Andy Pryor

Dr. Andy Pryor, CDG, CSA has been the casting director for Doctor Who since Rose, and has therefore had a hand in choosing the Ninth, Tenth (and either directly or indirectly the Fourteenth), Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Doctors and their companions. More broadly, he and his associates and assistants have personally contracted every speaking part in the modern series. , Pryor is the longest-serving member of the BBC Wales/BBC Studios team, having been the first person hired after Julie Gardner and Russell T Davies.

He was also the casting director for the first three series of Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, though his former associate casting director, Andy Brierley, later took over as the casting director for Sarah Jane. Nevertheless, as of 2009 he had been the casting director for every episode of BBC Wales' Doctor Who-related output.

Since 2005, Andy Pryor has worked under show runners Russell T Davies (in both of his eras), Steven Moffat and Chris Chibnall.

In 2013, he was the casting director for An Adventure in Space and Time, under Mark Gatiss.

In 2016, he also served as the casting director for Class, under creator Patrick Ness.

He has sometimes been a documentary subject on Doctor Who Confidential, most typically on the first episodes of series, where he has opined on the choosing of the new companions.

Outside of the Doctor Who family of shows, Pryor has been responsible for casting many of the most-acclaimed British shows of the early 21st century, such as with John Simm;  with Paterson Joseph and Roger Lloyd Pack;  with Matt Smith and Shaun Parkes;  with Phil Davis and Steve Pemberton;  with Lenora Crichlow and Dervla Kirwan;  with Sarah Parish; and  with Peter Guinness. He also did some preliminary work on Russell T Davies' with David Tennant, but had to pull out of the project to concentrate on series 1 of Doctor Who. Some of his earliest work as a casting director involved, which co co-starred both Christopher Eccleston and ; and the film,. Earlier still, he had been a casting assistant on the first two series of, which also co-starred Eccleston.