How to Register for Our Casting Files
To register for our casting files, please send a hard copy of your headshot and resumé to: Diversity Casting 250 Columbus Avenue, Ste. 204 San Francisco, CA 94133
The Main Ingredient for Your Audition
The Main Ingredient for Your Audition (and the BUILDING BLOCK for All Acting) Perhaps you’ve heard casting directors, producers, directors, or other people in ‘the industry’ talk about watching auditions. One thing that is almost always agreed upon is that you can tell within a few seconds whether you ‘like’ an actor’s performance or not. If questioned, the industry professional might not know exactly why they like someone, or they might say that the actor [...]
A Revolutionary Approach to Auditions
No matter how hard you prepare for an audition, there’s always something that can go wrong. Whether it’s that you’re self-taping or having a callback from your home and there is unexpected construction going on outside, to some kind of technical malfunction onsite, or you just forget the lines. All the things that can go wrong have the potential of putting you ‘off your game’. But, hopefully, you’ve done your preparation…you know what you want [...]
Ten Tips for Auditioning During the Pandemic
These are not guidelines on the technique of self-taping. They are just a few tips to keep in mind before you record yourself or go into a virtual callback. Perhaps some of these are familiar to you. Maybe they are no-brainers. Or maybe you’ll see something new that will help you for your self-taped audition or during a live callback. Just as in any first time audition, you don’t have to have the lines memorized. [...]
DO Approach your Audition with Choices
Another way to say this is, “Don’t come unprepared!”. You need to find out everything you can about the project and the role you’re auditioning for. Sometimes, there’s not a lot you can dig up. But even if you do get a lot of information about the project, character, etc…, you still need to make choices. You can make choices about so much – even in a one-liner: location, mood, temperature, need, relationship, what happened [...]
Entering the Audition
At least 50% of the actors who come in head for anywhere in the room but their ‘mark’. Many like to come and sit next to the casting director and/or director so that they are looking at the stage area. Others just like to sit down immediately – anywhere. What is most ideal is that you walk into the audition room (without a tremendous amount of ‘stuff’) with your headshot and resume (stapled) in hand. [...]
