ABSTRACT
Love them or hate them, auditions are an integral and necessary part of every performer’s life – yes, every performer. No matter at what stage of your professional life you are, whether looking to train at drama school, a graduate or newcomer struggling to get on to the first rung of the ladder, or someone further up it, who is more experienced, successful, well respected or even a famous star, auditions will always be part of your life. ‘A star?’ I hear you cry, ‘Surely these doyennes are exempt from the whole sordid process.’ A few indeed are, but even well-known names (who might be completely unknown to producers and directors from other countries), and those who have been well known in the past, sometimes don’t have offers flooding in fifty-two weeks a year, and find themselves having to audition, screen test, interview, read, sing and dance in order to keep working.
Performers from all aspects of the Industry have always been fascinated and mystified by the casting process and the secrets of successful auditions – the kind of things you’re not taught during your training, or would necessarily even think about. Wherever I go I am always asked for tips on how to get cast as a working actor (or how to become an international superstar by people from other walks of life). The subject intrigued me during my ten years as an actor, and
