auditions

The Top 5 Mistakes Actors Make in Auditions

Casting Director Danielle Eskinazi shares the top five mistakes she sees actors make in auditions.

How to Survive—and Nail—Your Audition

Secret Agent Man wants you to impress the casting director, whether or not you book the job.

Why Auditioning Is Not Acting

I truly believe auditioning is a separate animal from acting. Acting is what you get to do once you get the part. Auditioning is something else entirely.

The Secret to an Acting Career Is Not an Agent

It must be brutal knowing about all the roles you’d sell your mother to audition for but can’t, because casting directors are generally limiting themselves to “agent submissions only.”

10 Things to Consider When Preparing Audition Material

Risa Bramon Garcia, who just started up the new acting studio The Bramon Garcia Braun Studio, shares tips for finding the best material for your auditions and meetings.

10 Tips For a Winning Audition

What separates professionals from wannabe talent show prodigies isn't inspiration. It's preparation and execution. Take control of your audition with these ten helpful tips to improve your skills.

New York Auditions at a Glance: Jan. 3-23

The following "Auditions at a Glance" calendar conveniently organizes projects by the date and day-of-the-week that the projects' auditions are taking place, to help you schedule your plans.

6 Steps to Having More Confidence at Auditions

Every astute teacher, actor, or director will tell you that great acting “is not about the words.” Yet, before auditions, many actors sit in the lobby anxiously going over their sides.

Is Audition-Room Privacy Dead?

A planned auction of 54 VHS tapes featuring early auditions by actors Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock, and many others has touched off a fit of handwringing in the casting community and endangered the age-old idea of the audition room as sacred space.

8 Ways for Kids to Stand Out at a Commercial Audition

Lana Veenker, CSA, ICDN, founder and president of Cast Iron Studios, shares these eight tips on how kids can standout at commercial auditions.