Auditioning
Self-tapes, cold reads, callbacks, and how to walk into a room with a performance rather than a rehearsal.
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Why 'just be yourself' is bad advice for nervous actors
“Just be yourself” is the most common audition advice and one of the least useful for a nervous actor. Under stress, “yourself” is a moving target. The actual skill is not being yo…
Audition mindset: reframing the room from test to work
The single most useful mindset shift an auditioning actor can make is to stop treating the room as a test and start treating it as a small piece of work. Tests have one right answe…
Cold reading: how to train the skill
Cold reading is the skill of performing a scene you have never seen with only a few minutes of preparation. It is trainable through drills that separate three sub-skills: text inta…
The callback is the first audition, repeated
The most common callback mistake is treating it as a new audition. Casting has already seen a version of your read they liked enough to bring you back. The job of the callback is t…