The Ultimate Guide to Audition Advice from Casting Directors
Over the years, Casting Networks has published interviews, articles, videos, livestreams and more from 190+ casting directors who have shared their stories, casting insights and audition tips with our members to help talent shine throughout the casting process. If we’ve learned nothing else from a couple hundred interviews, it’s that casting directors sincerely want you to knock your audition out of the park. These articles all have bits and pieces of their thoughts on how you can do that.
Think of it this way: The list below represents a collection of insights and advice directly from the casting directors you may find yourself working with, from your initial self tape all the way through booking a role. Wouldn’t it be useful to know as much as possible about them and what they like to see?
If you found yourself nodding in agreement, then bookmark this page – this list is for you. We can’t guarantee that the casting director or team you need to impress will be on this list, but if they are? Think of their words as your personal gold mine and start digging in.
This page was last updated on 10/10/24.
Casting directors in alphabetical order:
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Aibel, Douglas
Alekna, Sarah
Alverson, Rick
Angstreich, Jodi
Anthony Thomas, Jill
Apps, Gregory
- Livestream: Discovering Tomorrow’s Stars Today with Casting Director Greg Apps
- Casting Legend Gregory Apps Talks Getting Started in Casting, Wisdom for Actors Coming to His Audition Room
Armstrong, Karen
Aufiero, Danielle
- Casting Directors Talk Their Nominated Projects on the 2024 Artios Awards Red Carpet
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Danielle Aufiero and Amber Horn
Avetyan, Ani
Bacharach, Jeannie
Baldasare, Lyndsey
Barden, Kerry
Barnes, Elizabeth
Basten, Heather
Beach, Lisa
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Lisa Beach (Part 1)
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Lisa Beach (Part 2)
Beegle, Brian
Benner, Brett
Bennett, Mark
Bergman, Rori
Berini, Daniel
Berland, Terry
- Commercial and Theatrical Auditions: Similarities and Differences and How to Master Both
- First Impressions in the Casting Room Can Make or Break Your Audition
- How to Impress a Casting Director
- How to Not Compromise the Commercial Acting Industry
- Improv Is Driving Actors Out of Their Minds
- Insider Insight into Running a Virtual Casting Session
- Local Hire Explained: Why It’s Important and How to Avoid Complications
- The Importance of Body Language in a Commercial Audition
- The Proper Protocol of the What, When and Why’s of Getting Your Agent Involved in Self Submissions
- Who Are the Commercial Booking Decision-Makers?
- Why Are Commercial Auditions so Last Minute?
Berra, Elizabeth
Bialy, Sharon
Bishop, Nancy
Bloch, Chelsea Ellis
Boling, Sunday
Brink, Kathryn
Brockmann, Emily
Bullock, Krisha
Buntyn, Emily
Burch, Samy
Butler, Gianna
Bywaters, Aisha
- “Queenie” Casting Director Aisha Bywaters on Discovering Jedaiah Bannerman, Casting “We Are Lady Parts”
Canete, Luis
Carlson, Kristy
Chamian, Denise
Chenoweth, Ellen
Chute Rosenbaum, Cara
Clay Boland, Mary
Coleman, Kim
Comerford, Jon
Cooper, Jennifer
Cornejo, Candido
Crawford, Kahleen
- How “All of Us Strangers” Casting Director Kahleen Crawford Turned People Watching into a Thriving Career
- Kahleen Crawford Talks Casting “The Buccaneers” During COVID, How Casting is Like ‘a Long-term Relationship With Performers and Their Agents’
- Livestream: Casting in the U.K. With Casting Director Kahleen Crawford
Cuba, Carmen
Cusumano, Mia
Daniels-Butler, Leah
- Casting Director Leah Daniels-Butler Talks Casting Apple TV+’s “Manhunt” and Her Approach to Historical Dramas
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Leah Daniels-Butler
Daniels, Jessica
Dealy, Rebecca
Delia, Rich
DeLizia, Melissa
Deming, Susan
Douglas, Terri
Doyle, Katie
Ember, Jamie
Estrin, Allison
Fessenden, Larry
Fogel, Alexa L.
Foley Marra, Megan
Fomalont, Karlee
Fowler, Alison
Fox, Maribeth
Frank Koczara, Alexis
Fronk, Dean
Fuhrman, Isabelle
Gehrt, Chris
Geller, Kate
Glenn, Charisse
Gold, Nina
Goorjian, Michael A.
Greenberg, Jeff
Hardin, Kimberly
Harrell, Rita
Harris, Jason
Hart, Erica A.
Harvie, Natalie Jane
Haynes, Todd
Henderson, Sherrie
Hibbs-Clark, Faith
Hicks, Richard
Higginbotham, Toni
Hilliard-Forde, Nicole
Holland, Sophie
Holloway, Beverly
Horn, Amber
- Casting Directors Talk Their Nominated Projects on the 2024 Artios Awards Red Carpet
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Danielle Aufiero and Amber Horn
Hubbard, Dan
Iwagami, Ko
- Audition Advice with Casting Director Joey Paul Jensen
- Four Casting Directors Share Audition Advice and Audition Mistakes Actors Should Avoid
Jones, Allison
Jury, Dylan
Kaufman, Avy
Kay, Sara
Kelly, Jessica
Kennedy, Jason
Kenyon, Andrea
Kim, Grace C.
Kim, Julia
Koonce, Claire
- Casting Directors Talk Their Nominated Projects on the 2024 Artios Awards Red Carpet
- How “Beef” Casting Directors Claire Koonce and Charlene Lee Became a Team
Lamontagne, Linda
Lazer, Ken
Lee, Charlene
Leonard, Kate
Levy, Brian
Lewis, Jenny
Liem, Caroline
Lilly, Destiny
Links, AJ
- Casting Directors Talk Their Nominated Projects on the 2024 Artios Awards Red Carpet
- Get to Know the Casting Director: AJ Links
Little Canfield, Tiffanie
Little Canfield, Tiffany
Loland-Ringer, Karlie
Lutz, Shasta
Lyon, Natalie
McCarthy, Barbara
McSweeney, Tom
Meltzer, Howard
Ménager, Juliette
Miclat, Geoff
Midthunder, Angelique
- “The Curse” Casting Director Angelique Midthunder Discusses Her Casting Origins and Connecting With Actors
- Casting Directors Talk Their Nominated Projects on the 2024 Artios Awards Red Carpet
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Angelique Midthunder
Moody, Kirkland
Murtagh-Monks, Annie
Newman, Dave
O’Neil, Melissa
- Livestream: Actor Empowerment With Casting Director Mel O’Neil
- Casting Director Melissa O’Neil Provides a Deep Dive into the World of Commercial Casting
- John Papsidera on Establishing “Yellowstone’s” Dutton Family and Casting Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer”
- Legendary Casting Director John Papsidera Talks “Lessons in Chemistry” and More
Paris, Chase
Park, Theo
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Theo Park
- Theo Park Pulls Back the Curtain on Casting “Ted Lasso”
- Theo Park Talks the Casting Process for “Ted Lasso,” Amazon’s “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power”
Patton, Cami
- Casting Director Cami Patton on Bringing the Post-Apocalyptic World of “Silo” to Life
- Casting Director Cami Patton On Working With Mike White and Jason Katims, Auditions and A.I.
