Others are open only to certain agencies or pre-selected groups of which you must be a member to audition. Often, producers will post about open casting calls online or in industry publications, so regularly review these locations for casting call opportunities. More and more directors and producers are posting acting jobs online, particularly for independent or student work.
Search online for potential audition opportunities. You can look on casting websites, agency websites and simply run a search for acting auditions or jobs in your area. Make a website for yourself that includes your headshots, your acting resume and any reels, or video compilations of your acting work, you might have. You can send your website's URL to prospective employers, link to it on your social media pages and potentially gain recognition from directors or producers who find your webpage independently.
Another option for learning about potential audition or acting job opportunities is to directly contact local theaters or film studios. Besides learning about acting work, you might also be able to build professional connections with the employees who work there, increasing the chances they'll call you when they need an actor or are holding auditions.
While you look for paying high-profile jobs, continue to build your acting resume with and skill set. You can take acting classes, teach kids about acting, perform with community theater organizations or produce your own work to post online.
The more experience you have and the more people in the industry you know, the better your chances of engaging continuous acting jobs are.
Related: 16 Jobs in Theatre. Use these tips to help you optimize your time at auditions and improve your chances of getting an acting job:. Find jobs. Company reviews. Find salaries. Upload your resume. Sign in. Finding a Job. What are the common types of acting jobs?
How to get acting jobs. Get a manager or agent. Ask your professional network. Research casting calls. Look online. Create a website. Contact local theaters or studios. Build your resume. Tips for auditions. Bring your resume and headshot. Aster was born into a secret magical community where traditionally boys become shapeshifters when they come of age and girls become witches.
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Students who are interested in being part of our casting files may submit the following information to YADA: Digital Headshot Age, including actual birthday Willing to miss school for auditions? Backstage's Casting System includes a Casting Dashboard, Application Manager, and Messaging Center that offer state-of-the-art features , such as enhanced applicant filtering, bulk actions, collaboration tools, and professional-grade organizational options to help you manage the casting process faster and more efficiently than ever before.
Watch the video above for a quick one-minute overview of how Backstage can help you cast your projects. And check out our Celebrity Testimonials page to learn about some of the world-famous actors and directors that got their start with Backstage.
And see below for advanced guidance, tips, and tricks. Also visit our Help Center for more detailed instructions on how to use specific features of the site. The Casting Dashboard is your starting place to manage your projects on Backstage.
Use the Casting Dashboard to view a list of your active, draft, and expired productions; edit production details; and navigate to the Application Manager for each production. Dashboard options include:.
Click a production's title to see additional information, including how many new applicants you have lined up for every role. The Application Manager is your tool to review applicants and cast your project. The Application Manager gives you the ability to cast by role.
Select between roles to view applicants who applied to a specific role. List View example:. You can also click on the role name in the sidebar to reveal the requirements. Now when you hover over an applicant you can see how well they match the role. The filtering options can work when "All Roles" is selected, or for a particular role. You can filter applicants by name, or filter by gender, age range, union status, location and more.
The Keywords filter can be used to search for languages, accents, etc. The Advanced Filters will let you narrow down candidates by ethnicity, body type, hair color, eye color, height, and skills. Backstage Suggestions is a feature that recommends candidates from Backstage's Talent Database who match some of the key criteria you've associated with your roles.
You can view Suggestions by selecting a specific Role in your project's Application Manager. The "Suggestions" folder will then appear and can be clicked on. Note: Suggestions are not available when "All Roles" is selected; you must first select a particular Role that you'd like Suggestions for.
You can then view Backstage's Suggestions, and further filter down on the results to surface the most applicable candidates. Please note: the actors in the Suggestions folder have not applied to your project. If you want them to consider participating in your project, you will need to send them an Invitation to Apply , or a message indicating your interest.
Alternately, you can use the "Add to Role" option to add them into your project's workflow without immediately letting them know that you're considering them. You can also use the "Show" menu to choose to only see your regular applicants choose "Show: Not Suggested" or only the suggested applicants that you've added to your project "Show: Suggested".
Just keep in mind that at this point the actor still doesn't know you're considering them, since they didn't apply. So if you decide to contact them later you'll need to explain what your project is, and ask them if they're interested in participating. The easiest way to do this is to click the "Invite" icon on their candidate card:. If they are interested, then you'll get a proper application from them.
Alternately, you can send the talent an Audition Request, which will also automatically generate an Invitation to Apply, in addition to allowing you to offer more specific audition-request details.
You can select multiple applicants in either the grid view or list view by selecting the check box next to their profile:. You can then select a bulk action that will affect all selected applicants:.
As part of your process for organizing applicants to your project, you can move candidates to various folders aka "buckets" or "tabs". And a ninth folder, " Suggestions ," will also appear once you've drilled down to a specific role the Suggestions folder provides a randomized selection of additional candidates from Backstage's Talent Database that you might want to invite to apply to the role.
From this sub-folder, you can move applicants to other folders. Need to audition the same candidates a second time? Progress them on to the "Callbacks" folder. Ready to hire them? To move an applicant on a per-role basis, simply filter down to a specific role first. You can click on any of the folders at any time to see the applicants within that folder.
You can request a self-taped audition, live in-person audition, or live virtual audition from talent on a per-applicant basis, by clicking on the Request Audition button on their application. After an initial round of auditions, you can also move your favorite candidates on to a Callback phase.
Callbacks aka, second-round auditions can also take the form of self-tapes, in-person meetings, and virtual auditions. The following video provides a detailed walkthrough of Backstage's audition tools:. With self-tapes, you can specifically request that the talent submit a Video or Audio audition. And you can attach notes and script sides to your requests. Like this:. After an applicant has been sent an audition request, their application will be automatically moved to your project's Auditions folder.
