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- Show up at least 15 minutes before auditions start. Bring spare audition contracts, along with slides and anything else the director requests!
- Set up the room. Push all tables and chairs to one side, leaving one in the center of the wall on the clear side. This is where the director and you will sitone dirstaff member will sit. Either the producer or the stage manger should be in the audition room. In recent years it has been the producer, but if the producer is auditioning they should be involved in auditions as little as possible.
- Make sure the director knows that they should introduce themself to each actor, and do their best to create a welcoming environment in the audition room.
- Take pictures of the auditioners. This may be useful for the director later, since faces are easier to remember than names.
- Be in contact with the producer (who should be during auditions. Whoever is in the audition room with should let the person in the people waiting to audition!) during auditions so he/she knows waiting room know when to send people in. Basically, after someone leaves, the director will tell you the SM/producer when he is ready for the next person. Tell the producer They should relay this to the person in the waiting room to send the next person in. Attempt to stick to the schedule as much as possible.
- If requested, read lines for slides.
- Help with casting. Keep a list of people, parts, and how they match up (unless your director says he does not need you to).
- At the end of rehearsal, put all tables back.
- Talk with the director and producer about callbacks at the end of each rehearsal.
- Send out emails about callback times.
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