Pizzuti, Armando
Pierre, George
Price, Sarah
Pringle, Stephanie
Rapaport, David
- Meet the Man Turning Queer and Trans People Into Superheroes
- David Rapaport and Lyndsey Baldasare Talk Casting for the CW and Share Audition Tips
Rasmussen, Peter
Records, Laurie
- Casting Director Laurie Records Talks About Social Media
- Commercial Actors Should Never Break Simple Callback Rules
- Commercial Actors Should Never Disparage the “Silly Asks” of Their Auditions
- Commercial Actors Should Never Fail to Get the Self Tape Done
- Commercial Actors Should Never Forget Their Self Tape Job List
- Commercial Actors Should Never Neglect the Easy Stuff For Self Tape Requests
- Commercial Actors Should Never Be Without Confidence in the Audition Room
- Commercial Audition Basics From Casting Director Laurie Records
- Essential Tips for Getting Brilliant Commercial Headshots
- Parting the Clouds of Callbacks and Casting
- To Go or Not to Go?
- Trust (Not Talent) Can Make or Break a Commercial Career
- When to Say “Yes” and When to Say “No” in Commercial Acting
Reher, Kevin
Reiss, Rachel
Ricchiazzi, Jennifer
Romano, Debby
Roncali, Marisol
Rosen, Rose
Rosenthal, Laura
Ross, Marisa
Rubin, David
Rudin, Jen
Rudnicke, Jennifer
Ryan, Karen
Schnee, Paul
Schubert, Julie
Schuster, Arlene
Sheaks, Christine
- Audition Advice with Casting Director Christine Sheaks
- Four Casting Directors Share Audition Advice and Audition Mistakes Actors Should Avoid
Sherman, Jessica
- Audition Advice with Casting Director Jessica Sherman
- Four Casting Directors Share Audition Advice and Audition Mistakes Actors Should Avoid
Shopmaker, Susan
Simon, Claire
Sinclair, Caroline
Skotchdopole, Chris
Smith Shevchenko, Christine
Smith, Suzanne
- “Franklin” Casting Director Juliette Ménager Talks Working with Suzanne Smith, the Challenges of Finding English-Speaking French Actors
- Suzanne Smith Talks Casting Michael Douglas-Starring Mini Series “Franklin” and Audition Advice for Period Pieces
Snow, Jamie
Sollitto, Jackie
Soper, Christi
Sparer Roberts, Jamie
Stamey, Jason B.
Syson, Lucinda
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Lucinda Syson
- Lucinda Syson Discusses the Casting Process Behind Apple TV+’s “Foundation”
- Bernie Telsey and Adam Caldwell Pull Back the Curtain on S2 of ‘The Gilded Age’
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Bernie Telsey
Tenner, Rachel
Terry, Christine
Thomas, Sherry
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Sherry Thomas
- Sherry Thomas on How Casting Directors Also Have to Audition for the Job, Casting Apple TV+’s “Sugar”
Thomas, Victoria
- Casting Director Victoria Thomas Talks “The Morning Show” and Its New Character
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Victoria Thomas
- Victoria Thomas Pulls Back the Curtain on Casting “The Last of Us”
Tom, Millie
Tomasello, Erin
- Casting Directors Talk Their Nominated Projects on the 2024 Artios Awards Red Carpet
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Erin Tomasello
Tucker, Meredith
Tylor O’Connor, Steven
Velasquez, Rhys
Venditti, Jennifer
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Jennifer Venditti
- How Jennifer Venditti Broke into the Casting World from the Fashion Industry
Vise, Dea
Waters, Mathew
Weissmueller, Lindsey
Wicksteed, Rose
Williams, Kim
- Audition Advice with Casting Director Kim Williams
- Four Casting Directors Share Audition Advice and Audition Mistakes Actors Should Avoid
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Kim Williams
Wistedt, Kimberly
Wolfe, George C.
Woo, Leslie
Wu, Becky
- Casting Director Becky Wu Opens Up about Facing Racism in the Industry
- Commercial Audition Tales with Casting Director Becky Wu
Zarkesh, Anousha
- Casting Director Anousha Zarkesh Discusses Her AACTA Win for “Shayda,” Casting Directors Finally Receiving an Oscar Category
- Get to Know the Casting Director: Anousha Zarkesh