Auditions 

Audition self tape intensive (online)

with Max Barsness

October 22nd - November 19th

An audition is an opportunity to enhance and evolve your craft while demonstrating the level and range of your work to a casting director. You want to dissolve the false belief it is to get a job. Fact: you could deliver the best audition the casting director has ever witnessed, making them laugh and cry from their hearts but you are too tall, have blue eyes, remind the director of his ex-wife, cologne is too strong, have big hands, look like the lead’s sibling, voice bit too high. etc. etc. You do not control being right for a role.

In this class, we will approach the audition as an opportunity to focus on an aspect of your craft or self-development. This task orientated approach serves to make your work specific, unique and driven, while silencing the voices of self-judgment, self-criticism and most of all performance anxiety. You will be so focused on achieving the task-at-hand that “the room” is owned by your will to overcome, to expose, to express, to heal, to voice, to prove to yourself what you know is true.

The class will also involve script interpretation and analysis with a focus on achieving the unpredictable. There are choices you can guess and everyone will expect them. There are choices that are a risk and involve a leap of faith... you want to exist in this place. You can always “dial it back” or even “phone it in” if that is what is needed. You want to be presenting work that always keeps the casting director intrigued and on their toes. Tension wins a room.

AUDITING