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Donna Rosenstein, the head of casting at Amazon MGM Studios, is exiting the studio amid broader layoffs at Amazon.<\/p>\n
Amazon announced on Tuesday that 14,000 workers across a wide variety of its divisions globally would be impacted by the layoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n More from Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Rosenstein has been the head of casting for Amazon since 2015 after having previously worked for the streaming arm of the e-commerce giant as a casting consultant in 2014. She built the casting department at the streamer and was the first casting executive to be hired by the studio.<\/p>\n During her tenure, she worked on hit shows like \u201cTransparent,\u201d \u201cBosch,\u201d and \u201cThe Boys.\u201d She also led the team that cast Rachel Brosnahan as the lead in the global hit \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d as well as Alan Ritchson as the lead in the popular Amazon series \u201cReacher,\u201d based on the Lee Child novels featuring the character Jack Reacher.<\/p>\n Prior to her time at Amazon, Rosenstein was the casting director on shows like \u201cGrimm\u201d at NBC, \u201cCastle\u201d at ABC, and \u201cThe Ghost Whisperer\u201d at CBS. She was also the head of casting at ABC at one time, working at the network from 1984-1999.<\/p>\n Amazon cited the rapid advancement of AI technology as a driving force behind the mass layoffs, with thousands more expected in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we need to remember is that the world is changing quickly,\u201d said Beth Galetti, SVP of people experience and technology at Amazon, in a memo to employees. \u201cThis generation of AI is the most transformative technology we\u2019ve seen since the Internet, and it\u2019s enabling companies to innovate much faster than ever before (in existing market segments and altogether new ones). We\u2019re convicted that we need to be organized more leanly, with fewer layers and more ownership, to move as quickly as possible for our customers and business.\u201d<\/p>\n Best of Variety<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Variety’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donna Rosenstein, the head of casting at Amazon MGM Studios, is exiting the studio amid broader layoffs at Amazon. Amazon announced on Tuesday that 14,000 workers across a wide variety of its divisions globally would be impacted by the layoffs. More from Variety Rosenstein has been the head of casting for Amazon since 2015 after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2121086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[23763,388519,331805,402680],"class_list":["post-2121085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-amazon","tag-casting-director","tag-rachel-brosnahan","tag-rosenstein"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Amazon-MGM-Studios-Casting-Head-Donna-Rosenstein-Exits-Amid-Layoffs.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121087,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121085\/revisions\/2121087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2121086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}