If true actors live for the process, then why have we collectively agreed that the largest part of it, the audition, is the most dreaded? Truly loving the process means we must love the audition (insert eye roll here). Welcome to step six of the program.
With some of the toughest odds of success in any profession, the hard truth is that most of us hold the job title of professional auditioner. In order to be good at the thing we spend the most time doing, we must find the joy in it. This can only happen if you’re treating the audition like any other day at the acting office, which is, unfortunately, where most of us go majorly wrong.
After finding an ad here in Backstage or getting the agent’s call, we start our slow descent down the rabbit hole, becoming bizarre versions of our former selves. Bending over backward to try to “give them what they want,” we come out exhausted and humiliated, having pulled every muscle in our bodies. From outfits we wouldn’t be caught dead in to robotic, micromanaged “performances,” we leave all our training at the door and join the circus. It’s the obsession with all the variables outside our control that leads to most of the pain. Contorting the
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