Actor's Reps Audition
Work at Deborah Carlson's Word of Mouth @ A/C Studios is starting to pay off.
As part of my plan to earn my living (or a good part of it anyway) by acting, I auditioned for Ray, one of the talent agents at Actor's Reps Of New York & Lost Angeles, Inc. Because I'm non-union, they'll cast me mostly in background/extras parts (in my book however, that still a paid ACTING job), and with a little luck, maybe some under 5's, which would be great!! Actor's Rep gets a 10% commission of any work they book for me.
Anyway, Actor's Reps require a cold reading, a monologue. It's really an audition to see how you handle text, how you cold read. For a non-union person like me, they really just want to meet me to make sure I'm not (too) crasy -- nevertheless, I took the reading seriously. After the reading, he said "who ever you're studying with -- keep studying with that person. That was a good reading."
That was a great compliment because I'm sure the very short 30sec monologue is something he's heard 1000s of times -- and he's been in the business for 32 years!
Actor's Reps deal with both union and non-union talent. Their their main objective is to help the "start up" actor.
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I find several sites on Auditions, hope everybody like me having the dream of being a star on day can get some useful information in that. Here is the list:
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Note from "The Secret Of Theatrical Space:" as this blog gets more popular, definitely my intention, it also starts to attract it's share of "spam" in terms of comments and trackbacks -- in fact, I wish the rest of the world was as interested in commenting on and backtracking to my blog as the "spammers" :). This comment comes dangerously close to spam, but I'm going to let it go as these sites look like they have real audition information, so use them with care. If I find out otherwise, I'll remove this comment.
- Cheers,
Christopher, author "The Secret Of Theatrical Space:" blog . . .
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How has it gone since this post? I'm thinking about going with them as a startup.
Nothing's really happened. I did pay ($160) to have my headshot and resume uploaded to their system, but I haven't been proactive enough to take advantage of them, and that's my oversight. In fact, your comment has motivated me to do this, i.e., I'm going to simply call them, remind them I'm registered, and how can I best help them help me find work.
Now, if I were you, I wouldn't pay right away to have headshot and resume uploaded to their system (proactor system, I think it's called) because most if the work they'll find for you, at the start, is background work.
The implied rational for paying to have your resume uploaded into their system is that casting directors will call you in for higher paid, non-background work, based on your picture, but this is never happened to me nor to anyone I've talked to who's registered with Actors Rep.
What I would do is register with them, and then call and proactive with them about getting as much work as possible, anything, before spending the $160 to upload your headshot and resume into their system. Work wtih them to get you paid work, get to know them, seek out and find others who have gotten work through Actor's Rep. beyond the background level, find out how they did, how they worked with Actor's Rep. to get substantial paid work, and then you'd be in a better position to know if paying $160 is worth it.
I think a very good alternative to Actor's Rep. is to contact Desiree Agudo (Email info@desireeagudo.us). She deals only with non-union people, and she almost immedately can get you background work, and she charges no fee, only 10% of what you get paid, and only AFTER you get paid. She'll also submit you for commerical work which can pay quite well.
Don't pay Actor's Rep. anything until they start gettting you some kind of work, any kind of work (Actor's Rep., however, like Desiree, will take %10 of what you earn after you get paid, but that's standard industry practice).
- Cheers,
Christopher