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It feels like our process is mostly misunderstood, because I assume it is.
Wrap parties that forget to invite us.
Its worth mentioning that most casting directors are women and/or members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Alexis Allen Winter
We ourselves are an underrepresented group in the industry, especially at the department head level.
We spend hours downloading and uploading auditions and self-tapes from one platform to another.
We are, as one casting professional said, in the middle of a see-saw between actors/agents/managers and production.
We are now expected to (and need to) see between 100-500 actors per role.
We physically can not do that in person, nor should we be expected to.
We should be allowed to embrace and utilize technology just as every other industry has.
It is vital to the process.
We can only see 30-50 people in person per day.
And being in the room doesnt offer any advantage or influence for the large majority of auditions.
Rarely are they meeting anyone in person unless it is a high-level role.
You will never be right for every single role.
It doesnt mean your audition wasnt good, and it doesnt mean we dont notice you.
Thats why the audition is the win,youre being seen.
Turn in a good audition and let it go.
We want to give you as many chances as possible to get in front of producers and directors.
We are on your side.
Yes, we do get thousands of submissions and we do watch hundreds of tapes.
Do we watch them all?
Do we watch ALL of them all?
Not all of the time.
If someone is right, theyre right and we can see that right off the bat.
Its everyone doing uniquely great work and offering themselves as a one-of-a kind solution to a creative opportunity.
At the end of it, we just need to see your performance.
Its the acting, the audition, every single time.
And when your acting is in place and you fit the role?
Its so simple it sounds stupid: Thats the magic formula.
Everything else is just noise.
