10 Audition Tips for Actors. (Updated 2020)

Sitting on the other side of the table is something that every thespian should do.  It's incredibly educational and inspirational because frankly, y'all realize that while there are lots and lots of people that telephone call themselves actors, in that location are a much smaller group of Actors (and talent is but a pocket-size part of that definition, by the by).

Since so few Actors become a adventure to sit down where Producers and Directors sit down, here are my 10 tips on how to have a better audition experience.

  1. Ever bring a moving-picture show and resume. I don't care if you have an Agent, a Manager, and a Momma Rose-fashion "mom-ager" who all promised to transport information technology over.  You're the one that won't exist remembered if you don't have ane.  A P&R is more than than an American Express card.  It's similar a pair of shoes.  You wouldn't exit habitation without shoes, would y'all?
  2. Haven't memorized the cloth?  Don't pretend y'all have. If y'all have sides, endeavor to memorize them.  But if yous tin't, it'southward ok.  Nosotros'd rather hear the cloth as written with the papers in your hand than hear y'all brand up stuff simply to prove that you tried (and failed) to memorize the textile (remind me to tell you lot nearly the time an actor added a few lines to a Tony Accolade winning playwright's monologue to kill time while he tried to get back on track).
  3. Don't make excuses. I don't want to hear that you have a cold, or that you lot have bed-head, or that your printer is broken.  Practice your best.
  4. If I enquire you to brand a choice, make one. I commonly inquire the people auditioning for me to choose betwixt two monologues, or I ask them to give me three song choices from their volume then I say, "which would y'all like to do?"  I want to larn what YOU are attracted to, and I also want to come across y'all make a choice.  Don't say, "It doesn't matter.  What do y'all want?"  Actors have to make strong clear choices when developing characters.  I want to see that side of you in everything you lot exercise.
  5. Make your get-go fifteen seconds count. When you meet someone for the showtime time, don't you brand a lot of suppositions?  We do too.
  6. Be the 3 Cs. Be comfy, charismatic and confident.  Actors have to command attending.  They have to be the most interesting people in a yard seat theater.  Exist someone that we want to go to know.  If you lot can practise that equally yourself, I know you'll also be able to exercise that in a grapheme.
  7. Don't take the last audition times of the day. Casting is non an like shooting fish in a barrel process, and at the end of the solar day, a artistic team is grumpy, tired and wants to go home.  The early histrion gets the part.  (Another reason to be scheduled early?  Yous don't accept the residual of the day of actors to be compared to. I'm much more likely to phone call someone dorsum that I see early considering I have no idea what the rest of the solar day volition bring.)
  8. Let united states of america know where to find you. Even if you have an amanuensis, put an electronic mail address where you can be reached straight on your resume (For safe reasons, I'd suggest a separate email just for this purpose).  This style, if you ever leave your agent, or if your amanuensis doesn't get dorsum to the casting manager right away, interested parties have a way of at least sending you lot an research. You don't have to reply. Pix and Resumes sit in files for years.  You always want some piece of contact information to exist authentic and then someone tin discover you lot fast.
  9. Don't kickoff over. Screw up?  Fight through information technology.  And it probably wasn't every bit bad as you idea.  Yous're more sensitive to it than we are.  An old voice instructor of mine used to say, "If you put a microphone on the inside of a Mercedes engine, yous'd hear all sorts of sputtering and spitting, merely from the outside, you'd hear nothing but purrrrrrrrr."
  10. Always audition. The all-time style to master auditioning is merely like everything else.  Do information technology over and over.  You'll get numb to the fretfulness.  You'll be able to exist yourself.  And yous'll get free practice!  I used to go to trip the light fantastic calls, because learning a dance combination at an audition is a free dance grade (and I needed them).  Actors who get to work on sides with directors at an audience go a complimentary coaching.

Call up, we want you to be great.  We're pulling for you lot more than yous tin always imagine.

Because a great audition, means a great bandage, which means we're 1 footstep closer to a dandy show.

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