you’ve got to think of auditions more as rehearsals or workshops rather than ‘opening nights’! auditions are much easier to wrap your head around, if the headspace you’re in is ‘workshop’ instead of ‘performance.’
Meryl Streep
Lynne Hirschberg NYTimes Magazine article on Philip Seymour Hoffman
had my class in a small, windowless, airless studio today…a eureka moment…
auditioning (working) in a smallwindowlessairless room exponentially changes the ‘algebra’! even the shortest, briefest silence sucks every drop of air out of the room.
warning: in this environment, best to pick up those cues..tighten gaps..
check out one of my followers: lillianmara.
i really liked her reel! the only thing i would suggest is change the whole ‘hire me,’ pick me, love me thing…
obviously, you want us to hire you. we get that. don’t beat us over the head with it.
choose instead to say something interesting about yourself. unique to you. something that we couldn’t possibly associate with anyone else. think about it. (more about this later)
auditioning really cannot be taught. acting can sort of be taught (more on that later), but no one can teach you what it’s like to audition. you just have to DO it (like NIKE)! over and over and over and over (are you getting it?) again. and i mean for everything you might be remotely right for. and if you can’t find anything you might be remotely right for, then audition for stuff you’re wrong for just for the experience of auditioning. the more you do it, the less intimidating it becomes. scour the trades for open calls for student films, for plays, for anything and everything.
this casting director will tell you…My office-neighbor just started a tumblr. You guys should get on this, especially all you actor/waiters out there in New York and LA.
thanks to ‘cbeth’ i’m giving this a go. call it casting 2.0.
