Why am I not getting any auditions?!
Did you ever ask yourself this question?
I bet you have. At least once in your career.
Actors Pages support team is getting emails of this sort on a weekly basis. “Your site sucks”, “Your casting calls are fake”, “There is a technical issue with the site” and the list is long…
Rest assure that our site is working well, and so do many other casting sites. The issue is not on a technical level, but with the profession itself.
This article is not for the working actor, it is for the non working actor. Yes it’s very frustrating to have such a strong desire to perform and get no real chance. It’s very painful to feel like you’re the most talented actor out there, yet to receive no auditions or not enough auditions.
If you feel like that, then you are not alone. You are in the company of millions of frustrated artists. You have every right to feel frustrated, but you need to wake up!
If you want to be an actor, the first thing you need to understand that you have chosen one of the most competitive professions in the world. For every role there are hundreds if not thousands of actors that are trying to submit their pictures.
There is usually one casting director that looks at the submissions. And in most cases he will look at the first 20-30 and call about 5-10.
In bigger productions he may call 50-100 actors per role, but this is not a usual thing.
What can you do to help your chances?
1) Well, first of all don’t get discourage. It may take a week, a month, or a year for you to get in to the casting office and show your skills.
2) Even before that, you need to make sure your profile looks professional.Your pictures need to look professional, your resume needs to look professional, your entire profile needs to look clean and professional.
We get so many actors asking why they don’t get any auditions, but they have an awful picture and invested 2 minutes to build their resume. This won’t work and it’s obvious why they don’t get called in to a casting call.
3) Register to as many casting sites (legit ones) that you can. Yes, it cost money, but so does any other thing in life. You need to be ready to invest something in your career.
Think about it this way, you have spent 3 years of subscription and it cost you 3 x $12= $36 (Actors Pages is the cheapest deal on the web, other sites might be more expensive). Now you got a role at the end of the 3rd year that paid you, let’s say $100. So basically for an investment of $36 you almost tripled your cost.
of course we are not doing this to receive $100 after 3 years, but this is just a small sample to show you how to go about your career. You will have to invest wisely in order to succeed.
I hope this short article helped you a bit and took a way a bit of your frustration. Keep believing, keep frighting and keep dreaming,
Robin Hood :)
