Ri McDaid-Owen

Last updated 11 January 2026

Ri McDaid-Owen




Recently cast ‘Dead’ Hot’ (Amazon Prime/Tubi) and ‘Significant Other’ (ITVX), both for Quay St Productions, and was Co-Casting Director on the second series of ‘Traces’ for Red Productions, alongside Andy Pryor. Credits as Associate to Andy include: ‘Mrs Harris Goes to Paris’, ‘The Winter King’, ‘Nolly’, ‘Wolf’, ‘The Devil’s Hour’, ‘Ralph & Katie’, ‘It’s A Sin’ (for which the team won Best Casting in a Limited Series at the 2022 CDG Awards); ‘Years and Years’ (team nominated for Best Casting in a Drama Series CDG Awards 2020); ‘Gentleman Jack’ s1 + 2; ‘Doctor Who’ s10 – present; ‘The A Word’ s.2-3; ‘Traces s1’; ‘Summer of Rockets’; ‘Hard Sun’; ‘Cold Feet’ s8; ‘Stan & Ollie’. Other solo Casting Director credits include short films ‘Pork Scratchings’; ‘The Cost of Living’; ‘I Luv Mat Johnson’, as well as various theatre productions including at the Arcola, Finborough, Charing Cross Theatre and Upstairs at the Gatehouse.