Neil Casey
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Neil Casey (born July 28, 1981, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American actor and comedy writer. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in English with a concentration in drama from the University of Delaware, and subsequently pursued a career in both sketch comedy writing and screen acting.
In Ghostbusters: Answer the Call (2016), Casey played Rowan North, the film's primary antagonist. The character is a disgruntled paranormal researcher who constructs a device intended to unleash an army of ghosts on New York City. Casey had previously worked with director Paul Feig on the science fiction comedy series Other Space (2015), which also featured several other cast members from the 2016 film. His delivery of Rowan's line about the ghosts being "mostly dudes" was an ad-lib that made it into the finished film.
Casey joined the writing staff of Saturday Night Live for its 38th season in 2012 and received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series at the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2013. He received a second Emmy nomination the following year for his work on Inside Amy Schumer. As an actor, he appeared as a series regular on Other Space (2015) and Making History (2017), and later as a host and performer on the baking competition series Baking It (2021).