We’ve been in the audition room a lot lately. Sometimes it’s joyous and sometimes, it’s painful. What is it that actors do to sabotage themselves in auditions? What happens when they let go of the need to please and give us what they think we want and instead just live inside what we call the world of the play?
What’s required is you doing the work you know and love, living boldly and effortlessly in that world. If you’re working at your absolute best—your most specific, personal, and authentic work in the service of the material—you’ll grab the attention of anyone in the room or watching your tape. Otherwise, you’re bound to have a challenging, possibly even painful time, and you have almost no chance of being cast.
Maybe you’ve spent years deciding the casting room is unsafe, that the people casting—or not casting—you are your adversaries and certainly not your advocates. That they are higher up in the industry food chain. That they know more than you do. But they aren’t and they don’t. They are desperately trying to make their shows and productions work. They need your leadership. They want to know you. They want to figure out what you
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