John Papsidera
Casting Director · at Automatic Sweat Casting · Los Angeles, CA / Nashville, TN
John Papsidera is a casting director at Automatic Sweat Casting based in Los Angeles, CA / Nashville, TN with 55 credits on Production List, most recently Fallout (Season 3) (casting director, in production). Other credits include The Westies, Lioness (Season 3) and The Night Agent (Season 3). Production List last updated this profile on May 25, 2026.
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John Papsidera, CSA, is a veteran casting director based in Los Angeles (and Nashville) and the founder of Automatic Sweat, his casting company formed in 2000. Backstage has described him as Christopher Nolan's 'go-to casting director,' having cast nearly every Nolan film from Memento (2000) through The Odyssey (2026); he also maintains long-running partnerships with James Gunn, Jason Reitman, and other top directors. Over a career spanning 200+ film and television projects, he has earned 2 Primetime Emmy Awards, 5 Artios Awards from the Casting Society of America, and in 2025 received the CSA's prestigious Hoyt Bowers Award for his overall body of work. A trained actor with a BFA from Florida State University, he began his casting career as an assistant at the Mark Taper Forum before moving into feature films.
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