MAYA OSEP
Casting Director
Maya began her career assisting Joanna Colbert (Mr. Nobody, Happy Gilmore) and Midthunder Casting (The Curse, Love Lies Bleeding) before casting work of her own for film, television, and commercials.
The Curse
Love Lies Bleeding
The Uninvited
Nike Field General
ian - Sh*t Sad (Feat. Chief Keef)
ProGrade Digital PGM12
ProGrade Digital PGM12
Workers' Comp
Yarbo
ProGrade Digital PG12
Lolo
Messy
Lowboy Checkout
Something I Wanted More Of
The Big Day
The Requiem Boogie
Rabbit
Two Friends ft. John K - Wish You Were Here
Johan Lenox — No One Gets Me ft. RMR
Alx - Hither Hills
Maya Osep: Casting Characters, Not Types
Maya’s credits reflect a breadth of sensibility: she served as a Casting Associate on The Uninvited (2024), a haunting ensemble film directed by Nadia Conners and starring Walton Goggins and Pedro Pascal, which premiered at SXSW to critical acclaim. She also assisted Midthunder Casting on A24 and Showtime’s The Curse, directed by and starring Nathan Fielder alongside Emma Stone and Benny Safdie, and contributed to the casting of A24’s Love Lies Bleeding, featuring Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian. Independently, she has cast a range of short films, music videos, and digital projects, supporting early-career filmmakers in translating their vision into living, breathing worlds.
Casting Associate / The Uninvited / 2024
Premiered at SXSW 2024
Starring Walton Goggins & Pedro Pascal
A heady and poignant story about a party where past, present, and future are interwoven, where strangers become family, partners become strangers…
Directed by Nadia Conners; Casting Director: Joanna Colbert
Casting Assistant / The Curse / 2023
Starring Emma Stone, Nathan Fielder & Benny Safdie
A newlywed couple struggling to bring their vision for eco-conscious housing to the small community of Española, New Mexico.
Casting Director: Angelique Midthunder
Casting Assistant / Love Lies Bleeding / 2024
Starring Kristen Stewart & Katy O’Brian
An electric new love story; reclusive gym manager Lou falls hard for Jackie, an ambitious bodybuilder headed through town to Vegas in pursuit of her dream.
directed by Rose Glass
Casting Director: Angelique Midthunder
Casting Director / Workers’ Comp / 2024
Starring Johnny Sibilly & Jon Daly
Workers’ Comp is set amidst the aftermath of a workplace injury in an industrial warehouse. Billy finds his work force divided over the injury of his closeted lover Bucky. Their supervisor Dalton seeks to prove it was an intentional attempt to gain workers’ compensation…
directed by Philip Steiger
Casting Director / Lolo / 2024
Starring Isabelle Gillette & Jordan Raf
The story follows a sixteen year-old girl, Lolo, who runs away from home with a handsome older man. But, the man does not want Lolo; he wants to take her youth and her energy for himself.
directed by Owynn Kaye
Casting Director / Not Here / 2024
Starring Katie Parker & Shane Coffey
A poignant exploration of infidelity and the critical issue of abortion access in rural Texas. In light of the current landscape where women's rights are increasingly under threat, we believe this story carries significant weight and urgency.
Directed by Cassius Michael Kim
Casting Director / Kali / 2024
Starring Ashritha Kancharla & Corbin Bernsen
In the Texas frontier, a mysterious woman undergoes a startling transformation, leading to a fateful encounter with a lonely old man, which unravels into a tale of survival, mystery, and hidden identity.
Directed by Cassius Michael Kim
Casting Director / Messy / 2021
Starring Nicole Lipp, Anissa Borrego & Mike Merchant
Mariah "Mo," a biracial Black woman, is a pro at taking care of her friends' feelings before her own, but now that she's approaching 30, it's time for Mo to take up space and become the main character of her own life - all while in the bathroom of her best friend, Britney's, 30th birthday party.
directed by Nicole Lipp
Casting Director / Rabbit / 2022
Starring Kyle Prue & Ken Davitian
An antisocial criminal bounces around Los Angeles doing jobs too embarrassing or dangerous for Taskrabbit.
As he makes moral compromise, Rabbit must ask himself if he's really connecting with his clients, or just doing their dirty work.
directed by Kyle Prue
Casting Director / The Big Day / 2024
Starring Nick Roux, Grace Morrison & Brittany Hoffner
An absurdist dark comedy about the lies we make ourselves believe for our own “happiness”, and the lengths people will go to maintain those facades.
directed by Chloe Holmes
Casting Director / Something I Wanted More Of / 2023
Starring Bradley Beachum & Theo Martello
Leo and Martin - best friends who grew up skating together, must contend with the differences in their lives and themselves on the eve of Martin’s departure to college.
directed by Kabir Malhotra
Casting Asst. / The Requiem Boogie / 2022
Starring Hill Harper & Tracie Thoms
A former Child Actor is in the midst of mourning the loss of his famous movie star father when his house is descended upon by strangers, charlatans, and debatably well intentioned people from his past determined to mount a reunion show of the old sit-com in which he appeared.
directed by Jordan Walker-Pearlman
Casting Director: Joanna Colbert