AUDITIONS

This post is the second in a series on what I’m looking for in the casting process. I currently work in local…

I’m getting ready to audition 70 students for a musical at the high school where I teach theatre. I also have a…

Even if you didn’t think you had access to ask, didn’t think you should ask, didn’t think to ask–ask away! I’m directing…

As an actor, I love auditions. As a director and choreographer, I love them even more. But there are some traditional norms…

Actress Nadia Sine met with me over Zoom in the Stay-at-home social distancing of 2020 to talk with me about being a black actress in the predominantly white theatre industry. I really wanted to have this conversation, one-on-one to help me process as I look at what I can do and should do and will do about institutional racism in my own theatre community.

I am a director and an actress both. As an actress I have lately been pre-cast and invited to closed auditions. As a director I have held closed casting session and pre-cast entire productions. These situations can make performers really frustrated, so I wanted to dig in and examine my thinking, experiences and reasonings.

Interviewed for “In the Telling” podcast episode 1 – So Tell Me, An Introduction to the Wasatch Front Storytelling Scene, Artistic and Executive…

Robert Andrus of Jeff Johnson Casting discusses auditions, submissions, acting, headshots, resumes, and callbacks all from his perspectives as a casting director and an actor.