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- Review casting policy. Make sure they're aware that the audition pool could be small.
- Review time maximums (15 hours per week)
- Make sure the director understands that casting an actor with a lot of conflicts in a lead role makes for stressful rehearsal scheduling
- Performance Space Constraints
- Other Policies
- Ensemble DEI Policy (on website under Administrivia)
Setting Up Auditions
- Schedule auditions with the director, SM, and Ensemble.
- Ask the director to provide some monologues, or pull from ones collected from members (the officers can pass this along from other productions).
- Finalize audition forms and make sure all dates/requirements are correct.
- Ensure that a readthrough has been scheduled, and that the same room can be used for a prod meeting, if necessary
- Set up the online audition form as soon as possible. See webmaster for details.
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- Be at auditions. You sit in the room with the director and help him or her keep track of people and make decisions. If you are auditioning, help the Stage Manager find someone to fill in. Make sure the audition room is as welcoming as possible. At a bare minimum you and the director should introduce yourselves to the actors.
- Help the director decide a cast after auditions/callbacks. In addition to raw ability, you You will want to take into account reliability, availability and whether said actor is an Ensemble member. How much input you want to give on actor's talent/ability is up to you, but you are not obligated to make any comments in this area.
- Call people once you've decided on a cast. Do this strategically in case people reject roles.
- When you call people...
- You can offer them time to decide, offer them half-an-hour unless they seem to want more, remember the more you offer, the longer you will be stuck there waiting for them to call you back.
- Once they accept, tell them when readthrough is, and to not share their role on social media until a final cast list is sent out.
- Double-check that they don't have conflicts with show dates (especially first day of spring break, for the spring show).
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