Pilot season is a very busy time for talent managers and agents…definitely not the time to be calling them with your questions about demo clips or headshots or acting classes or resume format or where to live or almost anything else. Nope, all of that should have been done months earlier. If you don’t have all your tools and your materials together by now…oh well. Agents and managers aren’t going to take time out of their busy schedules or away from the actors we rep who have all their materials together to help you right now. Ain’t gonna happen. We all will be focusing on the actors we represent who have their materials together and who are ready to work.
Today, my client got an audition for the lead in a Spielberg movie. Believe me, any questions he has relating to that audition take precedence over any other actors who aren’t prepared. Get it? Of course you do.
Pilot season is our bread and butter. If we get some of our clients on series, that pays our bills for the rest of the year and beyond. If you want to be involved in pilot season in a meaningful way, get all your ducks in a row well in advance. That said, if you’re not fully prepared for this year’s pilot season,
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