Leslie Wasserman, CSA

Associate Casting Director Spotlight

Los Angeles

Leslie Wasserman is a casting professional for scripted film and television. She was the casting director for Together Together (Dir. Nikole Beckwith), series Barden and Sarah Start a Pandemic, short film Okay and Del Close documentary For Madmen Only among others. Her recent work includes Ballard (Amazon), The Last Thing He Told Me (AppleTV+), Smile 2 (Dir. Parker Finn), and Lost on a Mountain in Maine (Dir. Andrew Kightlinger). Wasserman also casts for the Sundance Lab’s Director’s Lab and is a proud member of Casting Society and the Teamsters Negotiating Committee. 

Dustin Presley, CSA

Associate Casting Director Spotlight

New York

Dustin Presley is an Artios Award winning associate casting director based in Atlanta who works on film & TV projects alongside Erica Arvold.

After attending Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of the Performing Arts and graduating from the American Musical & Dramatic Academy in New York, Dustin interned with both Donna DeSeta Casting and Barden/Schnee Casting before becoming Donna’s casting assistant in 2014. Under Donna’s mentorship, Dustin was fully immersed in the commercial casting world but quickly gravitated toward their work together on indie films like Even After Everything, Breaking Brooklyn, Stuck and Front Cover. Dustin also briefly freelanced with Binder Casting in New York before relocating to Georgia in 2018 where he has worked with arvold.casting ever since! 

Dustin fell headfirst into film & TV after landing in the Southeast working on numerous projects with Erica. Some highlights include: Scarpetta S1 (Blumhouse/Amazon), Lowndes County (feature film), Regretting You (feature film), Slanted (feature film), Color Book (feature film), Reasonable Doubt S2-S3 (Onyx/Hulu) The Bondsman (Blumhouse/Amazon), *Dopesick (Hulu), Tell Me Lies S1-S2 (Hulu), Mike (Hulu), The Game Reboot S1-S2 (Paramount+), Swagger S2 (Apple TV+) Freaky (Blumhouse/Universal), My Best Friend’s Exorcism (Amazon), They/Them (Blumhouse/Peacock), The Black Phone (Blumhouse/Universal) and Red Notice (Netflix).

Dustin is extremely grateful to CSA & Erica for this special recognition. He would like to thank his mom, his extended family and most importantly his husband, Quinn, for all their continued love and support.