Calling all child actors and parents! If you’ve been managing to stay busy with auditions through the mania of pilot season but haven’t been securing callbacks or bookings on Disney or Nickelodeon shows—or network sitcoms in general—you must be wondering what’s going on.
“Why isn’t my child landing that role he’s perfect for?” and “How come she isn’t getting callbacks or meetings with producers?” These are all perfectly fine reactions to not seeing progress or feeling stuck in place considering all the hard that your child has been putting in. New headshots, the best classes, maybe even representation that’s getting your child more meetings than others in their category…so why aren’t they booking?
Well, there may be a few things that could help turn your pilot season around.
Energy, energy, energy!I can’t express enough how important bringing life and energy to roles is when we talk about network sitcoms, particularly Disney and Nickelodeon. One of the biggest problems that casting encounters when working with kids is that they just can’t seem to draw the appropriate energy level out of them. They keep trying, over and over, and
Calling all child actors and parents! If you’ve been managing to stay busy with auditions through the mania of pilot season but haven’t been securing callbacks or bookings on Disney or Nickelodeon shows—or network sitcoms in general—you must be wondering what’s going on.
“Why isn’t my child landing that role he’s perfect for?” and “How come she isn’t getting callbacks or meetings with producers?” These are all perfectly fine reactions to not seeing progress or feeling stuck in place considering all the hard that your child has been putting in. New headshots, the best classes, maybe even representation that’s getting your child more meetings than others in their category…so why aren’t they booking?
Well, there may be a few things that could help turn your pilot season around.
Energy, energy, energy!I can’t express enough how important bringing life and energy to roles is when we talk about network sitcoms, particularly Disney and Nickelodeon. One of the biggest problems that casting encounters when working with kids is that they just can’t seem to draw the appropriate energy level out of them. They keep trying, over and over, and
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