Demystifying the Audition Process: 6 Audition Tools for the Actor

12:00-1:30 pm -- 9th Floor, Room #C998
Learn the Secrets of having an Amazing Audition from a Casting Director, Network Executive, and Teacher whose credits include "Six Feet Under."

In this audition workshop, actors will learn the "6 Audition Tools Method", developed by Holly Powell in her four-week audition workshops. Actors will learn to achieve the mental focus of an athlete while in the audition room through the use of six simple audition tools--helping prevent "the voices in your head" from sabotaging your concentration. A few actors will participate in a "mock" on-camera audition, and the audition process will be demystified through simulating a real casting session.

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-- Holly Powell, Casting Director and Teacher

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Holly Powell
Holly Powell was a casting director for 23 years, working as an independent casting director, director of casting at CBS New York, director of casting movies and mini-series at CBS Los Angeles, and senior vice president of talent and casting at The Greenblatt/Janollari Studio.

Powell has won an Emmy Award for casting and been awarded the Casting Society of America's Artios Award, as well as consistently receiving nominations. She cast more than 100 projects and oversaw the casting as a studio and network executive for many more, including "Six Feet Under" and the award-winning mini-series "Lonesome Dove."

Powell now has her own audition studio in Los Angeles, Holly Powell Studios, where she teaches four-week audition workshops and conducts one-on-one private sessions in audition technique. In 2011, Powell received the Back Stage L.A. Readers' Choice Award for favorite audition technique teacher and was a runner-up for favorite cold reading teacher, and in 2010 she was a runner-up for favorite audition teacher.