• What is the Purpose of a Casting Director?

• What Types of People Register with a Casting Director?

• What Does a Casting Director Do?

• What Happens When I Submit my Registration Form?

• What if Nobody Calls me for a Part?
  

What is the Purpose of a Casting Director?

The purpose of a casting director is to bring together talent and production companies. To facilitate this, casting directors develop a database containing files of individuals with a very wide range of talents, physical characteristics, features, and skills. When a producer is interested in casting parts for an upcoming production, they can easily browse the files already collected by the casting director instead of initiating their own time consuming recruitment efforts.

What Types of People Register with a Casting Director?

Actually, anyone can register with a casting director. There is really no way to foresee just what projects will be coming up for a production company, and what types of roles they will need to cast. People who are old and young, big and small, tall and short, bald and bearded...there could be a role for anyone! You don't have to have a formal education in acting, be a union member, or be a "professional." On the registration form, you will have the chance to indicate the features that you have, languages you speak, ethnicities you can portray, as well as all of the skills you have. On the list are: rockclimbing, bike riding, swimming, football, trampoline, rollerskating, juggling, and canoeing... just to name a few! We even have people who have specially trained animals and people who own classic automobiles or have unique properties. Basically, the answer is that anyone can register.

What Does a Casting Director Do?

The Casting Director brings to the creative process of putting a project together, his or her experience and skill in picking out actors that meet the demands of the project's script, the producers and directors ideas of what the characters should look and sound like, and the expertise that the casting director sees in a performer's skills that can move the characters in ways that have not yet been explored. Meeting with the creative forces behind the project, putting together lists of actors and having them read for the director, working with the actors, and showing them how they may work into the role all combine to make the work of the Casting Director the rewarding vocation many have found it to be.

What Happens when I submit my Registration Form?

When you submit your registration form (and all of its components) to the casting director, they keep your information in two places. The first is in a physical file that producers can pick up and thumb through, and the second is by accessing a secure part of this website where all of our talent files are also located. This makes it very convenient for producers to quickly search through our files and hopefully find just the right person for the part!

What if nobody calls me for a part?

You can never tell exactly what kinds of projects will be coming up, or what types of people will be needed for them. The best advice is to make sure that your casting director is aware of any changes and updates to the information in your file, so that potential casting directors will have a very complete picture of all your skills and qualities. Don't give up!