(May, 2011) It has been slow, but it’s hasn’t been 100% dry. Maybe you need new pics, a new resume or need to evolve/update training with new classes and add new credits by doing some no/low paid gigs.  Maybe you’re submitting or your agent is submitting you for the wrong things and need to communicate and (re)define your “hit”/niche or refine your look. If you’re self represented – you need to submit FAST…so make sure you’re set up to be getting audition notifications sent to your email from AACTION and are checking CastingWorkbook several times a day. And remember, you’ve got to cut your teeth. You’re not likely to get a lead in an episodic or film until you’ve done an extensive number of under five line-roles (…you know…“Woman in Bar”, “Man at Counter”, “Cop #2”, “Juror #5”…etc). Most commercials are SOC, and you won’t likely get the few commercial roles with lines until you’ve done quite a bit of SOC work.

Other reasons: Have you been talking “smack” about other actors, other CDs or past projects in the waiting room? Did you not listen to and apply the redirection you were given on a re-take? Have you had to be asked more than once to be quiet in the waiting room? Are you chronically late for auditions? Are you being too familiar or chatty in the audition room?  Did you wear perfume or cologne that polluted the audition/waiting room.  Did you bring a posse of people or unruly kids with you to an already crowded audition? Did you come unprepared or in totally inappropriate wardrobe? All of this gets back to people and you get pegged as “challenging” or “difficult” and they may not tell you/your agent, they just stop calling.

LTD!
Kevin