SUPPLIES
- Headshots
- Resume
- Audition monologue
Overview
There are several different kinds of casting calls. Open calls allow anyone to audition and open union calls allow anyone in the union to audition. Casting offices also hold calls; you can send them your headshot and resume and hope they send you on calls or even jobs. Finally, there are agents who know about specific auditions.
Step 1
Read your local paper. Notices of casting calls will often be posted in the local paper, so you might find community theater or on location movie auditions that way.
Step 2
Spend time on the internet. Mandy, Castlink and The Acting Website all list auditions.
Step 3
Attend or visit a theater school. If you are enrolled, you will get to attend the school's auditions as well as auditions that your teachers know about. If you visit, you may discover that you can attend the school's auditions or you may be able to find out about other auditions.
Step 4
Join Equity (the theater union) and/or FAA (the movies and TV union) to find out about their auditions. To join Equity you need to have worked as a paid professional actor, performer or stage manager in the theater and then pay the subscription. To join FAA, you need to have worked as a paid professional in a movie or television show filmed within 40 miles of Charing Cross in London and then pay the subscription.
Step 5
Send your headshot and resume to casting agencies. Call your local casting agencies and c(check the yellow pages, legitimate agencies will not ask you for money, will be listed in the Casting Guild of Great Britain and will be open during normal business hours) and ask them if they have open calls to meet local actors or if you should just send them your info. Some well-respected casting agencies are: Paul DeFreitas Casting, Hubbard Casting and Mad Dog Casting.
TIPS AND WARNINGS
- TIP : Stay organized. Keep a calendar so that you can keep track of all of the casting calls you want to attend as well as your submissions to agents and casting directors.
- WARNING : Don't assume that you can just show up at an audition and be "discovered." Take classes and work on student films and do community theater to hone your skills.
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