The Audition Book: What Casting Directors Are Really Looking For

By John M. Strawbridge

Book Overview

Casting industry veteran John Strawbridge compiles over 20 years' experience into this highly practical, real-world guide for actors auditoning for the stage, screen, and television. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1434811719
• ISBN13: 9781434811714
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

An invaluable resource! Help is on the way! Get The Audition Book!

John Strawbridge is an incredible teacher and mentor whose time-tested insights and techniques are always on target. In all the time that I've been a student of his I've never once found his advice to be anything other than dead-on. The Audition Book is a literal gold mine that condenses all the major points that would otherwise require years of classwork to absorb, as was the case with the rest of us before he wrote it. I'm jealous! What he teaches, and the framework he uses to convey it, provides comprehensive answers to the questions we all have. He demystifies the process in all aspects, breaking its complex anatomy down to an accessible, comprehensible road map to the real destination: getting the job and doing it the way it needs to be done in order to keep getting more jobs. And, even better, his teachings dovetail with those of many other known teachers, synergizing what the student learns/ has already learned rather than causing him/ her to feel that s/he must choose one view over another. There are only a few individuals I've encountered who can truly crystalize the big and small pictures of the business of the big and small screen and John is one of them. It should probably be listed in the Self-help/ Therapy section at bookstores because actors who read it will experience a huge relief from the fog of unnecessary anxiety that most of us have erroneously taken for granted for far too long. Help is on the way! Get The Audition Book!

Great Book -The Audition Book

The Audition is indeed an extraordinary book !! It is excellent an every way - a must read for any one in John Strawbridge's field, This author will surely excel in anything he attempts to do. Carolyn Sheets

Casting advice from a highly experienced source

Nice to have a book from someone who actually worked in Casting. Very easy read, lots of highly valuable tips.

Hands down best resource out there!

I chose this book because it's just better: it offers step-by-step, hands-on, recommendations on EXACTLY how to prepare, what to do and what not to do, from preparing head-shots to follow-up. The author offers great insights after casting for Clint Eastwood, Jodie Foster, Ridley Scott, and on projects like Enemy of the State, Homicide: Life on the Streets, and over 30 others, which beats the heck out of the credentials of many other authors on the topic. Very cool book!

You WILL Learn From this Book!

I have not read this book. I have just purchased it. I have, however, taken two classes from John Strawbridge (and Gary Wheeler at Actors Company Theatre) and the classes were incredible! I have no doubt this book will be all that and more. If you are SERIOUS about improving your auditioning skills, understanding what an audition is and what a casting director is looking for (here's a hint: sometimes THEY don't know what they're looking for) then you will want this book. Careful - John is straight forward, honest, and tells it like it is. If "you can't handle the truth" then this book may not be for you. Buy it anyway. You'll be glad you did.