In Leicester Square on London’s West End sits actors’ mecca Spotlight, a place to be seen by casting directors and agents, to audition for your next big gig, to receive guidance, to get your sides, and to launch your career.
A casting directory, Spotlight was founded in 1927 and has grown from small paper directories with actors’ information and photos to a 30,000-performer member database with countless assets.
One of its many resources is Spotlight Link, a breakdown service for casting directors and production professionals. “When that started it was kind of one or two jobs a day, and now about 90 percent of the work cast in the U.K. is cast on Spotlight Link,” says Spotlight’s head of client relations, Pippa Harrison. “All the BBC jobs, all the ITV jobs, all the national theater, Royal Shakespeare Company, all the Bond films are done on Spotlight.”
Casting directors can send out breakdowns to their chosen list of agents via the website, and agents can submit their clients via the Spotlight database. And of course, those CDs need a place to hold their auditions. Spotlight can handle that, too.
“We have a whole building here, and we have two floors of studios which have
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