There, you'll find additional sub-folders that will allow you to track the progress of your audition requests:. Additional folders within the sub-folders also automatically organize things into more granular segments for you, such as which candidates have confirmed that they'll be able to attend your auditions or not.
You can also further filter down and sort the results in your Auditions folder using any of the other Application Manager options such as filtering by role, gender, location, etc. Once you've received a self-tape audition, simply click on the applicant to view their audition video or audio submission.
For live in-person and virtual auditions, switch from the default Grid View to the special Schedule View to for a cleaner overview of your schedule, access to your virtual-audition conference rooms, and advanced scheduling options:. Note: Applicants are automatically notified when you send them an audition request or a direct message. Once applicants have applied to your job or casting call, you can quickly choose your favorites to audition.
This can take the form of a self-tape audition request or a live virtual or in-person audition. Audition schedules can be created on-the-fly as you choose applicants to audition, or you can set up schedules ahead of time. For live auditions, the easiest thing to do is to first create your schedule.
Then bulk-move your favorite candidates to your "Auditions: Unscheduled" folder. From there, you can use automation options to quickly populate your schedule.
If you would like to leave specific feedback about a particular applicant, you can do so with Notes. Notes can not be seen by the applicants. These are private notes that can only be seen by you and your selected Collaborators the other people involved in your production that are involved in helping you make casting decisions.
For instance, you might leave a note about what you liked or didn't like about an applicant, simply as a future reference point for yourself. Or if you're working with a collaborator, then you could use notes to share feedback with each other about what you think about the applicants and their auditions. You will then see the following note field:. You can drag to expand the Note field by clicking on the bottom right corner of the notes box and dragging down with your mouse. Notes can be applied to a specific role, or no role, and you may leave more than one note per applicant.
In a production's Application Manager you can click the "Add a New Role" button to easily add additional roles to your project's character breakdown. As long as your casting call is active not expired , then the new role will become immediately available for talent to apply to. To un-expire a casting call, simply visit your Dashboard, click "edit" next to your project, and then change the casting call's expiration date.
You can also add actors to your production's new roles by choosing from among the people that applied to your project's other roles, actors you find in the Talent Database, and talent recommended by the Suggestions tab.
Simply select the talent you'd like to consider for the new roles, and then choose the "Add to Role" option. And if you click on a role in the Application Manager's sidebar, you can see more details about the role, along with additional options — including the ability to edit the role; filter applications based on what actors are associated with the role; and open or close the role.
To edit the role , click on the pencil icon below the role's name. This will open up the role-editing modal window, where you can quickly change a role's gender, age-range, character description, and more.
If a role has received zero applicants, you can also delete the role from your project via the editing modal by clicking on the trash-can icon that appears at the bottom-right of the editor.
For instance, if you added a role by mistake, you can delete it before any actors apply. If a role has already received applicants, you can't delete it. However, if you've finished casting the role, you can turn the role off to stop any additional actors from applying. To do this, simply click on the "Close Role" option. This will remove the role from the public version of your casting call, so actors will no longer be able to view or apply to the role — while keeping the role's details and applicants archived in your Application Manager for your records.
If you later decide that you'd like to continue receiving new applicants to the role after all, then just click on the "Open Role" option to open the role back up to new submissions.
You can invite Collaborators to help you cast your project. Your "Full Collaborators" are granted full access to your project's Application Manager and can view and organize applicants, send and receive messages, and add notes. You and your Collaborators can view each other's notes to communicate about the applicants. From your Dashboard you can manage your Collaborators and invite new Collaborators to your project by first clicking the Collaborators link:.
A popup modal will appear. Enter the email address of the person you'd like to invite to your project, and then select the production you want this particular Collaborator to work on. You can include a custom message as well:. When you invite a Collaborator to your production, if they already have a Backstage account then your project will also be automatically added to their Dashboard. Or, if your Collaborator is new to Backstage, then they'll be sent a link that will let them sign up for a free account.
To remove a Collaborator from your project, go back to the Collaborators page. Click on the Collaborator you intend to remove, to expand their details, and then click the "Unassign" button next to the project you wish to remove them from:. However, Full Collaborators can invite limited-access "Shortlist Collaborators" to your project on your behalf; Shortlist Collaborators will only be able to view the talent you've selected to include in a specific shortlists that you've shared with them.
Click the X button next to a note to delete the note. Project owners can also update the casting notices aka job listings, casting calls, or breakdowns associated with their productions: Add or remove roles; change the project description or categories; expire or reactivate a listing; etc.
But other users cannot edit a casting notice they don't own. If you're a Collaborator on a project but not the owner, then the collaboration icon will appear next to the production on your Dashboard:. Visit our Help Center for additional details about how to manage collaborators. When running a job on Backstage, your goal is to find the perfect applicants for your production.
Finding the right artist is often a collaborative process, and feedback from your production team and your clients is essential when it comes to deciding who to move through the casting workflow. We made shortlists also known as "applicant selects" to help you do exactly that, making it extremely easy for you and your team to select your favorite people for a role, leave some notes, and share your selects to a collaborator for their input. You can select the profiles you like, and when you click the actions button the option to add them to a shortlist will appear.
Then you can choose if you want to add them to an existing shortlist or create a new one to add them to. With your shortlist created, you can keep adding or removing as many selected profiles as you like. When you want to see all your selected artists in a shortlist, you can toggle a shortlist on or off by clicking on the name of the shortlist in the panel.
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