeted former football player and homecoming king, as he becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs.
Watch the trailer HERE.
CBS has ordered its first new series for the 2025-26 broadcast season. The network has given a green light to Fire Country spinoff Sheriff Country, headlined by Morena Baccarin.
Sheriff Country centers on Sheriff Mickey Fox (Baccarin). Described as straightforward, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief investigates crimes while patrolling the town of Edgewater and dealing with her ex-con father. She also has to contend with a mysterious incident involving her daughter.
Watch the trailer HERE.
Hulu has greenlighted Phony, a comedy pilot starring and executive produced by Connie Britton, from Drew Goddard‘s Goddard Textiles and 20th Television.
Phony is a comedic coming-of-age mystery about a teenager, Sonny, who wakes up in the hospital after a car accident to discover his mom — his only parent and his best friend — appears to have been replaced by an impostor.
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