PREVIEW: A Guide To Landing MORE Auditions - With TOP TV Comedy & Drama Casting Director Catherine Willis!
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Catherine Willis is an award-winning casting director with over two decades of experience across high-end drama and comedy.
She spent six years in-house at the BBC, casting flagship drama series including Casualty and Waking The Dead, before founding her own company, CW Casting, in 2006.
Since then, she's shaped some of the UK’s most critically acclaimed projects, including the multi-BAFTA award-winning Alma’s Not Normal, BAFTA-winning BBC comedy Here We Go, BAFTA-nominated Alan Carr series Changing Ends, and Mackenzie Crook’s multi-BAFTA award-winning Detectorists.
In this 2 HOUR, member-only mastermind, we break down Catherine’s entire casting process for major returning and brand-new series, reveal where she's actively spotting and championing new acting talent right now, share how you can proactively get on her casting radar for upcoming auditions - and members of Act On This jump on camera for some 1-2-1 coaching too!
During the broadcast, we discuss:
- Why actors massively increase their chances of being remembered when they start treating acting like a profession - not a hobby.
- How Catherine discovers new talent for every show she casts - and why around 40% of actors in her productions are people she's never met before.
- The surprising places Catherine is finding actors right now - from Instagram and TikTok to theatre, workshops and even the beach!
- How actors are using social media to get discovered and land auditions.
- Why resisting industry changes could be costing you opportunities without you even realising it.
- The exact role Spotlight skills play in casting searches - and how one missing skill could stop you appearing in the results altogether.
- How Catherine cast an entire group of skateboarders for a Netflix drama - and what it reveals about getting found for specialist roles.
- The reality of casting day player roles - and why they're often harder to cast than lead roles.
- What makes an actor stand out when they only have a handful of lines.
- The biggest mistake actors make when self-taping - and how to avoid becoming "functional" on camera.
- The shocking statistic that when given the choice between self-tape or in-person auditions, around 90% of younger actors choose to tape.
- Why actors who come into the room often give themselves a huge advantage.
- How to write an email that gets a casting director's attention for the right reasons.
- Whether self-represented actors really stand a chance in today's industry - and why Catherine regularly casts actors without an agent.
- The ONE thing Catherine wants EVERY actor to know.
- And MUCH MUCH more!
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