Casarotto Agents Urge UK Drama Bosses To Stop Making “Excuses” & Hire Disabled Access Coordinators

EXCLUSIVE: The only agents in the UK to run a disabled-led access team are contacting the heads of production at every TV drama indie to bang the drum on behalf of access coordinators.

The Office actor Julie Fernandez and Sara Johnson have been in post two-and-a-half years now at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates, which reps the likes of Steve McQueen and Stephen Frears, and have recently felt their frustration at low industry take-up of access coordinators boil over.

Fernandez and Johnson train and upskill access coordinators to work on TV shoots and help with access issues for disabled crew and actors, aiding a disabled community that makes up an estimated 20% of the UK population. Yet Johnson and Fernandez, who started a consultancy around the time of Jack Thorne’s blistering MacTaggart address about disability before moving to Casarotto, say their research has found that fewer than 20% of TV productions have worked with access coordinators.

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