Acting Mastery

Audition Mastery: Fundamentals is an intensive two-day audition class designed to leave actors feeling deeply empowered, with the tools and mindsets necessary to book work. We explore the fundamentals of auditioning, both in the room and self-tapes. The course is also designed to uncover any limiting belief systems that might be holding actors back, eliminating them and replacing them with a transformed outlook that leaves actors feeling free, powerful, and fully self-expressed.

Be honest. When an audition comes in, how often do you stress yourself out before you've even walked in the room? Do you begin thinking about what the role could do for your career? Do you look at the amount of money you could earn and start thinking of all the ways you could spend it? Do you start to worry about whether you're what casting are looking for or about getting your performance "right"?

I know I've fallen into this trap, as have every other actor I've known. It's par for the course. But it's not helpful. We walk into the audition room and our nerves kick in, because suddenly there's this huge pressure — to get it right; to impress the casting director; to show our range or get emotional; to make that money; to book the job.

In other words, we end up focusing on the results of the audition, rather than the process of the audition itself. 

This focus on results, rather than process makes actors less creative. They have less fun, feel more anxiety, get stuck in their heads, become overly cautious, less spontaneous, too controlled, and become afraid of screwing up.

FOCUS ON PROCESS AND THE RESULTS WILL COME.

Every audition is an opportunity. Not simply to get the job, but to do our job. It's an opportunity to make bold choices, take risks, practice our craft, refine our skills, do our very best -- and to let it go, so we can keep moving forward without attachment.  

When actors focus on process and worry less about the results, their work becomes freer. They have more fun, take bigger risks, feel more relaxed, find spontaneity, listen and let go.  

What if you went into the audition room not to get a job; what if you went in there to give. To give a performance, something of yourself, your best work, your talent, your interpretation, something unique, brave, original, compelling and interesting.

If you weren't there to get the job, but to give without expectation, would you need anything from them, the powers that be? And if you didn't need anything from them, how liberating might that be?

Audition Mastery is not about booking any one job, but mastering the process itself.

MASTER THE PROCESS AND THE JOBS WILL COME.

What we cover:

Deliberate practice is one of the most effective methods at achieving mastery at anything. For auditions, it's crucial. The audition process is an unavoidable part of every actor's career, and career success for actors requires success at auditioning.

Audition Mastery takes a process, rather than result-oriented approach to auditioning. We want our actors to become masters of the audition process, from how they prepare, to how they walk into the room, use the camera, give their performance and leave making an impression. By giving the actor a wide range of tools they can rely on, we aim to transform not only an actor's approach, but their entire mindset around the audition process to a deeply empowering one.

Over the two days, we'll cover the following: