Casting Director or Just the Producer?

Hi Angela,

At a recent audition the Casting Director wasn't in the room - am I lucky since cut through the "red tape" and performed directly for the Producer?


The Casting Director is your friend, and if you only market to one person in this industry it should be the Casting Directors because they are the ones who will hire you, or put you in front of the people who can. At any audition, I wish for a Casting Director to be in the room rather than just a Produce or Director. Casting Directors cast people all day long – it’s their livelihood, and they have a really good instinct about who will be able to carry the film. Producers and Directors are limited to their own casting experience. If they’ve been in the business 20+ years, sure they’ve been part of the casting process for a long time, but if this is their second or third film, on average they’ve cast two or three projects – and they are probably looking to the Casting Director to persuade them one way or the other regarding a particular actor.


© 2008 Angela Oberer