Bonita Pietila

Bonita Pietila

Crew Information

Gender:	Female ♀
Job:	Casting director Producer Talent coordinator
Birth date:	January 14, 1953 (1953-01-14) (age 72)
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	799
First episode:	"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Most recent episode:	"Aunt Misbehavin'"
First game:	The Simpsons Cartoon Studio
Most recent game:	The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield
First book:	The Simpsons Forever!
Most recent book:	Simpsons World the Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20
First album:	Songs in the Key of Springfield
Latest album:	The Simpsons: Testify

Bonita "Bonnie" Pietila (born January 14, 1953) is a Finnish-American producer and casting director for The Simpsons. She is responsible for casting the main cast of the show.

Awards[edit]

Award	Year	Episode	Result
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program	1998^[1]	"Trash of the Titans"	Won
1999^[2]	"Viva Ned Flanders"	Nominated
2000^[3]	"Behind the Laughter"	Won
2001^[4]	"HOMЯ"
2002^[5]	"She of Little Faith"	Nominated

Credits[edit]

Casting by[edit]

Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Episode – "Bart the Genius"
Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
Episode – "There's No Disgrace Like Home"
Episode – "Bart the General"
Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
Episode – "The Call of the Simpsons"
Episode – "The Telltale Head"
Episode – "Life on the Fast Lane"
Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath"
Episode – "Krusty Gets Busted"
Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening"

Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror"
Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
Episode – "Dead Putting Society"
Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
Episode – "The Way We Was"
Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
Episode – "Principal Charming"
Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F""
Episode – "Old Money"
Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
Episode – "Blood Feud"

Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"
Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
Episode – "Homer Defined"
Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (as Bludgeoning Bonita Pietila)
Episode – "Lisa's Pony"
Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
Episode – "I Married Marge"
Episode – "Radio Bart"
Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
Episode – "Homer Alone"
Episode – "Bart the Lover"
Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
Episode – "Separate Vocations"
Episode – "Dog of Death"
Episode – "Colonel Homer"
Episode – "Black Widower"
Episode – "The Otto Show"
Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"

Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (as Bludgeoning Bonita Pietila)
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
Episode – "Mr. Plow"
Episode – "Lisa's First Word"
Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
Episode – "Selma's Choice"
Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
Episode – "I Love Lisa"
Episode – "Duffless"
Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield"
Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
Episode – "The Front"
Episode – "Whacking Day"
Episode – "Marge in Chains"
Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled"

Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
Episode – "Cape Feare"
Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
Episode – "Rosebud"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (as Bludgeoning Bonita Pietila)
Episode – "Marge on the Lam"
Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
Episode – "Homer the Vigilante"
Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
Episode – "Homer and Apu"
Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
Episode – "Deep Space Homer"
Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders"
Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant"
Episode – "Burns' Heir"
Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage"

Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
Episode – "Lisa's Rival"
Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show"
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as Bewitched, Bludgeoned & Bewildered Bonita Pietila)
Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend"
Episode – "Lisa on Ice"
Episode – "Homer Badman"
Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
Episode – "Fear of Flying"
Episode – "Homer the Great"
Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three"
Episode – "Bart's Comet"
Episode – "Homie the Clown"
Episode – "Bart vs. Australia"
Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
Episode – "A Star Is Burns"
Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"
Episode – "The PTA Disbands"
Episode – "'Round Springfield"
Episode – "The Springfield Connection"
Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"

Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
Episode – "Radioactive Man"
Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI" (as Bloodthirsty Bonita Pietila)
Episode – "King-Size Homer"
Episode – "Mother Simpson"
Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud"
Episode – "Team Homer"
Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors"
Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"
Episode – "Bart the Fink"
Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
Episode – "Homer the Smithers"
Episode – "The Day the Violence Died"
Episode – "A Fish Called Selma"
Episode – "Bart on the Road"
Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
Episode – "Homerpalooza"
Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" (as Bone-Eater Pietila)
Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
Episode – "Bart After Dark"
Episode – "A Milhouse Divided"
Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
Episode – "Hurricane Neddy"
Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"
Episode – "The Springfield Files"
Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
Episode – "Mountain of Madness"
Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
Episode – "Homer's Phobia"
Episode – "Brother from Another Series"
Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
Episode – "The Canine Mutiny"
Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa"
Episode – "In Marge We Trust"
Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"

Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
Episode – "Lisa's Sax"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" (as Bone to Pick Pietila)
Episode – "The Cartridge Family"
Episode – "Bart Star"
Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
Episode – "Realty Bites"
Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing"
Episode – "Bart Carny"
Episode – "The Joy of Sect"
Episode – "Das Bus"
Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust"
Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"
Episode – "Lisa the Simpson"
Episode – "This Little Wiggy"
Episode – "Simpson Tide"
Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
Episode – "Girly Edition"
Episode – "Trash of the Titans"
Episode – "King of the Hill"
Episode – "Lost Our Lisa"
Episode – "Natural Born Kissers"

Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
Episode – "Bart the Mother"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX" (as Bonita the Vegetarian Butcher)
Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"
Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind"
Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A""
Episode – "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble""
Episode – "Mayored to the Mob"
Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders"
Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
Episode – "Homer to the Max"
Episode – "I'm with Cupid"
Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
Episode – "Make Room for Lisa"
Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive"
Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
Episode – "Mom and Pop Art"
Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"

Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome"
Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (as Bloodbath & Beyond)
Episode – "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"
Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'"
Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze"
Episode – "Grift of the Magi"
Episode – "Little Big Mom"
Episode – "Faith Off"
Episode – "The Mansion Family"
Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica"
Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
Episode – "Missionary: Impossible"
Episode – "Pygmoelian"
Episode – "Bart to the Future"
Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"
Episode – "Kill the Alligator and Run"
Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield"
Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
Episode – "Behind the Laughter"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (as Bonita Pietila: Re-Released In DVD, This Time With Even More Scary Parts)
Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"

Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy"
Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"

Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
Episode – "The Great Money Caper"
Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
Episode – "HOMЯ"

Episode – "Pokey Mom"

Episode – "Worst Episode Ever"
Episode – "Tennis the Menace"

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Bonita Pietila at the Internet Movie Database
Bonita Pietila at Wikipedia

Casting department

view • talk • edit • past Episode casting department
Nick Conti • Scott Muller • Bonita Pietila

view • talk • edit • past Other casting department
Marci Galea • Barbara Harris • Linda Lamontagne • Anthony Lucente • Risa Tanania

Producers and Co-producers

view • talk • edit • past Current producers
Richard K. Chung • Alexander Duke • Richard Raynis • Richard Sakai • Denise Sirkot

view • talk • edit • past Former producers
Larina Jean Adamson • Richard Appel • Elisabeth Kiernan Averick • Bob Bendetson • Joseph A. Boucher • Donick Cary • Daniel Chun • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jonathan Collier • Jessica Conrad • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • John Frink • Tom Gammill • Valentina L. Garza • Dana Gould • Dan Greaney • Broti Gupta • Ron Hauge • Ken Keeler • Jay Kogen • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Tim Long • Jeff Martin • Tom Martin • Cesar Mazariegos • J. Michael Mendel • George Meyer • David Mirkin • Frank Mula • Conan O'Brien • Carolyn Omine • Don Payne • Bonita Pietila • Max Pross • Mike Reiss • Gerry Richardson • David Sacks • Brian Scully • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • David Silverman • Loni Steele Sosthand • David M. Stern • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker Scully • Jon Vitti • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore • Wallace Wolodarsky

view • talk • edit • past Other producers
Holly Adams • Rory Armes • Bob Bain • Chuck Beaver • Trevor Bent • Tara Beyhm • Kevin Biggins • Travis Bowe • James L. Brooks • Hans ten Cate • Vlad Ceraldi • Chiodo Brothers Productions, Inc. • Edward Chiodo • Dorina Diakoumopoulou • Ron Diamond • András Erkel • Kim Fertman • Mark Flitman • Darren Futa • Marci Galea • Ollie Green • Matt Groening • Brian Grohl • Joey Haines • Dean Hannan • Pete Herzog • Al Jean • Bryan Johnson • Conall Jones • Rachel Braga Jones • Claudia Katz • Dan Kitchen • Jonathan Knight • Edward Kuspiel • Cate Latchford • Scott Lauritzen • Rob Leingang • Steve Marmel • Matt McKnight • John Melchior • Alfred Milgrom • Jon O'Sheal • Jon Osborn • Jack Parmeter • Maria Beatriz Silva Piovezanni • Paul Provenzano • Harish Rao • Alan Rast • Johanna Rees • Mark Rhodes • Ryan Ridley • Laura Saravia • Mike Schneider • Kirk Scott • Gary Sheinwald • Shannon Smith • Beth Sowersby • Desirée Stavracos • Szavo Sztilkovics • Nick Trotta • Scott Turow • Brian Ullrich • Martijn van der Meulen • Csaba Varga • Dan Vebber • Michael R. Viner • Ru Warner • Cam Weber • David Wisehart • Tim Yoon • Esther Young • Wendy Cong Zhao

view • talk • edit • past Current co-producers
Dominique Braud

view • talk • edit • past Former co-producers
Larina Jean Adamson • Joseph A. Boucher • Tom Brady • Daniel Chun • Richard K. Chung • David X. Cohen • Joel H. Cohen • Jessica Conrad • Greg Daniels • Larry Doyle • Alexander Duke • Brent Forrester • Valentina L. Garza • Paul Germain • Al Jean • Ken Keeler • Colin A.B.V. Lewis • Tim Long • Tom Martin • J. Michael Mendel • George Meyer • Carolyn Omine • Mike Reiss • Brian Scully • Matt Selman • Loni Steele Sosthand • John Swartzwelder • Julie Thacker Scully • Jon Vitti • Patric Verrone • Matt Warburton • Jeff Westbrook • Marc Wilmore

view • talk • edit • past Other co-producers
Sady Cohen • Doug Goldstein • Tova Goodman • Jay Kleckner • Ethan Marak • Amanda Moshay

[1] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1998"

[2] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 1999"

[3] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less) – 2000"

[4] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less than One Hour) – 2001"

[5] Television Academy - "Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour) - 2002"

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Bonita Pietila

Contents

Awards[edit]

Credits[edit]

Casting by[edit]

Produced by[edit]

Original casting by[edit]

Voice director[edit]

Talent coordinator[edit]

Special thanks[edit]

For The Simpsons[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]