Casting Directors' Secrets: Inside Tips for Successful Auditions - Softcover

A guide for film, television and theatre actors on auditioning. Casting director Ginger Howard takes actors behind the scenes to hear what legendary casting directors have to say about preparing for and performing first-rate auditions. Chapters offer candid advice and practical tips on audition etiquette, doing the slate, taking direction, using the space, performing the monologue audition, being in character, performing comedy versus drama, pulling off love scenes and small roles, overacting and pretentious acting, and how to avoid the three most frequently made mistakes. Actors tell stories of audition mishaps never to be repeated and of auditions where they clinched the coveted role.