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CastingLingo

Understanding TV/film casting lingo

April 22, 2013 by The NYC Actor 1 Comment

Lead, Co-lead, Principal, featured, background, supporting, U-5. These are the titles of some of the various roles in any given film/TV casting. But understanding what all these mean can be tricky and if you are unfamiliar with the lingo it can dampen your experience on set – especially if you mistake a featured role for […]

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Acting, acting for camera, actors access, actors access. nycastings. backstage, auditions, Auditions & Callbacks, background, casting director, Casting Directors, Casting Networks, Casting Services, castings, CD, Commercials, extra, Film & TV, films, finding auditions, television, The Unions, tv
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How to correctly name your headshot and resume

Name your Headshot and Resume files!

April 19, 2013 by The NYC Actor 0 Comments

I just had a brief stint casting a project and what was curious to me was how many actors had their headshot and resume files incorrectly named. And even incorrectly formatted. You have to think for a moment that when you submit yourself to a project that a given casting director is receiving a lot […]

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Acting, acting resume, Booking Work, Casting Directors, castings, headshot, Headshot & Resume, headshots, resume, The Business of Acting
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Sinking her teeth

December 5, 2011 by The NYC Actor 0 Comments

The Daily speaks to Olivia Colman about her meaty ‘Tyrannosaur’ role BY RICH JUZWIAK SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2011 Like Christmas, Oscar buzz comes earlier every year. One actress who already has tongues wagging is Olivia Colman for her role as Hannah, a battered woman who befriends the arbitrarily rage-filled Joseph (Peter Mullan) in actor Paddy Considine’s […]

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Acting, acting for camera, awards, drama, Film & TV, film acting, movie, television, the shoot
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Broadway Casting Directors Discuss Their Work – NYTimes.com

June 17, 2011 by The NYC Actor 0 Comments

The Fine Art of Casting Hits on Broadway Photographs by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times By PATRICK HEALY Published: June 16, 2011 AN early step in creating a Broadway production — and one of the most critical — is the casting process. Directors and producers hire the actors, but it is usually the show’s casting […]

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Auditions & Callbacks, broadway, Casting Directors, Theater
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