Many actors—especially young ones—tend to have a love/hate relationship with auditions. On the one hand, every audition is a potential job and the chance to possibly making your dream of being a professional performer come true! On the other, each one is a high-stakes, three-minute-long “test” of your abilities and if you’re not cast, you may find yourself facing disappointment and questioning your talent.
If that describes your audition experience, I have some good news for you: You’re doing this whole thing the wrong way.
Auditioning is a part of every actor’s life. When you think about it, every profession (doctor, lawyer, nuclear scientist) contains certain less-than-exciting duties that come along with good parts of pursuing one’s chosen field. You might say that auditioning is the paperwork of the acting profession. But unlike paperwork at a desk job, auditioning doesn’t need to be a dreaded experience—you just have to reframe it into an experience that serves you. Here are three things to consider:
1. You already know how to do it. Auditioning isn’t a test, it’s just acting under less-than-ideal circumstances. Think of all those
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