Aside from it being stressful, auditioning can also be very demoralising. The sheer number of people applying for a small amount of available jobs in the industry is enough to dishearten new and upcoming performance professionals. This impacts on the ability to audition well immensely.
And yet success in auditioning remains the most important factor in progression and career development.
It is therefore vital to know how to audition well.
To help you overcome feeling overwhelmed, it is helpful is to think of acting auditions as job interviews. Like job interviews, the interviewer (casting director, sometimes director or the producer) wants to check that you are right for the job (acting role).
The key to audition success is in treating it like a job interview. This implies that one must prepare for auditions in much the same way that you would any job interview.
Due to the fact that so much can rest on the outcome of a single audition or casting, many things can go wrong. Most of the time it is external factors like stress, anxiety and lack of preparedness that get in your way of a powerful casting. It is important to learn how to control these during the casting so all that remains is your acting ability.
Casting workshops can really provide you with the set of skills to control external factors while serving to elevate your ‘castability’.
