TO YOUNG ACTORS; SASHA BINDI ETC

To Sasha Luke Bindi etc etc

OK kids, you all seem (with perhaps the exception of Luke) to be incapable of extracting the good advice and answers to your questions from what you view (incorrectly) to be critisism. In the interests of attempting to end all this godawful and increasingly boring sniping, let me try to help;

IF YOU ARE YOUNG (IE UNDER 18ISH) AND YOU WANT TO BE AN ACTOR;

1. posting on this board and asking for a part will not work;

2. agents will rarely be interested in you (especially in Perth);

3. there are unlikely to be many parts for you to audition for at your age;

SO

4. find a reputable school and take a whole bunch of classes, get better and learn about your craft;

5. look at the auditions on this page, call the number, book a time, prepare a couple of pieces and go try out. Please note, the directors will not call you, even if you post on this board and ask them to, you have to call them;

6. look at the Companies section of this page, ring your closest one and ask if there are any auditions on. If not, ask if you can help out in some way so by the time there are auditions they like you and might cast you;

7. form your own company, find your own scripts, get your mates together, rehearse and perform, in the backyard if necessary.

8. do all of the above over and over and over and over and over again, be nice to people and cross your fingers.

Sucess in this business is (arguably) about 10% talent, 60% opportunity (which you can make yourself) and luck (which you can't) and 30% who you know, or, more importantly, who knows you and what your reputations is.

The one rule overriding all others is BE PROACTIVE! Go out and find or make your opporuntities. No-one will hand them to you.

Some of you have burnt some bridges on this board, not a good idea, especially because, as has been pointed out, some of the people you have annoyed might be sitting in the chair on the other side of the table at your next audition. But try anyway.

Get ready for an awful lot of rejection, its the most common experience actors have and one we all share. But try anyway.

Break a leg.

Now please go away.

Leah M