Advice on Auditioning

You have an audition coming up and you’re a little bit afraid and I want to give you a piece of advice.

One of the keys to killing in your audition is to look like you actually want to be there. Surely, this is the thing you’re saying you can do well, but only 10% of actors look like they’re actively enjoying themselves in their audition. They look worried, scared, frightened, tense and nervous. Now I understand WHY these things are, but seriously people, who will hire the frightened rabbit hiding in the corner?

If you are going to be successful, then the director, producer, casting people need to experience who you are. So here some tips.

1) Enter positively, smiling, upbeat, big and happy to see the panel and use the tactic GREET and do it warmly.

2) Do not shake their hands unless they offer you their hands.

3) Do not look embarrassed at anything you do, be proud of your work and positive about it, even if it went disastrously wrong.

4) PREP for the audition, the people that can wing an audition are rare and the rare ones have to be rare and lucky, chances are, you aren’t both. So PREP for the audition.

5) Don’t be over-friendly, but make contact over the audition process with all the panel members.

6) Do not deliver your monologue to the panel, it will make them uncomfortable, they want to view you, not be viewed.

7) The interview part of any audition (from the moment you get in the door to the start of your monologue, the end of your monologue to when you leave the building) is about self-presentation, you are presenting the best part of yourself from the moment you are in ’til the moment you leave, don’t forget that, the panel won’t

At the end of the day, you’re there to sell a unique product, but you have to be genuine and friendly and bright and positive, you can’t influence their decision, but you can convince them you are a good person who would be fun and enjoyable to work with, sometimes, just sometimes, that’s all it takes.