
About
Georgia Simpson

Georgia began her casting career in 2002, learning the ropes in London assisting Di Carling on TV projects. She then worked as a casting assistant to Sam Jones on TV and theatre projects, including work for Shared Experience, English Touring Theatre, the Young Vic, Bath Theatre Royal, the Sir Peter Hall Company and shows in the West End.
Georgia moved to Northern Ireland in 2004 and established herself as a casting director working in TV, film and theatre. Since then, her work has covered a diverse range, from Terry George’s Oscar winning short The Shore, and the multi-award-winning feature film Five Minutes of Heaven directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, to Mark Kermode’s favourite film of 2012, the story of the Belfast’s godfather of punk, Terri Hooley, Good Vibrations, directed by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, and the BAFTA winning TV drama, Blue Lights.
Georgia loves to work in theatre when she gets the opportunity, her work includes co-casting The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk for Kneehigh directed by Emma Rice, and The Conquest of Happiness, an international collaboration between critically acclaimed theatre companies in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia, directed by Emma Jordan and Haris Pašović. She also cast the inaugural show for the MAC in Belfast, Owen McCafferty’s Titanic: Scenes from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Enquiry, 1912), directed by Charlotte Westenra.
Georgia’s TV work includes Blue Lights (winner Best Drama Series at the 2025 BAFTAS and Best Drama at the Broadcast Awards), Art Detectives, Titanic Sinks Tonight and Dalgliesh.
Let’s Work Together
If you are a producer and would like to enquire about working with Georgia, please contact Carly Peters at United Agents. If you are an actor, or have a more general enquiry, and you'd like to contact Georgia, please fill in the form below.



